New Day vs. The Bar. Ok, not a stellar match but not a bad match either. New Day retains.
Becky vs. Charlotte. I know people are going to complain about Becky cheating to retain her title, but let me tell you this - you are wrong. The whole story is that since winning the title she has been cocky and has underestimated Charlotte going into the match. So the storytelling of the match is that Becky realises she is about to lose her title, so she tries to get the count out win, then gets the DQ to escape the Figure 8. Becky is a heel. Get over it.
The John Cena tag match was meh, and his "6th move of doom" - btw WWE you aren't meant to be proud of that because "5 moves of doom" is a negative term shitting on the fact that your poster boy had a very limited moveset during his reign of terror - is just a stupid punch. They must really be wanting the Chinese market or something.
Iconics vs. Asuka/Naomi. Iconics winning in Australia was nice, but Asuka's team should have probably picked up the victory.
AJ vs. Joe. I still think Joe should have won here, but I liked the story of AJ going to the dark side and viciously attacking Joe's injured leg after the table spot. Maybe he will take a heel/tweener role in this matchup against Daniel Bryan? Solid match
That Ronda match was probably the worst thing in the night. Who the hell is she going to face at Evolution? Clearly not Ruby Riott, as she lost on RAW and her team lost last night. And if it is Nikki Bella she is facing it's stupid that they didn't have the heel turn last night? Nia Jax? We never got a conclusion to their last match because of Alexa Bliss having to hog the spotlight all the time. Natalya? Nobody cares about her anymore.
Buddy winning the title Alexander would have been awesome if it wasn't for the fact that the Cruiserweights are the biggest after thought and the Iconics gets more screen time than either of these 2 talented. Scrap 205 Live and just have the Cruiserweight division compete on RAW and Smackdown like the tag team and women's divisions compete on them FFS
The Shield/Strowman, Dolph & Ziggler match was better than it deserved to be. I guess that shows how talented the men in the ring are that I got so invested in that match. I love the storytelling around Ambrose over the past few weeks. Dolph talking shit when Seth was getting beat down during the first half of that match was hilarious. Maybe Strowman gets pissed off and drops Dolph & Drew? They need to start getting away from this group feud into each person having their own feuds. Then again, Survivor Series is coming up, so maybe it will be Team Shield vs. Teams Dogs of War with each side recruiting 2 new members.
Surprised Daniel/Miz got to go on before the main event, but maybe the WWE realised Bryan could wake the crowd up during the final stretch of the PPV (it's not a glorified house show people ffs). And he did. That crowd was hot before the match even began. Got to be honest I didn't see the finish (except after the replay) because it happened out of nowhere. Which is good, because surprise quick wins like that are needed sometimes to keep things fresh. Still would have liked to see more tho.
HHH/Undertaker. Bleh. I was hoping in all hell that they changed their minds about bringing Shawn out of retirement for that Saudi show when they did the "hold up each others arm" segment at the end. But then Cole had to ruin it by screaming things like "THIS IS AN END OF AN ERA!", making it obvious that Taker and Kane were going to end things by attacking HHH and HBK.
All in all, an entertaining show. I didn't agree with all the decisions but I get why they were made (except the booking of that Ronda match). 7/10
