WWE Fastlane 2021 (Contains Spoilers)

PTH2009

The road to Wrestlemania continues with Fastlane taking place on the 21st March live on the WWE Network

Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) vs. Daniel Bryan Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship

Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler (c) vs. Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair Tag team match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship

More TBA

JP Liz V1

Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) vs. Daniel Bryan Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship

Edge or Christian as ref?

Loughc

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Edge or Christian as ref?

Well not Christian anyway :pac:

JP Liz V1

Loughc wrote: »

Well not Christian anyway :pac:

Crescentine

Is it just me or has Fastlane always been dreadfully underwhelming for being the go-home PPV on the "road to WrestleMania"?

It should feel important, but instead is like the Bad Blood of modern PPVs.

Sirsok

Crescentine wrote: »

Is it just me or has Fastlane always been dreadfully underwhelming for being the go-home PPV on the "road to WrestleMania"?

It should feel important, but instead is like the Bad Blood of modern PPVs.

Its because they shot themselves in the foot by trying to brand every PPV. Hell in A Cell, TLC , Extreme Rules , Money In The Bank, Elimination Chamber. So what makes this one special?

The one time a year you will see these matches and not only that but you'll see two of them!

Money in The Bank is the only one I would agree with.

However I think the Raw and Smackdown after Mania would be better suited to that stipulation. Basically one year from Mania.

SureYWouldntYa

Sirsok wrote: »

Money in The Bank is the only one I would agree with.

Should be a Wrestlemania thing imo

In recent years we've ended up with a massively bloated card because there's so many people on the roster, if you were able to stick 8 of the high rated guys into a MITB match you're saving 3 matches and probably the guts of an hour of runtime even accounting for a long multi-man match

The Andre battle royal should be a preshow thing for getting "everyone" on the card at Mania, and the MITB for the guys near the top who don't have a natural match, the women's MITB could go on the preshow

I personally would rather a good 4 hour Mania than a two night one where each is 2.5-3 hours, waters it down a bit imo the 2 nights

Agent Coulson

So I'm guessing the intergender match between Orton & Bliss is going to be a cinematic match.

JP Liz V1

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So I'm guessing the intergender match between Orton & Bliss is going to be a cinematic match.

Bray switches dressed as Bliss from under the ring

Billy Ocean

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So I'm guessing the intergender match between Orton & Bliss is going to be a cinematic match.

certainly won't be akin to a Bryan-Cesaro wrestling clinic anyway...

Loughc

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So I'm guessing the intergender match between Orton & Bliss is going to be a cinematic match.

Personally I hope it’s a Fiend on a pole match.

Necro

So the updated card appears to be....

Roman Reigns (c) VS Daniel Bryan for WWE Universal Championship (Edge/Jey Uso as Special Guest Enforcer)

Braun Strowman VS Shane McMahon

Drew McIntyre VS Sheamus

Big E (c) VS Apollo Crews for WWE Intercontinental Championship

Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler (c) VS Sasha Banks & Bianca BelAir for WWE Women's Tag Team Championships

Randy Orton VS Alexa Bliss


You'd imagine there will be a couple of matches fired in last minute there as well as the card seems fairly short.


On the face of it that isn't a bad card... but...

We've already seen loads of the matches already - one twice - in the past month (Drew/Sheamus and women's tag match) - technically if you include Reigns/DB and Big E/Apollo that's more than half the card! Not to mention Orton/Bliss/Wyatt stuff that has been going on for months already! We saw Braun and Shane just this Monday too


Shocking booking given the depth of their roster.

JP Liz V1

Is Cesaro vs. Rollins being kept for WM?

Asuka Raw women's champ no title match

CastorTroy

I guess her match against Shayna will be on Raw

JP Liz V1

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Seth Rollins and the match between Drew Mcintyre and Sheamus will be a No Holds Barred match

PTH2009

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Seth Rollins and the match between Drew Mcintyre and Sheamus will be a No Holds Barred match

That could be great, lets hope they don't try too hard and end up making a balls of it

11pm start for this due to the time difference

2ndcoming

Sirsok wrote: »

Its because they shot themselves in the foot by trying to brand every PPV. Hell in A Cell, TLC , Extreme Rules , Money In The Bank, Elimination Chamber. So what makes this one special?

The one time a year you will see these matches and not only that but you'll see two of them!

Money in The Bank is the only one I would agree with.

However I think the Raw and Smackdown after Mania would be better suited to that stipulation. Basically one year from Mania.

They need to move away from having so many PPVs, it was grand in the Attitude era when the product was huge. AEW's model of having kind of Super Dynamites every now and again would work a lot better for WWE, keep the Big 4 and a couple of the others and make the rest special Raw or Smackdown episodes with more consequential than normal matches.

PTH2009

10pm- kickoff show
11-2am- main show

Early start for a change

J. Marston

Looks a fairly short card. Wouldn't be surprised it finishes at 1 or 1:30am.

PTH2009

Looking forward to Rollins vs Nakamura, Sheamus vs Drew and Reigns vs Bryan

God knows what trainwreck the Orton and Bliss will be

JP Liz V1

Alexa Bliss vs. Randy Orton
Drew McIntyre vs. Sheamus
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Seth Rollins
Women’s tag team championship match: Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler (c) (with Reginald) vs. Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair
Intercontinental championship match: Big E (c) vs. Apollo Crews
Universal championship match: Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) vs. Daniel Bryan (Edge is the enforcer ref etc.,)
WWE U.S. championship match: Riddle (c) vs. Mustafa Ali

Sirsok

Edge taking out a Bryan on the cusp of victory would be great

JP Liz V1

Ali really needs the win imho

Batattackrat

Retribution > NWO

PTH2009

That's the end of Retribution then

Itssoeasy

Was riddle on the pre show ?

J. Marston

Good riddance to one of the worst stables in years. Farewell Teabag and Snapchat.

PTH2009

Wonder will they pair Mia Yim and Keith Lee now

Itssoeasy

J. Marston wrote: »

Good riddance to one of the worst stables in years. Farewell Teabag and Snapchat.

Retribution went kaput then ? Ah I’m gutted.

Sirsok

If WWE had a good tag division I'd like to see Mace and TBar as a demolition style tag team called Titans.

A vibrant tag division would add to much to the product.

A focused cruiserweight also.

They start things off with promise and then lose interest.

Watching AEW, their roster seems to have a purpose and stories matter. Wish WWE gave their undercarriage some purpose

PTH2009

couldn't care less about this match

Lord TSC

RIP Retribution.

It was a stable, which existed.

Batattackrat

Nia Jax, just please go away.

Lithium93_

Lord TSC wrote: »

RIP Retribution.

It was a stable, which existed.

9 months from debut to breakup.

Itssoeasy

So I love that wwe still put that warning up at the start of a PPV.

I hate Michael Cole and his boss time carry on.

Sasha is a six time champion Cole because she kept losing the title.

Bianca is deceptively strong

Nia is still awful in the ring.

And the champs retained.

Shiminay

Can they please be done with Nia/Shayna and Sasha/Bianca now plz? There was no need for it to build a reason for the WM match between Sasha and Bianca, it's a classic "young pretender to the throne" storyline in the making if they didn't have to wrap all their tag title bolloxology into it.

Betcha Shane's subbing Elias in for him now cause of his "injury" and he clobbers Stroman with the crutch for the distraction win.

Sirsok

That was a pretty good video package for Big E and Apollo

Itssoeasy

That’s a horrible gimmick change for Apollo crews but I love intense big E.

JP Liz V1

The champs Bobby and Asuka have the night off, good on the WWE giving the Raw champs the night off as they work defending so hard and often :rolleyes:

Batattackrat

Itssoeasy wrote: »

That’s a horrible gimmick change for Apollo crews but I love intense big E.

Time to ditch the new day colours and go solo properly but I say they make WWE a fortune.

Agent Coulson

With this gimmick they should let him use his Indy name Uhaa Nation that works better with this gimmick than Apollo Crews.

TimesArrow

This Sasha/ Belair feud is the drizzling ****s.
The post match confrontation between them was so heavy handed with the repeated pointing at the sign and Bianca doing nothing after being slapped in the face

mrkiscool2

Glob damn I am loving Big E's sh1t talking. It's so much fun and makes the feud seem more personal. Faces normally just seem to respect their heel foe. Big E out here talking crap to him. Love it.

Sirsok

Wouldn't be surprised to see WWE announce a big African deal with this Appolo gimmick change ala Jinder Mahal and India.

mrkiscool2

That's a trash ending

Itssoeasy

Loved Big E talking when he was on the apron.

That ending looked sloppy as ****.

PTH2009

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

That's a trash ending

Setting up a rematch at Mania maybe ?

LineOfBeauty

We're 2 for 2 on really awful finishes.

mrkiscool2

PTH2009 wrote: »

Setting up a rematch at Mania maybe ?

It is but there are better ways. Like have Apollo literally get DQed. Having Big E get the roll up win and then to get beat down after makes him look weak. I was praising Smackdown booking but that's bad.

Itssoeasy

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

That's a trash ending

As I said it was sloppy because that didn’t look like what they were going for exactly.

hynesie08

That's 2 matches in a row with a disrespectful open handed slap, alexa/randy almost guaranteed to have one as well. What's the point in agents?