Extreme Rules - LIVE SPOILERS

I'm wide awake, working late tomorrow and there's a PPV on. Might as well stay up.

Kalisto vs Crews pre show.

Kalisto wins. Largely thanks to Titus trying to coach Crews during the match. Kalisto took advantage of the distraction.

The Miz beats Dean Ambrose. Was a great match. Marysee slapped the Miz, ref was having none of it and chucks her out. Miz chucks Ambrose into the ref, ref is about to disqualify Ambrose as he thinks Ambrose did it on purpose. Miz hits Ambrose with the scull crushing finale.

Boom new champion.

Sasha and Rich Swann beat Noam Darr and Alicia Fox.

Alexa Bliss beats Bayley. Not impressed with this at all.

Sheamus and Cessaro beat the Hardyz. What an excellent match, one of the best cage matches I can remember in recent years.

Neville beat Aries. Great match.

Samoa Joe wins the fatal 5 way match. Never expected that.

Thanks nick

Joe vs Lesnar? Take all my money

Id agree with that but i expect it to be a squash at best for Joe unfortunately.

When's Strowman due back, could see Lesnar squashing Joe and him returning to set up Summerslam.

GSC wrote:When's Strowman due back, could see Lesnar squashing Joe and him returning to set up Summerslam.

Think that's what's gonna happen tbh.

They won't squash Joe. Wouldn't make sense.

Squashing the guy that just beat at least two of Brock's next opponents (Finn and Roman) doesn't make much sense.

If anything, if Braun isn't back anytime soon, it wouldn't be a bad thing for Joe to go over.

tbh I like Brock being this insurmountable mountain of a champion that everyone heel or babyface has to find a way to overcome before the Universal belt comes back into circulation. Hope he holds it til Wrestlemania.

The way Brocks been built up, he kinda has to go over everybody strong until he comes to the guy booked to beat him

There's no way they'll squash Joe

Pretty depressing that it's blatantly obvious Lesnar is holding the belt and dropping it to reigns at mania.

Has there ever been such a severe character assassination like we saw with Bayley before? The closest I can think of was Zack Ryder a few years ago.

Honestly cant see where Bayley goes now, they might have damaged her irreparably this time.

Bliss has been made to look great at least. Not that she needs much help there

Bayley hasn't been booked great, but in my opinion she hasn't really done anything on the mic or in the ring to deserve much better - she's just been very meh

Bayley is supposed to be an underdog baby face who can have great matches.

Imagine if WWE booked Daniel Bryan like they have Bayley. The fans would lose interest.

Bryan got over as a ME talent in spite of his booking tbh

He was booked to lose a lot. Not the same as if he were booked as John Cena.

Bryan had a spark of charisma that got him over anyway.

Bayley is just meh

They've played too hard on the 'Bayley is a fan turned pro' schtick to the point shes being booked to look weak and stupid - like she doesnt belong. That was the whole reason people fell in love with Bayley in the first place because she would prove everyone wrong.

Giving her the title and Charlottes streak on a throwaway show was a mistake. If they were determind to have Bayley be the one to beat Charlotte then it should have culminated at Mania. Instead she was defending in a very forgettable multi woman match.

Being booked to look like an idiot jobber geek vs Bliss certainly hasnt helped her regain any credibility.

NickisBHAFC wrote:Pretty depressing that it's blatantly obvious Lesnar is holding the belt and dropping it to reigns at mania.

To be fair everybody said the same running up to Mania 31 and then it didn't end up happening.

Bryan was booked with an upper mid card spot in mind and they actively tried to keep him from going beyond this for a while.

This also reeks of burying someone on purpose tbh but they might  think that it was their booking that got Bryan over and therefore doing the same thing is a good idea.

I thought this PPV was actually pretty good to be honest. Women's match was a bit poor but the rest of it was decent, I thought the tag team title match and the main event were good matches and was happy with the winners. I think Samoa Joe/Lesnar was the most interesting one you'd have gotten from the potential opponents. I think Balor needs to be kept away from Lesnar because of his size, them squaring up won't do Balor any good.

Awful Ppv till the main event. Popped for Joe winning, seemed 4th choice to me! Balor or Rollins were where I thought they were going and knew it wouldn't be Reigns.

That's a dream match.

Rest of the card was interminable and I nearly stopped watching

The cage match was excellent, and that's coming from someone who can't stand that type of match.