The WK's LIVE Fastlane 2019 PPV Coverage!!!

Welcome to The Wrestling Kennection's LIVE Fastlane 2019 PPV coverage!

This is "Your Kennection to Wrestling Worldwide" Ken Hill, hoping to ascend the WK mountain one last time and ride off with the World Wrestling Kennection Title!

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Kickoff Show
Tag Team Match
The New Day vs. Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura w/Lana

RESULT: The New Day wins via pinfall; Big E pinned Rusev following the UpUpDownDown double team.

TIME: 13:14

THOUGHTS: This was a great opener for a relatively impromptu match. You can always depend on any iteration of New Day to fire up the fans at the top of a show, and tonight was no different against Rusev and Nakamura. Xavier was on point with his trademark resilience against the makeshift tandem's brutal strikes and kicks. The kickout after the double powerbomb was a bit much, but overall the match was a solid, fun outing.
 

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

(Ken starts with a -1 handicap due to Dan's victory at Elimination Chamber)

Dan - 1 pt
Ken - 0 pts

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Smackdown Tag Team Championship
The Usos (c) vs. Shane McMahon & The Miz

RESULT: The Usos win via pinfall; Jey pinned Miz after countering a frog splash with a pair of knees.

TIME: 14:08

THOUGHTS: Two for two on the great tag team matches tonight as Miz opening the main show in front of a hot home crowd in Cleveland was the smart move here. Miz proved to be a fun hot tag in this match, including some rarely-seen high-flying offense from the A-Lister, as well as a sick mid-air intercept dropkick by Shane to Jimmy Uso. Miz's awesome efforts would be all for naught as a slight hesitation and misjudgment by Miz and his dad led to Miz getting caught off a frog splash attempt for a roll up and the three count.

The real story of the match, though, was the aftermath with Shane snapping and assaulting Miz in front of Mr. Miz, even piefacing Miz's dad at one point. This was what I called on Thursday; Shane snaps, beats up Miz, and Miz gets a face turn out of sympathy. While I'm not totally on board for their one-on-one match, this was the perfect way to kick off the feud.
 

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 2 pts
Ken - 1 pt

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Smackdown Women's Championship
Singles Match
"The Empress of Tomorrow" Asuka (c) vs. Mandy Rose w/Sonya Deville

RESULT: Asuka wins via pinfall; Asuka nailed Mandy with a spinning roundhouse kick for the three count.

TIME: 6:42

THOUGHTS: This was a solid effort from Mandy in her first 1-on-1 title opportunity against a seasoned competitor in Asuka. I wasn't too keen on the ending, though, as it seemed more like a botch/miscommunication involving the ring apron and Sonya fetching the kendo stick ultimately didn't mean anything.

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 3 pts
Ken - 2 pts

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Handicap Tornado Match
The Bar vs. Kofi Kingston
 

RESULT: The Bar wins via pinfall; Both members pinned Kofi after a double-team White Noise.

TIME: 5:10

THOUGHTS: A complete and utter squash, only done to get even more sympathy behind Kofi and his eventual opportunity at WM 35, once again getting screwed out of a WWE Title opportunity at the last moment.

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RAW Tag Team Championship
Triple Threat Match
The Revival (c) vs. Roode & Gable vs. Ricochet & Aleister Black

RESULT: The Revival wins via pinfall; Scott Dawson pinned Gable following the Shatter Machine.

TIME: 10:49

THOUGHTS: This was an amazing sprint between the three teams as Fastlane keeps up the trend of well-done tag team matches. Ricochet and Black continue to gel quite well as a tag team and Roode continues to show his chops as a veteran tag team competitor. The only thing I wasn't a fan of was the post-match assault further denigrating Wilder and Dawson, even after being victorious (Glad you boys could stick around, hope it was worth it), just to keep the NXT boys center stage. Save their build-up for TV and house shows. When you use the tag champs of all teams to keep the shining new faces strong after a slight loss, it doesn't speak well to the RAW tag division in general.
 

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 5 pts (LOCK)
Ken - 4 pts (LOCK)

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WWE United States Championship
Fatal 4-Way Match
Samoa Joe (c) vs. Rey Mysterio vs. R-Truth w/Carmella vs. Andrade w/Zelina Vega

RESULT: Samoa Joe wins via submission; Joe dodged Rey's Dropping The Dime and locked in the Coquina Clutch on Rey for the submission call.

TIME: 10:51

THOUGHTS: This was another amazing quickfire match, helped by the four men's previous match on Smackdown improving their in-ring chemistry with one another. When you're capable of keeping things on track with fast-paced, crisp offense like Joe, Truth, Rey and Andrade did here, you don't need 30-plus minutes to put on a banger. Non-stop excitement and a slick finish with Joe submitting Rey from almost out of nowhere.

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 5 pts (Rey)
Ken - 5 pts (Joe)

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WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
The Boss 'N Hug Connection (c) vs. The Samoan Slaughterhouse

RESULT: Sasha & Bayley win via pinfall; Bayley reversed a Nia Jax powerbomb into a hurricanrana for the three count.

TIME: 7:02

THOUGHTS: Boss 'N Hug showed some slick tag team maneuvers, showing their chemistry has begun to improve even more so in the wake of becoming tag champs. That said, even Bayley and Sasha couldn't pull Nia and Tamina beyond a subpar performance like we saw here, so we can't do much more than split the difference here in terms of match quality.

The post-match assault on Beth and Natalya leads me to believe that the former "Pin-Up Strong" partners will be the veteran team to step up along with a Smackdown and NXT team against Sasha and Bayley for the women's tag titles come WM 35.

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 6 pts
Ken - 6 pts

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WWE World Championship
Triple Threat Match
"The New" Daniel Bryan (c) w/Erick Rowan vs. Kevin Owens vs. Mustafa Ali

RESULT: "The New" Daniel Bryan wins via pinfall; Bryan countered a moonsault by Ali into a mid-air Solid Knee-Plus for the three count.

TIME: 18:39

THOUGHTS: This was an amazing effort on the part of all three men. You really have to hand it to Ali; he was put in a totally unenviable position as the replacement for Kofi's supposed spot in the title match. He took a crowd that was ticked and emotionally checked out of the match at the start and worked his ass off to get them red hot again. Kudos to him. He was all over the place as well, with a 450 splash to Bryan on the apron, as well as a sick-looking tornado DDT to the Planet's Champion on the ringside floor.

Owens was on-point and had a lot of fire in the way he hit his signature offense. Bryan played his role as the opportunistic heel champion very effectively, letting Owens and Ali wear one another out, sticking and moving, and incorporating Rowan only at the very end when things started to get too dicey for Bryan. All in all, a great, must-see title match.

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 7 pts
Ken - 7 pts

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Women's Singles Match
"The Queen" Charlotte Flair vs. "The Man" Becky Lynch

(If Becky wins, WM 35's RAW Women's Title match becomes a triple threat)

RESULT: Becky Lynch wins via disqualification; Ronda Rousey came in and punched Becky in front of the ref for the DQ call.

TIME: 8:45

THOUGHTS: The match played out as more of an extended angle than anything resembling an actual contest; Charlotte played with Becky, nearly got counted out when she got too cocky about it and even by the time Charlotte got serious and decided to end it, the big, bad fourth-wall breaker Ronda Rousey came out and said, "Nah, only I get what I want" and clocked Becky for the DQ, giving her re-entry into the title match she already earned in the first place. I'm glad Becky's back in, as was expected, but I'm already over Charlotte having any part in this match.

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 8 pts
Ken - 8 pts

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Six-Man Tag Team Match
The Shield vs. Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre & Bobby Lashley

RESULT: The Shield wins via pinfall; Reigns pinned Corbin following a superkick, Dirty Deeds and a Shield Bomb.

TIME: 24:52

THOUGHTS: It wasn't the blow-away main event some fans might have hoped for, but it was as good as it was going to get given who you had leading the trio against the Shield in "Consta-Bore" Corbin. Reigns, Rollins and Ambrose brought their classic Shield "tear 'em up" game. Corbin was dull as usual and Lashley didn't leave a big impression, but McIntyre stepped up as the big hitter for his trio and delivered. I don't doubt 2019 is going to be a big year for him.

Overall, Fastlane was a hot event and another solid notch in the win column for WWE's 2019 pay-per-views. Nia and Tamina's dragging efforts and the handicap match aside, this was a fantastically fun night with some great setup for Mania next month.

WORLD WRESTLING KENNECTION
STANDINGS

Dan - 9 pts
Ken - 9 pts

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Main Event "Time-Breaker"

Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch
Match Time: 8:45

Dan - 13:00 (WINNER)
Ken - 15:45

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