The show featured no bad matches, but no great match either.
Balor, after being Speared through a barricade, was brought back to life by his theme music playing.
As he set Reigns up for a Coup de Grace, the top rope snapped for no reason.
Reigns then Speared him for the win.
As for the SmackDown Women’s Championship, Becky Lynch retained via disqualification.
Like the main event, the two performers built to a tremendous ending but were letdown by bad creative.
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The show was certainly not without highlights.
Alexa Bliss also had her best match in forever against Charlotte Flair.
But with both main event matches having such unsatisfying endings, this was a weak showing for the WWE.
Some news from the show: Big E will defend his WWE Championship against Lashley on Raw.
Read below for full results and analysis from Extreme Rules 2021.
He struck Reigns with them multiple times.
It was extremely annoying.
Reigns cut him off and pushed the table back, getting loud boos.
THE DEMON BROUGHT HIS OWN KENDO STICKS?
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You want tables?
The Usos hit Balor with a double Superkick on the outside and setup a table.
The crowd chanted “holy shit!
“, as it was a sick spot.
Balor’s “Demon” music plays, and he begins spasming on the floor.
He then is brought back to life as the arena is enshrouded in red light.
Balor fell to the ground clutching his knee, then ate a huge Spear from Reigns for the finish.
Rating: 3.5 stars.The wrestling was good, but under the level of a usual Reigns main event.
It was arguably even the worst part of the show, since it wasn’t explained at all.
As the match began, a solid “Becky!”
chant broke out – but then we got a much bigger “E.S.T.”
Lynch was able to slip out, then the crowd produced duelling “Let’s go Becky!”
and “E.S.T.”
The crowd had been into the whole show, but was by far more into this than anything prior.
It’s great to have Becky back.
As with Belair’s previous title bouts, her long braid was integrated into the action.
Belair mounted Lynch on the turnbuckle and was clobbering Lynch with the illustrious 10 punches.
Lynch slipped out from underneath, grabbed Belair’s hair and pulled her off the turnbuckle.
That initiated a tug-of-war over the hair, ending with Belair pulling Lynch into an atomic drop.
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That kicked off a string of offense from Belair, including a Fallaway Slam a la JBL.
Belair went for a cradle pin, but Lynch countered into a Disarmer armbar.
Belair managed to grab the ropes.
Belair wriggled out, then powered Lynch up into a modified spinebuster.
Belair and Lynch then exchanged punches, and then tried to pin each other will rollups.
Rating: 3.5stars.Great match, bad finish.
On the upside, Becky Lynch looked fantastic in her first proper match since returning.
The crowd didn’t make much of the botch, but the announcers mentioned it.
Before you could dwell on it, Hardy came out of nowhere with a big dropkick on Sheamus.
RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE.
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Pure respect.
He then tried to follow up with a Swanton Bomb, but Sheamus pushed him off the top rope.
Sheamus lines up a Brogue Kick on Priest but missed, ending up hung up on the ropes.
Priest then planted Sheamus with a top-rope Chokeslam, but Hardy interrupted the pin with a Swanton Bomb.
That generated huge “Hardy!”
Sheamus then took out Hardy with a Brogue Kick, allowing Priest to roll up Sheamus for the win.
After the match, Hardy shook Priest’s hand.
Rating: 3.5 stars.
That part sucked, but the bout that preceded it didn’t.
Flair got her back though, hitting a big swing on the outside that slammed Bliss into the barricade.
We got plenty of great back-and-forth action once the match got going.
Charlotte went for a moonsault but Bliss moved away, leading to a standing moonsault from Charlotte.
The women then traded rollups, climaxing with Charlotte turning a rollup into a huge powerbomb.
Bliss then hit a Sunset Flip Powerbomb (or a Code Red), which the crowd loved.
After the match Charlotte tore up Lilly.
Bliss then attacked Charlotte, but Charlotte demolished her and threw her over the announce table.
Bliss then cried over her doll for about a minute, but it felt like forever.
It looks to setup a rematch which will feature more of Bliss' “magic”.
Rating: 3.75 stars.I was dreading this match, but it ended up being a lot of fun.
There was little psychology, but plenty of tight action.
These two worked togetherextremelywell.
It all centered around Montez Ford’s injured ribs, which were damaged by Roman Reigns on SmackDown.
Ford begins the match with wrapped-up ribs, but the Usos rip it off.
The crowd is into the Profits, chanting “We want the smoke!”
as the confrontation begins.
(Not as cool as Seth Rollins' superplex into a Falcom Arrow, but still very cool.)
It’s not news, but man Ford can jump high.
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MONTEZ OUTTA NOWHERE!!
The star here was Ford, who sold great and also got in that memorable over-the-turnbuckle moonsault.
It climaxed with Big E pinning Bobby Lashley following a Big Ending.
Things got even slowed when Omos was tagged in.
After a lumbering few minutes, AJ is tagged in and the crowd gets behind Kofi.
Kofi found himself alone in the middle of the ring, but eventually managed to tag in Woods.
Woods has a great hot-tag flurry on Lashley, culminating with a tornado DDT.
The match picks up here: Big E and AJ work fantastic together.
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Lashley was annoyed, but swapped positions.
As AJ went for his Phenomenal Forearm, Lashley tagged himself back in.
Lashley went to spear Big E, but Big E moved, leading to Lashley inadvertently spearing AJ.
Big E then hit the Big Ending on Lashley for the win.
Rating: 3.75 stars.A solid opener, though it went longer than it needed to.
Big E shined in the match, and displayed great (and needed intensity).
That’s the matchIwant to see.
Also, good to see Big E get a win after losing twice on Raw.
Morgan pinned Carmella after planting her with her Oblivion finish.
