AJ Styles and the entire WWE wait impatiently for Fastlane to end and WrestleMania season to resume.
If "This Tuesday in Texas" aired on a Friday in Oklahoma, it would still take a backseat to the ill-advised nomenclature of WWE Fastlane 2018, which has only served to bring the build to WrestleMania 34 to a grinding halt.
Viewership for SmackDown Live was down 3.8% for the Fastlane go-home show, and it couldn't be any more painfully obvious that WWE is only moving forward with its penultimate pay-per-view before WrestleMania because it's contractually obligated to do so. Several WrestleMania matches, programs and announcements have been held hostage by a pay-per-view lineup that might as well be dubbed WWE Traffic Jam. If ever there was a time to call a pay-per-view WWE Roadblock, this is it.
WWE has opted to truncate its pay-per-view schedule and adopt a dual-branded format moving forward as the addition of pay-per-views on the WWE Network did nothing to stimulate its static subscription count which continues to stubbornly hover in the 1.5 to 1.6 million range. As a result, Fastlane exists as a fish out of water with the unnecessary pay-per-view holding up everything from the women's title picture on both shows to John Cena's seemingly inevitable clash with The Undertaker.
Charlotte vs. Ruby Riot has Put Raw and SmackDown Women's Championship on Pause
Ruby Riot has very little chance of dethroning Charlotte at WWE Fastlane.
Asuka has been heavily rumored to take on Charlotte at WrestleMania, but that can't happen until the reigning SmackDown women's champion defends her championship against Ruby Riot. The prominent rumors in the era of information, combined with Ruby Riot's status as a rookie, give her virtually no chance to walk away with the SmackDown Women's Championship. This caveat figures to sabotage the live crowd's reaction to nearfalls and potential false finishes, let alone the match itself.
Meanwhile, on Raw, WWE has already planted the seeds for a Nia Jax-Alexa Bliss feud, which figures to ramp up once Charlotte presumably retains and is possibly confronted by Asuka herself at Fastlane.
">WWE Fastlane 2018, the unheralded pay-per-view that many are impatiently waiting to be done already, is quite possibly the most inappropriately named event in WWE history.
AJ Styles and the entire WWE wait impatiently for Fastlane to end and WrestleMania season to resume.
If "This Tuesday in Texas" aired on a Friday in Oklahoma, it would still take a backseat to the ill-advised nomenclature of WWE Fastlane 2018, which has only served to bring the build to WrestleMania 34 to a grinding halt.
Viewership for SmackDown Live was down 3.8% for the Fastlane go-home show, and it couldn't be any more painfully obvious that WWE is only moving forward with its penultimate pay-per-view before WrestleMania because it's contractually obligated to do so. Several WrestleMania matches, programs and announcements have been held hostage by a pay-per-view lineup that might as well be dubbed WWE Traffic Jam. If ever there was a time to call a pay-per-view WWE Roadblock, this is it.
WWE has opted to truncate its pay-per-view schedule and adopt a dual-branded format moving forward as the addition of pay-per-views on the WWE Network did nothing to stimulate its static subscription count which continues to stubbornly hover in the 1.5 to 1.6 million range. As a result, Fastlane exists as a fish out of water with the unnecessary pay-per-view holding up everything from the women's title picture on both shows to John Cena's seemingly inevitable clash with The Undertaker.
Charlotte vs. Ruby Riot has Put Raw and SmackDown Women's Championship on Pause
Ruby Riot has very little chance of dethroning Charlotte at WWE Fastlane.
Asuka has been heavily rumored to take on Charlotte at WrestleMania, but that can't happen until the reigning SmackDown women's champion defends her championship against Ruby Riot. The prominent rumors in the era of information, combined with Ruby Riot's status as a rookie, give her virtually no chance to walk away with the SmackDown Women's Championship. This caveat figures to sabotage the live crowd's reaction to nearfalls and potential false finishes, let alone the match itself.
Meanwhile, on Raw, WWE has already planted the seeds for a Nia Jax-Alexa Bliss feud, which figures to ramp up once Charlotte presumably retains and is possibly confronted by Asuka herself at Fastlane.
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