Main Event Opener

By Scott Keith on July 14, 2019

Last night at Extreme Rules, the Undertaker & Roman Reigns vs. Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre match could have – for better or worse – gone on last and probably had more intrigue than the real main event.

WWE has obviously flirted with putting the main event on first – namely this year’s WrestleMania (Brock is always the main event whether you like it or not, pal) and the No Mercy PPV a couple of years back when the WWE Title match opened the show. Do you think in the era of ridiculously long but basically free shows that it actually makes more sense to put the biggest match on right out of the gate?

No, I think it actually killed off the crowd for a long while. I’d have run with the tag title match (either one) as the opener. You just can’t build a show properly by putting a main event first. Watch the Bash 86 shows on the Network as an example of how to build intrigue through the show.

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