WWE Fastlane 2018: Results, Highlights, Analysis, and Grades

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Tyler Breeze, Fandango, & Tye Dillinger vs. Chad Gable, Shelton Benjamin, & Mojo Rawley

Result: Tyler Breeze, Fandango, & Tye Dillinger defeated Chad Gable, Shelton Benjamin, & Mojo Rawley via pinfall

Rating: 1.75 out of 5 stars

Earlier in the day, Mojo Rawley and his buddies (I guess) Chad Gable & Shelton Benjamin had some choice words for Breezango and Tye Dillinger. This, after Dillinger had been named a Junior Deputy Detective. The nerve! Dillinger issued a challenge, and no one wants to turn down a pay day, so here we are.

It could have been worse, I guess. Fandango did his best Dog-Faced Gremlin impression at the beginning of the match. Dango channeled Rick Steiner with the amateur wrestling headgear before Gable and Breeze attempted a collegiate-style lock-up. If you’re going to do a comedy match, you couldn’t pick a better duo in today’s WWE than Fandango and Breeze.

I appreciated the production team flipping the script on the “going to commercial” trope. The Fashion Police and Dillinger sent their opponents all to the outside, prompting Tom Phillips to tell us “the Kickoff Show is rolling on as Breezango and Dillinger are in command!” But, whoops, in came Gable to turn the tide with an awesome monkey flip, sending Phillips scrambling to cover. I don’t know if it was intentional, but regardless, it’s nice to see things change up from a formulaic standpoint.

The match was kind of a mess, but that’s to be expected when these guys hardly ever have televised matches anymore. Ring rust is apparently very real. Unless I missed a tag somewhere, Dillinger pinned Mojo while Benjamin was the legal man.

It was nice to see these guys get some attention for once, but the match was ultimately forgettable. Babyfaces win, and it’s time for the main show so we can forget this even happened (until someone points out Mojo wasn’t the legal man).