WWE Raw: Results, Highlights, Analysis, and Grades for March 19

Brother Nero, I knew you’d come. (Photo Source: WWE.com via Twitter)

The Ultimate Deletion

Bray Wyatt vs. Matt Hardy

Result: Matt Hardy defeated Bray Wyatt via pinfall

Rating: 1 star out of 5? 7 stars out of 5? I honestly don’t even know

Bravo, everyone. This was the complete opposite of the House of Horrors match from last year’s Payback. It just goes to show that Bray Wyatt is terrible at mind games, but Matt Hardy is amazing.

I don’t want to keep comparing The Ultimate Deletion to the House of Horrors, because while similar they were very different. When the House of Horrors involved a broken refrigerator, it was like the producers had never seen any “horrors” in their lives. But here, while nothing really made sense, everything fit. Get me? (You can say no, I really have no idea how to respond to this segment.)

Let’s just run it down, because I don’t know how much analysis I can come up with that actually makes sense:

Vanguard 1 providing the Jedi/Sith hologram image of Hardy was a perfect start. I have no idea why “Broomstick Protocol” meant “shoot fireworks at Wyatt,” but that’s apparently what it meant. The travels through the Hardy Compound were quite illuminating – why on earth would Matt build a replica of Sister Abigail’s shed?

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The journey to the “Land of Obsolete Men” would have been better if you could actually read some of the names on the, uh, tombstones? They look more like classic Team Extreme Hardy logos to me. But the Benny Hill/Scooby Doo chase sequence? Magnificent.

Then there was the Dome of Deletion, complete with ring number two, a Chair of Wheels and a Mower of Lawns. I believe this is the first time we’ve ever seen attempted murder via John Deere – even the Mexicools didn’t pull that.

But Wyatt regrouped, and dragged Matt to the Lake of Reincarnation. Skarsgard, the dilapidated boat, was hiding Señor Benjamin – who taunted Wyatt with his old hymn. As did Jeff “Brother Nero” Hardy, which freaked out Wyatt long enough to give Matt time to recover.

And now the rub – after a pinfall victory, Hardy tossed Wyatt into the Lake of Reincarnation. Benjamin tried to fish him out now that the Great War is “ovah,” but – dun dun DUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN – he disappeared!

I swear, if Bray Wyatt is done, he officially becomes the character with the worst transition from NXT to main roster. And he’s a former WWE Champion! But his entire run can be summed up with the word “disappointment.” And if Husky Harris comes back, I officially complain online.

Where any of this goes from here, who knows? If Jeff is healthy, we can have a true Broken Hardys tag run – but putting them up against Braun Strowman and These Hands™ for the tag titles seems unfair.

Overall, I think I liked the Ultimate Deletion more than I expected? Maybe? It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t great, but it was different, which I like. So perhaps more can be on its way?

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I have to try and figure out what I thought of this episode overall – what did you think of WWE Raw this week?