WWE Fastlane Live Scores

WWE Fastlane Live Scores

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From Sunday night’s WWE Fastlane pay-per-view, it will be a 20-day race until the first night of WrestleMania 37. Three of the top four singles titles on Raw and SmackDown have their WrestleMania 37 fights fought or coming in focus, but there are still many questions to be answered in less than three weeks.

The chaos of recent history has led WrestleMania fights to be fought alongside Fastlane fights in recent weeks on Raw and SmackDown, and even with some additions to the two-night WrestleMania card, there are still only four confirmed fights currently scheduled for 10 and April 11 at Raymond James Stadium.

Fastlane can even alter one of these fights, as the night’s highest betting contest features Daniel Bryan challenging Roman Reigns for the Universal championship with Edge in the ring as a guest performer. Is Bryan’s entry into the conversation about the world title a simple diversion to kill some time before WrestleMania? Or could he legitimately make a triple threat a reality, even with a defeat on Sunday?

There are three other title contests scheduled for Fastlane, but let’s put aside Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler’s female title defense against Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair for a moment, as it looks tailor-made to simply generate tension for the fight for WrestleMania SmackDown women’s championship between Banks and Belair. Riddle and Mustafa Ali face off in a rematch for the United States championship, while Big E puts his Intercontinental title at stake against the Apollo Crews in a conflict that has become deeply personal in a hurry.

Finally, there are a trio of face-to-face confrontations that project to be drastically different. Drew McIntyre and Sheamus solve their problems once and for all in a fight without barriers, while Seth Rollins and Shinsuke Nakamura fight in the dream of a wrestling purist. Then there is the intergenerational match between Alexa Bliss and Randy Orton that could be the trigger for the return of the long-missing “Fiend” Bray Wyatt.

Follow through the night as we share the action, game by game.

Match in progress: Randy Orton vs Alexa Bliss

Results of

No Holds Barred: Drew McIntyre def. Sheamus

To recap soon.

Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

If you were making predictions for Sunday’s Fastlane card, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, chalk would have been the way to go. Seth Rollins came in with a bone to choose with Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro. With a decisive victory over Nakamura on Sunday, Rollins can now turn his eyes to Cesaro, and a seemingly unavoidable date for a match at WrestleMania.

Even though the ending was quite predictable, everything that led to those final moments was fun and well executed. When you bring together two of the most talented fighters in the world, good things tend to happen.

Rollins talking about how Cesaro spun him 22 turns and looking at the camera was a bit annoying, but the match itself hit all the right notes. Each had their moment to shine, attack their brand in a creative way and everything flowed together.

Everything started to increase when Nakamura slipped from the ropes to the ground, suffering an ugly landing. Rollins did a suicide dive.

The exchanges were quick and the momentum swayed back and forth. A Nakamura sliding the German suplex under the bottom rope quickly fed back into the ring and led to a Buckle Bomb and a Hawk Arrow. A rare attempt at pinfall in the match by Rollins only yielded a count of two.

Rollins’ first attempt to step on the ground fueled a deep cut from Nakamura, the Landslide, followed by a reverse Exploder and a kip-up. The blow from Kinshasa’s running knee failed, and in a mad run, Rollins hit a forearm in the back of the neck, pulled Nakamura’s legs out from under him and stamped his foot to count three.

What is the next: For Rollins, it’s Cesaro – without a doubt. For Nakamura, unfortunately, there does not seem to be a clear path to follow. A year that started very promising has been put aside. Hopefully he will find something to sink his teeth into at WrestleMania.

Braun Strowman won. Elias

This was just a filling game, as Shane McMahon suffered a “knee injury” and abused his power to push Elias into a confrontation with Strowman instead. Despite a brief glimpse of hope with a chop block and flying top rope elbow, Strowman was essentially playing with his food as long as he wanted. He finally defeated Elias, and nothing was gained.

What is the next: Strowman vs. McMahon, really. Perhaps green paint / slime / slime is involved.

Intercontinental Championship: Big E (c) def. Apollo Crews

It was difficult to predict an end to the Intercontinental championship match in Fastlane. Would Big E win a definitive victory and stop Apollo Crews’ newfound momentum? Or would Crews win the Intercontinental title and bring the Big E title’s reign to an unspectacular end?

It turns out that none of these scenarios. Big E won the victory by lifting a shoulder just in time, while the two fought in simultaneous roll-ups, but the victory did not last long. Crews immediately launched a post-game attack and hit three Angle Slams and slapped Big E in the face to show his anger. Despite losing five times in Intercontinental title fights so far in 2021, Crews is apparently on track to get another WrestleMania.

Strangely, the WrestleMania photo still looks deserved, at least from an emotional point of view. Big E continued with his heart in his sleeve, screaming during the early stages of the match while beating Crews. “You asked for that shit,” shouted Big E as he hit a spear in the strings and splashed the apron. “This is what you begged … you took that side of me.”

After a few belly-to-belly suplexes, Crews used Big E’s aggression against him and reversed the script. A trio of German suplexes and a splash of frog gave Crews a count of two. There followed two ascended Enzuigiris and a standing lunar jump, Big E raised his knees in the last movement to rotate for the final sequence.

Big E fought on an energy bomb, Crews came out of a Big Ending, and then the battle for rollup attempts was won by Big E.

What is the next: It seems that tensions have just started to boil, and Big E and Crews have a score to settle. What better place than WrestleMania? Hopefully, next time, it will be a game long enough to show more of what each of them can do.

Women’s doubles championship: Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax vs. Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair

In terms of the most transparent and predictable stories on the Fastlane card, the women’s tag team championship fight was just like anyone who watched five minutes of WWE TV last month knew it would happen.

Banks and Belair – in fantastic matching outfits, you know – started off fast, hitting some excellent double team moves, including an assisted run knee. But everything changed because of an intrusion by a guy named Reginald, a moment of lack of communication in the ring and, finally, the dissolution of the short-term pair with rising tensions going into his fight for the WrestleMania title.

From the moment Banks landed an assisted knee on Shayna Baszler, when Belair held Baszler in a double underhook position, Banks fell directly in a statement from Banks. Belair tried to stop Nia Jax from interrupting the attempt, but Jax pushed Belair into Banks, and Banks misinterpreted it. Banks and Belair started to argue, Banks called Belair a newbie and then Banks stared at her. Baszler rolled Banks up while Belair took time to get out of the ring, and when Belair failed to stop that pinfall fast enough, the game was over.

They argued again, Banks called Belair a newbie again and then slapped Belair in the face. With three weeks ahead of WrestleMania, tensions are rising, but you can’t help but think that there could be a better way to do this than to have the female SmackDown champion immobilized once again.

What is the next: Hopefully, a future without Reginald for Banks and Belair. Let them build according to your needs, keep it simple and it will be great. As for Jax and Baszler, they keep spinning without really going anywhere. Find a promising team that can take advantage of the momentum and let these two go their separate ways as individual competitors.

United States Championship: Riddle (c) def. Mustafa Ali

It is a pity that this match was relegated to the Fastlane Kickoff show for a few reasons. First of all, the match itself, especially the last four minutes, was an incredible reminder of the talent that Ali and Riddle have. There was a particular sequence in which an attempt by Ali to roll up a small package was rolled over to Riddle standing with Ali in his arms, taking Ali and hitting a small package driver, straight to an Ali presentation. Trying was ridiculous, succeeding and making it look so good was impressive.

There was almost no time to catch his breath at the end, and Riddle resorted to hitting his final maneuver, Bro Derek, from the middle rope to win and retain.

After the match, Retribution finally fell to pieces and turned his back on Ali. Reckoning and Slapjack were the first, and then Mace and T-Bar double-choked Ali to remove any doubts.

What is the next: Could Retribution continue without Ali? Right. They should? Absolutely not. Dominik Dijakovic (T-Bar), Mia Yim (Reckoning), Shane Thorne (Slapjack) and Dio Maddin (Mace) were overwhelmed with a silly trick that Ali tried his best to save, but with no creative force behind it and no big wins to speak, he was left dead in the water. Each of them, especially Dijakovic and Yim, has incredible solo potential if a new start is given.

As for Riddle, he will have a multiway fight at WrestleMania or dive headlong into something new on Monday night.

Yet to come:

Universal Championship: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Daniel Bryan

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