The Rocks epic WWE return lifted up a Bad Blood show that had some issues
The Rock is back and he doesn’t appear happy with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes – with a simple hand gesture signaling his feelings. The massive return ended and lifted up a mostly entertaining Bad Blood pay-per-view from State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Saturday. It delivered a superb Hell in a Cell match,a trio of returns and some creative bumps in the middle of the card – including one booking decision that appeared to be rejected by the crowd – as four of the five matches included some form of outside interference. It ended, however, with a stellar flourish that has The Bloodline story on the path to Survivor Series and WarGames.Here are five takeaways from Bad Blood:Most of the match between Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu against Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns feels inconsequential because it was all a setup for the returns and moments at the end. A few things to note would be Reigns getting a stronger babyface reaction than Rhodes after both got WrestleMania-like entrances with live music.The payoff to the hot tag to Reigns felt a little lackluster and Fatu was booked as a monster.
It took Rhodes giving him a callback top-rope splash through the announce table to finally keep him down.Rhodes saluted Reigns to tell him, “You take it from here.” The rest of the new Bloodline came to the ring with Sikoa in trouble.
Sikoa grabbed Reigns and yelled at him, “You lied to me! You told me I was next in line!” as another figure with a mask appeared outside the ring between Toma Tonga and Tonga Loa.It was a returning Jimmy Uso, who was taken out by the new Bloodline in storyline.He opened the door for Reigns to catch Sikoa off guard and spear him for the win.
The hug between Uso and Roman drew a big pop. A little bit after a nod of appreciation to Rhodes, Uso had to coax Reigns to return to the ring to help the “American Nightmare”, who was getting pummelled by the Bloodline.Reigns picked up the Undisputed WWE championship and slowly handed it back to...