I just got done watching WWE Wrestlemania Backlash. I went into this show not expecting much. It felt like a lame duck show in a lot of ways. It exceeded almost every expectation I had. Both men's world title matches were outstanding, both women's world title matches were really good, and we got a heartwarming moment between the Mysterios. It was a really good show. It was not, however, a perfect show. There was some CRAP in the middle of it. Wrestlecrap, if you will. That's a different website, but I'd like to talk about zombies anyway.
I hadn't liked the Damian Priest feud with The Miz. It's been really silly in a lot of ways. Having said that, they had a perfectly good ending with the Wrestlemania tag match, where Bad Bunny put in one of the best celebrity performances in a wrestling match ever. Why they kept this feud going, I have no idea. And this feud looks like it ended with some Grade-A Wrestlecrap.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!#WMBacklash #LumberjackMatch pic.twitter.com/JCVfAbxxe9
— WWE (@WWE) May 17, 2021
Tonight's Wrestlemania Backlash show was apparently brought to you by Netflix's Army of the Dead. (Not to be confused with Army of Darkness, naturally.) Because of that, Dave Batista tweeted that he was sending "friends" to tonight's show. Those friends turned out to be a bunch of zombies, who acted as lumberjacks for the Priest/Miz Lumberjack Match.
LOOK OUT! 🧟♂️#WMBacklash @mikethemiz @ArcherOfInfamy Zombie #LumberjackMatch pic.twitter.com/J6Z9kUOyaC
— WWE (@WWE) May 17, 2021
The match itself was already bad, because the two guys weren't meshing at all. It was made that much worse when Priest and Miz were suddenly looking around and had to spend the whole match being afraid of the zombies. It all distracted from the match, it made the awful WWE camera cuts that much worse, and it made everyone look terrible. There was nothing redeemable about this other than John Morrison clearly auditioning for his next "straight-to-video" movie.
Johnny...
— WWE (@WWE) May 17, 2021
JOHNNY?!?!#WMBacklash Zombie #LumberjackMatch @TheRealMorrison pic.twitter.com/VkiUVWYcYC
Wrestlemania Backlash is a thumbs up, outside of this garbage. Catch it on Peacock if you can! Just skip this match.
