Bully Ray has praised Roman Reigns and Penta’s Raw main event in Mexico City and he’s putting it above one of the most acclaimed matches on Reigns’ résumé.
On the September 15 episode of Busted Open, Bully argued the entire Mexico City broadcast set a standard he wishes WWE would chase every week, calling it an Attitude Era-level show with no weak segments from start to finish.
He then went a step further, directly comparing Reigns’ title defense against Penta to Reigns’ widely praised WrestleMania bout with CM Punk and giving the edge to the Raw match, calling it the better of the two.
Speaking of that main event and speaking of WrestleMania, here’s my hot take for today. Hold on to your butts. Roman Reigns versus Penta last night was a better main event and a better match than Roman Reigns and CM Punk at WrestleMania.
That’s saying something because Roman Reigns versus CM Punk, a lot of people call a modern-day classic. Last night was better.
Bully credited the match’s false finishes for genuinely convincing him Penta might pull off the win, saying the execution was believable enough that he found himself on the edge of his seat despite assuming Reigns was the safer bet to retain.
Last night, during one of the false finishes deep into the match, I found myself sliding in my chair to the edge of the seat. I was like, holy shit, they got me. I thought Penta was going to win.
We kind of in the back of our mind knew that Roman was probably going to win. But they suspended the disbelief. They had us buying into it at least two or three times with credible, perfectly executed false finishes. Nothing beyond the realm of believability.
Reigns ultimately retained the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Penta. He is now set to defend his title against LA Knight at WWE Money In The Bank on Saturday, October 10.
