After last year’s version of the event failed to live up to its ‘extreme’ billing, WWE’s new head of creative has laid a stronger foundation.
A lot can change in a year in professional wrestling.
At this time in 2021, WWE presented an Extreme Rules pay-per-view that failed to live up to its name. On a night that should have been full of hardcore brawls, the vast majority of the card was contested under normal rules. There was only one match with an extreme stipulation. It’s a show that was emblematic of the issues WWE faced in the later years of the Vince McMahon era.