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. While the in-ring product was good, the wrestlers were consistently let down by lazy and uninspired booking.
Now, under a new regime with Paul “Triple H” Levesque leading creative, the difference between the cards for Extreme Rules 2021 and Extreme Rules ’22 is night and day. WWE heads to Philadelphia this Saturday for a PPV where every match has a different extreme stipulation. None of those stipulations feel out of place or unnecessary. Levesque has put together heated feuds that are all worthy of the stipulations they’ve been given.
