2018 WWE Extreme Rules results, recap, grades: New champions, surprises and a big return

When considering an overall grade for Sunday's WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view, it's hard to look past how consistently entertaining the nearly four-hour show was from start to finish. Not only was the 10-match main card booked perfectly with a series of short matches early -- giving way to the more important pairings late -- the 30-minute iron man match between Dolph Ziggler and Seth Rollins received surprised placement as the main event.

But while the good news for Sunday's card is that very little of it was bad, it's hard to look past how little of it was anything more than good. While Extreme Rules continued to move angles along on the build to SummerSlam in late August, it lacked major moments or matches worthy of watching a second time. Outside of the tease from Raw general manager Kurt Angle regarding Brock Lesnar, there was very little that left Monday's episode of Raw feeling must-see.

The PPG Paints Arena crowd in Pittsburgh played more than a small role in the disappointing side of things on this night. Yet overall, the show was solid if not spectacular, which in most cases is better than the alternative. Grade: B

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2018 WWE Extreme Rules results, grades

Andrade "Cien" Almas def. Sin Cara via pinfall -- Kickoff Show: If the goal of this match was simply to get Almas and manager Zelina Vega over as despicable and opportunistic heels, consider it job well done. Sin Cara rallied late with a series of high spots. He pushed Almas off the top rope, which caused him to hit his back on the apron. Sin Cara then hit a hurricanrana from the top rope onto the floor and followed with a frog splash from the top rope inside the ring. But the pin never happened as Vega distracted the referee by jumping on the apron. Alma's followed with a dropkick, running knees to the face and his hammerlock DDT finisher for the 1-2-3. Nothing too special here outside of classic heel psychology, but it was effective. Grade: C+

SAnitY def. New Day (Tables Match) -- Kickoff Show: Despite a short running time to close the kickoff show and a predictable outcome with the newcomers earning a big win, consider this a good piece of business. The match featured plenty of teases for big table spots that would've won the match but never came to fruition. Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston combined for a nice double Tope Con Hilo spot outside before Killian Dain followed with a suicide dive taking both of them out. The somewhat abrupt finish came when Kingston and Alexander Wolfe were tied up on the apron, attempting to push the other through the table set up on the floor behind them. Wolfe went as far as biting Kingston's hands to force him to give up his grip and as Kingston was teetering, Eric Young hit a clothesline off the top rope to put Kingston through the table. Grade: B