Rick Scaia had a point about Backlash on Online Onslaught: that this show was more focused on the newer talents.

I think the experiment was 50-50.

Team Angle and Los Guerreros had a great opener. In many ways it was an improvement over the match at Wrestlemania: long, more psychology and storytelling. It was an interesting bout.

Sean O'Haire also was impressive in his re-debut. The match was shorter, but his moves looked very crisp and impressive. This match also broke from the expected pattern: that he came out on top on the Smackdown! before the PPV would have led us to believe he'd lose there. Not so.

John Cena and Brock Lesner put on a great match too. It wasn't a total squash, the outcome wasn't sure until the end. Cena proved to be a valuable contributor to the title picture.

Goldberg - Rock... well here we got a real letdown, in my view. Because this was the match they built the card on, and what ended the show, I count it as a 50%-er itself. Yes, the face won, to send fans home happy, and yes it was longer than Goldberg's older matches... but we didn't see anything original from it. We saw the same old moveset of spears, spinebusters, and jackhammer finish. Nothing original there.