WWE Extreme Rules 2017: 5 surprising moments from Extreme Rules

#2 Austin Aries lost

Is this the end of Austin Aries as a threat?

Austin Aries is clearly the most popular good guy on the 205 Live show. It has certainly raised the profile of the Cruiserweight title matches to have Aries feuding with Neville for the last three pay-per-views. Since Neville had won the last two matches dirty, it seemed logical for him to finally lose the title. Then he beat Aries clean.

In a hard fought and physical match, both men had believable near falls throughout. The ending was really well done with Neville hitting the Red Arrow onto Aries’ back. It makes sense at that point for Aries to tap.

That is the shocking part to me – Aries has now lost three times in a row. It would make no logical sense for him to get another title match. What happens now on 205 Live? It seems Neville really has cleared out the division.