WWE Fastlane 2016 Results: Twitter Reacts to Top Stars, Moments and More

Twitter was buzzing Sunday night during Fastlane, the final pay-per-view stop on the road to WrestleMania, reacting to the top stars, moments and matches from the WWE Network presentation.

Roman Reigns defeated Dean Ambrose and Brock Lesnar in a Triple Threat match to earn the right to challenge Triple H for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 32, and predictably, diehard fans were none too thrilled with the outcome.

They were much more pleased with the fact Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks were spotlighted in the night's opening contest, a victory over Naomi and Tamina, while Kevin Owens and Dolph Ziggler delivered what was arguably their best match to date.

AJ Styles and Chris Jericho nearly stole the show with a match that, while very good, was not without controversy.

Oh, and The Wyatt Family lost.

Again.

Find out what fans, analysts and former WWE Superstars had to say about Sunday's show, as WWE's Fastlane trended worldwide on Twitter on Sunday night.

The Divas Kick off Fastlane

There are two places on any card that are of the utmost importance: the main event and the opening contest. While the main event features the hottest feud and caps off a night of action, the opener provides fans with a taste of things to come. It generates the energy the company hopes will carry through to the rest of the show.

Sunday night, the WWE Divas kicked off Fastlane, as Banks and Lynch battled Naomi and Tamina.

Twitter, including PhillySport's Vaughn Johnson, discussed what it meant for the division, and NXT women's champion Bayley was understandably psyched for her friends.

Former WWE champion Sycho Sid had fun with the "tag team partners who hate each other" dynamic of the babyface tandem, echoing a similar situation he was in during his Hall of Fame-worthy career.

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I have faith that Sasha won't do to Becky what I did to Hogan when he reached for the hot tag. #WWEFastlane

— SID VICIOUS (@SychoVicious) February 22, 2016"

Banks and Lynch set their differences aside to defeat the remaining members of Team B.A.D. in a match tweeters, including Bleacher Report's Chris "The Doctor" Mueller, had nothing but praise for.

Kevin Owens and Dolph Ziggler Impress Despite Overexposure

There was little doubt Ziggler vs. Owens for the WWE Intercontinental Championship would be a strong match, especially given the bouts they have wrestled over the last month. But therein lies the problem.

They have wrestled so many times that the matchup has been severely overexposed.

Still, it managed to win over B/R's Mike Chiari, our friends at WrestlingInc.com and yours truly even if the issues surrounding it were still evident.

Owens successfully retained the IC title, ensuring this was the last time he would wrestle Ziggler for the time being.

Which should be, like, two days.

Credit: WWE.com

The Wyatt Family...Loses?

The Wyatt Family battled Kane, Big Show and Ryback in a Six-Man Tag Team match Sunday night, and the outcome was anything but expected.

In a curious bit of booking, the babyfaces known as "The Titans of WWE" emerged victorious when Ryback pinned Luke Harper.

WrestleZone.com and WrestlingInc were as puzzled and disappointed as most.

WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall suggested the loss may have implications later in the show.

Whatever the case may be, it was another questionable use of a faction that is portrayed as the most dangerous in all of WWE.

AJ Styles vs. Chris Jericho

The most anticipated match of the Fastlane card was, without a shadow of doubt, the rubber match between Styles and Jericho. The flurry of activity on Twitter, from the likes of respected wrestling writers Sean Ross Sapp and Wade Keller, MMA fighter-turned-wrestler Shayna Baszler and PPV sponsor TapouT, reflected that sentiment.

Parody account WWE Creative Humor questioned how it would ever one-up its predecessor.

B/R's Ryan Dilbert, though, noticed a lack of energy surrounding commentator Michael Cole's call prior to the bout's start.

The match itself was a fantastic display of professional wrestling from two of the best to ever lace a pair of boots. There was one spot that generated great criticism from analysts, including Justin LaBar, the folks over at NoDQ.com and WhatCulture.com, and Fighting Spirit Magazine: Jericho kicking out of The Styles Clash.

Later in the show, intercontinental champion Owens fired the first shot in what will presumably be the rivalry that his title is at the center of leading into WrestleMania, as he called Styles out.

"

Hey dweebs…If AJ Styles ever comes anywhere near MY #ICTitle, I’ll take him out in less time than it took me to toss him out of the Rumble.

— Kevin Owens (@FightOwensFight) February 22, 2016"

Teasing The Shield

During the main event involving Reigns, Ambrose and Lesnar, the former Shield members banded together to put The Beast through a table in a spot that generated tweets of joy, the most hilarious from The Fan's Podcast.

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Anti-Roman Reigns Sentiment

It was clear from the moment Reigns made his entrance Sunday night that the fans in Cleveland were not enamored with the former WWE world heavyweight champion or the prospects of him winning the main event.

Boos rang out so furiously that some on social media suggested the company manipulated the audio to turn them down.

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Cleveland loves Reigns, right Vince? #WWEFastlane

— SID VICIOUS (@SychoVicious) February 22, 2016"

When the second-generation star actually won, the response was predictable.

Some, including writer Scott Fishman and Cageside Seats, were more analytical of the win and the response it garnered.

And then there was former WWE Creative writer Seth Mates, who took to mocking the critics who talk a big game but do nothing to back it up.

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I HATE ROMAN REIGNS' PUSH SO I'M GONNA SPEND TIME BURYING HIM ON TWITTER, NOT UNDERSTANDING AT ALL THAT MEANS HE'S ACTUALLY OVER

— Seth Mates (@SethMates) February 22, 2016"

WWE Fastlane 2016: A Mixed Bag

The main event outcome hurt the perception of the pay-per-view for some fans, the majority of whom were far from satisfied with another Reigns victory.

Still, others thought the overwhelming predictability doomed the broadcast to mediocrity.

Then there were those who appreciated the efforts of the wrestlers, enjoyed the matches and gave the show a solid thumbs-up.

A show that, arguably, peaked in the first hour until the main event brought the house down, Fastlane is officially a thing of the past, and now all eyes are on WrestleMania 32.

The main event between Reigns and Triple H will not be everyone's first choice for a match of that magnitude, but it certainly makes sense within the context of the story being told. Reigns has been repeatedly screwed out of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship by the COO, and now he has the opportunity to put him down and take the gold back on the grandest stage imaginable.

WWE Creative will have a ton of work to do in the next 40-plus days, though, if it hopes to get fans to invest in Reigns by then. The boos are eerily similar to those he experienced a year ago, and the likelihood that fans are even more frustrated knowing the company is not listening to them is greater.

Thus, turning them will be harder than it was even two months ago, when it failed to follow up on the momentum Reigns had built coming out of the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view.