0 of 11 Credit: WWE.com The final stop on The Road to WrestleMania 35 was WWE Fastlane 2019, which had a card that promised much more potential than previous years in this event's history. This time around, five titles were on the line, Becky Lynch had to scratch and claw to earn her way back into her rightful main event, and The Shield were set to reunite once more to fight the good fight. That was a rather stacked deck for what is normally a throwaway pay-per-view, but did that potential pan out or fizzle away? What were the positives and negatives of the event that will have people talking heading into Raw and SmackDown and the final push toward WrestleMania? Presented in order of appearance, here are the standout highlights and low points from WWE Fastlane 2019.<doc-sep>10 of 10 Credit: WWE.com For one last time, The Shield banded together on WWE pay-per-view as Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose squared off with Bobby Lashley, Drew McIntyre and Baron Corbin in the Fastlane main event. The Shield made its trademark entrance through the crowd and wasted little time sending the heels scurrying to the floor. Rollins and Lashley started for their respective teams, but the crowd came alive as Reigns and McIntyre entered the match. Reigns withstood the fury of The Scottish Psychopath, then joined The Architect in a two-on-one beating of McIntyre. Unfortunately for The Hounds of Justice, Rollins found himself cut off from his partners and at the mercy of his opponents. He survived the onslaught and tagged Ambrose in, who caught McIntyre with an impressive double ax handle from the top of the ring post. Lashley capitalized on a momentary distraction by Corbin, though, to deliver a nasty spear that returned control of the match to the heels. As the action degenerated at ringside, McIntyre delivered a Claymore Kick to The Lunatic Fringe that sent him to the floor. Ambrose beat the count back into the ring, where the Scot was waiting for him with a flurry of rights and lefts as the former WWE champion's beating resumed. After fighting back and blasting McIntyre with his rebound lariat, Ambrose tagged Reigns into the match. The pace picked up as The Big Dog blasted Corbin with a big boot. The Drive-By followed while Rollins caught McIntyre with a flying forearm. Ambrose and Rollins banded together to send Lashley to the floor, then took off across the ring with a double suicide dive to the aforementioned heels. As Reigns took off, Corbin caught him mid-flight with Deep Six for a quality near-fall. With Rollins and Ambrose brawling with Lashley and McIntyre in the stands, Reigns and Corbin continued their battle in the squared circle. In the stands, Ambrose dove off the Kickoff Show panel table and into the waiting arms of his opponents. Rollins flew out of the stands, wiping them all out. Reigns set Corbin up for the Superman Punch, but Corbin caught him. Reigns fought out and delivered his trademark strike. Moments later, an outnumbered Reigns found himself on the receiving end of End of Days from Corbin, who scored a very close two-count, interrupted at the last second by The Architect and Lunatic. At ringside, the heels teased putting Reigns through the announce table, but The Shield recovered and fought them off. The Hounds picked each heel off one-by-one before turning their attention to McIntyre. They beat him down and delivered The Shield Bomb through the table to a thunderous ovation. Back in the ring, Rollins delivered a superkick, Reigns a Superman Punch and Ambrose Dirty Deeds. The Shield Bomb to Corbin ended the match and earned The Shield one last pay-per-view victory. Result The Shield defeated Corbin, Lashley and McIntyre Grade A+ Analysis Who knows if this really was the last go-round for The Shield, but if it was, it was everything fans wanted from the storied faction. It was the wild, chaotic brawl so many of their classic matches were. It delivered all of the greatest hits, allowed each member of the group to shine and (hopefully) brought a definitive end to the reign of terror of Corbin, Lashley and McIntyre. Reigns looked phenomenal in his first match back, Rollins was fired up to the point that he was dropping an F-bomb late in the match and Ambrose's face was painted with emotion in the moments immediately following the finish. It meant something to the men involved, and just as it had so many times over the course of their run, it elevated the overall quality of the match. On a night in which the unexpected reigned supreme, it was the expected Shield victory celebration that ended Fastlane on the highest note imaginable.<doc-sep>
3 of 6 Credit: WWE.com For the second pay-per-view in a row, Kofi Kingston is a winner, despite simultaneously losing his match and not taking home the prize he set out to obtain. Last time around at Elimination Chamber, he was nearly able to become WWE champion after a great performance that led to the crowd giving him a standing ovation in his loss against Daniel Bryan. At Fastlane, Kingston was booked in a similar positive light as someone who fell victim to a three-count, and it managed to endear him to the audience even more in the process. Kingston was toyed with as he was promised a spot in the WWE Championship match, only to be forced into a handicap match against The Bar, which he lost because of the numbers not being in his favor. As a result from this, the crowd chanted "we want Kofi" during the WWE title match even though two babyfaces in Kevin Owens and Mustafa Ali were there to challenge Bryan for the title. It didn't matter, because they weren't Kingston. This goes to show that even though Kingston was not the plan to build to for WrestleMania back in 2018 when WWE first envisioned what to do, the powers that be know that putting him in the title match to come is the way to go. Fastlane was one step closer to getting the crowd at a fever pitch begging for Kingston to get his one-on-one opportunity. When the trigger is pulled in the coming weeks, people will go ballistic.