Cole is joined at ringside for commentary by the
WRESTLING GOD himself John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL). This will be a fun
entertaining show I think with that addition.
Match 1 – Fatal Four Way for the INTERCONTINENTAL
Championship
The Miz (c) vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Cody
Rhodes vs. Sin Cara
All these guys are really good wrestlers, maybe Sin Cara
could do with some more experience in a WWE ring but otherwise he too is very
talented. With the 2 masked luchadors involved there could be plenty of high
flying moves in this match and Cody not being a stranger to high flying moves
himself. The Miz isn’t the so big on the high flying but is a great talker and
has some really cool moves in his arsenal.
The Miz pins Cody Rhodes after hitting the skull crushing
finale on Cody after Sin Cara covered Miz’s face with a mask. Quite a good
match for a 4 way match, sometimes can be a bit bland but they had a pretty fun
little match there. Good signs for the rest of the card.
Backstage
The Primetime Players are with Eve (DAMN FINE)
complaining that they should be challenging for the tag team titles when a
stage hand approaches and tells Eve that there is an emergency. She follows and
it turns out that Kaitlyn has been attacked and hurt her ankle (go figure), Eve
and trainer carry her off. May I just note how bad an actress Kaitlyn is right
now.
Match 2 – Tag Team Championship Match
Kofi Kingston & R-Truth (c) Vs. Kane
& Daniel BryanI have the feeling this match is going to be hilarious. Would like to see the title change hands here as I feel Truth and Kofi are a tad stale at this point and could easily go onto other things as individuals. The Bryan / Kane dynamic is interesting and has been one of the most entertaining things on Raw as of late just for the comic value of it.
Some great double team moves from Bryan and Kane, then
when things go south they hug it out, which is hilarious. JBL’s comments on it
are also rather funny. Kane goes up for the clothesline but Bryan pushes him
off onto Kofi and this allows Kane to get the 3 count and Bryan and Kane win
the tag team titles. They begin to argue and the crowd is chanting “Hug it
out”, Kane hits the pryo and leaves. Ok so this match just buried the now
former tag team champs but it didn’t help this story line continue.
Backstage
Teddy Long and Booker T, are talking and Eve comes in,
tells them that Kaitlyn is not going to be able to compete for the Divas title.
Booker decides to have Eve challenge instead. Everyone leaves.
Match 3 – United States Championship
Match
Antonio Cesaro (c) with Aksana (DAMN
FINE) vs Zack Ryder
Zack Ryder won the pre show battle royal to gain this
title shot, at least it gives Ryder the PPV bonus, I really like Cesaro and
with Aksana being his manager I really can get with his character too. Ryder
I’m not such a fan of, just can’t get into him at all, he simply doesn’t
entertain me unlike Aksana. It is a shame that Cesaro cannot do a lot of the
moves he used to use in ROH as they are either taken by other wrestlers or he
simply isn’t strong enough to do them to everyone on the roster.
Cesaro hits the Neutralizer on Ryder to retain the US
title. Good match for what it was and we get to see Cesaro retain the belt
which is a good move.
Match 4 – Randy Orton vs Dolph Ziggler
with Vickie G
This is going to be brilliant!!! Just have that feeling. Two
guys are are just amazing at what they do in the ring, both generally give a
great show regardless of whether they are on the winning or losing end of the
match itself.
Both guys really going back and forth in this match, both
hitting their signature moves and really bringing all they have to the match.
“Lets go Ziggler” chants in the building. Orton manages to hit the hangman DDT
on the outside barricade, and soon after follows with an RKO for the win.
Really good match, certainly what you expected from these
two guys, match was very fluid and both guys just looked great!! Ziggler as
usual sold everything like he had been shot and Orton was just, well, Orton!!
What else do you need?
Match 5 – Divas Championship Match
Layla (c) vs. Eve
In all honesty, I simply do not care, except for the fact
that Eve is GAW-JAUS!!
Eve manages to win after a modified neckbreaker.
Backstage
Kane and Daniel Bryan arguing again, AJ and the Doc are
there too, Kane ends up dumping a bucket of water over them all, declares he is
going to Disneyland and leaves. Rather odd segment.
Match 6 – World Heavyweight title match
Sheamus (c) vs Alberto Del Rio
This has been built really well, with the whole David
Otunga involvement, to ban the brogue kick from WWE. The sad thing is the angle
is really faulty as the brogue kick isn’t the only move that Sheamus has used
as a finish; he has used the high cross power bomb and on occasion used the
cloverleaf, so it isn’t like they banned his only finishing move. However they
have really gone for broke on this angle and are really trying to push it,
which is a good thing as both these guys have had some great matches with each
other over the last couple of months.
Booker T comes out and says that he is allowing the
brogue kick in the match, Otunga then gets drilled by the brogue kick leading
to him being carried out by referees.
Great part when Sheamus goes for the brogue kick but Del
Rio avoids, pushes Sheamus into the corner and follows it through with an
enziguri kick, was very nice. However this isn’t good enough as Sheamus hits a
brogue kick to win the match.
Quite a shame they unbanned the brogue kick before the
match, should have kept it banned and showed that Sheamus can win without it as
he used to. Otherwise a good match, I am a big Del Rio fan, so I am sorry for
the biased opinion that really he should have the belt at this point, deserves
it after all the hard work he has put in to this feud.
Match 7 – WWE Championship
C M Punk (c) vs. John Cena
Brilliant build up to this match, some really good
promos, segments and even matches. It will also be interesting to see how Paul
Heyman gets involved. Not liking the heel turn that they are doing with C M Punk,
think he could easily have stayed as a good guy, but I hope this leads to him
facing the Rock at the royal rumble, I think I could forgive them then and I
also think it would be a great match.
We start with Heyman in the ring funnily enough; he says
he will be at ringside to watch the match, he says he is there to respect the
champion. Then both wrestlers hit the ring and we have our main event. It may just be the sound on the ppv itself but
the crowd seem very 50/50, more so than usual and that in itself is quite
interesting.
Cena goes out of his comfort zone and dives through the
middle rope straight into Punk who was on the outside, quite refreshing that!
Then Punk hitting the Rock Bottom on John Cena was certainly another shock.
Cena hits a German suplex on C M Punk to get the 3 count for the WWE
championship. Then however the ref takes the belt from Cena and declares that
because both guys’ shoulders were on the mat then the match is a draw and C M
Punk retains the title.
Cena argues with the ref and then turns around and gets
smashed in the face with the WWE title by Punk. A bit of a shite way to end the PPV but guess
that pushes the heel turn more, with the poke at the Rock too I’m really hoping
this leads to them having a match.
I quite enjoyed the PPV and I look forward to seeing what
they do going forward. J
Catch you next time. Peace.
