Overview:
The Night of Champions opening promo sets up the whole night. The PPV starts right off with the WWE Tag Team Championship Match, Air Boom vs Awesome Truth. Awesome Truth entered the arena singing "What's Up? You Suck!" The Match opens up with Air Boom, actually making me believe they're good together. I actually think that this match was just to set them up. Anyways Air Boom kicks the crap out of Awesome Truth leading both members suicide diving out onto Awesome Truth. Eventually Miz and R-Truth begin to isolate Evan Bourne, and begin to pick up some steam. Evan gets a chance and tags Kofi in hitting the Boom Drop and SOS on Miz. Miz, kicks out fast and goes for the Man-tastic/Snapmare Driver. Kofi tries to get a break for Evan and Evan tags in. Evan just blasts Awesome Truth down and for Miz almost wins the match, but for once the dirty tactics go against them and the referee misses them completely leading to Awesome Truth to get DQ'ed. Awesome Truth then attack the ref, leading out to WWE Promos.
Backstage Awesome Truth runs into Matt Strike for an interview about striking the referee. They respond with them thinking everyone is against them. Back at ringside, we go right to the Intercontinental Championship match, Cody Rhodes defending against Ted DiBiase. They tie it up and DiBiase is showing why he's the son of the Million Dollar Man, but Cody reverses into using Hardcore Holly moves. Cody Rhodes, eventually manages to start laying a beating to Ted, that's when the match became slower. Ted makes a break, and slams Cody about. Ted rips off Cody's mask and tries to smash him in the face, but Cody slides and rolls him up for the pinfall. Following the match we get more WWE Promos and commericals.
We get to see the spanish commentary group leading into a random entrance for Christian. He rants for one more match then pisses off Buffalo about talking crap of their Football team. Eventually Sheamus shows up and makes his way to the ring. Sheamus then calls out Christian for another match before laying out Christian with the Brogue Kick. Following that promo, we got the Fatal 4-Way for the United States Championship. During entrance Vickie Guerrero enters with Dolph Ziggler the current champion but goes to Jack Swagger's corner. Swagger and A-Ry get Morrison and Ziggler out to start the match. Eventually things get hectic with Morrison, Swagger and Ziggler brawling in the ring. While Ziggler and Swagger fight over Vickie, A-Ry tries to steal the match but Vickie saves the match by getting Swagger's foot on the rope. We later on get the Tower of Terror, with all the guys being thrown from a turnbuckle. Towards the end of the match Swagger locks the Ankle Lock on Riley, Ziggler locks Morrison in the Sleeper, leading to Swagger beating down A-Ry and Morriosn. After Swagger hit a Gut-Wrench Powerbomb on Morrison, Ziggler slides in and pins Morrison. Backstage Vickie Guerrero runs into Striker for an interview, leading to her kissing him.
We come to the World Heavyweight Championship match, Randy Orton and Mark Henry face off in the ring. Orton makes some ways to fight Henry, but he charges back over powering Orton. Most of the match has Henry beating down Orton with him trying to fight back. Orton eventually hits several DDTs, before Mark Henry like injures Orton's leg making Orton unable to use the RKO with Henry flipping him into the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry wins the match and first World Championship, the crowd isn't really approving even thou most people wanted him to evenutally win it. Mark gets the mic and goes on how he will continue to dominate.
Backstage Alberto Del Rio walks around with John Lauriniatis talking about the WWE Championship. As Del Rio walked away CM Punk shows up and confronts him about how he talks load of crap. After the little run we get the Divas' Championship match. Kelly Kelly accompanied by Eve, as Beth Phoenix enters with Natalya with her hometown exploding for her. Kelly uses her speed against Beth and is caught for a spanking. Sometime afterward Eve and Natalya fight at ringside, and Kelly almost catches Beth with a roll up. Beth then begins picking apart Kelly Kelly further. Somehow as Beth tries for a Powerbomb, Kelly finally rolls up Beth for a pinfall.
Before the WWE Championship we get a promo of Champions of the ages. The promo eventually cuts to Alberto Del Rio cashing in on CM Punk. Then Cena bashing Del Rio on not being a great WWE Champion. Finally we cut to the entrances with Del Rio arguing with Ricardo about where was the car, as Cena enters with the car. Before the match starts they argue over crap and such, with Cena bashing Del Rio again. The match kicks off with Cena making Del Rio run about. Del Rio, and Cena get brawling as the referee kicks Ricardo out. Cena and Del Rio continue to conflict with each other leading to get points that get the crowd really going. Del Rio at one point hits his Super Enzuigiri on Cena, following that Del Rio begins working on Cena. the finally ends with Cena locking Del Rio in a STF for the win. Super Cena is our reigning WWE Champion yet again!
Now we come to the Main Even finally the NO DQ match, CM Punk vs WWE COO Triple H. Punk attacks Triple H before he gets into the ring, leading to them quickly fight near the announce tables. Triple H almost Pedigrees, Punk on the table and Punk runs into the ring. The battle in the ring and back to ringside, Triple H uses the ring post and Punk uses the steps. As Punk goes off a Bulldog Triple H pushes into the crowd where they fight their too. They spill over to the entrance ramp, where Triple H tries for another Pedigree. Punk countered it and goes for a Double Axe Handle, he follows up with dragging the match back to the ring. A Punk brings a chair into the match, Triple H lands a Spinebuster and throws Punk out of the ring. Outside Triple H works on Punks knee while they battle near the Spanish announce table.
Punk, hits Triple H with Diving Elbow Drop breaking the Spanish announce table. As both men try to get into the ring Awesome Truth attacks them and beats them down. Miz hits Triple H with the Skull Crushing Finale, R-Truh hits Punk with Shut Up trying to help Punk win the match. After Triple H, kicked out Awesome Truth attack the referee then Punk and Triple H attack them. Triple H then hits Punk with the Pedigree, without a referee to count a pin. Punk hits a GTS and R-Truth interferes again, with Punk hit him with a GTS. John Lauriniatis calls in Kevin Nash who comes in and attacks both Triple H and CM Punk. Kevin Nash eventually Jacknife Powerbombs Punk then he goes back to Triple H but Triple H knocks him out with the Sledgehammer. Triple H gets another Pedigree, the third of the night allowing him to pick up the win finale. After the match Triple H throws a "Suck It" at Punk!
Review:
Alright well the Pay-Per-View was pretty great and it could've been better. The opening matches were actually great. The whole way to promote the new guys or the best work horses on the card. The Tag Team match tried to improve or show how Air Boom can be a great tag team. Now as for the second match I wanted Ted DiBiase to beat Cody Rhodes so he could finally be somebody again. Just the endding to the first two matches sucked, a DQ and a stupid roll up. The third match was amazing, that Fatal 4-Way could've maybe stole the show if it went longer and was near to the main events. Also the outcome of the match was great, Ziggler retained and it made me a happy camper cause Ziggler is the man!
The rest of the night was much better and slightly sadder. The World Heavyweight Championship seemed like Orton might some how beat Henry, yet he sadly didn't. Henry just mostly beat down Orton and beat the crap out of him, which was like how the Divas' match went just ended like Orton's should've. Now as for that having Beth losing in her hometown pissed me off. I wanted the Glamazon to destroy Kelly Kelly at Night of Champions in Buffalo! Following that Super Cena jumped back to being King of the Mountain in the WWE, and for once I can approve this cause I just don't like Del Rio that much. Now finally we get to the Main Event! Triple H and Punk beat the crap out of each other, then Awesome Truth kicked their ass and finally Kevin Nash came out of nowhere to end the match! With all this happening it made the night really enjoyable. Somethings to point out are Ziggler's the man, Henry is a Champion finally, Beth got screwed, Super Cena is back and Triple H showed Punk why he is the Game! End resulting being, Night of Champions was a 7.5 out of 10-Star Rating!
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
WWE Raw 9/5
Overview:
Raw opens with a promo for the CM Punk, Triple H and Kevin Nash feud. The promo shows all the backstory that has happened since Summerslam. Leading into Raw itself with Punk making his entrance into the arena. Punk then goes on about is issues with Nash and Triple H. Then Punk called Triple H but got Nash instead, where Punk insults Nash and calls him Super Shredder...HA! Nash then says he could beat Punk, eventually leading to Nash walking to the ring which leads to Triple H's entrance. Nash then trys to force Triple H to make him have a match with Punk, where Triple H finds out who started this whole mess. Triple H, then reveals this was all Nash's plan and crap, that he broke in and sent himself the text. Ironically this leads to Triple H siding with CM Punk. Nash then thinks it's about the push from Smackdown, all leading to Triple H firing Kevin Nash while Punk laughs at him.
John Laurniatis, then meets Kevin Nash at his car and they leave arena. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance to face Jinhder Mahal and Great Khali. Evan Bourne is dominated and cut off from Kofi for the opening minutes of the match. Kofi Kingston gets tagged in, and leads to Jinder and Khali having tag team issues. Khali hits Jinder with another chop Kofi gets Evan tagged back in and lands an Airbourne for the pinfall. Following the match, Kelly Kelly comes down to join commentary while Eve was ready to face Beth Phoenix as Natalya also joined commentary. Beth dominates Eve while Kelly argues with Natalya. Beth hits a Glam Slam somewhere during the match and beats Eve. After the match Natalya jumps Kelly Kelly before joining Beth in the ring.
We come back to Raw and we have Drew McIntyre talking with Christian before Alberto Del Rio shows up. They then start talking about John Cena, where they're now actting all buddy, ironically I don't remember when they ever liked each other in the script. The next match is R-Truth vs CM Punk, while R-Truth is accompanied by the Miz as they head to the ring. R-Truth comes to ring questioning what makes CM Punk different from him, while the crowd mocks him continously before finally the Miz joins him. Miz then talks on about Triple H, and says Truth & himself will face Air Boom at Night of Champions for the Tag Team Championships. The match opens up with the guys grappling about with Punk dominating the early minutes. R-Truth gets out of Punk's holds and locks in a few of his own before Punk tries and a successful early counter as R-Truth goes outside of the ring. Punk follows up with a Suicide Dive, but takes his eye off of R-Truth for meer seconds to tell off Miz as the match goes back into the ring. R-Truth takes back the match and throws Punk outside the ring where Miz hits a sneaky Chop Block to Punk's left knee. R-Truth get Punk back in the ring and works on the knee, for the next few minutes. This ends with Punk getting some non-successful roll ups before R-Truth knocks him down a peg. Punk begins battling out leading into the final mintues, where Punk unleashes everything on R-Truth and tries to end the match before Miz interferes where he's throw out of the match allowing Punk to truly end it with the GTS. After the match Triple H hits the ring, as Punk still questions Triple H and Nash. Triple H retorts to saying the match has been changed to a NO-DQ match, I'd perfer maybe "I Quit", "Last Man Standing" or "Hell in a Cell." Following Triple H's stipulation Punk asks him to accept his stipulation, if Punk wins Triple H re-signs. Backstage Wade Barrett chats with Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins, before Del Rio shows up. Barrett and Del Rio then chat up about John Cena and such.
The next match is David Otunga and Michael McGillicuty challenging Jerry "the King" Lawler to a tag team match. His tag team partner was none other than the Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder! Following the announcement we got clips of Zac's youtube show and I laughed cause they were my favorite moments! As Zac makes his entrance he chose his Broski of the week while Cole is a douche and talks smack about Youtubers, uh does this remind you of anyone if so check RDM's blog. Anyways Ryder is beaten down by Otunga and McGillicuty for the early mintues before tagging in Lawler who hits a quick flying fist then tags in Ryder who hits the Rough Ryder and grabs the win! Backstage Del Rio, continues to look for someone to fight Cena for him and that was Dolph Ziggler but he turns him down as the Bella Twins show up. Then Del Rio, gets under Ziggler's skin before leaving him as we cut to Orton showing up on Raw.
Randy Orton makes his entrance in the arena, as he awaits his opponent Heath Slater. Orton pummels Heath in the opening minutes, and practically just makes him is bitch for this match. Orton just demolished Slater with practically move he had but the Punt! Then backstage Zac Ryder is chatting up with John Cena for Z True Story, while Cena then makes a joke towards the Rock. After the joke Cena, heads to the ring. Once John Cena hit the ring, he cuts straight to Alberto Del Rio and his fear of him. Then Ricardo Rodriguez comes out to announce WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio's entrance, where he stays up by the car to avoid Cena. Del Rio then talks about sidelining Rey Mysterio, then chats about Night of Champions. Hell if Cena wasn't No. 1 Contender, I'd cheer Del Rio or Punk if it was Punk instead. Anyways Cena is attacked by Barrett, Swagger, Ziggler and Christian before being saved by A-ry, Sheamus and John Morrison as Smackdown GM Teddy Long shows up to make an 8-Man Tag Team Elmination Match for our Main Event. OH MY GOD, THESE SUPERSHOWS ARE BECOMING AMAZING CLUSTER FUCKS OF RANDOM AWESOMENESS!
The match starts off with A-Ry and Barrett for each team. Morrison and Ziggler get tagged in and the match steps up a notch as Morrison cleans out the other team. Swagger tags himself in and locks his Ankle Lock on Morrison while Ziggler locked in a Sleeper, Morrison eventually taps out. While Morrison leaves the ring, Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. After a commerical break the team of Barrett, Ziggler, Swagger and Christian have A-Ry cut off from the others. A-Ry makes a small break but is unsuccessful to get in tag, while Ziggler and Swagger have more issues. Swagger then eliminates A-Ry via submission leaving just Sheamus and Cena. Swagger tags out and Barrett jumps in, a battle of the UK'ers begins. Sheamus dominates Barrett before missing the Brogue Kick but hits it a second time eliminating Barrett. Christian tries to pin Sheamus after a Spear and fails. Christian slaps Sheamus in the face and the two are counted out of the match as they brawl outside. Now the match comes down to Cena facing Ziggler and Swagger. Cena takes them on amazingly and goes nuts before the numbers get him. Swagger and Ziggler now are teaming quite well to beat Cena at this point. The crowd goes crazy into the "Let's Go Cena" and "Cena Sucks" chants, I actually think it's cause everyone loves Dolph! Cena powers out and hits Spin-Out Powerbombs on the both of them leading into a double 5-Knuckle Shuffle. Ziggler tags in and the two argue leading to Cena hitting the AA on Ziggler and eliminates as Swagger trys to make Cena tap. Cena counters to the STF and get Swagger to submit as Del Rio trys to sneak attack Cena and falls into Cena's AA as the night ends.
Review:
Well Raw opened up great but had a slow start for the 1st of its matches. As for the opening promo, when Punk called Kevin Nash the Super Shredder it was like the highlight of the night and I enjoyed it. Then skipping the Tag Team Champions' match and the Divas' match, we come to the CM Punk/R-Truth match and it was good. It could've been better maybe but I don't ever expect too much from R-Truth at times. Just the fact that Punk still won the match due to the Miz helping R-Truth was great. It was completely a good showing!
Now we get to the second highlight of the night, which is the tag team match with Jerry "the King" Lawler and Zac Ryder. That was a great match but just having Ryder on Raw is great television. The Orton match could've been better but they saved Ziggler for the Main Event which was a good idea, I like Ziggler he's one of my favorites in the business no matter what I used to think about him. Now as for the third and final highlight, it was the Main Event!
The whole night Del Rio kept asking guys to help him beat down Cena and it seemed most weren't going to help Del Rio so I thought Dolph Ziggler was the sorry sap to fall for Del Rio's tricks. Ironically all the guys grouped up and attack Cena, leading to his allies to come to his save and Teddy to troll out and make a match. At first I didn't see it being Elimination style at all but it happened and it made the whole match even better! Ironically the way the avoid have the guys from the UK having feuds is annoy to me I want these guys to just brawl like I know they can. Also the fact that want to push Ziggler to go solo and maybe face is cool too, just some of the eliminations it the match were bad. I got to say A-Ry after Morrison was completely a jobber to him than the rookie, along with that Sheamus and Christian both were counted out was a pain in the ass. Anyways the match was a great Elimination for live tv and I couldn't hope for too much more unless it went for like 20 to 30 minutes. Finally by the end of the night I had to rate this Raw a 4-Star Rating for the opening promo, Ryder's match and the amazing Main Event!
Raw opens with a promo for the CM Punk, Triple H and Kevin Nash feud. The promo shows all the backstory that has happened since Summerslam. Leading into Raw itself with Punk making his entrance into the arena. Punk then goes on about is issues with Nash and Triple H. Then Punk called Triple H but got Nash instead, where Punk insults Nash and calls him Super Shredder...HA! Nash then says he could beat Punk, eventually leading to Nash walking to the ring which leads to Triple H's entrance. Nash then trys to force Triple H to make him have a match with Punk, where Triple H finds out who started this whole mess. Triple H, then reveals this was all Nash's plan and crap, that he broke in and sent himself the text. Ironically this leads to Triple H siding with CM Punk. Nash then thinks it's about the push from Smackdown, all leading to Triple H firing Kevin Nash while Punk laughs at him.
John Laurniatis, then meets Kevin Nash at his car and they leave arena. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance to face Jinhder Mahal and Great Khali. Evan Bourne is dominated and cut off from Kofi for the opening minutes of the match. Kofi Kingston gets tagged in, and leads to Jinder and Khali having tag team issues. Khali hits Jinder with another chop Kofi gets Evan tagged back in and lands an Airbourne for the pinfall. Following the match, Kelly Kelly comes down to join commentary while Eve was ready to face Beth Phoenix as Natalya also joined commentary. Beth dominates Eve while Kelly argues with Natalya. Beth hits a Glam Slam somewhere during the match and beats Eve. After the match Natalya jumps Kelly Kelly before joining Beth in the ring.
We come back to Raw and we have Drew McIntyre talking with Christian before Alberto Del Rio shows up. They then start talking about John Cena, where they're now actting all buddy, ironically I don't remember when they ever liked each other in the script. The next match is R-Truth vs CM Punk, while R-Truth is accompanied by the Miz as they head to the ring. R-Truth comes to ring questioning what makes CM Punk different from him, while the crowd mocks him continously before finally the Miz joins him. Miz then talks on about Triple H, and says Truth & himself will face Air Boom at Night of Champions for the Tag Team Championships. The match opens up with the guys grappling about with Punk dominating the early minutes. R-Truth gets out of Punk's holds and locks in a few of his own before Punk tries and a successful early counter as R-Truth goes outside of the ring. Punk follows up with a Suicide Dive, but takes his eye off of R-Truth for meer seconds to tell off Miz as the match goes back into the ring. R-Truth takes back the match and throws Punk outside the ring where Miz hits a sneaky Chop Block to Punk's left knee. R-Truth get Punk back in the ring and works on the knee, for the next few minutes. This ends with Punk getting some non-successful roll ups before R-Truth knocks him down a peg. Punk begins battling out leading into the final mintues, where Punk unleashes everything on R-Truth and tries to end the match before Miz interferes where he's throw out of the match allowing Punk to truly end it with the GTS. After the match Triple H hits the ring, as Punk still questions Triple H and Nash. Triple H retorts to saying the match has been changed to a NO-DQ match, I'd perfer maybe "I Quit", "Last Man Standing" or "Hell in a Cell." Following Triple H's stipulation Punk asks him to accept his stipulation, if Punk wins Triple H re-signs. Backstage Wade Barrett chats with Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins, before Del Rio shows up. Barrett and Del Rio then chat up about John Cena and such.
The next match is David Otunga and Michael McGillicuty challenging Jerry "the King" Lawler to a tag team match. His tag team partner was none other than the Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder! Following the announcement we got clips of Zac's youtube show and I laughed cause they were my favorite moments! As Zac makes his entrance he chose his Broski of the week while Cole is a douche and talks smack about Youtubers, uh does this remind you of anyone if so check RDM's blog. Anyways Ryder is beaten down by Otunga and McGillicuty for the early mintues before tagging in Lawler who hits a quick flying fist then tags in Ryder who hits the Rough Ryder and grabs the win! Backstage Del Rio, continues to look for someone to fight Cena for him and that was Dolph Ziggler but he turns him down as the Bella Twins show up. Then Del Rio, gets under Ziggler's skin before leaving him as we cut to Orton showing up on Raw.
Randy Orton makes his entrance in the arena, as he awaits his opponent Heath Slater. Orton pummels Heath in the opening minutes, and practically just makes him is bitch for this match. Orton just demolished Slater with practically move he had but the Punt! Then backstage Zac Ryder is chatting up with John Cena for Z True Story, while Cena then makes a joke towards the Rock. After the joke Cena, heads to the ring. Once John Cena hit the ring, he cuts straight to Alberto Del Rio and his fear of him. Then Ricardo Rodriguez comes out to announce WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio's entrance, where he stays up by the car to avoid Cena. Del Rio then talks about sidelining Rey Mysterio, then chats about Night of Champions. Hell if Cena wasn't No. 1 Contender, I'd cheer Del Rio or Punk if it was Punk instead. Anyways Cena is attacked by Barrett, Swagger, Ziggler and Christian before being saved by A-ry, Sheamus and John Morrison as Smackdown GM Teddy Long shows up to make an 8-Man Tag Team Elmination Match for our Main Event. OH MY GOD, THESE SUPERSHOWS ARE BECOMING AMAZING CLUSTER FUCKS OF RANDOM AWESOMENESS!
The match starts off with A-Ry and Barrett for each team. Morrison and Ziggler get tagged in and the match steps up a notch as Morrison cleans out the other team. Swagger tags himself in and locks his Ankle Lock on Morrison while Ziggler locked in a Sleeper, Morrison eventually taps out. While Morrison leaves the ring, Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. After a commerical break the team of Barrett, Ziggler, Swagger and Christian have A-Ry cut off from the others. A-Ry makes a small break but is unsuccessful to get in tag, while Ziggler and Swagger have more issues. Swagger then eliminates A-Ry via submission leaving just Sheamus and Cena. Swagger tags out and Barrett jumps in, a battle of the UK'ers begins. Sheamus dominates Barrett before missing the Brogue Kick but hits it a second time eliminating Barrett. Christian tries to pin Sheamus after a Spear and fails. Christian slaps Sheamus in the face and the two are counted out of the match as they brawl outside. Now the match comes down to Cena facing Ziggler and Swagger. Cena takes them on amazingly and goes nuts before the numbers get him. Swagger and Ziggler now are teaming quite well to beat Cena at this point. The crowd goes crazy into the "Let's Go Cena" and "Cena Sucks" chants, I actually think it's cause everyone loves Dolph! Cena powers out and hits Spin-Out Powerbombs on the both of them leading into a double 5-Knuckle Shuffle. Ziggler tags in and the two argue leading to Cena hitting the AA on Ziggler and eliminates as Swagger trys to make Cena tap. Cena counters to the STF and get Swagger to submit as Del Rio trys to sneak attack Cena and falls into Cena's AA as the night ends.
Review:
Well Raw opened up great but had a slow start for the 1st of its matches. As for the opening promo, when Punk called Kevin Nash the Super Shredder it was like the highlight of the night and I enjoyed it. Then skipping the Tag Team Champions' match and the Divas' match, we come to the CM Punk/R-Truth match and it was good. It could've been better maybe but I don't ever expect too much from R-Truth at times. Just the fact that Punk still won the match due to the Miz helping R-Truth was great. It was completely a good showing!
Now we get to the second highlight of the night, which is the tag team match with Jerry "the King" Lawler and Zac Ryder. That was a great match but just having Ryder on Raw is great television. The Orton match could've been better but they saved Ziggler for the Main Event which was a good idea, I like Ziggler he's one of my favorites in the business no matter what I used to think about him. Now as for the third and final highlight, it was the Main Event!
The whole night Del Rio kept asking guys to help him beat down Cena and it seemed most weren't going to help Del Rio so I thought Dolph Ziggler was the sorry sap to fall for Del Rio's tricks. Ironically all the guys grouped up and attack Cena, leading to his allies to come to his save and Teddy to troll out and make a match. At first I didn't see it being Elimination style at all but it happened and it made the whole match even better! Ironically the way the avoid have the guys from the UK having feuds is annoy to me I want these guys to just brawl like I know they can. Also the fact that want to push Ziggler to go solo and maybe face is cool too, just some of the eliminations it the match were bad. I got to say A-Ry after Morrison was completely a jobber to him than the rookie, along with that Sheamus and Christian both were counted out was a pain in the ass. Anyways the match was a great Elimination for live tv and I couldn't hope for too much more unless it went for like 20 to 30 minutes. Finally by the end of the night I had to rate this Raw a 4-Star Rating for the opening promo, Ryder's match and the amazing Main Event!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
WWE SuperSmackDown 8/30
Overview:
So before SmackDown begins, Facebook and Commerical Promo notified me that tonight Sin Cara faces Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton face Christian in a Steel Cage rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship, along John Cena face off with Wade Barrett, and finally a contract signing for Night of Champions between CM Punk and Triple H. After that promo we ge the regular Smackdown intro from Green Day, and it makes me wish I had someone to punch everytime I hear it.
Following the whole SmackDown intro, John Cena bursts onto the stage saying "Is today the right day?!" John Cena hits the ring and cuts a promo, about SuperSmackDown live and the Brand Extension being gone while including WCW shows for fun along with XFL. Then Cena calls out Alberto Del Rio, but instead he got Ricardo Rodriguez leading to Cena punching him in face while Barrett made his entrance. Barrett, the goes to insult Cena and such leading into why he demanded a match with him. Finally this all ends up with a commerical break.
We come back to Cena vs Barrett and the two brawl it out. Cena, gets the quick lead on Barrett by hitting a quick Bulldog and Headlock Takedown. Cena, dominated the match completely endding it with a huge Additude Adjustment and pinfall. After the match Matt Striker had an interview with Mark Henry. Henry goes on about how he'll face the winner of the Steel Cage match. Then he gives his own input on Steel Cage matches along with facing himself. Following the short interview, Sin Cara made his entrance leading into another break.
We comeback to Daniel Byran coming down to the ring and makes me completely wonder why is Bryan facing Sin Cara. Seriously this maybe what Ricardo meant when Del Rio couldn't make it. Anyways the two of them fly about and Daniel goes for a quick pinfall. Daniel locks Sin Cara in several amazing submissions and Sin Cara broke out. They eventually fight about with aerial moves, and swift moves coming down to Sin Cara hitting his aerial combo into the pinfall. After, the match Sin Cara kicked Bryan in the face. Shortly after Matt Striker has an interview with the Tag Team Champions, Air Boom about being tag champs.
Next we get a promo for the Christian and Randy Orton feud of the World Heavyweight Championship. It covered everything since Christian winning the Championship at Capitol Punishment, the No Holds Barred match at Summerslam to now. Then after the promo Christian has an interview, about being World Heavyweight Champion.
We get to a Divas Tag Team Match, where Aksana is special ring announcer. The match is between Beth Phoenix & Natalya facing off with Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox. Kelly and Natalya start off the match, while Natalya and Beth dominate her fast. Alicia Fox, gets tagged in and gets hit with a Glam Slam as Beth picks up the win. Backstage, Triple H and Teddy Long walk to the ring for the signing.
Teddy Long, is already in the ring and announces Triple H as he makes his entrance. Triple H, goes on about how the WWE Board aloud him to make the exchange from Nash/Punk to Punk/Himself at Night of Champions. Following those brief words, Triple H calls out Punk for the signing. Punk, comes about to question the contract Triple H for the match. Then Triple H, goes on about Punk insulting Triple H and how Triple H approved Punk's theme and shirt, along with the match at Night of Championship leading to how Triple H snapped under the pressure. Punk then goes on how he wants the Cerebral Assassin at Night of Champions and wants the WWE to be better, changing it. Triple H, then calls out Punk saying he just wants to be on top like a martyr. Punk retorts about how he'll be the real change around WWE not Triple H. Triple H, retorts to how if it was Vince he'd have to take a beating but instead Triple H will put a beating on Punk at Night of Champions. After the signing, Kevin Nash arrives and explodes on the scene leading to him booting Punk and shoving Triple H down.
During the break, Kevin Nash blows off Matt Striker for an interview. After that we get the Great Khali facing off with Sheamus. Khali takes down Sheamus fast with several chops leading into a weardown submission. Sheamus breaks out, beats down Khali and preps for a Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus hits the kick Jinder jumps Sheamus leading to them teaming up on Sheamus. They beatdown Sheamus for awhile but somehow he manages to power out hitting the Brogue Kick on Khali and Pale Justice/Celtic Cross on Jinder. Now that was some crazy crap, cause usually a 2-on-1 attack you take the beating not give it.
Finally we get to our Main Event the Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the opening minutes Christian makes several attempts to exit the cage, each time Orton stops him from getting out. After a break, we come back to Christian and Orton brawling about the ring, while Christian attempts to get out again. Orton tries to hit a fast RKO and fails, but recovers and lands a few moves. As Orton goes for the Rope Hang DDT, Christian flings him into the Cage and follow with a foot choke before trying to climb out again. Orton trys a Roll Up and falls into a SpineBuster. They fight about for awhile, and end up battling atop the top rope with Orton getting a Superplex in.
Follow another break, Orton was controlling the match throwing Christian into the Cage, before Christian countered minutes later. They battle on the top rope again, and Christian reverses Orton pushing him down while following up with the Frog Splash and a unsuccessful pinfall. Christian then attempts a Spear, countered into a RKO that's countered into the Spear. Then Christian tries to Punt, Orton moves out of way. Then he tries to fake out Orton but fails as Orton starts take back the match. Christian recovers and gets on top the cage, while Orton joins him. They battle atop the cage and back into the ring leading back to the top rope, for a Super RKO and a win. As soon as the match ends Mark Henry comes down to the ring and enters the cage. Orton tries to beatdown Henry but is unsuccessful. Henry beats Orton into the cage, then hits him with a Big Splash, back into the cage and finally the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry after beating down Orton, holds up the World Heavyweight Championship.
Review:
Well this live Smackdown could've been better! The opening match was just a beatdown to Barrett, but it was expected. Then the match between Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan, pissed me off cause I expected Sin Cara to face Del Rio. Since it was Bryan I was even more pissed, cause they jobbed Bryan to Sin Cara and having Sin Cara turn heel was stupid it felt. Then following that we got some boring crap until the Contract Signing, that's where everything got amazing. The feud between Triple H and CM Punk is turning out great, and the heat behind it is good especially when you got the Wild Card in this, Kevin Nash. The Sheamus/Khali match could've been a little bit better, but the end beatdown was amazing. To see Sheamus take down both Khali and Jinder, was just pure awesome sauce! Now as for the Main Event that was great, just I would've like no commerical interuption. The match played out amazingly and the reversals were amazing. I enjoyed all the Spear and RKO attempts leading all the way up to the Super RKO, that endded it. I foresaw, Mark Henry appearing at the end of the match and just destroying Orton completely, so I wasn't disappointed my the whole beatdown. Also it couldn't of gotten any better either, since Mark Henry sucks and has a foreseeable onslaught of moves. Ironically this just made tonight's SmackDown a 3.5-Star night!
So before SmackDown begins, Facebook and Commerical Promo notified me that tonight Sin Cara faces Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton face Christian in a Steel Cage rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship, along John Cena face off with Wade Barrett, and finally a contract signing for Night of Champions between CM Punk and Triple H. After that promo we ge the regular Smackdown intro from Green Day, and it makes me wish I had someone to punch everytime I hear it.
Following the whole SmackDown intro, John Cena bursts onto the stage saying "Is today the right day?!" John Cena hits the ring and cuts a promo, about SuperSmackDown live and the Brand Extension being gone while including WCW shows for fun along with XFL. Then Cena calls out Alberto Del Rio, but instead he got Ricardo Rodriguez leading to Cena punching him in face while Barrett made his entrance. Barrett, the goes to insult Cena and such leading into why he demanded a match with him. Finally this all ends up with a commerical break.
We come back to Cena vs Barrett and the two brawl it out. Cena, gets the quick lead on Barrett by hitting a quick Bulldog and Headlock Takedown. Cena, dominated the match completely endding it with a huge Additude Adjustment and pinfall. After the match Matt Striker had an interview with Mark Henry. Henry goes on about how he'll face the winner of the Steel Cage match. Then he gives his own input on Steel Cage matches along with facing himself. Following the short interview, Sin Cara made his entrance leading into another break.
We comeback to Daniel Byran coming down to the ring and makes me completely wonder why is Bryan facing Sin Cara. Seriously this maybe what Ricardo meant when Del Rio couldn't make it. Anyways the two of them fly about and Daniel goes for a quick pinfall. Daniel locks Sin Cara in several amazing submissions and Sin Cara broke out. They eventually fight about with aerial moves, and swift moves coming down to Sin Cara hitting his aerial combo into the pinfall. After, the match Sin Cara kicked Bryan in the face. Shortly after Matt Striker has an interview with the Tag Team Champions, Air Boom about being tag champs.
Next we get a promo for the Christian and Randy Orton feud of the World Heavyweight Championship. It covered everything since Christian winning the Championship at Capitol Punishment, the No Holds Barred match at Summerslam to now. Then after the promo Christian has an interview, about being World Heavyweight Champion.
We get to a Divas Tag Team Match, where Aksana is special ring announcer. The match is between Beth Phoenix & Natalya facing off with Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox. Kelly and Natalya start off the match, while Natalya and Beth dominate her fast. Alicia Fox, gets tagged in and gets hit with a Glam Slam as Beth picks up the win. Backstage, Triple H and Teddy Long walk to the ring for the signing.
Teddy Long, is already in the ring and announces Triple H as he makes his entrance. Triple H, goes on about how the WWE Board aloud him to make the exchange from Nash/Punk to Punk/Himself at Night of Champions. Following those brief words, Triple H calls out Punk for the signing. Punk, comes about to question the contract Triple H for the match. Then Triple H, goes on about Punk insulting Triple H and how Triple H approved Punk's theme and shirt, along with the match at Night of Championship leading to how Triple H snapped under the pressure. Punk then goes on how he wants the Cerebral Assassin at Night of Champions and wants the WWE to be better, changing it. Triple H, then calls out Punk saying he just wants to be on top like a martyr. Punk retorts about how he'll be the real change around WWE not Triple H. Triple H, retorts to how if it was Vince he'd have to take a beating but instead Triple H will put a beating on Punk at Night of Champions. After the signing, Kevin Nash arrives and explodes on the scene leading to him booting Punk and shoving Triple H down.
During the break, Kevin Nash blows off Matt Striker for an interview. After that we get the Great Khali facing off with Sheamus. Khali takes down Sheamus fast with several chops leading into a weardown submission. Sheamus breaks out, beats down Khali and preps for a Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus hits the kick Jinder jumps Sheamus leading to them teaming up on Sheamus. They beatdown Sheamus for awhile but somehow he manages to power out hitting the Brogue Kick on Khali and Pale Justice/Celtic Cross on Jinder. Now that was some crazy crap, cause usually a 2-on-1 attack you take the beating not give it.
Finally we get to our Main Event the Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the opening minutes Christian makes several attempts to exit the cage, each time Orton stops him from getting out. After a break, we come back to Christian and Orton brawling about the ring, while Christian attempts to get out again. Orton tries to hit a fast RKO and fails, but recovers and lands a few moves. As Orton goes for the Rope Hang DDT, Christian flings him into the Cage and follow with a foot choke before trying to climb out again. Orton trys a Roll Up and falls into a SpineBuster. They fight about for awhile, and end up battling atop the top rope with Orton getting a Superplex in.
Follow another break, Orton was controlling the match throwing Christian into the Cage, before Christian countered minutes later. They battle on the top rope again, and Christian reverses Orton pushing him down while following up with the Frog Splash and a unsuccessful pinfall. Christian then attempts a Spear, countered into a RKO that's countered into the Spear. Then Christian tries to Punt, Orton moves out of way. Then he tries to fake out Orton but fails as Orton starts take back the match. Christian recovers and gets on top the cage, while Orton joins him. They battle atop the cage and back into the ring leading back to the top rope, for a Super RKO and a win. As soon as the match ends Mark Henry comes down to the ring and enters the cage. Orton tries to beatdown Henry but is unsuccessful. Henry beats Orton into the cage, then hits him with a Big Splash, back into the cage and finally the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry after beating down Orton, holds up the World Heavyweight Championship.
Review:
Well this live Smackdown could've been better! The opening match was just a beatdown to Barrett, but it was expected. Then the match between Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan, pissed me off cause I expected Sin Cara to face Del Rio. Since it was Bryan I was even more pissed, cause they jobbed Bryan to Sin Cara and having Sin Cara turn heel was stupid it felt. Then following that we got some boring crap until the Contract Signing, that's where everything got amazing. The feud between Triple H and CM Punk is turning out great, and the heat behind it is good especially when you got the Wild Card in this, Kevin Nash. The Sheamus/Khali match could've been a little bit better, but the end beatdown was amazing. To see Sheamus take down both Khali and Jinder, was just pure awesome sauce! Now as for the Main Event that was great, just I would've like no commerical interuption. The match played out amazingly and the reversals were amazing. I enjoyed all the Spear and RKO attempts leading all the way up to the Super RKO, that endded it. I foresaw, Mark Henry appearing at the end of the match and just destroying Orton completely, so I wasn't disappointed my the whole beatdown. Also it couldn't of gotten any better either, since Mark Henry sucks and has a foreseeable onslaught of moves. Ironically this just made tonight's SmackDown a 3.5-Star night!
Monday, August 29, 2011
WWE Raw 8/29
Overview:
Triple H, roars out in the arena to make his point swift. He announces the brands are not technically existing anymore, making Raw and Smackdown Supershows. Then he jumps to the whole issue with Nash and Punk, where Punk interrupts as soon as possible. Eventually this all leads to Nash's entrance which is the NWO Theme, as we learn he was signed to WWE. Then Punk and Nash argue about leading to Triple H making a match at Night of Champions for them to face each other breaking the meaning of Night of Champions. Endding the promo, Orton makes his entrance as we get a upcoming promo for Orton vs Dolph Ziggler.
Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler, they tie it up and brawl about. The match goes great leading to several counters, and brawling outside the ring. Orton and Ziggler really get the match going, with Orton hitting free fall drop Neckbreaker, and Superplex. While Ziggler, got a Fameasser in and countered the Punt with a Superkick. The match ended with Orton hitting a DDT, Ziggler locking in the Sleeper followed by Orton spinning out into an amazing RKO. Along with that Jack Swagger, watching on.
Following the match, John Cena comes down to the ring and talks about what he'll do Alberto Del Rio. He eventually, lead Cena saying "If you want some come get some!" That leading to Mark Henry coming out to set up more "Supershow-ness" and Henry goes on about he'll face who ever wins the Cage match. After that statement Christian, interrupts while Cena goes to insult them leading to a brawl that makes Sheamus come to Cena's save. Ah what an amazing Team, the Red Ranger and Green Ranger!!! Hint, Hint: I'm buying their shirts soon! Henry and Christian bail from the ring, as John Lauriniatis is confronted by Triple H.
The next match on the card is CM Punk vs the Miz, before the match Miz goes on about Punk and his recent Pipebombs. This week, Punk believes he's a Green Ranger too, while he mocked Miz...lol! They tie it up, with Punk taking the lead. They brawl in the ring facing off with their styles, Miz takes down Punk. For the next minutes following Miz, dominates the match hitting a few of his signature moves. Eventually Punk reverses Miz and takes back the match. Follow Punk hitting a Savage Elbow Drop, and going for the GTS, R-Truth hits the ring leading to a DQ-Win. Miz and R-Truth beat down Punk as Nash comes down to the ring to hit a JackKnife Powerbomb.
Match number 3 is Sin Cara against Jack Swagger. As we all know Sin Cara is going to win cause he makes people job to him. Anyways during the match Jack, grounds Sin Cara and Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. That leads Dolph to also come down to the ring and help cost Jack his match while aruging with Vickie. Heck the rivalry over victory is boring and stupid the only good thing out of this is Ziggler either turns solo and becomes WWE Champion or turns face!
Our next match on the card features the new Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne in rematch with Otunga and McGillicuty. We find out Kingston and Bourne, team's name is Air Boom....I just want to say it but I don't want to offensive! Well the match sucks, cause Otunga and McGillicuty do nothing. The end result is Air Boom retaining the Championships. Following the match Otunga attacks Jerry "the King" Lawler, I guess Otunga wasn't happy with the insulting him or his wife.
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly against Nikki Bella or Brie, I don't know whose who. It's hard to tell them apart unless you see the tattoos which they love to hide. Kelly dominates one of them as the girls hit Twin Magic and gets the win over Kelly Kelly. While Beth Phoenix and Natalya trash Kelly Kelly backstage.
As the Main Event starts, Henry and Christian make their entrances first while a commerical break occurs. Sheamus and John Cena, make their entrances with the crowd exploding for them. Sheamus starts the match and overpowers Christian leading to Mark Henry tagging in. Henry and Christian dominate Sheamus for most of the match, leading to Cena getting tagged in. Cena locks a STF on Christian, while Henry breaks the hold as Sheamus and him slip the fight outside. Christian recovers and lands a Spears, Cena while trying to get the pinfall. Cena breaks out and sends Christian into the Brogue Kick from Sheamus then into the Additude Adjustment. The night ends with us hearing about Triple H facing CM Punk at Night of Champions while Cena and Sheamus stand in the ring together in victory.
Review:
Since the Brand Extension is pretty much dead for now this makes everything amazing. The rosters being combined together gives us better matches, and possible rivalries. The first Raw Supershow, had a good start with the promos and matches. The Orton/Ziggler match went fast pace and the moves made played out great. The RKO finish on Ziggler was a great impact finish. Now jumping straight to Miz/Punk, the match actually had a good start and a mildly great presentation for the continuation, however the end result sucked quite a bit. The DQ finished suck but was predicted, at least Nash coming down to add insult to injury was good. Following that match Raw sucked until the Main Event, the tag team was good, I think it just had the right crowd to support it. The end to the match was my favorite part a Brogue Kick right into the Additude Adjustment, that's just pure awesome-sauce! As a result of the end to the Brand Extension and great presentation of the matches I look forward to tomorrow's SuperSmackDown. So to rate this I say it's 4-Star Raw!
Triple H, roars out in the arena to make his point swift. He announces the brands are not technically existing anymore, making Raw and Smackdown Supershows. Then he jumps to the whole issue with Nash and Punk, where Punk interrupts as soon as possible. Eventually this all leads to Nash's entrance which is the NWO Theme, as we learn he was signed to WWE. Then Punk and Nash argue about leading to Triple H making a match at Night of Champions for them to face each other breaking the meaning of Night of Champions. Endding the promo, Orton makes his entrance as we get a upcoming promo for Orton vs Dolph Ziggler.
Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler, they tie it up and brawl about. The match goes great leading to several counters, and brawling outside the ring. Orton and Ziggler really get the match going, with Orton hitting free fall drop Neckbreaker, and Superplex. While Ziggler, got a Fameasser in and countered the Punt with a Superkick. The match ended with Orton hitting a DDT, Ziggler locking in the Sleeper followed by Orton spinning out into an amazing RKO. Along with that Jack Swagger, watching on.
Following the match, John Cena comes down to the ring and talks about what he'll do Alberto Del Rio. He eventually, lead Cena saying "If you want some come get some!" That leading to Mark Henry coming out to set up more "Supershow-ness" and Henry goes on about he'll face who ever wins the Cage match. After that statement Christian, interrupts while Cena goes to insult them leading to a brawl that makes Sheamus come to Cena's save. Ah what an amazing Team, the Red Ranger and Green Ranger!!! Hint, Hint: I'm buying their shirts soon! Henry and Christian bail from the ring, as John Lauriniatis is confronted by Triple H.
The next match on the card is CM Punk vs the Miz, before the match Miz goes on about Punk and his recent Pipebombs. This week, Punk believes he's a Green Ranger too, while he mocked Miz...lol! They tie it up, with Punk taking the lead. They brawl in the ring facing off with their styles, Miz takes down Punk. For the next minutes following Miz, dominates the match hitting a few of his signature moves. Eventually Punk reverses Miz and takes back the match. Follow Punk hitting a Savage Elbow Drop, and going for the GTS, R-Truth hits the ring leading to a DQ-Win. Miz and R-Truth beat down Punk as Nash comes down to the ring to hit a JackKnife Powerbomb.
Match number 3 is Sin Cara against Jack Swagger. As we all know Sin Cara is going to win cause he makes people job to him. Anyways during the match Jack, grounds Sin Cara and Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. That leads Dolph to also come down to the ring and help cost Jack his match while aruging with Vickie. Heck the rivalry over victory is boring and stupid the only good thing out of this is Ziggler either turns solo and becomes WWE Champion or turns face!
Our next match on the card features the new Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne in rematch with Otunga and McGillicuty. We find out Kingston and Bourne, team's name is Air Boom....I just want to say it but I don't want to offensive! Well the match sucks, cause Otunga and McGillicuty do nothing. The end result is Air Boom retaining the Championships. Following the match Otunga attacks Jerry "the King" Lawler, I guess Otunga wasn't happy with the insulting him or his wife.
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly against Nikki Bella or Brie, I don't know whose who. It's hard to tell them apart unless you see the tattoos which they love to hide. Kelly dominates one of them as the girls hit Twin Magic and gets the win over Kelly Kelly. While Beth Phoenix and Natalya trash Kelly Kelly backstage.
As the Main Event starts, Henry and Christian make their entrances first while a commerical break occurs. Sheamus and John Cena, make their entrances with the crowd exploding for them. Sheamus starts the match and overpowers Christian leading to Mark Henry tagging in. Henry and Christian dominate Sheamus for most of the match, leading to Cena getting tagged in. Cena locks a STF on Christian, while Henry breaks the hold as Sheamus and him slip the fight outside. Christian recovers and lands a Spears, Cena while trying to get the pinfall. Cena breaks out and sends Christian into the Brogue Kick from Sheamus then into the Additude Adjustment. The night ends with us hearing about Triple H facing CM Punk at Night of Champions while Cena and Sheamus stand in the ring together in victory.
Review:
Since the Brand Extension is pretty much dead for now this makes everything amazing. The rosters being combined together gives us better matches, and possible rivalries. The first Raw Supershow, had a good start with the promos and matches. The Orton/Ziggler match went fast pace and the moves made played out great. The RKO finish on Ziggler was a great impact finish. Now jumping straight to Miz/Punk, the match actually had a good start and a mildly great presentation for the continuation, however the end result sucked quite a bit. The DQ finished suck but was predicted, at least Nash coming down to add insult to injury was good. Following that match Raw sucked until the Main Event, the tag team was good, I think it just had the right crowd to support it. The end to the match was my favorite part a Brogue Kick right into the Additude Adjustment, that's just pure awesome-sauce! As a result of the end to the Brand Extension and great presentation of the matches I look forward to tomorrow's SuperSmackDown. So to rate this I say it's 4-Star Raw!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
WWE SmackDown 8/26
Overview:
SmackDown opens with a re-cap of last week's Battle Royal to decide the No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Leading to Mark Henry's victory and the stare down that follow, before transitioning right into SmackDown's intro. Still hating GREEN DAY! Anyways we get cut into discovering that the Main Event is Sheamus vs Mark Henry, then we get a special return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart! Hart starts off by saying COO Triple H made him the Special GM before announcing the Live Super SmackDown featuring Raw and Smackdown. Then we here the Main Event is Mark Henry vs Orton, for the World Championship while Christian interrupts him. Christian talks about blaming Edge for his lost, leading up to Christian asking for his rematch. Hart goes on about how Christian is becoming an embarassment, Why don't they just return to calling him a CLB?! This all ends with Bret Hart, making a different match for next week a SteelCage ReMatch! Mark Henry then shows up and argues about his Contendership. Then says he'll face the winner of next week's match as Sheamus cuts in. They brawl about leading into a promo for Orton vs DiBiase.
After the first break, we get Christian facing off against Daniel Bryan. Before the match begins we get a quick promo for Bryan, it shows off how badass he is. The match starts off with some good counters, and Bryan landing a suicide dive. Bryan locks in a Submission and trys rolling it into a pinfall. Christian kicks off and beings fighting back. After a short break, Christian has a headlock on Bryan leading to some counters. Eventually Bryan gets around Christian's offensive and manages to hit his flying dropkick. Bryan follows up with a great offensive uppercuts, kicks and knees. Christian follows up trying to hit a Spear and fails, minutes later Christian trys a KillSwitch and falls into the LaBell Lock. Christian breaks the hold by reaching the ropes, then finally lands a KillSwitch and gets the pinfall.
The next match we get is Wade Barrett against some jobber, following some WWE Vault moment which was a match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Maybe that Vault clip is to foreshadow something for next week's SuperSmackDown?! Well instead of facing the jobber, Wade Barrett walks away as we jump straight to the Raw Rebound. The Rebound covers the CM Punk/John Cena match for No. 1 Contendership. As soon as the Raw Rebound ends we cut to Sin Cara facing off with Heath Slater. This match is gonna be amazingly easy to guess, while we find out at SuperSmackDown we'll see Sin Cara face Alberto Del Rio. Anyways, Slater loses to Sin Cara within like 7minutes.
Now we come to the only match I saw from this whole SmackDown while it airred, Randy Orton vs Ted DiBiase. Ironically while writing this thou I barely remember what freakin' happened! As Ted makes his entrance, Cody talks about crap and such on improving Ted's career and Cody being Intercontinental Champion. The match starts with Ted, getting an early advantage before Orton took over. The match flipped back and forther leading to a commerical break. When we got back from the break the match was leaning into its final minutes before Orton hit a RKO and got the pinfall. Following the match Cody Rhodes attacks Ted and bags him!
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly facing off with Tamina. This match actually was pretty good, Kelly Kelly brawled about with Tamina in the opening minutes. Ironically, it seems Kelly Kelly is now to be some Brawling Barbie?! Anyways she gets the win as we cut to Striker interviewing Jinder Mahal. Jinder, goes on about how Khali failed him last week in the Battle Royal and how Khali is to face Ezekiel Jackson tonight. Khali and Jackson, brawl about and each destroy each other in the 6 minutes or so. Jinder tries to interfere in the match and is struck by Khali by mistake, while Jackson locks Khali in the Touture Rack to win via submission. Jesus Christ, that submission made the crowd along with myself go OMG!
Tod Grisham gets a quick interview Orton on the Cage Match, and Orton goes into quick detail on he'll defeat Christian than Mark Henry. Leading right into promo for Mark Henry and his destructive ways, before finally getting to tonight's Main Event. Mark makes his entrance first followed by Sheamus. They brawl about for the opening minutes of the match and it was great brawling could've been better if it was No Holds Barred! They fight outside the ring and brawl about again leading to Sheamus this time winning via count-out. Following the match they brawl outside the ring and it's better than the whole match was in general it all ends with Mark Henry hitting the World Strongest Slam on Sheamus onto the steel steps.
Review:
Well this SmackDown was able to make over a 3-Star Rating with a 3.5 rating, even thou I missed it during its actual airring. I missed due to getting seriously sick during a car ride home today from NYC. Anyways from what I saw on Youtube originally made me think this SmackDown was shit and then actually waking up & rewatching some parts a few times I was like damn! The first match was great, that vault clip I saw was a great match from a year or so ago and didn't fit in, then Jackson making Khali tap and the Main Event made the whole show. That vault clip, followed by the Wade Barrett promo and Sin Cara match made me thou really hate this SmackDown. The vault clip just didn't need to be shown at all, even thou I love that match it was plain out stupid to air it. I think they only airred due to the fact Jericho, Christian, Edge and Bret Hart are all Canadian!
Anyways the actual matches that happened on SmackDown were good. Christian/Bryan went over good it could've been better but was good enough. Then Jackson/Khali was an amazing piece of brawling monsters, especially the match finish. Ironically putting Jackson/Khali back-to-back with Sheamus/Henry was a great idea, it really had the crowd going. My only disapproval of the Main Event was the count-out victory for Sheamus, hell the match should've been No Holds Barred and ended with World's Strongest Slam on the steps. I mean the end of the night was slightly a let down even thou that adrenaline got pumping, hell I wanted more! Anyways stay tuned for more Wrestling Reviews, and the SuperSmackDown next week!
SmackDown opens with a re-cap of last week's Battle Royal to decide the No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Leading to Mark Henry's victory and the stare down that follow, before transitioning right into SmackDown's intro. Still hating GREEN DAY! Anyways we get cut into discovering that the Main Event is Sheamus vs Mark Henry, then we get a special return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart! Hart starts off by saying COO Triple H made him the Special GM before announcing the Live Super SmackDown featuring Raw and Smackdown. Then we here the Main Event is Mark Henry vs Orton, for the World Championship while Christian interrupts him. Christian talks about blaming Edge for his lost, leading up to Christian asking for his rematch. Hart goes on about how Christian is becoming an embarassment, Why don't they just return to calling him a CLB?! This all ends with Bret Hart, making a different match for next week a SteelCage ReMatch! Mark Henry then shows up and argues about his Contendership. Then says he'll face the winner of next week's match as Sheamus cuts in. They brawl about leading into a promo for Orton vs DiBiase.
After the first break, we get Christian facing off against Daniel Bryan. Before the match begins we get a quick promo for Bryan, it shows off how badass he is. The match starts off with some good counters, and Bryan landing a suicide dive. Bryan locks in a Submission and trys rolling it into a pinfall. Christian kicks off and beings fighting back. After a short break, Christian has a headlock on Bryan leading to some counters. Eventually Bryan gets around Christian's offensive and manages to hit his flying dropkick. Bryan follows up with a great offensive uppercuts, kicks and knees. Christian follows up trying to hit a Spear and fails, minutes later Christian trys a KillSwitch and falls into the LaBell Lock. Christian breaks the hold by reaching the ropes, then finally lands a KillSwitch and gets the pinfall.
The next match we get is Wade Barrett against some jobber, following some WWE Vault moment which was a match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Maybe that Vault clip is to foreshadow something for next week's SuperSmackDown?! Well instead of facing the jobber, Wade Barrett walks away as we jump straight to the Raw Rebound. The Rebound covers the CM Punk/John Cena match for No. 1 Contendership. As soon as the Raw Rebound ends we cut to Sin Cara facing off with Heath Slater. This match is gonna be amazingly easy to guess, while we find out at SuperSmackDown we'll see Sin Cara face Alberto Del Rio. Anyways, Slater loses to Sin Cara within like 7minutes.
Now we come to the only match I saw from this whole SmackDown while it airred, Randy Orton vs Ted DiBiase. Ironically while writing this thou I barely remember what freakin' happened! As Ted makes his entrance, Cody talks about crap and such on improving Ted's career and Cody being Intercontinental Champion. The match starts with Ted, getting an early advantage before Orton took over. The match flipped back and forther leading to a commerical break. When we got back from the break the match was leaning into its final minutes before Orton hit a RKO and got the pinfall. Following the match Cody Rhodes attacks Ted and bags him!
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly facing off with Tamina. This match actually was pretty good, Kelly Kelly brawled about with Tamina in the opening minutes. Ironically, it seems Kelly Kelly is now to be some Brawling Barbie?! Anyways she gets the win as we cut to Striker interviewing Jinder Mahal. Jinder, goes on about how Khali failed him last week in the Battle Royal and how Khali is to face Ezekiel Jackson tonight. Khali and Jackson, brawl about and each destroy each other in the 6 minutes or so. Jinder tries to interfere in the match and is struck by Khali by mistake, while Jackson locks Khali in the Touture Rack to win via submission. Jesus Christ, that submission made the crowd along with myself go OMG!
Tod Grisham gets a quick interview Orton on the Cage Match, and Orton goes into quick detail on he'll defeat Christian than Mark Henry. Leading right into promo for Mark Henry and his destructive ways, before finally getting to tonight's Main Event. Mark makes his entrance first followed by Sheamus. They brawl about for the opening minutes of the match and it was great brawling could've been better if it was No Holds Barred! They fight outside the ring and brawl about again leading to Sheamus this time winning via count-out. Following the match they brawl outside the ring and it's better than the whole match was in general it all ends with Mark Henry hitting the World Strongest Slam on Sheamus onto the steel steps.
Review:
Well this SmackDown was able to make over a 3-Star Rating with a 3.5 rating, even thou I missed it during its actual airring. I missed due to getting seriously sick during a car ride home today from NYC. Anyways from what I saw on Youtube originally made me think this SmackDown was shit and then actually waking up & rewatching some parts a few times I was like damn! The first match was great, that vault clip I saw was a great match from a year or so ago and didn't fit in, then Jackson making Khali tap and the Main Event made the whole show. That vault clip, followed by the Wade Barrett promo and Sin Cara match made me thou really hate this SmackDown. The vault clip just didn't need to be shown at all, even thou I love that match it was plain out stupid to air it. I think they only airred due to the fact Jericho, Christian, Edge and Bret Hart are all Canadian!
Anyways the actual matches that happened on SmackDown were good. Christian/Bryan went over good it could've been better but was good enough. Then Jackson/Khali was an amazing piece of brawling monsters, especially the match finish. Ironically putting Jackson/Khali back-to-back with Sheamus/Henry was a great idea, it really had the crowd going. My only disapproval of the Main Event was the count-out victory for Sheamus, hell the match should've been No Holds Barred and ended with World's Strongest Slam on the steps. I mean the end of the night was slightly a let down even thou that adrenaline got pumping, hell I wanted more! Anyways stay tuned for more Wrestling Reviews, and the SuperSmackDown next week!
Monday, August 22, 2011
WWE Raw 8/22
Overview:
Raw starts with the WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio making his entrance into the arena. During his entrance we get, clips of last week's title match when Del Rio defeated Rey Mysterio and leading into Cena coming to the ring. It is at this time we learn, Rey has got an injury and will be out for sometime. Ironically Alberta, Canada isn't to welcoming to Del Rio, as Cena quickly interrupts him. Cena goes on about Del Rio and Destiny, then introduces himself to Del Rio. Cena proclaims, he'll defeat Alberto and take the title back. CM Punk, then makes his entrance, calls Cena a re-run wanting a rematch for the title. Then Punk goes on how he should be No. 1 Contender, and how Cena has balls to ask for a shot first. Del Rio, then rants how it's his time. Punk then goes on about how he's getting screwed. CM Punk, then goes on how someone wants Del Rio to be the Champ, maybe it's the writing that has been on the walls since Del Rio was at Mania. Anyways Cena and Punk argue about their rematches, until WWE COO Triple H appears and settles things. Triple H, says Del Rio got the first match on the card and how he calls the shots for title matches. Where he states Del Rio will face whoever wins the third match between Punk and Cena.
After a commerical break, we discover who Del Rio will face it's John Morrison. The match opens up with them taking shots at one another. During the first five minutes or so it all stays in the ring, until leading outside the ring when John Morrison attempts a moonsault and misses. Following that it goes to another commerical break, coming back to them battle back into the ring. At this time Morrison is hitting several moves and counters, before finally leading to Del Rio's victory. As Morrison went for a Starship Pain, Del Rio yanked Morrison from the turnbuckle and threw him into the ring post before locking in the Cross Armbreaker for the submission win. Then following the match Del Rio continued to assualt Morrison's arm, in the Cross Armbreaker before finally releasing the hold to proclaim his victory.
The next match on the card was a Divas' match, Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella. Kelly Kelly and Brie Bella stood at ringside. The Bellas, tried some Twin Magic to help Nikki overpower Eve. Nikki, doesn't do much before Eve hit's her few signatures. As Eve attempts a Moonsault and pin the Brie distracts here leading to a counter which fails. Eventually Eve, makes a comeback and hits a Spinning Neckbreaker & Pin Combo for the win. After the match Kelly Kelly attacks Brie hitting here K2. Backstage, Kevin Nash enters the arena and greats some of the stage hands, leading to a commerical for the Live: Super SmackDown next tuesday.
We come back, to Raw with Vickie Guerrero saying she's now managing Jack Swagger too as he'll be facing Alex Riley in a rematch. They tie it up, and Jack comes out on top using his college-wrestling background. A-Ry counters with an amazing SpineBuster, as Ziggler comes down to ring side to argue with Vickie. During the arguement Jack reverses A-Ry and makes a comeback. Eventually thou Jack focuses too much on them arguing at ring side leading to A-Ry getting a roll up for the win. Backstage, Triple H heads back to the arena to confront Nash.
Triple H, comes back to the ring as clips of Summerslam are shown. Triple H then asks Kevin Nash to come out and face him. Nash, agrees and makes his way to the ring without a theme, yet again. Nash say he thought he was doing Triple H a solid and said, he'd apolizige to Punk but now changed his mind after last weeks words. Triple H, says he fight Nash and call him out since he doesn't work in WWE. Then Triple H asks him to leave where they're interrupted by Punk. Who is still trying to figure out who sent the text message, my answer still is John Laurinaitis. Punk then says how his going to cross the line, like Nash does before saying he's gonna kick Nash's ass. Triple H tries to pull Punk aside, and Punk pushes him away then calls him out. Triple H, then say he'd still fight Punk before Nash slugged him forcing Triple H to get Nash out of the arena.
Backstage, Triple H and Nash continue to argue about what he did before Nash leaves. Back ring side, we get a Tag Team Championship match! Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne team up to face the Champions, Otunga and McGillicutty. I serious can't believe any of these stupid teams should hold the tag titles, they're too half-assed not like BEER MONEY!! Well Evan and McGillicutty start the match, Bourne & Kofi begin to quickly take the lead with their high-flying offensive. The Tag Champs make a comeback through dirty tatics as usual cause they amazingly suck. The Champs being to eventually use old school tag team moves to beatdown Kofi, it was like something from the 80s. Bourne gets tagged in and he starts bringing the heat leading to him hitting an Air Bourne to win his first Championship with Kofi as his tag-partner.
After the match Josh Matthews gets a short interview with the New Tag Team Champions. Kofi and Evan get a surprise victory party, before we pan to Triple H who hears that Nash got into a car accident. The person who tells him is John Laurinaitis, so something is fishy here. The next match starts off with nothing, Santino got attacked by both Miz and R-Truth. The two then go on about ranting of conspiracies in the WWE, and go on about how they'll take opportunities from anyone.
With the main event starting, Del Rio and John Laurinaitis sat at ring side to watch the match. Cena and Punk tie it up fast, leading to several counters. The match, has as very fast pace leading several amazing moves. The crowd, eats this match while Cena and Punk try going for their finishers. Punk tried, a GTS and gets locked in the STF before hitting another GTS but only getting a 2-Count. Cena gets back up to go for an Attitude Adjustment, Punk goes for several elbows before finally falling into the AA. The battle heads to the turnbuckle, and Punk goes for a crossbody reversed into a AA clutch before rolling out into a Roundhouse Kick. As Punk goes for the GTS, Nash appears and comes to ring before falling into Cena's AA losing the match to him. Following Cena's win, Del Rio jumps Cena and beats him down while Laurinaitis tries to pull Del Rio off Cena. Del Rio slides through and jumps Cena again as it goes off air.
Review:
The opening promo, was alright and pretty good. I enjoyed the back and forth remarks of Cena and Punk. I enjoyed their arguement over the Number 1 Contendership, because Punk likes to point out how Cena's always Number 1 Contender. That was the best point of the arguement. The promo could've played out better but this had to stay PG. Anyways onto the opening matches, they weren't impressive at all nothing stood out. The Morrison/Del Rio match could've been played out longer, I mean it could've been almost as good as the past Del Rio/Bryan matches. It could've been the second best match of the night actually it still was, but that was just cause everything else sucked amazingly.
Following the Del Rio/Morrison match, the Diva match was worse than the past few in recent weeks and the A-Ry match was just another joke. The Tag Team Championship match was completely out of the blue but was worth it I guess, since Bourne and Kofi are better work horses. The main event was good, and the ending was completely foreshadowing since Laurinaitis is our new ASS Clown. Cena/Punk III, was great fast pace and enjoyable for 20 to 25minute match, it wasn't as good as Match I or II but it cut it well enough being it be live tv. Since practically the opening match and main event made the card and the few promos with Punk were good enough to get a large pop it made this Raw a good 3.5 Star rating. I really look forward to the "re-signing" of Kevin Nash and this rivalry with CM Punk, along with Laurinaitis undermining Triple's H at every corner it seems.
Raw starts with the WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio making his entrance into the arena. During his entrance we get, clips of last week's title match when Del Rio defeated Rey Mysterio and leading into Cena coming to the ring. It is at this time we learn, Rey has got an injury and will be out for sometime. Ironically Alberta, Canada isn't to welcoming to Del Rio, as Cena quickly interrupts him. Cena goes on about Del Rio and Destiny, then introduces himself to Del Rio. Cena proclaims, he'll defeat Alberto and take the title back. CM Punk, then makes his entrance, calls Cena a re-run wanting a rematch for the title. Then Punk goes on how he should be No. 1 Contender, and how Cena has balls to ask for a shot first. Del Rio, then rants how it's his time. Punk then goes on about how he's getting screwed. CM Punk, then goes on how someone wants Del Rio to be the Champ, maybe it's the writing that has been on the walls since Del Rio was at Mania. Anyways Cena and Punk argue about their rematches, until WWE COO Triple H appears and settles things. Triple H, says Del Rio got the first match on the card and how he calls the shots for title matches. Where he states Del Rio will face whoever wins the third match between Punk and Cena.
After a commerical break, we discover who Del Rio will face it's John Morrison. The match opens up with them taking shots at one another. During the first five minutes or so it all stays in the ring, until leading outside the ring when John Morrison attempts a moonsault and misses. Following that it goes to another commerical break, coming back to them battle back into the ring. At this time Morrison is hitting several moves and counters, before finally leading to Del Rio's victory. As Morrison went for a Starship Pain, Del Rio yanked Morrison from the turnbuckle and threw him into the ring post before locking in the Cross Armbreaker for the submission win. Then following the match Del Rio continued to assualt Morrison's arm, in the Cross Armbreaker before finally releasing the hold to proclaim his victory.
The next match on the card was a Divas' match, Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella. Kelly Kelly and Brie Bella stood at ringside. The Bellas, tried some Twin Magic to help Nikki overpower Eve. Nikki, doesn't do much before Eve hit's her few signatures. As Eve attempts a Moonsault and pin the Brie distracts here leading to a counter which fails. Eventually Eve, makes a comeback and hits a Spinning Neckbreaker & Pin Combo for the win. After the match Kelly Kelly attacks Brie hitting here K2. Backstage, Kevin Nash enters the arena and greats some of the stage hands, leading to a commerical for the Live: Super SmackDown next tuesday.
We come back, to Raw with Vickie Guerrero saying she's now managing Jack Swagger too as he'll be facing Alex Riley in a rematch. They tie it up, and Jack comes out on top using his college-wrestling background. A-Ry counters with an amazing SpineBuster, as Ziggler comes down to ring side to argue with Vickie. During the arguement Jack reverses A-Ry and makes a comeback. Eventually thou Jack focuses too much on them arguing at ring side leading to A-Ry getting a roll up for the win. Backstage, Triple H heads back to the arena to confront Nash.
Triple H, comes back to the ring as clips of Summerslam are shown. Triple H then asks Kevin Nash to come out and face him. Nash, agrees and makes his way to the ring without a theme, yet again. Nash say he thought he was doing Triple H a solid and said, he'd apolizige to Punk but now changed his mind after last weeks words. Triple H, says he fight Nash and call him out since he doesn't work in WWE. Then Triple H asks him to leave where they're interrupted by Punk. Who is still trying to figure out who sent the text message, my answer still is John Laurinaitis. Punk then says how his going to cross the line, like Nash does before saying he's gonna kick Nash's ass. Triple H tries to pull Punk aside, and Punk pushes him away then calls him out. Triple H, then say he'd still fight Punk before Nash slugged him forcing Triple H to get Nash out of the arena.
Backstage, Triple H and Nash continue to argue about what he did before Nash leaves. Back ring side, we get a Tag Team Championship match! Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne team up to face the Champions, Otunga and McGillicutty. I serious can't believe any of these stupid teams should hold the tag titles, they're too half-assed not like BEER MONEY!! Well Evan and McGillicutty start the match, Bourne & Kofi begin to quickly take the lead with their high-flying offensive. The Tag Champs make a comeback through dirty tatics as usual cause they amazingly suck. The Champs being to eventually use old school tag team moves to beatdown Kofi, it was like something from the 80s. Bourne gets tagged in and he starts bringing the heat leading to him hitting an Air Bourne to win his first Championship with Kofi as his tag-partner.
After the match Josh Matthews gets a short interview with the New Tag Team Champions. Kofi and Evan get a surprise victory party, before we pan to Triple H who hears that Nash got into a car accident. The person who tells him is John Laurinaitis, so something is fishy here. The next match starts off with nothing, Santino got attacked by both Miz and R-Truth. The two then go on about ranting of conspiracies in the WWE, and go on about how they'll take opportunities from anyone.
With the main event starting, Del Rio and John Laurinaitis sat at ring side to watch the match. Cena and Punk tie it up fast, leading to several counters. The match, has as very fast pace leading several amazing moves. The crowd, eats this match while Cena and Punk try going for their finishers. Punk tried, a GTS and gets locked in the STF before hitting another GTS but only getting a 2-Count. Cena gets back up to go for an Attitude Adjustment, Punk goes for several elbows before finally falling into the AA. The battle heads to the turnbuckle, and Punk goes for a crossbody reversed into a AA clutch before rolling out into a Roundhouse Kick. As Punk goes for the GTS, Nash appears and comes to ring before falling into Cena's AA losing the match to him. Following Cena's win, Del Rio jumps Cena and beats him down while Laurinaitis tries to pull Del Rio off Cena. Del Rio slides through and jumps Cena again as it goes off air.
Review:
The opening promo, was alright and pretty good. I enjoyed the back and forth remarks of Cena and Punk. I enjoyed their arguement over the Number 1 Contendership, because Punk likes to point out how Cena's always Number 1 Contender. That was the best point of the arguement. The promo could've played out better but this had to stay PG. Anyways onto the opening matches, they weren't impressive at all nothing stood out. The Morrison/Del Rio match could've been played out longer, I mean it could've been almost as good as the past Del Rio/Bryan matches. It could've been the second best match of the night actually it still was, but that was just cause everything else sucked amazingly.
Following the Del Rio/Morrison match, the Diva match was worse than the past few in recent weeks and the A-Ry match was just another joke. The Tag Team Championship match was completely out of the blue but was worth it I guess, since Bourne and Kofi are better work horses. The main event was good, and the ending was completely foreshadowing since Laurinaitis is our new ASS Clown. Cena/Punk III, was great fast pace and enjoyable for 20 to 25minute match, it wasn't as good as Match I or II but it cut it well enough being it be live tv. Since practically the opening match and main event made the card and the few promos with Punk were good enough to get a large pop it made this Raw a good 3.5 Star rating. I really look forward to the "re-signing" of Kevin Nash and this rivalry with CM Punk, along with Laurinaitis undermining Triple's H at every corner it seems.
Monday, August 15, 2011
WWE Raw 8/15
Overview
Raw starts showing a brief promo of last night Summerslam's Main Event, where Punk won then had Alberto Del Rio cash in his Money in the Bank. Following the promo we cut to Triple H, apologizing about Cena's foot on the rope and missing it. Then going onto the Kevin Nash attack on Punk, and Del Rio's cash in to the MitB. Triple H, explains he didn't plan to have Nash attack him, but left him tickets to the event and then permitted Nash to come to Raw. Nash will then explain, his reason. As for Del Rio, he pretty much went with "That's how the cookie crumbles!" Followed by the New WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio making his entrance.
Del Rio, introduces himself as the Undisputed WWE Champion and goes on about destiny. He even then goes on to say he loves the fans and didn't want to cash in at Summerslam, but after Nash got the surprise on the crowd he was cool with it. Then he rants that he's great and how he wants to be their Champion, along with facing Rey Mysterio tonight. He follows up with on how he still can't stand Mysterio, and how he wishes to continue to defeat him. The promo ends with Triple H, then backstage heading into John Cena's locker room.
The opening match on the card has R-Truth with a remix of "What's Up?!" facing off against John Morrison. The two brawl it out in the opening minutes, with R-Truth trying for a Roll-Up, leading to Morrison knocking him from the ring and a Suicide Dive. This is when I realized it was Falls Count Anywhere, when they went for pinfalls at ringside. After a commerical break we return to Morrison and R-Truth, with R-Truth taking control of the match. R-Truth, hits a few running knees and kicks followed by him knocking Morrison into the crowd(as I forget to record this part again). They spill back into the ringside area, when I finally turned the VCR back-on, Morrison suplexes R-Truth into the chair then hits him with a flying knee for the win. Following the match we see CM Punk, make his way into the arena.
A promo hits for the WWE Championship match, then we cut right to the Miz making his entrance. The Miz then comes out to talk about the Subway Guy, Jared! He goes, to the barricade and gets a sub from Jared and eats it in the ring. Then in the parking-lot, Kevin Nash arrives via a limo as we cut to a commerical.
We come back to a Divas' match, Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres facing off with Bella Twins. Kelly, starts the match with one of the Bellas'. I can't ever tell them apart quite honestly and they keep tagging in & out. Eventually Eve tags in gets the win, via moonsault and pinfall. Beth Phoenix and Natalya then make their way to the entrance ramp, before it turns to the last night's JackKnife to CM Punk.
Kevin Nash, gets a cool introduction leading to an okay entrance without a theme. Nash then goes to explain his story, about the tickets then the sneak attack on CM Punk. Kevin's excuse was that it was he told by a McMahon and it was just business as CM Punk, makes his way out to the ramp. Punk, then assumes that Nash and Triple H are working together about how they don't know good business. Leading to Punk saying how he can do whatever he wants. Then how, he's pissed off with several people but not Del Rio. Punk, follows up with Nash is out of his era where Nash retorts with NWO and how the business sucks. They continue to argue and Punk tries to make his way to the ring as the security team splits them up.
Kevin Nash, goes to Triple H's office and runs into John Laurnaitis. As you can obviously see, John is up to something. The next match to follow is Alex Riley against Jack Swagger, as Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero joins commentary. Jack, works on A-ry's back, and wears him down. A-ry, breaks out with a Spinebuster and starts to make a comeback. Vickie then creates a diverison allowing to Jack Swagger to beat A-ry, then Ziggler pisses off Jim Ross.
Vickie runs into Jack Swagger, where he hits on her. He then goes on a run of old managers, before leaving. Now we get another look at Fan Acess, which covers the same footage from the night before. Punk then runs into Stephanie for a brief minute, before going to another commerical break.
We come to another Tag Team Match, with Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston facing off with Otunga & McGillicuty. Evan, is double teamed in the opening minutes. Otunga and McGillicuty, over powers Evan cutting him off from Kofi. Evan, tags in Kofi and the pace picks up. Kofi does most of the work, as Evan gets the pin. Backstage, Rey Mysterio gets ready for his match for the WWE Championship.
Del Rio, is the first to make his entrance to the ring followed by Rey Mysterio. The match begins and they go for lock ups. Mysterio tries to go for a fast 619, and Del Rio jumps out of the ring to avoid it. We come back to the fighting in the ring and at ringside, Del Rio trys to get Mysterio's mask off at one point. Mysterio counters and hits a few moves, following to both competitors fighting on a turnbuckle. Mysterio, hits a hurricanrana then several other ones. Del Rio, fights back and tries wearing down Rey again. Mysterio breaks out and gets Del Rio, out of the ring leading to a moonsault and throwing Del Rio back in. Rey starts building up for a finish, while Del Rio clotheslines Rey back down. Del Rio, assualts Rey more as the fans chant for Rey while he gets kicked in the head. Rey lands a 619 but has the splash reversed into a roll up with Del Rio getting the pinfall and retaining the WWE Championship. Del Rio after the match, then continues to attack Rey as Cena comes down and save Rey from the Armbreaker. Cena then chews out Alberto Del Rio, for winning the WWE Championship and saying now he's a target!
Review:
This Raw wasn't impressive at all, and it could've been better. The opening promo, was okay and Del Rio's promo could've been a little bit better. Like he should've gone to trying to really make the crowd irate. I just didn't get into the whole thing quite frankly, I wanted the Kevin Nash thing sooner or at the end of the night. But we got the Kevin Nash/CM Punk confrontation in the middle of the RAW. Nash's entrance should've had his theme at least cause I hate when there's no music. The promo should've actually had Punk face to face with Nash, instead of Punk on the ramp and security dividing them. I really think, if WWE want to promote the return of Nash, this confrontation needed to be face to face and in the ring.
The matches however mostly sucked. There was only 2 matches that stood out, the Falls Count Anywhere Match and the WWE Championship match. Morrison and R-Truth could've been better if it had weapon involvement, if it was like No Holds Barred or Extreme Rules that match really could upset the Main Event even more. As for the WWE Championship match, I knew Rey wasn't going to win right from the beginning. Also the way Del Rio dominated the match wasn't even entertaining, I had no belief in Rey. As a result this Raw, could barely hit a 3-Star Rating from the fact the promos sucked compared to the last two weeks and only 2 matches stood out. Sorry if it pisses off huge Rey Mysterio fans and WWE fanatics but it's all true!
Raw starts showing a brief promo of last night Summerslam's Main Event, where Punk won then had Alberto Del Rio cash in his Money in the Bank. Following the promo we cut to Triple H, apologizing about Cena's foot on the rope and missing it. Then going onto the Kevin Nash attack on Punk, and Del Rio's cash in to the MitB. Triple H, explains he didn't plan to have Nash attack him, but left him tickets to the event and then permitted Nash to come to Raw. Nash will then explain, his reason. As for Del Rio, he pretty much went with "That's how the cookie crumbles!" Followed by the New WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio making his entrance.
Del Rio, introduces himself as the Undisputed WWE Champion and goes on about destiny. He even then goes on to say he loves the fans and didn't want to cash in at Summerslam, but after Nash got the surprise on the crowd he was cool with it. Then he rants that he's great and how he wants to be their Champion, along with facing Rey Mysterio tonight. He follows up with on how he still can't stand Mysterio, and how he wishes to continue to defeat him. The promo ends with Triple H, then backstage heading into John Cena's locker room.
The opening match on the card has R-Truth with a remix of "What's Up?!" facing off against John Morrison. The two brawl it out in the opening minutes, with R-Truth trying for a Roll-Up, leading to Morrison knocking him from the ring and a Suicide Dive. This is when I realized it was Falls Count Anywhere, when they went for pinfalls at ringside. After a commerical break we return to Morrison and R-Truth, with R-Truth taking control of the match. R-Truth, hits a few running knees and kicks followed by him knocking Morrison into the crowd(as I forget to record this part again). They spill back into the ringside area, when I finally turned the VCR back-on, Morrison suplexes R-Truth into the chair then hits him with a flying knee for the win. Following the match we see CM Punk, make his way into the arena.
A promo hits for the WWE Championship match, then we cut right to the Miz making his entrance. The Miz then comes out to talk about the Subway Guy, Jared! He goes, to the barricade and gets a sub from Jared and eats it in the ring. Then in the parking-lot, Kevin Nash arrives via a limo as we cut to a commerical.
We come back to a Divas' match, Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres facing off with Bella Twins. Kelly, starts the match with one of the Bellas'. I can't ever tell them apart quite honestly and they keep tagging in & out. Eventually Eve tags in gets the win, via moonsault and pinfall. Beth Phoenix and Natalya then make their way to the entrance ramp, before it turns to the last night's JackKnife to CM Punk.
Kevin Nash, gets a cool introduction leading to an okay entrance without a theme. Nash then goes to explain his story, about the tickets then the sneak attack on CM Punk. Kevin's excuse was that it was he told by a McMahon and it was just business as CM Punk, makes his way out to the ramp. Punk, then assumes that Nash and Triple H are working together about how they don't know good business. Leading to Punk saying how he can do whatever he wants. Then how, he's pissed off with several people but not Del Rio. Punk, follows up with Nash is out of his era where Nash retorts with NWO and how the business sucks. They continue to argue and Punk tries to make his way to the ring as the security team splits them up.
Kevin Nash, goes to Triple H's office and runs into John Laurnaitis. As you can obviously see, John is up to something. The next match to follow is Alex Riley against Jack Swagger, as Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero joins commentary. Jack, works on A-ry's back, and wears him down. A-ry, breaks out with a Spinebuster and starts to make a comeback. Vickie then creates a diverison allowing to Jack Swagger to beat A-ry, then Ziggler pisses off Jim Ross.
Vickie runs into Jack Swagger, where he hits on her. He then goes on a run of old managers, before leaving. Now we get another look at Fan Acess, which covers the same footage from the night before. Punk then runs into Stephanie for a brief minute, before going to another commerical break.
We come to another Tag Team Match, with Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston facing off with Otunga & McGillicuty. Evan, is double teamed in the opening minutes. Otunga and McGillicuty, over powers Evan cutting him off from Kofi. Evan, tags in Kofi and the pace picks up. Kofi does most of the work, as Evan gets the pin. Backstage, Rey Mysterio gets ready for his match for the WWE Championship.
Del Rio, is the first to make his entrance to the ring followed by Rey Mysterio. The match begins and they go for lock ups. Mysterio tries to go for a fast 619, and Del Rio jumps out of the ring to avoid it. We come back to the fighting in the ring and at ringside, Del Rio trys to get Mysterio's mask off at one point. Mysterio counters and hits a few moves, following to both competitors fighting on a turnbuckle. Mysterio, hits a hurricanrana then several other ones. Del Rio, fights back and tries wearing down Rey again. Mysterio breaks out and gets Del Rio, out of the ring leading to a moonsault and throwing Del Rio back in. Rey starts building up for a finish, while Del Rio clotheslines Rey back down. Del Rio, assualts Rey more as the fans chant for Rey while he gets kicked in the head. Rey lands a 619 but has the splash reversed into a roll up with Del Rio getting the pinfall and retaining the WWE Championship. Del Rio after the match, then continues to attack Rey as Cena comes down and save Rey from the Armbreaker. Cena then chews out Alberto Del Rio, for winning the WWE Championship and saying now he's a target!
Review:
This Raw wasn't impressive at all, and it could've been better. The opening promo, was okay and Del Rio's promo could've been a little bit better. Like he should've gone to trying to really make the crowd irate. I just didn't get into the whole thing quite frankly, I wanted the Kevin Nash thing sooner or at the end of the night. But we got the Kevin Nash/CM Punk confrontation in the middle of the RAW. Nash's entrance should've had his theme at least cause I hate when there's no music. The promo should've actually had Punk face to face with Nash, instead of Punk on the ramp and security dividing them. I really think, if WWE want to promote the return of Nash, this confrontation needed to be face to face and in the ring.
The matches however mostly sucked. There was only 2 matches that stood out, the Falls Count Anywhere Match and the WWE Championship match. Morrison and R-Truth could've been better if it had weapon involvement, if it was like No Holds Barred or Extreme Rules that match really could upset the Main Event even more. As for the WWE Championship match, I knew Rey wasn't going to win right from the beginning. Also the way Del Rio dominated the match wasn't even entertaining, I had no belief in Rey. As a result this Raw, could barely hit a 3-Star Rating from the fact the promos sucked compared to the last two weeks and only 2 matches stood out. Sorry if it pisses off huge Rey Mysterio fans and WWE fanatics but it's all true!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
WWE SummerSlam 2011
Overview:
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
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