The Shield vs Sin Cara & Los Matadores
This is the logical follow-up to the Wyatts/Cara &
Matadores bout from the last main event, with the Shield due to face the Wyatts
at the next PPV. The Shield members aren’t as big as the Wyatt’s, so the face
team doesn’t have to hit-and-run as much here, instead outsmarting Ambrose and
Rollins in the early going. Loved the Total Elimination variant on Rollins by
Los Matadores. The fans are well up for a bit of Roman Reigns here, and he’s
the gamechanger in the match, making Fernando the face-in-peril by blasting
through him. The heat section is brief, leading to a Sin Cara hot tag, but Cara
soon becomes FIP, and they work a longer heat section on him. I’d forgotten how
not-silly Dean Ambrose used to be on offence, as he grounds Cara with a
chinlock, and hits a nasty sharp headbutt to prevent him from making a
comeback. There’s a few nice teased tags before Cara tags Diego, and Ambrose is
really portrayed as the weak link here (as per the upcoming PPV match), as
Diego dominates and Ambrose needs saving on a few occasions. Reigns stops a
double-dive by spearing Fernando and Cara, and I loved Ambrose holding Diego up
for an elevated Superman punch. Curb stomp gets the win, and this was a fun
trios bout, if not as good as the Wyatt’s bout the previous week.
Cameron vs Aksana
Oh fuck off! Aksana is still playing off her clumsy kneedrop
to Naomi, and she drops an early knee to Cameron’s head, teasing an early countout
victory. Sadly, we aren’t that lucky, as Cameron gets in and bumps around
awkwardly for Aksana’s offence. Her offence is even worse, and you know things
are bad if there’s a noticeable difference in quality between yourself and
Aksana of all people. A roll-up gets 3 for Cameron, so at least it was quick.
Kofi Kingston vs Curtis Axel
I didn’t hate this, but that was almost entirely due to
Axel. He bumps around nicely for some of Kofi’s suspect looking offence,
including some big flip bumps as his leg gets taken out. Axel is accompanied by
Ryback, so Mark Henry comes out midway through to even the sides, but this
doesn’t become a tag match sadly. I realised here why I’m not a big Kingston
fan – he’s clearly very athletic and gets a great height on all his moves, but
his high-flying isn’t very impressive. He’ll get high in the air, but only to
hit a sloppy legdrop or a weak looking chop. By contrast, Axel’s stuff looks really
good, nice snug belly-to-back suplex. Ryback takes out Kingston on a dive
attempt to draw the DQ, but Henry sends him outside for Kingston to hit a big
flip dive anyway. Fine, but nothing worth going out of your way to see.
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