Cody Rhodes, Goldust, El Torito & Los Matadores vs
Curtis Axel, Ryback & 3MB
This was a real blast. Face Cody was so much fun here,
really nice run of offence before Ryback catches the Disaster Kick and plants
him with a powerbomb to make him face-in-peril. Loved the spot where Drew
tagged out to Mahal, who tagged out right away to Slater, which meant all three
were in the ring to quickly each hit a move on Cody before the ref could remove
the non-legal men. Ryback hit a great press-slam into a powerslam. The heels
attack the faces on the apron, which leaves Cody no choice but to tag El
Torito. Really fun offensive run by Torito before everything breaks down with
the faces flying out of the ring onto their opponents. This leaves Torito with
Slater, which is won by the bull with a flying headscissors that rams Heath’s
head into the canvas. Lots of fun.
Natalya & Eva Marie vs Alicia Fox & Aksana
Ha, and to think I was complaining about watching Cameron vs
Aksana on the last episode. Natalya and Fox work a pretty good sequence to
start, with Fox hitting this great goofy flying headscissors, but you just know
we’re killing time until the inevitable Eva/Aksana showdown. Eva comes in and
poor Fox hurls herself around for some arm wringers. Fox takes control before Aksana
comes in, and goes to hit her eye-busting knee on Eva, but hilariously Eva totally
no-sells her beating and starts crawling for her corner right away. Poor Aksana
is forced to try and hit a diving missed knee just to keep some forced sense of
drama. Natalya comes in and tries a Sharpshooter on Aksana, but gets shoved
into the ropes, hitting Eva on the apron and Aksana rolls her up for the pin.
Well, three of the four looked competent.
Darren Young vs Titus O’Neill
PPV rematch here, now relegated to semi-main on Main Event.
Nice quick tempo to start before Titus takes control. Love the look of disgust
on Titus’ face as he looks at his chest after taking control following a few
chops from Young. Titus has some great cocky swagger here, and he beasts Young
in a really fun way. Sadly, it’s over pretty quick, and Young escapes a slam to
roll up Titus for the win.
Sin Cara vs Damien Sandow
This has Sin Cara’s shitty mood lighting, which doesn’t help
the viewing experience. Sandow is really aggressive throughout this, and just
wails away at Cara with some stiff looking knees to the gut. Even with the
Elbow of Disdain, he does the pose, swiftly goes to the mat to repeatedly punch
Cara in the head, then drop the elbow. Was there a Cara/Sandow feud I’d
forgotten about, because this is pretty heated for the C-show. Cara comes back
with some slightly slow-mo lumpy looking highflying, and gets a very close 2
count from a one-armed powerbomb. The swanton gets three for Cara, and this was
a pretty fun change of pace, Sandow’s aggression really helped the match.
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