Luke Harper & Erick Rowan vs Xavier Woods & R-Truth
Bit of a disappointment here, as not only is this an extended
squash, but Woods and Truth look a bit off the pace here, awkward and hesitant
in their movements. I did like the big boot to the face that Harper hit on
Truth and Rowan’s match-winning sitout uranage on Woods was decent.
The Funkadactyls vs Nikki Bella & Alicia Fox
Another very short match, and this was mostly all angle.
Nikki had lost a handicap match to the Funkadactyls on Raw (in the midst of her
feud with Stephanie McMahon). Here, she’s been given Alicia as her tag partner,
and we’re all just sat waiting for the moment that Fox turns on her. The bulk
of this is Cameron “controlling” Nikki with a submission, before Nikki tries
the hot tag…only for Fox to shockingly move out of the way and kick her in the
head for the Cameron pinfall. Match was barely two minutes, thankfully.
Dolph Ziggler, Big E & Rob Van Dam vs Cesaro &
Rybaxel
On the last Main Event, I waxed lyrical about how a six-man
tag match is a pretty solid format, making it easier to hide the sins of the
less capable performers in the match. Thus, it feels sad that just one episode
later I’m pretty disappointed in this one. Cesaro is working an “injured eye”
bit, complete with an eyepatch, so it makes it a bit more jarring when “babyface”
shitbag Ziggler attacks his eye and rips off his eyepatch. What a cunt. There
were a few bits I enjoyed here – Ryback blocking a Big E belly-to-belly with a
few headbutts was nice, and the eventual overhead belly-to-belly by Big E was
super impressive. But we get a lengthy RVD face-in-peril section that wasn’t
very interesting. Ryback hits a snake eyes on him that has visible space
between the turnbuckle and his head, and Cesaro works a long chinlock to the
delight of no-one. Ryback at least commits fully to missing the top rope splash
that leads to the hot tag. Ziggler runs through all his worst offence – the un-countalong
corner punches, the back-slap DDT and the dreadful fameasser – before pinning
Cesaro with a zig zag. Yeah, this was a bit of a shit episode.
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