WWE Main Event 02/09/2014

Dolph Ziggler vs Damien Sandow

This is JIP after a Miz TV segment goes awry. I remember these two matching up surprisingly well earlier in the year, and there’s another decent Sandow performance here. He’s got some decent aggression going on, liked his elbows to the neck of a downed Ziggler, as well as stopping him dead with a short back elbow to the face. Sandow does some token arm work before Ziggler comes back with some poor punches, clear air showing between his fists and Sandow’s torso. Sandow tries a figure four, gets kicked off into the turnbuckle, and eats a Zig Zag for the three count in a nice little sequence. Essentially harmless, but unmemorable.

Natalya & Rosa Mendes vs Summer Rae & Layla

God bless Summer Rae, she tries her hardest to make it look like Rosa is doing some damage to her, flying all over for some entry-level armdrags. I think this is the match that was shown on Total Divas where Rosa tried to manufacture a wardrobe malfunction to gain some notoriety, as Layla grabs her by the trunks to prevent her getting in the ring, with the camera suddenly switching angles to avoid showing a full moon. Summer and Layla are a lot of fun on offence, showing some meanness towards Rosa, including an Irish Whip into a neat Summer Rae clothesline. Natalya comes in after a missed Summer legdrop, and runs through her usual offence in a pretty straightforward manner. However, Rosa blind tags back in, and eats a big Layla superkick for the loss. Watchable, almost entirely due to the heel team.

Goldust & Stardust vs Los Matadores

This kind of match is why you sit through the previous stuff, the chance to see 15 minutes of Goldust and the Colons going at it. El Torrito isn’t there, due to a previous post match assault by the Rhodes’, and Los Matadores are suitably aggressive in the opening stages, plastering Stardust. Los Matadores in fact control a lot of the early going on both Rhodes brothers, loved Fernando blocking a sunset flip and stomping on Goldust’s arm to give them a focal point. Ferndando backdrops Diego to the floor onto the Rhodes’, with the heel team unable to get into second gear. Eventually, Stardust pulls Goldust out of the way of a cornersplash to give his team a prolonged advantage. Goldust looks good in control, even dropping a sarcastic “Ole” along the way, before the hot tag to Diego. Looks great coming in too, hitting a neat elbow to the head of Stardust to stun him, before rolling him up for two. Nice top rope cannonball, but Goldust distracts from the apron and Diego turns round into a STO to give them the win. Not quite the tag masterclass you’d hope for, but a nice bit of storytelling with the aggression of the Matadores making them more dominant than usual and controlling of the match.

WWE Main Event 08/07/2014

Another really odd episode of Main Event, headlined by Chris Jericho and Bret Hart on the Highlight Reel and opened by a Last Man Standing match for the US title. A really stacked C-show.

Sheamus vs Alberto Del Rio

On first glance, a Last Man Standing match might seem like a strange stipulation for Main Event. After all, you wouldn’t expect two guys to go all out on a C-show, and thus there won’t be the same level of stunts to potentially end the match. The strange thing, as true as this is, the match benefits from this, resulting in a tighter, fast-flowing match. Even on a C-show, these are two guys who will lay in their shots, with Sheamus hurling ADR into the barricade and hitting a rolling senton on the floor early doors. The use of weapons here is restricted to a kendo stick, a chair and a table, but that actually adds to the violence, as both guys thrash the other with the kendo stick, including two nice diving top rope shots from Del Rio. I loved too how he begged off like a coward the second Sheamus got the stick from him. Lovely spot where ADR catches himself on the ropes to prevent him taking the Fuerza bump to the floor, but this instead leaves him in position for the 10 shots to the chest from Sheamus. Nothing here is overly complex, but it all looks painful. They build up to the table spot, before Del Rio locks in a crossarmbreaker on Sheamus. Sheamus powers up with one arm and slams Del Rio through the table for a 9 count, and the Brogue Kick gets the full 10. Really great match.

Nikki Bella vs Naomi, Natalya, Rosa Mendes, Summer Rae & Eva Marie

This is still during the “Stephanie punishes Nikki for Brie Bella quitting” storyline. This is hyped up as a 6-1 handicap, but Cameron is conspicuous by her absence. It’s odd to watch Nikki Bella getting dominated early by Rosa and Eva, especially as they do it with no shenanigans. Nikki gets a brief comeback, bossing Rosa with a forearm and rolling up Summer, but Eva comes in off a blind tag and gets the pin with a DDT. Remarkable. Naomi and Natalya never get in. 

WWE Main Event 27/05/2014

Cody Rhodes vs Curtis Axel

Pretty much the definition of a solid little match. Axel looks good here, takes his usual flip bump onto his head when Rhodes kicks his leg out, and has some nice intensity on offence. Axel never does anything fancy, but what he does looks good. Rhodes’s offence is a bit less impressive – he does both Goldust’s drop down punch and Bob Holly’s abdomen kick, but does it worse than both. Nice looking moonsault press though. Ryback distracts Rhodes, allowing Axel to hit a chopblock and roll up Cody to win.

R-Truth vs Damien Sandow

Sandow comes to the ring rapping, which is very much not hilarious. This is a lot shorter than the match they had on the previous Main Event, which is good, and this time they manage to make a victory roll look better. Sandow yelling “Put your hands in the air” before the Elbow of Disdain raised a smile, but Truth hits the Lie Detector from nowhere to win, and it looks a little bit shit. Not great.

Brie Bella vs Natalya

Well this was better than expected. The idea of a match starting with Brie Bella and Natalya working the mat sounds terrible, but it actually looked pretty good. I mean, it definitely felt like Natalya was walking Brie though it, but it was enjoyable. Brie’s running knees in the ropes looked a bit pony, but Natalya swiftly reverses a single leg crab to the sharpshooter and this ended up alright. Very short, but surprisingly fun.

The Usos vs Erick Rowan & Luke Harper

Less surprisingly, this is also a treat. Love the Usos using hit and run tactics against Rowan, the slower, less intelligent member of the opposing team. With Harper, they seem like they need to be more proactive in attack, knowing that he’ll be able to match them for pace (a dropkick out of nowhere catching Jimmy Uso proves that early doors), but against Rowan they stick and move. Of course, when Rowan does get them, it seems more devastating, with a fallaway slam sending Jey all the way outside the ring. Jey becomes FIP, which is a fun sequence of Wyatt offence, and things break down on the hot tag with all four guys in. A double dive by the Usos looks great, and I dug the ending where Jimmy looks to have Harper down and goes up top, but gets briefly distracted by Rowan slamming his brother into the ringpost. Though Jimmy is able to leap over a now-standing Harper, he walks right into a discus lariat for the win. Really good main event.

WWE Main Event 06/05/2014

Jack Swagger vs Dolph Ziggler

In typical Ziggler match fashion, there’s good parts of this (the parts where Ziggler doesn’t do much) and some fucking terrible parts (when Ziggler goes on offence). Loved the big Swagger takedowns early on, and there were even moments when you remember that Ziggler used to be a college wrestler, as he looks ok working reversals on the mat. Loved Swagger flinging Ziggler across the ring, sending him over the turnbuckles to the floor – big bump for Ziggler to take on Main Event. Swagger does some fun work on Ziggler’s arm, and I dug him putting Dolph’s hand over his (Swagger’s) chest to do the “We The People” chant. Then Dolph goes on offence…terrible you-can’t-count-along 10 punches in the corner, sloppy fameasser, that abysmal slap-on-the-back DDT. Just awful. Things further fall off a cliff, as Adam Rose comes out for no reason (Swagger has been wrestling cleanly throughout) to bully Zeb Colter on commentary. Literally, Rose and all his Rosebuds come out to swarm Colter, essentially just intimidating a senior citizen for no reason. Swagger, rightly concerned for his manager’s well-being, is distracted, and Ziggler hits the zig-zag to win. First half was decent, but this ended up as utter shit.

Natalya, Cameron & Naomi vs Tamina, Aksana & Alicia Fox

Cameron and Natalya have some tension at the start, based around Cameron losing Nattie’s cat on that week’s episode of Total Divas. Not much to this, though I did like Fox’s big boot to Natalya off a Tamina distraction. Aksana looks pretty bad here, though credit due for fully committing to her missed elbow drop. Naomi comes in with a weird pedigree/piledriver move, which begins with Aksana draped over the ropes, and finishes with a split-legged moonsault. Tamina and Cameron are wisely left out for most of this, but it’s still a bit rubbish.

Goldust vs Curtis Axel

This was the match of the show by some margin. Both guys showed some nice intensity, and I dug Axel’s big running knee. Both guys also seem to have their timing down, as Goldust gets a really convincing nearfall off a jackknife pin when Axel misses a dropkick. This was pretty short, but all enjoyable, and the end sees a nice bit of misdirection. Both were accompanied by their tag partners, and the previous weeks had seen some tension building between Goldust and Cody, based upon Goldust beating people that Cody couldn’t. Here, the action spills to the floor, and it looks like Cody is trying to hit his brother with a Disaster Kick off the barriers, but instead he takes out Ryback who is about to sneak attack Goldie. Back inside, and the Final Cut gives Goldust the win. Dug this.

WWE Main Event 15/04/2014

The fun thing about watching old Main Events is coming across hidden gems that I never knew about. The Wyatts vs Los Matadores/Sin Cara, Ambrose vs Henry, just some good fun matches that had gone under the radar. The opposite side of this is that some episodes feature utterly skippable, pointless matches. This, unfortunately, is one of those weeks...

Los Matadores vs Jinder Mahal & Drew McIntyre

This really sums up what a weak episode of Main Event we have here. On paper, this could have been a really fun tag match, given the abilities of the matadors and McIntyre. Instead, this is more angle than match. Hornswoggle comes out as a member of 3MB to cancel out El Torito, and it’s his distraction that allows McIntyre to take control of a matador. However, El Torito gets involved straight away, leading to both outsiders fighting in the ring and the match ending in a double DQ. Waste of time.

Sin Cara vs Bad News Barrett

This was really short, but at least allowed for a few fun moments. I liked Cara’s suicide dive and Barrett was really good at beating his opponent down with nice looking blows. But the match is only a few minutes long so, after a shitty headscissors from Cara, Barrett avoids a Swanton and quickly hits Winds of Change and the Bullhammer to win.

Nikki Bella vs Naomi vs Cameron vs Emma vs Tamina vs Alicia Fox vs Aksana vs Eva Marie vs Layla vs Natalya

This is a battle royal, complete with shitty “going through the ropes elimination” rules, to become number one contender to the Divas title. Nothing her really worth watching, though I felt particularly sorry for Layla selling the super-slow, super-weak offence of Eva Marie, who thankfully is the first eliminated. The crack camera team totally miss Tamina nailing Nikki with a superkick. Tamina is put over really strongly here, throwing out both Funkadactyl, Nikki and Fox to leave her alone with Natalya, who she also bins off with a superkick. Very skippable.

Jack Swagger vs the Big Show

By default this is match of the night. It’s not great, but it’s perfectly fine and is at least logically worked. I like Swagger in the opening stages, using the ropes to build momentum to attack Show. Swagger grabbing a big boot attempt and attacking the leg makes total sense, both in terms of downing Show and also as he’s got a leg-based submission. Show only needing one smack to the chest of Swagger to start his comeback was great, especially with how much they put over his giant hands early in the match with his chops. Chokeslam is reversed (very slowly) to the Patriot Lock, but Show holds on and is able to land the KO punch to win.

WWE Main Event 25/03/2014

Pretty disappointing episode of Main Event here. Fuck knows what I did to deserve two Ziggler matches.

Sheamus vs Alberto Del Rio vs Dolph Ziggler

Christian had won a four-way on Raw to face Big E for the IC strap on this episode of Main Event, but had picked up his career ending concussion, so the other three from the match had this triple threat to see who got the match. Nice little one-show angle. The problem this match suffers from is that you’ve got two guys really laying in their blows, putting in a sense of struggle when trying to escape holds, and it clashes with the wrestling style of Ziggler, who’s offence looks milky in comparison and isn’t the kind of guy who puts in realistic touches. Compare Del Rio punching at Sheamus in a failed attempt to prevent the rolling senton with Ziggler hitting his “opponent holds me in the air until I slap his back to let him know it’s time for a DDT” DDT. With Del Rio being the only heel, he controls a good part of this match, working over Ziggler and keeping Sheamus on the outside (I appreciated ADR going back to make sure Sheamus couldn’t get back in, rather than Sheamus mysteriously vanishing for ages as in most triple threats). Sheamus’s comeback is great, he’s a terrific offensive wrestler and I love how he builds up momentum, hitting more and more moves from the ropes so he’s like a big block of muscle crashing into his opponents. The end sees a really hot sequence between ADR and Sheamus, before Sheamus misses a Brogue Kick and ends up stranded on the ropes. ADR hits the backstabber, but Ziggler comes in to hit the Zig Zag on him at the same time. Even though Del Rio landed in exactly the same way that he was going to, this earns the win for Ziggler. Dolph really was a subtraction by addition to this match.

Natalya, Naomi, Cameron, Emma & Eva Marie vs Layla, Alicia Fox, Tamina, Summer Rae & Aksana

AJ Lee is on commentary, as this is just a brief bout to showcase the entrants in the “AJ Lee vs the world” match at Mania. Being so short, no-one really gets the chance to stand out, bar Layla looking awesome as a stooging heel. She’s not afraid to look daft to put her opponent over, even doing a goofy version of the Robot to counter Emma’s terrible dance. Eva Marie becomes face-in-peril, and surprisingly working heat on the least popular and least sympathetic member of the face team doesn’t generate much reaction from the crowd. Naomi gets the hot tag and immediately hits a terrible rana on Tamina. She improved SO much on her heel turn. It all breaks down, leaving Tamina to nail a superkick on Naomi for the win.

Big E vs Dolph Ziggler

This match really doesn’t work, as both guys seem to have trouble clicking. They’re in a strange boat where the bigger face IC champ is taking on a smaller guy who wrestled a ten minute match earlier in the hour, so they need to find a way to make sure Big E doesn’t look like a bully. Seemingly the solution they choose is for Ziggler to sell zero exhaustion from his earlier match, which has the unfortunate side effect of making Big E look weak as he ends up selling more than Dolph in this match. There’s too many odd moments here that don’t work: Big E jams his shoulder on the ring post on a corner charge, but this doesn’t get worked over or sold again in the bout. Ziggler’s offence is reduced to just dropkicks, whilst Big E keeps on hitting clotheslines. It’s just not a very good match, though I liked the ending: Big E throws Ziggler up in the air, causing him to splat on the mat and grabs him as he bounces upwards to hit the Big Ending for the win.

WWE Main Event 11/03/2014

Los Matadores vs Rybaxel

Really fun opener here, I’ve been really enjoying Los Matadores on these C-shows. Loved them totally outsmarting Ryback to start here, and Ryback sells the confusion well as the matadors tag quickly and zip around him. Ryback yelling “stupid” at a matador trying to sunset flip him, before missing a sitdown splash, cracked me up. Axel takes control after a clothesline to the back of Fernando’s head, and I really dug Axel’s control here. Everything looked to have purpose behind it, especially a cracking knee to the head. Ryback preventing a hot tag by just punching Diego in the head on the apron was the perfect move for him. Even better, when Diego does get tagged in and runs wild on the hot tag, he makes sure to dropkick Ryback off the apron as a receipt. Axel gets distracted by El Torito, and that’s enough to get him rolled up for the Los Matadores win.

AJ Lee vs Natalya

Divas title match. The problem I had when AJ Lee fought Natalya is that I never bought Lee being able to control Nattie as easily as she would. Against other women, it didn’t feel unlikely that AJ could match them for power, or be able to outsmart or outwrestle them, but I never bought it against Natalya. Natalya is stronger, is at least as capable on the mat and is probably no slower than AJ. Even in the early going here, Nattie is no-nonsense, dominating AJ on the mat with a headlock and resisting all efforts to break it. We cut to a break with Natalya dominant, and we return to AJ in control, though they at least show a replay to highlight this was due to Tamina’s interference. I liked AJ’s plan of trying to put Nattie out with two guillotine chokes, one coming from a great reversal of a slam. Still doesn’t justify the unlikely sight of AJ powering Nattie over with a clothesline (especially as Natalya decides to bump huge for it). Both ladies gets their signature submission holds on, before Natalya badly telegraphs an AJ flying knee by looking over at AJ when supposedly distracted by Tamina, and the Black Widow gets the tap for Lee.

Dean Ambrose vs Mark Henry

Another title match, this time for the US title. There’s a lovely moment before the bell when Henry stares down all three Shield members, and looks like the hardest man on earth in doing so. It is a Shield distraction that allows Ambrose to take over after an early Henry flourish, and I dug the diving knee drop from the apron to Henry’s back from Ambrose. Ambrose works over the left leg of Henry, and it looks really vicious. Kinda surprising, as Ambrose’s execution is a lot more lacking nowadays. Henry’s selling is terrific throughout, really selling the difficulty he was having returning to his feet, as Ambrose hits a beautiful diving punch to the back of the knee. I like Ambrose’s tactic here, as he uses the hurt leg as a vehicle to keep Henry down and then punish him with punches, chokes etc. Henry’s comeback is great stuff too, as Ambrose takes too long getting up to the top rope, so Henry uses a quick blast of speed to get up and throw him off. Sometimes forge just how athletic Henry is. The end sees Henry try a Vader bomb, but gets distracted by Roman Reigns, allowing Ambrose to sweep him off the ropes and hit Dirty Deeds for the win. Loved this.

WWE Main Event 25/02/2014

Decided I'm going to concentrate on Main Event for my C-show watching, Superstars is too much recapping and not enough wrassling for my tastes. Really fun show this week,

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.

WWE Superstars 21/2/2014

Continuing our run through WWE C-shows, it's time to hit up Superstars. Based on this episode, I suspect I'll enjoy it less than Main Event, with too much time spent on Raw/Smackdown recaps. Stuff that noise, use that time to give me a Fandango vs Heath Slater match!

Natalya vs Tamina
This match starts really oddly, as Natalya walks towards Tamina with her arms raised up high and takes a punch to the stomach straight away to give Tamina the advantage. Made Nattie look like an idiot. Tamina basically controls the bulk of the match from hereon, maintaining her advantage with a vicious looking clothesline. Tamina hits a slightly clumsy looking powerslam before Natalya starts her comeback. Nice to see Natalya showing some real fire too, but her spinning clothesline gets blocked with a big boot to the face. Tamina tries a Samoan drop, which Nattie escapes and puts on the Sharpshooter straight away for the tapout. Really poor structure, as Tamina basically dominates in an uninteresting way, then Nattie gets the win with one of her first real offensive moves.

Big E vs Drew McIntyre
Man, Big E really was the C-show king at this time. I actually thought this was a step up from the Main Event match the same week. Loved Big E showing off his power by catching a McIntyre crossbody and hitting 3 backbreakers. Drew gets control following the smallest Jinder Mahal distraction, as his leaping on the apron gives Drew an extra second or two to avoid a corner charge. Like the Main Event match, Drew works over Big E's arm, but it's more effective this time. Firstly because it makes sense with Big E jarring his shoulder on the corner charge, but also due to how Drew uses it. Here, he's more actively trying for pinfalls and, when he only gets two, goes to the arm as a weak point to control Big E to buy some time to think. In the end, it's Drew's overconfidence that costs him: he starts pounding Big E in the corner, but pauses to lambast the crowd for counting along. This gap allows Big E to throw him down and run though his finishing sequence to hit the Big Ending for the win. Really fun match here, though at this point I'd like to see Big E mixing up that finishing run a bit. Still, enjoyed this.

WWE Main Event 11/02/2014

Well, these shows feel like they're going to be enjoyably quick to blast through. This show was a lot of fun, and the opener was legitimately very good.

The Wyatt Family vs Sin Cara & Los Matadores
Well, this was really great. This was shortly before the Wyatts took on the Shield at Elimination Chamber, and they still had all their aura. Here, they beast the high-flying face team, but allow them some well-timed moments of hope to keep this competitve, and the crowd do get behind the face team. The Wyatts dominate Fernando, tagging quickly and hitting some nasty looking offence. I loved Bray just unloading with nasty looking body shots in the corner. Sin Cara looks great as the hot tag, all kinetic energy as he uses every side of the ring to bounce back at Luke Harper with crossbodies and elbows, but gets caught springboarding in by a big boot to the face. Bray was so explosive here, it's really easy to remember why everyone was so hyped for the big Shield match. Loved Bray's big avalanche in the corner. Diego is the matador who gets the hot tag, and as the least-beaten down face, it makes sense for him to look solid, outsmarting Rowan (again, the right choice of Wyatt to outsmart). He gets a really close nearfall on Rowan after Cara kicks him in the face. After a fun series of dives and nasty bumps, we end up with Bray and Cara in the ring, with Sister Abigail picking up the win in short order. Really fun competitive squash.

Natalya vs Aksana
I had totally forgotten Aksana existed, so it took me a few seconds to place the porno sax theme tune. This is shortly after she shattered Naomi's eye socket with a clumsy knee, so she keeps patting her knee to taunt Nattie with it as a weapon. Early on, Aksana downs Natalya with a sudden clothesline that looked really good, and a match I had no hope for actually turned out pretty fun. Aksana used to be a powerlifter and Natalya has always been one of the more powerfully built divas, so there were moments here where both girls collided with greater gusto than you normally see. There's a spot where they both try a crossbody that looks suitably hurty. Aksana is actually pretty good at cutting off Natalya's comebacks, and I thought her getting a 2 count by snatching a small package off a Sharpshooter looked smooth. The end saw Aksana try to knee Nattie in the face, only for Natalya to catch the leg and swiftly lock in the Sharpshooter for the win. This surprised me.

Big E vs Drew McIntyre
We've lost the "Langston" surname this week, the second week in a row the IC champ has been on Main Event. They play up Big E facing former IC champs back-to-back weeks. Loved the start as Drew gets more and more frustrated at Big E avoiding his attacks, and thus getting more sloppy with each attempt. Drew takes control and hits a lovely clothesline from the top rope. A lot of Drew's control work is based on working Big E's arm on the mat, which doesn't really go anywhere, but things heat up towards the end with Big E's lovely running splash, Drew nailing a big boot to the face and an excellent finish with Big E grabbing a running McIntyre with a tilt-a-whirl straight into the Big Ending for the win.

Big E vs Jinder Mahal
After the match, Jinder demands a match right away. With the slider showing 2 minutes left, I knew this would be quick, and Big E shakes off some blows, hits a huge clothesline and the Big Ending to squash Mahal. Harmless fun.