Former world champ will take the vacant spot? Kane. KAAAAAAAAAAANE!!!
KO KO KO KO KO!!!
Kevin Owens PWNS WWE! Welcome to the top brutha! Enjoy the view a nice long time!
Didn’t Seamus Brogue-Kick his way out of the pod last year?
Somehow putting a necklace in the far side of the sliding door keeps it from being pulled open.
Sheezus, this EC match is a huge disaster. Henry has to figure out what to do when he gets his door taken out early, and spends most of the match wallowing around like a walrus sunning himself.
Yay it’s over.
Even Dusty Rhodes thought that ending was B.S.
:eek::eek::eek:AMBROSE IS ACTUALLY CHAMP???:eek::eek::eek:
Dammit, knew it couldn’t last.
But the feud continues, so that pleases me.
Dunno why I was thinking the championship match was a 3-way. Yeah, was happy to see Ambrose ‘win’, then was not at all surprised at the shenanigans.
But holy hell, KO beat Cena in one helluva match. I was engrossed. Here’s to hoping Cena doesn’t come back and win this thing.
A freeish-per-view that I actually rather enjoyed even if Ms. Cups was underwhelmed. Although we both agree on the great ending
Tag-Team EC Match - This was kind of a cluster, but I personally had fun with it. I expected a little more out of Kallisto because he kept climbing the walls but when he landed it wasn’t anything I freaked out over (John Morrison did it better). I was surprised that Team Uppercat bowed out so quickly, but I also didn’t totally mind that it was Primetime Players there at the end, although I get to do my V. Vince McMahon voice: “What? People say we aren’t diverse? Well have the last tag-teams in there the new day and the team with the bald guy and the queer, that’ll shut em up!” Pretty sure I called Uppercat for this one, but it was a toss-up between them and New Day who wins
KO vs Cena: I’m trying to like KO, I really am. I don’t NOT like him, but he doesn’t really do all that much for me right now. This match was really long, a bit too long if you ask me because the first half-3/4 of the match was just KO and Cena doing punches and kicks and stuff. Put yourself in my shoes for a bit: You are a fan of wrestling enough to know that KO is a big deal because of his indy days, but you don’t know details as to WHY he’s so good. So you go and watch NXT and these matches to see what the hype is, but all I see is a monster heel who Brock Lesnar’s everyone. I want to see him wrestle. Do spots, counters, moves that make you stick out…just show me something. It took practically the entire match before that happened, and then when it did, I could finally sit back and say “Oh yeah, that’s what everyone is talking about”. That killer suplex reversal on the top rope, the DDTs, the spin-to-a-slam thing he did…all really cool, it just took entirely too long to get there. I am surprised he won too because I wouldn’t think Vince was too keen on putting NXT over that much.
Women’s Match: Nikki won and no one cares. She is so goddamn boring, please let her do something interesting here soon or just take the belt off of her. Paige and Naomi are WAY more over anyway
Neville and Bo Dallas: A boring match that no one cared about and had no implications whatsoever
IC Title: Long live Ryback! I’m really happy about this and it’s a total win-win for WWE. You can either keep the belt on a fan favorite like him and everything is ok, or you can take the belt off of him via Bray or even Rusev…who would also be just fine as the champ. The match itself was weird because I didn’t understand the whole door thing with Sheamus. How did the cross play into it? Can someone explain? I would have put the odds of Truth being the first out at a million to one and would have lost…whoda thought?
Title Match: What an ending! Give credit to WWE for having an Ambrose-gets-screwed ending that wasn’t the same old thing they’ve done a million times before. I have to admit I was marking out for Ambrose, and then to have it taken away? I went from surprised to happy to mad to laughing in the span of 2 minutes. I also love that Ambrose R-Truthed the belt and just buggered off with it.
Oh yeah, Ryback. I totally didn’t see him winning that match but after the fact I was pretty happy with it. The man has been an upper-mid card player for a long time and yeah, he’d never actually held a singles title. Good for him. Long overdue.
Not too bad a show. Cena and Owens was the typical caveman style match, you hit me, I hit you, eventually one of us stays down. The main event was a nice break in the repetitive stories, they have to admit now that Ambrose is better title material than Rollins. Naomi can be a better character but she’s got points for stepping in after AJ left, she’s due for an even bigger push someday. Elimination Chamber has always been a joke, no surprises there.
Hey fans, a wrestler poorly executing an overly scripted move IS NOT AWESOME!
Ms. Cups thanks you for this post.
She haaaaaaaates the “this is awesome” chant because it rarely ever is
Overall, the KO/Cena match was friggin’ awesome.
The EC matches were clusterfucks that had their moments, but had more bad than good.
Bo vs Neville was pretty good, but Dallas’s WWE matches were jokes and not nearly the same as his NXT matches, so the audience didn’t really invest in his more aggressive side.
It seems like the only thing I paid attention to in the Divas match was Naomi’s shoes.
Ambrose/Rollins was OK, but the J&J&K run-ins sucked the life out of the match. I was agape when it seemed like Ambrose won the title, but it was not to be. Still, Ambrose keeping the belt is a good lead to more feuding between these two.
I want him to come out on Smackdown and say that he mailed the title to his house and it should take a week or two to get there.
“Yeah, about that title, I mailed it to my house, but I dunno if I had enough money for postage. It might get returned to sender. Hey, that’s me! Then again, I may have used UPS or FedEx or somebody. Who knows? Maybe it’ll get there eventually. Whatever.”
Firstly, I would like to officially call BULLSHIT on the ending of the main event. Not that I’m surprised - WWE seems to love ending non-Big-Four main events in BS ways, especially if Dean Ambrose is involved (exploding TVs, anyone?) Still, assuming that Ambrose continues to show up waving the belt around, proclaiming himself the uncrowned champion, and refusing to give any fucks what Triple H has to say about it (What’s he gonna do? Fire him? He’ll go home and TAKE THE BELT WITH HIM) then this could very plausibly lead to the Reigns/Rollins/Ambrose triple-threat match we’ve all been wanting.
Secondly, they did it. Those maniacs actually did it. They had Kevin Steen beat John Cena, CLEAN, in his very first main roster match. The list of people who’ve beaten Cena clean is so small you can probably count it on your fingers (the only ones up to now that come to my mind are Orton, Bryan, Punk, Rock, and Brock) and they couldn’t possibly have done a better job here of putting over Owens and making the NXT title look legit.
Overall, this was a really good show, even though I was wrong about almost all of the match outcomes.
At first, I figured that there was no way KO was going to win a title match (and I didn’t hear the rematch being called one, so I assume the match at MITB is also non-title), but then I thought, how else do they get the US title off of Cena so he can win the World belt and tie Flair’s record?
Then again, what would the general feeling be backstage if they put the belt on Owens pretty much straight out of NXT? Has he “paid his dues” yet?
What do we call it now - a Stardust’s Father’s Finish?
I can almost see it happening…the “seventh MITB wrestler” starts off as a no-show, until late in the match, when all six wrestlers are laid out…“What the? It’s Daniel Bryan! The former WWE Champion is the seventh man! Apparently he’s been cleared to wrestle! He’s setting up a ladder! He’s climbing it! He’s got the briefcase! Daniel Bryan wins Money In The Bank!” This gives WWE an excuse for nobody cashing it in for months; a “second opinion” shows that DB needs more rehabilitation, and there’s no “30-day rule” on the briefcase like there is on the belts.
What exactly are you calling bullshit about it?
Paige won coming straight out of NXT, so it’s not entirely unheard of. Besides, it’s the US title, it’s not like it’s a belt that matters
If you want Ambrose to go over, then have Ambrose go over.
If you want Rollins to stay champion, then have Rollins stay champion.
Don’t try to do both. The end result is that nobody goes over, nobody comes out looking good, and instead of having a satisfying ending to the match all you get is a great big fuck you and the vague promise that maybe someone will definitively go over at the next supercard (spoilers: they won’t).
If you can’t decide on a decisive finish to the match, then don’t book the match in the first place.
All six competitors are laid out when BRRRROOOOOOOCCCCCKKKKKK LES-NAR makes his triumphant return to the ring. Michael Cole shits his pants and cowers under the announce table like a little girl. BRROOOOCCCKKK enters the ring and F5s everyone just because he can. He looks up at the briefcase which falls off the chain into BRRROOOCCCKKK’s hands. Why did it fall? Because it respects BRRROOOCCCKKK too much to make him climb the ladder. This is followed by months of Rollins looking over his shoulder, waiting for the inevitable.
Honestly, CM Punk will job to Triple HHH in his return match before Bryan wins MITB.
Well, only because Vince rigs it to fall. Hell, it probably starts wiggling and jiggling first and we get JBL selling how scared the briefcase is before it falls.
So when was the last time a called shot actually landed?
Everyone ducks the bullhammer
Everyone sidesteps the superman punch
Everyone moves out of the way of the brogue kick
Meathook clothesline? Dodged
It’s rather annoying