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Post by cabbageboy on Jul 11, 2014 10:54:22 GMT -5
Hey, what is this? RVD win an actual winning streak? Going over Cesaro no less. I can't help but wonder if they are burying Cesaro a bit here to set up a face turn at long last.
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Post by Sparvid on Jul 11, 2014 11:12:27 GMT -5
My 7/11 results.
Dolph Ziggler & RVD beat Harper & Rowan after Ziggler pinned Harper. I missed most of the entrances as I wanted to but a shirt before the show, but ended up arriving later then planned. Seems they were all pretty over with the crowd though. Lots of cheering for Van Dam, and Ziggler wasn't far behind. Fun match.
Big E beat The Miz. Miz came out first and got the crowd to turn on him by talking very slowly ("I'm a... moooovie staaaar") and then saying basically "I'm the Miz, and I'm awesome. You and Big E are awful" in Japanese.
Adrian Neville retained the NXT title against Sami Zayn. Some scattered Olé chants in the beginning (although the people next to me didn't understand what football had to do with anything). At first there weren't much reactions, but the crowd woke up after a couple of dives over the top rope, eventually leading to some "This is awesome" chants. Neville's 450° splash was very popular. It was pretty much face vs face, and after the match Zayn (eventually) shook Neville's hand and they "argued" over who was going to raise whose hand.
Paige and Alicia Fox had a dance off (I think the voting was around 55-45 for that). I thought Alicia was hilarious at being horrible at dancing while at the same time behaving like she's great at it. Unfortunately for a babyface, Paige wasn't that much better. Alicia attacked her almost immediately, and it led to a very short match which Paige won.
Dean Ambrose against Seth Rollins was sometimes a bit of a comedy match from Ambrose's part. One of the first things he did was casually laying on top of the ropes at the corner. Rollins got "You sold out" chants at the start. Rollins exposed the turnbuckle, but that never came into play. Ambrose won by DQ after Rollins hit him with the briefcase in front of the ref, and Ambrose returned the favor afterwards.
After intermission, Heyman introduced Cesaro who beat Kofi pretty easily. Mostly Cesaro showing of his strength. There was one weird part towards the end after Cesaro had gotten a couple of two counts where he hit Kofi with a pretty brutal-looking clotheline, yet he kicked out at one.
Then Jimmy Hart came out and introduced Hogan, who got a huge reaction with people getting on their feet. He talked about how he hasn't wrestled in Japan for WWE since the early 90's, name-dropped some of the people he wrestled (Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Choshu, Tiger Jeet Singh, Stan Hansen, etc) and put over today's roster and John Cena. He then did his poses and was about to leave when Jimmy Hart egged him on to go back to the ring and tear the shirt. No mention of Kenta. People were still chanting "Thank you, Hogan" after he'd gone, so Justin Roberts led the crowd into an applause instead, which he could more easily introduce the main event over.
John Cena and Roman Reigns defeated Bray Wyatt & Kane after they both hit their finishers on the respective opponent. Cena got the second biggest reaction after Hogan, but as soon as his music stopped - before the bell had even rung - the "Let's Go, Cena / Cena Sucks" chants started. Cena started out and was kept from tagging out for a long time. He started hitting the five moves of doom on Kane after only a couple of minutes (woman next to me: "That's too early, John!") but was interrupted by Wyatt. Harper and Rowan ran out at one point and were beaten down.
After the match there was some funny Cena trolling by the crowd. Roman climbed a turnbuckle and got cheers. Then Cena climbed the same turnbuckle and got booed. Roman tries it out again. Cheers. Then the crowd cheered on Cena to do it again, but the moment he got up it turned into boos. Cena threw his arm out, basically going "What do you guys want?!" After a couple of these, the boos only lasted a few seconds before turning into cheers. Cena eventually walked out, having thrown down the title belts in frustration in the ring earlier. Roman picked up the titles, Cena returned, Roman eventually gave them to Cena who looked scared of him and immediately took a couple of steps back. The show ended with Roman alone in the ring getting cheered.
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