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Show was alright.
The Rock's appearance was to basically placate the crowd before The Rock leaves again after the PPV... nothing to write home about and even in taped segments (a reversal of last year when Cena was live and Rock was on tape), Punk was owning him.
Felt bad for Rhodes and Sandow because if they aren't busy going after Kane and Danielson for their belts, they're getting jobbed left and right.
The Orton/Castagnoli match was paint-by-numbers and with The Shield jumping Orton before he could RKO, we finally get some protection for the U.S. Champ versus just feeding him to a guy further up the ladder in the Title Picture...
Dunno if that make Orton less of a contender than Ryback, the guy did the said feeding upon (no pun intended) of Claudio.
Probably.
...at this point, Castagnoli gets to keep his belt and claim to his streak against U.S. Title contenders who are American.
The Ziggler/A.J.
vs. Natalya/Khali was a DUD but I've only seen Cena carry Khali to a decent match and it took getting that big lummox out of the ring and onto a car's windshield to do it.
It was fun to see Big E. Langston enjoy destroying people for once as he smiled while putting a hurtin' on Khali and the midget that mysteriously still has a job.
And at the end of the night?
Fuck beautiful 30 minute bout with Del Rio winning the belt, even on tape, in front of the good people of Miami.
We got our new Latino hero after Eddie left us (R.I.P.) and Rey Jr. still hems and haws about retiring until he sees the T-Shirt sales numbers.
Seeing Del Rio and Ricardo genuinely celebrating (with Del Rio in the crowd of people he formally looked down upon as "peasants") the win made me cheer.
Good show for the most part minus the mixed tag and the 3MB match that ended faster than you could say, "pee break."
The Rock's appearance was to basically placate the crowd before The Rock leaves again after the PPV... nothing to write home about and even in taped segments (a reversal of last year when Cena was live and Rock was on tape), Punk was owning him.
Felt bad for Rhodes and Sandow because if they aren't busy going after Kane and Danielson for their belts, they're getting jobbed left and right.
The Orton/Castagnoli match was paint-by-numbers and with The Shield jumping Orton before he could RKO, we finally get some protection for the U.S. Champ versus just feeding him to a guy further up the ladder in the Title Picture...
Dunno if that make Orton less of a contender than Ryback, the guy did the said feeding upon (no pun intended) of Claudio.
Probably.
...at this point, Castagnoli gets to keep his belt and claim to his streak against U.S. Title contenders who are American.
The Ziggler/A.J.
vs. Natalya/Khali was a DUD but I've only seen Cena carry Khali to a decent match and it took getting that big lummox out of the ring and onto a car's windshield to do it.It was fun to see Big E. Langston enjoy destroying people for once as he smiled while putting a hurtin' on Khali and the midget that mysteriously still has a job.
And at the end of the night?
Fuck beautiful 30 minute bout with Del Rio winning the belt, even on tape, in front of the good people of Miami.
We got our new Latino hero after Eddie left us (R.I.P.) and Rey Jr. still hems and haws about retiring until he sees the T-Shirt sales numbers.
Seeing Del Rio and Ricardo genuinely celebrating (with Del Rio in the crowd of people he formally looked down upon as "peasants") the win made me cheer.
Good show for the most part minus the mixed tag and the 3MB match that ended faster than you could say, "pee break."
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