NEVILLE vs. BAD NEWS BARRETT: This was on the pre-show. Daniel Bryan is hurt so his IC title match against Barrett was scrapped. So we got the RVD-esque Neville, fresh from NXT. Neville is awesome...but why his name changed from Adrian Neville to Neville is beyond me. Neville had good matches in NXT but in the WWE he's all spots and nothing else. Meaning you'll get sick of him. **
DEAN AMBROSE vs. LUKE HARPER "CHICAGO STREET FIGHT": They brawled backstage, got into a car, and drove away. After the tag team match they came back and used a bunch of steel chairs in the ring. I thought it'd be better. And why not show what they did on the streets of Chicago? *1/2
DOLPH ZIGGLER vs. SHEAMUS "KISS MY ARSE": Sheamus lost but beat up Ziggler and forced him to kiss his ass. You know Vince "Kiss My Ass Club" McMahon came up with this stipulation. Surprisingly the post-match shenanigans were a hell of a lot more fun than the match itself. *1/2
THE NEW DAY vs. TYSON KIDD & CESARO: Good match. A lot of back-and-forth, non-stop action. The tag team division has produced some good matches in the last year. **1/2
JOHN CENA vs. RUSEV "RUSSIAN CHAIN MATCH": Ugh. What a dumb gimmick. Chained together at the wrist, they have to tag all four corners to win. Meaning...no rope running, no action, no excitement. And next month's "I Quit" match with these two means four straight ppv matches for them. Mercy! 1/2*
NIKKI BELLA vs. NAOMI: Okay. The women's division is a bore and needs all the help it can get...yet this was a stipulation-less match. Sigh. I didn't watch it.
ROMAN REIGNS vs. THE BIG SHOW "LAST MAN STANDING": This was the match of the night. Really. No, I'm not joking. The reason was simple: they broke like seven tables. The finish had Big Show standing on top of the announce table. Roman lept up and speared him and they both crashed through the Spanish announce table. Then Roman flipped the announce table on top of The Big Show and won. Entertaining stuff. Albeit, this is what you have to do when you're not good wrestlers. **1/2
SETH ROLLINS vs. RANDY ORTON "CAGE MATCH": These two had a mediocre match at Wrestlemania so of course they get the coveted main event this month. Makes sense! Totally. With the title on the line it at least made things more suspenseful. And of course, J & J Security and Kane interfered and there was controversy (Rollins used the RKO to win but it was banned). The melee at the end was cool (and a WWE tradition these days in main events) but no one jumped off the cage. It was mediocre. **
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