NEVILLE & THE LUCHA DRAGONS vs. THE ASCENSION & STARDUST: This was on the pre-show. Rightly so. Neville is kind of fun. The Lucha Dragons are mildly amusing. The other team, collectively known as The Cosmic Wasteland, is not. The Cosmic Wasteland sounds like a bad 90's Rob Liefeld idea. Right? * (out of ****)
KEVIN OWENS vs. RYBACK: I actually liked this match. I guess because Owens has been one of the top guys these past few months in the WWE. They also had a fast pace which was good. Owens won the IC title here. **1/2
DOLPH ZIGGLER vs. RUSEV: Eh. Supposedly these two had been putting on good house show matches lately. You couldn't really tell. Pretty dull stuff. *
THE NEW DAY vs. THE DUDLEY BOYZ: The Dudley Boyz (is it with a s or z?) were cool when they came out as a surprise on the RAW after Summerslam. Now, though, a month later...any excitement they can generate has pretty much nullified. The New Day are a great, fun, fresh team. They kept the titles on a DQ. It was pretty bad, actually. *
NIKKI BELLA vs. CHARLOTTE: Hmmm. So Sasha Banks and Bayley had a phenomenal match last month at the big NXT show in Brooklyn. This was ten times worse. Charlotte was decent in NXT but just isn't all that entertaining on the big stage. Nikki Bella is a pretty girl and a bad wrestler. So you get this slow, plodding, mediocre match. Why the women's NXT matches are so great and the WWE's women's matches are so poor has to baffle millions. *
CHRIS JERICHO, DEAN AMBROSE & ROMAN REIGNS vs. THE WYATT FAMILY: The best part of this match was before the match when everyone was in the ring awaiting Ambrose and Reign's mystery partner. A fan dressed as a Shield member ran into the ring and stood behind Ambrose and Reigns until security ran in and pulled him out. Ambrose, off mic, said that was their mystery partner. Bray Wyatt, off mic, laughed and pointed and said is that your partner? Their partner ended up being Jericho, who lost the match for them. For whatever reason this match was flat and felt like a RAW match. *1/2
JOHN CENA vs. SETH ROLLINS: Match of the night! Cena, really, surprisingly, has been in some really good matches all year. Crazy. I used to loathe him. Rollins was great here, too. Back-and-forth with a clean finish. It worked. Cena won the U.S. title that he lost last month. ***
SETH ROLLINS vs. STING: Rollins retained the World title. Or whatever it's called these days. Let's face facts; Sting is too old to be wrestling. The match was slow, mostly boring. The crowd only got into it when Sting cinched on his Scorpion Death Lock. Sting did get thrown through the Spanish announce table. He also stopped mid-match while the ringside doctor looked him over which was weird. After Rollins won clean, Sheamus ran down to cash in his MITB contract but Kane came out to thwart him. Kane is...back? Groan. *
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