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WWE House Show Results 5.29.15 – Raleigh, North Carolina

May 30, 2015 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

Credit: PW.net

Attendance was roughly 6,000, and the upper section has the curtains over it. There were still people filing in at bell time. Lots of kids in the audience. This is my first house show in years so I’m impressed with the steel cage hanging over the ring.

King Barrett was out first to good heel heat and demands the crowd to “hail King Barrett” and gets ill when they don’t. He delivered the “bad news” line when asking if Raleigh wanted to see him get beat up. He issued an open challenge, which Neville accepted.

1. Neville pinned King Barrett. Neville won in about 12 minutes after Red Arrow. Good back and forth match that the crowd enjoyed. Nicely done. After the match Kane attacked Neville on the entrance stage. He announced Rusev’s injury to the audience and said he would take his place in the main event cage match.

Tyler Breeze was out next with Summer Rae(?). They cut heel promos and berated the crowd for not being good looking. Damien Sandow was out next as himself to new music.

2. Damien Sandow beat Tyler Breeze by DQ. Sandow won by DQ when Heath Slater interfered about two minutes into the match. Axelmania comes out for the save, and challenged Breeze and Slater to a handicap match. Yes, they accepted.

3. The Meta Powers beat Tyler Breeze and Heath Slater. About sevn minutes into the match and with Breeze and Axel down, Macho Mandow made the save. He cleared Breeze from the ring and Axelmania hits the big leg on Slater to win in nine minutes.

A Warrior Award/Connor the Crusher video aired to a good pop. Classy stuff by WWE.

New Day was out to a decent pop. Nobody here knows they’re heels as a majority of the crowd was clapping with them at first, then Xavier Woods heeled them out by leading them in an instructional clapping session. Tyson Kidd and Cesaro were out next. Cesaro pimped Elimination Chamber and the tag title match, but seemed to forget that he was actually in one tonight. Harper and Rowan made their entrance. The ring announcer said it would be an elimination match for the straps.

4. New Day defeated Tyson Kidd & Cesaro and Luke Harper & Erick Rowan in an elimination match to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship. Kidd pinned Rowan in about 17 minutes with a rollup. Rowan and Harper eliminated, but they took cheap shots at Kidd and Big E before heading to the back. New Day won the match in about 23 minutes after Kofi rolled up Cesaro. Woods cheap-shotted Cesaro with the referee’s back turned. Kidd and Cesaro delivered two giant swing/dropkick combos on New Day after the match to send us to intermission.

5. Paige beat Naomi. Naomi was out first after intermission to no heat, followed by her Paige to a good response. Paige pinned Naomi in about nine minutes with Rampaige. OK match, nothing to write home about.

6. Zack Ryder beat Bo Dallas. Bo acknowledged the Entourage stuff with Ryder from Raw, as well as his loss to Cena. According to Bo, all Ryder needs to do is Bo-lieve. Ryder pinned Dallas in eight minutes. Bo missed the Bo-Dog and took a Rough Ryder. Nicely worked match. There was a brief intermission after this match to set up the cage.

7. U.S. Champion John Cena beat Kane in a cage match to retain the U.S. Championship. There was a double ref bump ten minutes in. Kane accidentally kicked the cage door into one ref’s face while the ref inside the cage took a weak bump from Kane’s foot while Cena was attempting an AA. Cena eventually climbed over the top of the cage to win the match in 13 minutes to send the crowd home happy while Kane was trying to escape through the door.

Match of the Night: King Barrett vs. Neville

Worst Worked Match: Meta Powers vs. Slater/Breeze

Biggest Pops
1. Cena by a mile
2. Axelmania saving Sandow from Slater and Breeze
3. Kidd & Cesaro
4. Neville hitting Red Arrow
5. Paige/New Day’s entrance (tie)

Most Heat
1. King Barrett
2. Kane attacking Neville after his match
3. Xavier Woods and New Day heeling out the crowd after they initially cheered them
4. Bo Dallas
5. Kane

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