411’s WWE Main Event Report 1.13.15

WWE MAIN EVENT 1.13.15

Dust Brothers (Stardust and Goldust) vs. Los Matadores (Fernando and Diego) with El Torito
Fernando starts the match off with Goldust. Goldust attacks Torito allowing Fernando to take advantage. Stardust quickly tags himself in and gets clotheslined down. Fernando slams his head into the post. Fernando and Stardust trade whips and Goldust distracts him. Stardust takes advantage with a springboard dropkick. Goldust gets tagged in and throws Fernando into the barricade. Goldust covers. 1..2..kickout. They make another tag and Stardust stomps Fernando down. Stardust hits a cartwheel fist drop. Stardust takes him down with a snapmare and catches him in a reverse full nelson. The crowd gets behind Fernando who fights back. Stardust ends his momentum quickly with a throat thrust. Both men get tags and Diego hits the springboard forearm. He follows it up with some springboard back elbows. Diego connects on a drop toe hold and diving rope guillotine. Diego gets apron sunset flip. 1..2..kickout. Stardust distracts him. Torito gets on the apron and Goldust brings him in. Goldust threatens Torito and Torito hits a headscissors. Diego rolls Goldust up while he is distracted. 1..2..3.

OFFICIAL RESULT: Los Matadores @ 4:00 via pin
MATCH THOUGHTS: That ending doesn’t make sense because Torito attacking Goldust should lead to a disqualification. Nonetheless, this match was every other Dust Brothers Matadores match. It was decent but maybe a little too short.

Santino’s Royal Rumble Lottery Spectacular will be on the Network next week at 8 pm.

The Ascension is out and they have a mic. “Some people are upset that we compare ourselves to greatest tag teams of the past. Like the Road Warriors. Truthfully, there are no great tag teams of the past. There is one tag team of the future, The Ascension. Welcome to the wasteland.

The Ascension (Konor and Viktor) vs. Unknown Jobbers
Viktor corners one of them and pounds him into a pulp. He quickly makes a tag leading to some dominant pounding. Viktor hits some uppercuts and clotheslines him to the ouside. Konor is tagged in and throws him into each barricade. Konor hits the other man off the apron and clotheslines the legal man down. Konor grabs him by the hair and tags in Viktor. They hit Nuclear Fallout and Fall of Man follows. 1..2..3.

OFFICIAL RESULT: The Ascension @ 2:00 via pin
MATCH THOUGHTS: JBL seems to be burying the Ascension, which is a surefire way of getting an act over. I do like their double team moves, but they probably should not talk so much on the microphone. I would say they should probably say welcome to the wasteland (which seems to be a Fallout reference) and nothing else. They should let their dominance do the talking. Hopefully, they get a chance to succeed because they feel like a true old-school tag team.

Daniel Bryan will be returning on Smackdown this Thursday against Kane.

We get a recap of Seth Rollins and John Cena’s match from Raw. Then, we get a recap of the contract signing from last night.

Rusev and Lana make their way to the ring.

Non-Title Match: Rusev(United States Champion) with Lana vs. Justin Gabriel
Gabriel keeps avoiding Rusev as the crowd chants USA despite Gabriel not being American. Eventually, Rusev corners him and tries to slam him around. Gabriel fights out and hits some chops. He hits some leg kicks to chop down the big guy. Rusev simply catches his kick and pushes him away. Gabriel keeps avoiding and attacking. Rusev catches him with a head kick. Rusev throws him back in the ring and drops some elbows. Rusev hits a few headbutts and grounds Gabriel with a head and arm choke. Gabriel tries to fight out but Rusev transitions it into a cobra clutch. Gabriel tries to fight out to no avail. Rusev keeps attacking with headbutts. Gabriel gets some moment with a jawbreaker. He connects on a double foot stomp to the head. Gabriel hits a springboard forearm and the crowd comes alive. Gabriel hits some punches and goes for a springboard moonsault. Rusev catches him in a powerbomb. Rusev locks on the accolade. Gabriel taps out quickly. Rusev keeps it locked on after the bell.

OFFICIAL RESULT: Rusev @ 4:00 via pinfall
MATCH THOUGHTS: Gabriel got some token offense. This was more competitive than I figured, but entertaining nonetheless. Rusev got a dominant victory, and Gabriel looked intelligent in trying to hit and run. This match was very logical and made Rusev look great.

Rusev yakuza kicks Gabriel down after the match just to be a jerk in a nice touch.

Now, we get the Macho Man hall of fame introduction highlight package.

The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, and Big E) vs. Adam Rose, Tyson Kidd, and Cesaro with The Exotic Express and Natalya
Tyson is wearing his headphones all the way into the ring this time. Rose starts things off with Kofi. They circle a little bit and neither man gains the advantage. They trade go behinds and Rose gets an arm ringer. Kofi flips out of it into a reversal and splash. 1..2..kickout. Rose connects on a knee to the midsection. Tyson is in, but Kofi hiptosses him. Big E is tagged in and they hit a slingshot body avalanche. Big E lifts Xavier as they make another tag and he splashes Tyson. 1..2..kickout. Tyson whips Xavier who kicks him in the head. Xavier hits a leaping clothesline. 1..2..kickout. They start trading leg kicks and Tyson whips Xavier into the heel corner. His head is driven into the post and he is laid out. Rose is tagged back in and slams Xavier’s back into the apron. The feed freezes for a moment, but I don’t miss anything. Rose throws him in and another tag leads to Cesaro. A slingshot uppercut tandem move hits on Xavier. 1..2..kickout. Cesaro grounds him by grabbing the face. We go to a commercial break.

We return with Rose controlling Xavier. The New Day tries to get the crowd into it. Xavier counters a suplex attempt into a small package. 1..2..kickout. Rose makes another tag and Tyson is in. Cesaro grabs the throat and face of Xavier while the referee is distracted. Cesaro is tagged in and they drape his throat against the ropes. Cesaro hits a running dropkick. Tyson makes Natalya give him a kiss. Cesaro throws in Xavier. 1..2..kickout. Cesaro keeps Xavier down and hits Big E off the apron. This distraction allows Xavier a chance to comeback. Xavier hits a kick to the head. Cesaro makes a tag as does Xavier. Kofi is on fire taking out everyone with forearms and dropkicks. Tyson is hit with a flying forearm smash. Kofi hits the New Day boom drop. Tyson lands in a corner and Kofi hits the Elijah Express the running knee attack. Rose distracts Kofi, but Tyson is still caught with a springboard crossbody. 1..2..kickout. Cesaro is tagged in. Kofi leaps up high for a cross body, but Cesaro met him with a beautiful uppercut. 1..2..kickout. Cesaro kicks Big E off the apron again. Cesaro gets the Big Swing and Tyson dropkicks his head. 1..2..pinfall broken up. Xavier gets thrown to the outside. Cesaro is caught in a Kofi small package. 1..2..kickout. Big E is tagged into the action. Big E hits some clotheslines and hits a one-armed backbreaker on Tyson. Big E connects on a belly-to-belly suplex and the warrior splash on both men. Big E lifts Cesaro and Rose makes a blind tag. Big E throws Rose into the ring. Big E hits a few belly-to-belly suplexes. 1..2..pinfall broken up. Xavier hits the Code Red on Cesaro. Kidd kicks Xavier right in the jaw. Kofi hits trouble in paradise on Tyson. Cesaro suplexes Kofi to the outside from the apron. Big E slams him off and Rose hits a spinebuster. 1..2..kickout. Big E kicks out and hits a few running lariats. The New Day meets in the middle of the ring and hits two suicide dives and the spear through the middle rope. Big E lifts Rose and they connect on midnight hour. 1..2..3.

OFFICIAL RESULT: The New Day @ 9:00 via pin
MATCH THOUGHTS: This was the match of the night by far. WWE may be lacking in many areas currently, but six-man tags are not one of them. This was a very fun, easy to watch six-man tag. I liked both teams’ work in this one. This one picked up with just enough time and sped up quickly leading to some awesome sequences.

FINAL THOUGHTS: The opening tag was what you would expect with Los Matadores and The Dust Brothers. The Ascension squash was decent, but I do not understand why they have JBL basically burying The Ascension. The jobbers didn’t even get a nameplate, which makes the jobbers look worse than usual. Rusev and Gabriel had a short energetic match. The six-man tag main event was awesome and made the entire show worthwhile. I only wish they would have cut one of the other matches to give more time to the six-man tag. Nevertheless, this was a decent edition of Main Event, and thank you to any and all who read this recap! Feel free to give your thoughts on Main Event as well in the comments section!