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411’s WWE Main Event Report 10.02.13
It’s that time again. This is the most important report on the internet that covers Main Event and is on 411mania. I’m Michael Benjamin and here we go.
WWE Championship Roll Call:
WWE Champion: VACANT
World Champion: Alberto Del Rio
IC Champion: Curtis Axel
US Champion: Dean Ambrose
Unified Diva’s Champion: AJ Lee
WWE World Tag Team Champions: Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns
– Alex Riley and Josh Mathews are on commentary.
– Sandow with a mic on top of the ramp. He makes jokes about dumb people like Santino. He’s King of the Stupid. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I used to look forward to his promos but they’re getting to be repetitive and monotonous at this point in my opinion.
We’re back. Sandow’s in control with a headlock. Santinio tries to suplex his way out to no avail. Sandow tosses Santino back to the outside. Santino continues to bring the pummeling to Santino before locking in another headlock. Santino tries to suplex his way out again but Sandow falls on top of him with a lateral press for two. He smashes Santinos head against the turnbuckle and he’s hulking up. Sandow punches him and hits the Elbow of Disdain for two. Another punch and some shit talking from Sandow. He screams “uncrowned champion” to a chorus of canned heat. Sandow charges at Santino who was picking himself up in the corner and Santino fights back with his duck, hiptoss, headbutt routine. Out comes the cobra and Sandow bails. Santino chases him in the classic heel/face run around the ring. He steps on Santino’s hand as he tries getting in the ring and pulls the sock off. He hits The Silencer for the victory.
Get rid of the stalling and rest holds, get rid of a segment, and you have a quick comedy squash that would have worked. This was pretty mundane for being the Main Event opener.
OFFICIAL RESULT Damien Sandow @ 7:46 via pinfall
RATING: *1/2
– We get a Cole/Trips interview. Cole asks him about how he’s mocked Big Show and if it’s how a COO should conduct himself. Sometimes you have to go to an extreme is what Triple H says. He asks if Big Show is the only one with personal issues and mortgage? He’s not. Everybody has problems. Nobody wants to see a giant come out every week and blubber about it. He’s trying to show him how ridiculous he looks. Smackdown will be the first time since Monday that they’ll be under the same roof. (No shit?) Triple H isn’t worried because they’re both professionals. He’s getting a main event match and a main event payoff in a handicap match against The Shield. It’s best for business. If it’s best for Show, it’s best for business. Another addition to a great series of interviews that is really serving its purpose. The way Triple H defends himself and justifies everything he does is heel 101.
SQUASH. A pretty decent one though. Harper and Rowan are far more entertaining with the chaotic yet minimal in ring style than Wyatt is. This was a good showing for them. I would have liked to see this on first with the two segments to really establish the hot tags and heat segments better.
OFFICIAL RESULT: The Wyatt Family @ 4:17 via pinfall
RATING: *1/4
Glorified squash. A rather dull squash at that. Ryder got in too much offense for my liking but it is what it is. None of this really mattered. It was just a lazy way to get Axel on screen before his heavily anticipated match with R-Truth at Battleground.
OFFICIAL RESULT: Curtis Axel @ 3:48 aired via pinfall
RATING: *1/4
– They air a Raw Rebound recounting the Rhodes saga and taking us through the segment on Monday. The Shield vs. The Rhodes is definitely an interesting match on paper.
This was a very fun match. It had around the same amount of time as the previous two matches but was worked well and filled with some fun spots. Antonio Cesaro made that match quite the little treat to watch after sitting through an otherwise uninteresting show.
OFFICIAL RESULT: The Real Americans @ 4:28 via pinfall
RATING: **1/4
OVERALL: This is the definition of a throwaway show. Four match episodes of Main Event are usually pretty bad. When Santino is in your longest match of the night, it pretty much guarantees that I’m going to recommend a skip. The Real Americans vs. Tons of Funk was plenty of fun but not worth your time to check out. I’ll see you on Friday with the Smackdown Report. Thank you for reading.
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