411’s WWE Main Event Report 12.30.14

WWE MAIN EVENT 12.30.14

We start with a recap of Edge and Christian hosting Raw. Seth Rollins threatens Cena with an attack on Edge and Christian. They also recap the Authority returning last night.

Wow, we start off Main Event with Edge and Christian tonight!! We have JBL and Booker T on the announce team tonight as well. Christian introduces Edge. Edge says we don’t need Chimmel for anything anymore. Edge said he could not sleep because of Seth Rollins’ attack. Edge got his lawyers to give him ownership of WWE if Edge or Christian is attacked tonight. Edge and Christian are in charge of both Main Event and Smackdown this week. Tonight, we start with another edition of The Cutting Edge Peep Show.

Christian said Edge steered him the wrong way with the Chicken suit. Edge said tonight’s guest is a full on reekazoid. He welcomes Adam Rose to The Cutting Edge Peep Show. Adam Rose has a mic. Christian welcomes him and says he looks like he hasn’t took a shower in months. Edge asks how Rose got his stunt double. Christian says he’s not sucking on anything, but the people just think he sucks. Rose says he only sucks on lollipops. Rose lists off the flavors he likes. Edge wants to talk about The Exotic Express. Christian says it needs to live up to The Orient Express, The Lex Express, The Midnight Express, and they keep listing them off. Christian asks where the rabbit is.

Rose says they turned from partiers to lemons right now. Rose says he put the Bunny down for good. The Bunny does not deserve to be on The Exotic Express anymore, nor do E & C. Rose says it has a party. E & C say they should not talk about the parties they had in the Attitude era with bunnies. E & C want a 5 second pose with the Rosebuds. Edge says they’ll do what the WWE Universe says. Edge tells Adam Rose to leave. The Rosebuds stay and Adam Rose leaves alone. The crowd chants for them to stay. They remain in the ring. “For the benefit of those with flash photography, we will pose 5 seconds only with the Rosebuds.” Edge and Christian do the classic pose with The Rosebuds. Edge takes his stunt double the puppet with him as they leave the ring.

We get the first look at Charlotte’s 30 second fury extended edition. We will see Charlotte going against Sasha “The Boss” Banks next.

Non-Title Match: Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte(NXT Women’s Champion)
Charlotte runs the ropes, but Sasha pushes her. Charlotte sends her down with a shoulderblock. They avoid each other and leapfrog. Sasha plays to the crowd and gets chopped. Charlotte gets an innovative split roll-up for 1. Charlotte gets another chop. 1..2..kickout. Sasha reverses a whip and hangs Charlotte on the middle post. Sasha jumps up and drops a leaping knee on her midsection. Sasha grabs her head and forces her to a corner. Sasha continues the attack with a foot choke while standing on the top rope. Sasha snapmares Charlotte and slaps her face while doing the Flair strut. 1..2..kickout. Sasha gets a straight jacket choke and drapes her against her knees. Sasha pulls the hair with the straight jacket choke and digs her boot into Charlotte’s back. Sasha also woos to the audience. Charlotte slowly fights to a vertical base and hits a pendulum back breaker. Both women recover and trade punches. Charlotte follows it up with a clothesline and chop. Charlotte lifts her for a vertical suplex. Sasha leaps over and gets a falling neckbreaker. Charlotte goes for a moonsault and misses, but transitions right into a falling senton flip. 1..2..kickout. Sasha fights back and hits a straight jacket neckbreaker. The crowd suddenly gets into both women cheering for Sasha and Charlotte. Sasha goes for a sunset flip and is caught in a Crash Thunder Buster. Charlotte hits that and follows it up with The Natural Selection. 1..2..3.

OFFICIAL RESULT: Charlotte @ 5:00 via pin
MATCH THOUGHTS: What a surprise, they give both women time and the crowd enjoyed the match. This was good as you would expect from these two. Both women impressed the crowd. This was the perfect match to start the show. Both ladies did great work! I only wish it got more time.

Santino is partying backstage with Erick Rowan.

Titus has a mic before the next match. Titus does not make New Year resolutions, but he guarantees them. 2015 is the year for the Gator. Titus might not bark. Titus does bite.

Titus O’Neil vs. Justin Gabriel
Gabriel avoids Titus and hits a few forearms. Gabriel backflips over Titus and runs into a stiff chop. Gabriel hits a dropkick afterwards. Titus retreats for a moment, before Gabriel makes a mistake going out after him. Titus hits a stiff lariat on Gabriel. They run into the ring and Gabriel is leveled with another lariat. He goes a 360 on the sell. Titus keeps Gabriel grounded in a chinlock. Titus lifts Gabriel hitting a few ribbreakers. After that, he tosses him aside. Titus covers him. 1..2..kickout. Titus hits some chops and wrenches the chin of Gabriel. Titus continues to grab at Gabriel’s face. He brings him back to his feet throwing him into a corner. Titus hits some clubbing blows. Gabriel slowly fights back with some kicks. Gabriel goes up top and hits a double foot stomp. He hits a springboard dropkick. 1..2..kickout. Gabriel returns to the top before being met by a giant kick. Titus hits him with a Clash of the Titus from the top. 1..2..3.

OFFICIAL RESULT: Titus O’Neil @ 4:00 via pin
MATCH THOUGHTS: This match wasn’t as good as the last. Nevertheless, Gabriel made Titus look fantastic. Gabriel sold everything perfectly, and Titus hit all his power moves nicely. This was a decent short match to make Titus look dominant in victory. The only issue is that they never follow up on it.

They show Daniel Bryan’s promo from last night. Daniel Bryan showed amazing emotion and announced he was entering the 2015 Royal Rumble!!

R-Truth joins the Rowan and Santino party. R-Truth ends up leaving quickly.

Edge and Christian have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the WWE due to what happened on Raw.

Non-Title Match: Dust Brothers (Goldust and Stardust) vs. The Usos (Jimmy and Jey Uso, World Tag Team Champions)
Goldust starts things off with Jey. Goldust hits a reverse atomic drop. Jey fights away and makes a tag. Jimmy is in, but Goldust pounds him into the mat. Stardust is tagged in and hits a leaping forearm. Stardust continues to attack with strikes until Jimmy hits a dropkick. Jimmy makes a tag to Jey and they hit a double team leaping forearm. Jey grounds Stardust and hits his head into the turnbuckle. Jimmy is tagged back in and they work the arm. Stardust starts to block some punches to no avail. Jimmy throws him into a corner. Jey accidently hits Jimmy in the back for some reason. Goldust tries to do the same thing, but is hit with a whisper in the wind. We go to a commercial break.

We return with The Dust Brothers back in control. Stardust starts punching Jey. Jey blocks and comes back with some chops. Jey runs off the barricade, but Stardust counters by leaping to the steel steps and hitting a dropkick. Jimmy tries to help Jey recover. The count out reaches 8 before Jey gets back in the ring. Stardust immediately drags Jey to Goldust. Goldust is tagged in and starts stomping Jey down. The Dust Brothers continue the tag team onslaught. Stardust continues attacking with stomps. Stardust starts targeting the ankle with a stomp and follows it with a chinlock. Jey fights out with a jawbreaker. Stardust quickly ends his momentum leading to another tag. Goldust keeps Jey grounded. The network feed cuts out momentarily. I return to Jey getting caught in a spinebuster. Goldust says that was one for Booker T. at ringside. Stardust quickly scales the ropes only to be hit in the midsection with a punch. The crowd comes alive for the Usos. Jimmy is in hitting clothesline. Jimmy hits a superkick and a high elevated samoan drop. Jimmy hits the running hip attack and superkicks Stardust as well. Jimmy runs right into a snap scoop powerslam. 1..2..pinfall broken up. Jimmy goes for the flying uso, but Goldust attacks. Jimmy rolls him up. 1..2..kickout. Stardust accidently dropkicks Goldust in the face. The Usos make a tag and hit the flying splash. 1..2..3.

OFFICIAL RESULT: The Usos @ 13:00 via pinfall
MATCH THOUGHTS: I’m not sure why they are playing up the dissention between The Dust Brothers again. The match was fine though. These two have good chemistry and always have a good match if nothing else.

FINAL THOUGHTS: The Sasha Banks and Charlotte match made the show for me. The NXT wrestlers always make the best of being on the big stage. Both women got the crowd into it by the end and had a good match as someone can in five minutes. The opening E & C segment was pretty good, but maybe a little too long. The last 2 matches were fine, but nothing overly spectacular. Titus has been squashed so much; it is hard to take his victories seriously. They also continued to play up dissention between brothers. A good edition of Main Event that is worthwhile. Thanks to all who read this recap!!