Csonka Reviews Free Survivor Series Matches With Brock Lesnar, Shawn Michaels, & More (Vol. 5)

Csonka Reviews Free Survivor Series Matches With Brock Lesnar, Shawn Michaels, & More (Vol. 5)

OFFICIAL RESULTS
– From Survivor Series 2002: Big Show defeated Brock Lesnar @ 4:20 via pin [**]
– From Survivor Series 2007: Randy Orton defeated Shawn Michaels @ 17:55 via pin [****½]
– From Survivor Series 2015: The Undertaker and Kane defeated Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper @ 10:15 via pin [**]

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Brock Lesnar vs. Big Show: The crowd is into Lesnar big time. Show attacks the taped up ribs and tosses Lesnar across the ring, but Lesnar hits a spear and they spill to the floor. Show posts Lesnar and attacks the ribs again. Lesnar counters out of the chokeslam with a belly to back suplex. Lesnar follows with a German, and Show didn’t help him much. Show counters theF5 and we get a ref bump. Lesnar then hits an overhead belly-to-belly throw. Heyman slides a chair in, and Lesnar hits Show with the headshot. F5! Heyman pulls out and punches the new ref as Lesnar seemingly had things won. Lesnar is pissed, Heyman is afraid now and runs. Show hits Lesnar with chair shots and the chokeslam on the chair finishes it. Big Show defeated Brock Lesnar @ 4:20 via pin [**] I get what they were going for here, Heyman was worried Lesnar couldn’t win, but when it was obvious Lesnar was going to win, Heyman turned on him anyway. It was solid, because anytime Brock tosses Show around it’s solid fun, and I think the goal was to shock people, but I was never the biggest fan of this turn.

Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels: If Orton gets DQ’d he loses the title, if HBK uses the superkick he gets DQ’d and can never challenge Orton for the WWE Title again. They lock up, headlocks by HBK and into a neck vice. He works Orton down, rolls him and gets a cover for 2. Snap mare, holds on and a cover for 2 by HBK. HBK works the vice, Orton battles out but HBK maintains the hold. Orton slams him to a corner, rights by Orton and he beats HBK down. He slaps him, HBK fakes a superkick and then tackles Orton and delivers rights. HBK gets the rear mount, both hooks in and works the rear naked choke. Nice MMA style work here. Orton works to his knees, then to his feet and HBK switches to a front face lock. HBK maintains control as they are setting a slow pace, possibly to go long. HBK with knees to the head, and Orton to the floor. HBK gets a basement dropkick and fakes a plancha and gets an Asai Monsault to the floor. Back into the ring, HBK up top, cross body, Orton rolls through and gets 2. HBK gets a trip and a sharp shooter on Orton! Right by Orton after the escape and a stunner off the ropes to HBK. Knee drop to the head by Orton, lays the boots to HBK and then the hangman’s DDT in the ropes connects. 1…2…kick out by HBK. Orton gets the body scissors and choke. To their feet they go, chops by HBK and rights by Orton. Off the ropes and a flying forearm by HBK. Kip up and atomic drop by HBK. Rights to Orton, but Orton gets a dropkick to counter the comeback and covers for 2. Orton misses a dropkick, a slam by HBK and up top he goes. ELBOW DROP connects! But he cannot tune up the band! He tunes it up any way…Orton up and HBK fake shim out and rolls him up for 2. Off the ropes and a crucifix blown and Orton falls on HBK for 2. HBK pulls out the crossface, but Orton fights…and gets a boot on the ropes. Orton escapes another try, gets a clothesline and gets a cover for 2. 3.0 back breaker by Orton, he stalks HBK…backs off for the concussion kick. HBK counters and gets the ankle lock! He grapevines the leg and drops down, Orton fights…rolls and kicks out of the hold. Orton is bleeding in the mouth now, HBK now tries a figure four and is kicked to the corner. The RKO is countered and HBK wanted the superkick, hesitates, and an RKO lands and gets the win. Randy Orton defeated Shawn Michaels @ 17:55 via pin [****½] This was an AWESOME match and a huge win for Orton at the time. The work was great, with top tier psychology. Shawn was in Orton’s head after tuning him up with superkicks so many times, which led to him making mistakes. Shawn was smart enough to dig deep into his arsenal, working pretty much any finisher he could think of to try and beat Orton. But at the end of the day, it was HBK going for old reliable, and his hesitation, that allowed Orton to pickup the win. Absolutely tremendous.

The Brothers of Destruction vs. The Wyatt Family: They did a big time entrance for Taker, including fire and those Attitude Era “Undertaker symbols he tried to sacrifice Stephanie” on. This is all in celebration of “25 years of the Undertaker” before a match no one asked for because they already kicked the shit out of these guys. But lets all hope for the best here. Rowan ran in before the bell and got his ass kicked, and ate a double chokeslam. Harper and Wyatt will be the opponents. Taker and Kane controlled early, including Taker hitting old school and the apron leg drop. Strowman eventually got involved and that allowed the Wyatts to get the heat on Kane. After a short heat, Taker got he hot tag and ran wild until Strowman distracted him. He and Kane then attacked Strowman and chokeslammed him through the Spanish Announce table. The Wyatts got a near fall on Taker following a superkick and Sister Abigail combo. Taker and Kane then did the double sit up as Wyatt did his stupid upside down thing, but the crowd loved it. We got double chokeslams and then Harper ate the tombstone and that was all. The Undertaker and Kane defeated Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper @ 10:15 via pin [**] It was pretty much what I expected, Kane and Taker won pretty easily, and the live crowd loved it because they got what they wanted to see. It was fine, but I wouldn’t call it good.

– End scene.

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6.8

The final score: review Average

The 411

The HBK vs. Orton match is awesome and more than worth your time. The other two matches are just ok.