Csonka Reviews This Week’s Free WWE Matches With Asuka, The Miz, & More

Csonka Reviews This Week’s Free WWE Matches With Asuka, The Miz, TLC, & More

OFFICIAL RESULTS
– From NXT TakeOver: Respect: Asuka defeated Dana Brooke @ 5:30 via submission [**½]
– From NXT TakeOver: Dallas: Asuka defeated Champion Bayley @ 15:25 via technical submission to become the NEW champion! [***¾]
– From WWE TLC 2016: Champion The Miz defeated Dolph Ziggler @ 25:15 [***¾]

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Asuka vs. Dana Brooke: Emma is out with Brooke. Brooke look to work the arm, but Asuka is way to fast for her and easily escapes. Brooke makes the mistake of patting Asuka on the head and slapping her. Asuka lights her up with kicks and the hip attack, before mocking Brooke. They tirade strikes, and Asuka tries to rip off Brooke’s arm. Brooke makes the ropes, and pays for it as Asuka lights her up with kicks. Emma gets involved, allowing Brooke to attack and cover for 2. Brooke works her over in the corner, and then grounds her with a body scissors. Asuka quickly counters out and hits a German. She then gets a jumping arm bar, Brooke fights so Asuka hits her with a head kick and takes out Emma. The Asuka lock follows and she drops to the mat and Brooke has to tap. Asuka defeated Dana Brooke @ 5:30 via submission [**½] While the match was pretty average overall, I felt that this was an overall very good debut for Asuka, who largely dominated, showed that she was on another level as compared to the rest of the women from a pure work & execution standpoint. Brooke provided a good heel foil for her, and also had one of her better performances (at the time) in my opinion. She had some confidence here, which has been slowly disintegrated since her arrival on the main roster.

Champion Bayley vs. Asuka: There is a great dynamic here with Bayley as the never quit champion, and Asuka as the silent killer that destroyed previous foes. I think that overall they had a high quality, and well-worked match as far as the work went. I liked a lot of what they were doing, how they got thee and felt both worked very hard to make it work. S they neared the end, I dug the anger Bayley showed. She shows emotion, she shows fire but she rarely gets mad. Bayley also digging deep to escape the submissions and go for roll ups and such to survive and retain was also well done and made sense. Asuka tried for the Asuka lock, Bayley fought, but Asuka spun her and pulled her to the mat and Bayley fought, got to her feet but was pulled back down and while she fought, Bayley passed out and we have a new champion. Bayley is the hero, she should not have tapped, so this was the way to go. Asuka defeated Champion Bayley @ 15:25 via technical submission to become the NEW champion! [***¾] I really liked this, it was very good, but just not great; it was missing something to put it over the top for me. I hope for a rematch, because while this was very good, I feel they can do even better. And they did in Brooklyn.

WWE Intercontinental Title Ladder Match: Champion The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler: They brawled right away, teased signature stuff and then fought to the floor. Good intensity to start here, with Ziggler slamming Miz into a ladder. Ziggler tried to crush Miz’s head in the ladder, but Miz hit the drop toehold, sending Ziggler crashing into the ladder. Miz dropkicked a ladder into Ziggler. Thy fought over a ladder on the floor, shoving it into each other as they fought for control, which led to Ziggler hitting a tornado DDT onto the ladder. Back in the ring, Miz took control, using the ladder to punish Ziggler. Miz looked for a suplex off of a ladder bridge, got shoved of and Ziggler hit the elbow drop off the ladder. Ziggler slammed Miz into the ladder, grabbed another and climbed but Miz stopped him. Ziggler dumped him to the floor, climbed but Miz tipped over the ladder with Ziggler bouncing off the ropes. Miz grabbed a ladder, he slammed it into Ziggler and mocked Bryan and hit shotgun dropkicks into the ladder. Ziggler shoved the ladder into Miz to start his comeback. Ziggler looked to climb, Miz joined him and they fought back and forth and Miz gets knocked to the mat. Mia then attacked the knee of Ziggler, wrapping it up in the ladder. Miz then hit the Flair knee breaker onto the ladder and kept attacking the knee, slamming it onto the ladder again before sandwiching it into the ladder. Miz then applied a figure four in the ladder, just being a general dick as he attacked the knee. Miz then countered a superkick, hitting the skull-crushing finale onto the ladder. Miz climbed, Ziggler shoved the ladder and Miz hung for a minute and then fell onto the ladder and yelled MOTHER FUCKER as he landed. Miz rolled to the floor, Ziggler climbed slowly and had to hop as Miz returned to stop him. Sling shot powerbomb by Miz onto the ladder bridge. Miz tried to fire up and climb, set up an extra ladder, Miz hopped up to climb, Ziggler up as well and they battled for the belt. Ziggler worked head butts to send Miz to the mat. Miz again climbed and low blowed Ziggler twice, sending him to the mat. Miz grabs the belt and retains. Champion The Miz defeated Dolph Ziggler @ 25:15 [***¾] I felt they had a very good match here, playing into their feud well and Miz winning by playing to the rules of the match, while still being a complete asshole, but it wasn’t their best outing together during their feud.

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