Csonka’s Free Match Reviews With New Day, Carmella, & More

Csonka’s Free Match Reviews With New Day, Carmella, & More

OFFICIAL RESULTS
– From Impact XPLOSION: KM defeated Sugar Dunkerton @ 8:20 via pin [**]
– From WWE MITB 2017: Carmella won @ 13:30 [***]
– From WWE MITB 2017: The New Day defeated Champions The Usos @ 12:12 via countout [***¾]

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KM vs. Sugar Dunkerton: Dunkerton is an awesome dude, a lot of fun, and a damn fine wrestler. I’d love to see him become a semi-regular. KM stalls for a bit, allowing Dunkerton to play to the crowd. They lock up and KM overpowers Dunkerton to begin. KM grounds the action and attempts the grapple. Dunkerton dances his way out, hits an arm drag and after some dancing, hits chops and a lucha arm drag. KM cuts him off with a clothesline, and then works him over with corner attacks and kicks. He then works a bear hug, because he hadn’t slowed things down enough yet. Dunkerton escapes, avoids a charge and fire up. The knee strike and basement dropkick follows. Dunkerton heads up top, KM avoids him and then hits a full nelson slam. KM finishes with his pump handle slam for the win. KM defeated Sugar Dunkerton @ 8:20 via pin [**] This was an ok match, with the crowd taking well to Dunkerton. The problem was that it was extremely bland. It’s an XPLOSION match and the star is not only winning, but also usually dominating. And when that comes to KM, it’s slow, bland, and generally lifeless.

Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Charlotte vs. Carmella vs. Becky Lynch vs. Tamina vs. Natalya: Ellsworth is out with Carmella. Tamina runs wild to begin, clearing the ring and looking to climb, but Charlotte cuts her off. Natalya stops her momentum, allowing Tamina to work over Becky and then Carmella. Tamina controls the ring and wedges a ladder in the corner and catapults Natalya into it. She then tosses a ladder onto Becky; Charlotte cuts that off and attacks her with a ladder. Becky and Natalya fight over a ladder, and then take out Tamina with it. Natalya fights back after Becky shoves her down and slams Becky on the ladder. Natalya now looks to climb, almost has it but Charlotte stops her. Natalya kicks her to the mat, but Charlotte then snatches up Natalya, hitting the electric chair drop. Charlotte repositions the ladder, and climbs but Carmella stops that and traps one of Charlotte’s legs in the ladder, and climbs. Charlotte recovers and they trade strikes on top of the ladder. Charlotte grabs for the case, but Tamina shoves the ladder over and Carmella and Charlotte bounce off the ropes. Natalya attacks Tamina with a ladder, Becky is back but Natalya locks in the sharp shooter on her. Everyone brawls and Natalya takes out Charlotte with a butterfly suplex. Becky fires up and works over Natalya with kicks and looks to climb. Carmella cuts that off, and slams Becky into a ladder; Carmella follows with a head scissors. Carmella climbs, but Charlotte stops that and then takes out Becky. Tamina works over Natalya on the floor, Charlotte climbs but Tamina cuts her off and they brawl on the ladder. Charlotte then spears Tamina, who rolls to the floor. She then spears her to the steps, fights off Natalya and then climbs up top and hits a twisting dive onto Tamina & Natalya. Back in and Carmella climbs, but Becky cuts her off and hits a powerbomb. Becky now looks to climb as the crowd is behind her. Ellsworth is in and topples over the ladder. Ellsworth then starts to climb and grabs the case and tosses it to Carmella for the win… Or not as the refs argue over the finish. Ellsworth grabs the mic and announces Carmella as the winner. Carmella won @ 13:30 [***] They had a good match that felt completely ruined by a shit finish as Ellsworth climbed the ladder, and tossed the case to Carmella for the win. You can claim heel heat all you want, but there’s better ways to do it that don’t completely deflate the match. They were doing a lot right, had a hot crowd, no one died and I felt that they were creating some great drama. But I hated the finish, it was the perfect example of taking a match that was not only going really well but also looking to be legit great and turning it into a complete joke. The bottom line is that this was another potentially great WWE PPV match ruined by shit booking. My issue is that it took away from what was working towards a great match, which has been a big issue with WWE PPV this year. They did a rematch days later.

WWE Smackdown Tag Team Title Match: Champions The Usos vs. The New Day (Kofi & Big E) w/Woods: New Day ran wild early, working double teams and Big E hitting his apron splash on one of the Usos. The Usos eventually low bridged Kofi to the floor and then turned him inside out with a lariat. The Usos then suplexed Kofi into the post and took the heat. Good heat by the Usos, keeping Kofi isolated, and mixing in some basic punishment along with some heel shenanigans. Kofi finally got the desperation tag, and Big E ran wild. The big STO followed, and Big E covered for 2. Big E then did his crazy spear through the ropes and to the floor. Blind tag by the Usos, Kofi misses a high cross and they dismantle him knee; tequila sunrise locked in and Big E looks to make the save, suplexing an Uso on the floor. Kofi locks in a dragon sleeper, but gets distracted only to come back and hit the SOS for a near fall. Big E tags in, but Kofi eats a superkick and Big E tries to catch an Uso on the splash, drops him but picks him up and hits the big ending for 2 as the other Uso made the save. Woods distracts the Usos with trombone playing, Big E looks to run wild but the Usos cut him off but he fights back and tosses them to the floor. Kofi hits a huge trust fall dive onto the Usos. Back in, Midnight hour connects, but an Uso pulls his brother to the floor. The Usos take a walk and accept the count out to retain. The New Day defeated Champions The Usos @ 12:12 via countout [***¾] They worked at a great pace, delivered some excellent near falls, but it wasn’t as clean as it needed to be to be great. Overall a very good tag match with a finish to continue the feud (even if it came off a bit flat); there’s still a shelf life with the Usos as tag team champions and New Day didn’t need to win the belts just yet. They dominated for so long, so putting them into position to chase feels fresh for them.

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6.8

The final score: review Average

The 411

This was an overall pretty good collection, with the Usos vs. New Day easily being the standout of the bunch and a fun re-watch.