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Csonka’s WWE Main Event Review 1.19.18

January 21, 2018 | Posted by Larry Csonka
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Csonka’s WWE Main Event Review 1.19.18  

Csonka’s WWE Main Event Review 1.19.18

OFFICIAL RESULTS
– Rhyno defeated Curt Hawkins @ 5:35 via pin [**¼]
– Mustafa Ali defeated TJP @ 9:21 via pin [***]


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Rhyno vs. Curt Hawkins: Slater is out with Rhyno, although I don’t think he’ll be needed. Rhyno controls early, working a side headlock and hitting a shoulder block. A clothesline follows, and then some chops. Hawkins begs off, says he’s losing to lose and lays down for Rhyno. Rhyno goes to cover, but Hawkins rolls him up for 2 and then bails to the floor. Rhyno chases, and back in Hawkins cuts him off and lays in strikes. Hawkins takes the heat hitting an elbow drop and suplex, covering for 2. Hawkins keeps control and lays the boots to Rhyno, and works a chinlock. Knee strikes and clubbing blows to the back follow, but Rhyno cuts him off with a TKO. Rhyno follows with clotheslines, and the corner spear. The belly-to-belly gets 2. Hawkins battles back, hitting a belly to back suplex for 2. The clothesline connects, and Hawkins again covers for 2. Hawkins sets, charges and runs into the spinebuster and Rhyno wins. Rhyno defeated Curt Hawkins @ 5:35 via pin [**¼] The streak lives as Hawkins falls to 0-157. This was the typical ok match from Hawkins, nothing wrong with it, the crowd was solidly into it, but there’s just nothing to really see as the losses all run together.

– Back to Raw for Braun Rampage on Raw. JIP as Braun arrives to tell us a story about winning the title at the Rumble. Kurt Angle, flanked by security arrives. He says Braun’s actions from last week were unacceptable; he almost killed people and cost them thousands of dollars in damage. Braun doesn’t give a shit, because he was just doing his job. Braun says they settle things in the ring on raw, but Braun says he does what he wants, when he wants, and how he wants. If he wants to rip suplex city apart or knock the door to hell down the way to winning the Universal title. Angle then fires Braun, pulling him from the triple threat at the Rumble. Angle leaves and Braun follows with the security behind him, politely asking him to stop. While it’s nice to see that nearly killing people had consequences, just the thought of Kane vs. Lesnar one on one is horrifying. Later on, Braun heads into the arena. He scares commentary away, but grabs Cole before he can escape. Angle tries to stop him, telling him to call off the cops and says Stephanie re-hired him. Braun grabs Cole anyway and tosses him off the stage onto the pile of security goofs. Thankfully he’d be rehired later on in the evening. You can read my Raw Review at this link.

– Back to SMACKDOWN for US Title Tournament coverage, featuring Roode vs. Mahal. JIP as Roode heads up top, hits a high cross, but Mahal rolls through for 2. They work to the corner, Roode hits a knee, clothesline and then hits a blockbuster for 2. Mahal fights off the DDT, and cradles Roode for 2. They work into a double down now. Roode then catches Mahal with a spinebuster. Mahal looks for the khallas, but Roode counters into he DDT and wins the title. Bobby Roode defeated Jinder Mahal via pin [**½] They set the stage for the match and layout of it with the Roode vs. Mojo match, and post match attack by the Singhs. In theory that should have given Mahal A lot of heat and allowed the crowd to be extra sympathetic towards Roode. In theory. They ended up having a solid match, Roode sold well, but after 18-minutes of Mahal earlier tonight, it was ready hard to watch his slow, bland, and boring offense again. He’s just so lifeless on offense, like a robot making mean faces, pretending to be a bad guy. Mahal still hasn’t evolved as a performer, and tonight’s matches showed that despite giving him a lot of time and control, he just can’t fill it properly. To me it just proved that Styles pulled him dragging and screaming to good matches. You can read my Smackdown Review at this link.

TJP vs. Mustafa Ali: TJP recently returned to 205 live, losing two weeks in a row and transitioning into a crybaby that throws fits when he loses. They work a fast paced opening stretch, with some nice counters, but neither guy able to take the advantage. TJP slaps Ali, and Ali fires up and hits arm drams and kicks, covering for 2. Ali then looks for a high cross, misses, and that allows TJP to lay the boots to him and take control. They work to the floor, and TJP slams Ali off the barricade. Post break, and TJP hits the senton atomico, maintaining control. TJP then grounds the action, looking to work his submission game and also goes for covers. The side Russian leg sweep follows, and TJP covers for 2. TJP stuns TJP of the ropes, and follows with a springboard forearm, which gets 2. Ali starts to fight back, connects with elbows and a dropkick. Ali picks up the pace, hitting strikes and the rolling x-factor, and TJP kicks out at 2. Ali sets TJP up top, follows him up but TJP fights him off and hits a dropkick to the knee. Ali keeps fighting, but is having issues standing. He slowly makes his way up top, but TJP pulls him off and locks in the knee bar and Ali fights and makes the ropes. Ali trips up TJP and scores a desperation cradle for the comeback win. Mustafa Ali defeated TJP @ 9:21 via pin [***] While nothing great, this was a good match and one of the better Main Event matches in a while. They got time to work, set things up well, TJP did nice work attacking the knee, but Ali is a great resilient babyface and picked up the comeback win, keeping TJP on the losing side of things. Poor TJP…

– They show us the Goldberg Hall of fame announcement…

– Back to Raw for Balor vs. Rollins. JIP as Rollins heads up top and has to roll through on the Phoenix splash. Balor hits the shotgun dropkick, heads up top but Rollins runs up, hits the superplex and rolls through, doing the deal with a falcon arrow for 2. Rollins back up top now, but the high fly flow eats knees and Balor rolls him up for 2. Sheamus & Cesaro arrive now. They brawl with Jordan & The Good Brothers. Balor wipes out the pile with a dive. Back in and he hits the enziguri and the double stomp misses as Rollins moved. Jordan trips up Balor and Rollins goes old school with the black out (curb stomp) for the win. Seth Rollins defeated Finn Balor via pin [***¼] They play up that Balor had Rollins pinned and that the referee made a mistake post match. This was an overall good match, with a particularly strong second half, and was easily the best thing on Raw. It was interesting to see Rollins bust out the black out, I wonder if that was his character showing desperation, or a hint at a heel turn, where he wants to win at all costs. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. You can read my Raw Review at this link.

– End scene.

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6.5
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The 411
This week’s episode of WWE Main Event was slightly better than the recent weeks. The cruiserweights actually getting more than 4-minutes was part of that, as TJP & Mustafa Ali actually had a match that felt like it was not only fun but worth the watch. The rest was the same old, solid highlights of the major happenings on Raw & Smackdown, along with the greatest streak in combat sports continuing…
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