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The Battle Royal for the IC Title is up now. The entrants are being announced.
Unofficially, it sounded like Sheamus got the biggest pop. Then Bad News came out to address them. Much like people that retire in Florida, it's great until you die. And that means he will Bullhammer your ass when he comes back and take his Title.
They all went after Khali at the start and he powered out. Khali was gone pretty quickly, after X Woods and before Sin Cara. ... They have Damien Sandow dressed as an old person from Florida with garters on his socks. I swear, I am not lying. ... R-Truth got tossed. Axel too. Then Sandow and his garter. That poor dude. See ya Diego. ... Sheamus faced off with Ryback and he got a Brogue to the floor. ... Miz is hiding and attacked Sheamus. It didn't work so he is hiding again on the floor. Bo dumbed Titus, but then got nailed by Cesaro. Kofi almost dusted Cesaro but then got backdropped. Guess what Kofi did? Yes, cheated death yet again. ... ADR had Zig but he got out of the way and then eliminated ADR. Miz is back and tried to get rid of Zig. It didn't work so Miz hit the floor again. Cesaro eliminated Big E. He threw Kofi out but he landed on Big E. That is two Kofi saves. Finally Cesaro drops him and then, out of nowhere gets tossed by Heath Slater (you read that right) who then got dumped by Sheamus. Bo tried to dump Sheamus but it didn't work. Sheamus pounded his chest and then Ziggler ot him off of the apron. It came down to Sheamus and Zig (unless you remembner Miz is still legal, which apparently the announcers don't). Zig and Sheamus went back and forth until Ziggler eliminated him. Guess what happened next? Yep, Miz came out of nowhere and eliminated Ziggler. Yep. He is your new IC champion tha only the announcers forgot about. Oh wait, JBL just said he knew it all along and didn't want to say anything.
Main Event time. I hope they can bring my mood back. This show started really, really well. Since then, ugh (and it's all because of the booking).
Randy Orton came out first. He is JBL's pick. Kane is next. Then Roman. Good pop as he came out of the crowd. And finally, the champ. He got his standard reaction.
Main Event time. I hope they can bring my mood back. This show started really, really well. Since then, ugh (and it's all because of the booking).
Randy Orton came out first. He is JBL's pick. Kane is next. Then Roman. Good pop as he came out of the crowd. And finally, the champ.
They announced them. Orton, decent pop. Kane, almost none. Reigns, babyface. Cena, a Cena pop but more good than bad.
Cena was tossed out early which left Kane and Orton to work on Reigns. Then they tossed Reigns and went to work on Cena. The story is Kane and Orton are working together. ... When it was Reigns' turn to come in and get beat up, Kane went for a cover. That made Orton mad and the went after each other. Cena and Reigns used it to go after the heels. They took them off which let Roman and Cena face off. But then Kane popped up, so the worked together on him again. But that allowed Orton to take out Reigns from behind, and then Cena. Then it was Orton against Kane. They were selling that Triple H was going nuts about this.
After every man for himself mode, it ended up with Cena and Reigns. Cena was in oversell mode, which is OK in this case. Reigns hit the Samoan Drop and went for the Superman Punch but Superman himself countered. As Cena went for the Five Knuckle, he ran into the Superman punch. Reigns hit the Spear and had him but Kane broke it up. ... Roman then went to work on Kane, but also nailed Cena and Orton for good measure. He then speared Orton through the barricade and the fans chanted This Is Awesome. Reigns got back in the ring and went for Kane, but met a chokeslam. Reigns powered out and hit a spear. Cena broke it up. Cena went for Kane's carcass but Reigns stopped him twice. Then Cena stopped him from doing it again. Cena hit the AA on Reigns but Kane made the save. Then Kane his a chokeslam on Roman for a two. Kane did a throat slash and went for the tombstone but Reigns countered with a Spear for a two. Orton broke it up. Then Cena came in and picked Kane's butt and retained the Title. The work was really good. The finish was what it was.
And then Brock Lesnar......didn't appear. But there will be a Battleground Post Game show, unlike after Money In The Bank.
I will probably do a hotline tomorrow. I can't say for sure. I don't know if I see the point honestly. The opener was great. I loved it. And then, things trended down. All of the younger talent I wanted to see elevated before the main event? Nope. Cesaro? Nope. Wyatt? Nope. But hey, those young kids Chris Jericho and The Miz went over. And so did "three men are nothing to me" Cena. If I paid PPV prices for this, I would be ticked.
On the post game show, John Cena just said that is was a Battleground of change. He really did. Oh and the post show just ended, at 10:58 ET. Not much of a show!
On the plus side, I had no problems with the feed, unlike others I have heard from.
Check back throughout the night for more thoughts from tonight's show.
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