![]() ![]() WWE had a similar issue with a crowd obsessing over tables at their last premium live event. Worse yet, this even carried over to the main event when the crowd popped for heel Seth Rollins pulling out a table. It got him booed and would have been a great idea had Corbin known that Moss was going to pull out a table later in the match, but that wasn’t the plan. Corbin is a good heel, but he made a big mistake when he taunted the crowd by teasing that he was going to pull a table out from underneath the ring. The match was decent and simply went on longer than it needed to. Madcap Moss in a No Holds Barred match: WWE got it half right when Moss returned on Smackdown with new gear, but the decision to keep the dreadful Madcap name is baffling. The cocky goofball antics screams mid-card, as you just don’t see simpleton characters playing major roles at the top of the card for extended lengths of time. Theory still needs to become a smarter character. It fell shy of my admittedly high expectations for match quality, and even Ali’s hometown fans never seemed convinced that he had a chance to win the title. ![]() Championship: The most disappointing match of the night. The company may be tempted to extend this program because it’s hard to imagine where they go next with Ezekiel if Owens isn’t carrying things, but I’d be far more concerned with placing Owens in a more meaningful position than using him to prop up the one joke mid-card act. Here’s hoping that Owens going over clean means that he will be moving on to something bigger. Ezekiel: Hats off to Owens for making the Ezekiel gag better than it had any right to be. Cedric Alexander is a severely damaged character and the creative forces face a real challenge if they want to build him up for something beyond feeding him to Omos. The post match scene with Lashley holding up a fan’s replica title belt seemed to suggest that he’s going back into the world title mix again soon, which is encouraging. Omos and MVP in a handicap match: The match didn’t do much for me, but they kept it fairly short and the live crowd was fully invested in Lashley. We’re not there yet, and hopefully the creative forces will recognize when it’s time for both sides to move on.īobby Lashley vs. Becky lynch lingr series#The overall feud still feels mid-card and I have a bad feeling that we’re going to get an endless series of matches involving these six wrestlers until the feud is completely run into the ground (see New Day vs. While it feels like this feud is supposed to be about Edge and Styles, Morgan and Ripley actually shined the brightest during this match. AJ Styles, Liv Morgan and Finn Balor in a six-person mixed tag match: Good action from start to finish. Belair needed and delivered a strong performance that reminded viewers why she’s the Raw Women’s Champion.Įdge, Rhea Ripley, and Damian Priest vs. With the build being rushed due to the Sasha Banks and Naomi walkout, Belair took a bit of a backseat in recent weeks. ![]() The steal the pin finish is overdone in Triple Threat matches, but I get the idea of making sure that Lynch looked strong even though Belair won the match. Everyone involved shined and this was Asuka’s best outing since she returned from a long layoff. Becky Lynch in a Triple Threat for the Raw Women’s Championship: A highly entertaining three-way. In an era where great matches occur so frequently that many are largely forgotten only days later, this was an unforgettable match that people will be talking about for years to come.īianca Belair vs. If anything, I would love to see this lead to a Rollins character shift with the logic being that he’s lost three straight matches to Cody and something needs to change. Rollins, who deserves a ton of credit for helping Cody get through this match, isn’t going to be damaged by one more loss. Cody’s character putting in a gutty performance and actually winning is legendary. Cody’s character putting in a gutty performance and losing is memorable. The timing of the injury is awful, and yet Cody’s performance in this match leads me to believe that his push is merely on hold rather than being potentially derailed. Any fans who were hung up on Cody being the pretty boy who did the “Dashing” routine back in the day have to be seeing him in a new light. How could he not be after gutting his way through this match with a torn pectoral tendon? Cody was a combination of sympathetic and badass. Seth Rollins in a HIAC match: Cody Rhodes is a made man in WWE. By Jason Powell, Editor ( Hell in a Cell HitsĬody Rhodes vs. ![]()
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