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| Stone Cold tells Tajiri/Santa Claus of how he's been a good boy and all the beer he wants for Christmas |
- New champions ahoy! Charlotte is RAW Women's Champion, a-fucking-gain, and Sheamus & Cesaro ended the record setting reign of The New Day, becoming new RAW Tag Team Champions, and get some swanky new belts too!
- Neville is back and is badass as all hell, being a new pissed off heel for the Cruiserweights. I love it!
- As it stands at the minute, we're gonna get Nakamura vs Roode at TakeOver: San Antonio. Should be good, no idea where they're going with Nakamura's reign though.
WWE Roadblock: End of the Line
Best Match on Roadblock: The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Big E) vs Sheamus & Cesaro - RAW Tag Team Championship Match
It's the final WWE Pay-Per-View of the year, Roadblock II: Roadblock Harder. Stealing this show was the Tag Team Championship Match between The New Day and Sheamus & Cesaro.
It was awesome right from the off, Kofi and Cesaro one-upping each other in a lovely bit o' wrestling. These two are so slick and crisp that everything flows wonderfully, what wonderful opponents they make. Big E and Sheamus were the shit-kickers in this match, making big impact moves, with E doing his suicide spear through the ropes, and landing the best he ever has by the looks of things.
Cesaro was the MVP of this match, rampaging through the New Day, and showcasing why they call him The Swiss Superman;
Thing of beauty.
The tandem offence of Sheasaro continues to expand, their Assisted White Noise is pretty similar to New Day's 'The Midnight Hour', but its still cool nonetheless. They did a great job of adding tension to the match with Sheasaro fighting hard to win the belts, kicking out of finishers and taking on the third man game of Xavier Woods. As a guy rooting for them, it was so satisfying seeing them edging their way closer to the victory.
The finish was a stroke of genius. Something I've never seen before and it definitely had me super-intrigued watching it; Cesaro fakes the tag, takes the kick and allows for the advantage to be taken.
What a lovely pop that got. That was an awesome match, I loved it all. Thought there was a lot of drama and excitement that kept everything very entertaining. I'm very excited to see the reign these two have, the rematch should be great, a feud with The Club has potential to be really cool and for the love of God RAW get some more gooders teams.
Monday Night RAW
Best Match on RAW (19/12/16): Bayley vs Charlotte
Charlotte's champion again and needs a new challenger, enter Bayley, at least it looks like their going that way with it.
This was a good match, but maybe it went a little long, who knows. Bayley started off out-performing Charlotte and taunting quite a bit, but she soon succumbed to Charlotte knocking ten tonnes of piss out of her. She'd have some brief comebacks and flurries every now and then, but Charlotte was dominant for the majority.
Bayley got the roll up victory, to a pretty big cheer from the Columbus crowd. Knowing these two and seeing their clashes back in NXT, once this rivalry gets rolling, we should be getting some top dollar stuff.
SmackDown! LIVE
Best Match on SD! (20/12/16): The Miz vs Apollo Crews - WWE Intercontinental Championship Match
On SmackDown! this week we got treated to a lovely little Intercontinental Championship match between The Miz and Apollo Crews, who it appears WWE just remembered they have on the roster.
Apollo was pretty dominant throughout this one, Miz having to use underhanded tactics to get any momentum, that was more often that not short lived, with Crews rocking him again. Possibly the best display of power I've seen from Crews occurred in this contest, treating Miz like a goddamn ragdoll with this big bastard of a German Suplex;
However, Miz won after a thumb to the eye and a Skull Crushing Finale. Apollo was made to look real good in this match, coming dangerously close to winning the belt at one or two points. I thought Apollo did really well in this match, plus the crowd were solidly behind him. I hope this showing persuades whoever to start having this guy on SmackDown! more often.
205 Live
Best Match on 205 Live (20/12/16): Neville & Brian Kendrick vs Rich Swann & TJ Perkins
Stickin' around after SmackDown! now, it's time for the cruiserweights.
Taking the division by storm, it's Neville teaming with Brian Kendrick to take on the duo of Rich Swann and TJ Perkins.
The point of this match was to portray this new Neville as a mean bastard, and it did that perfectly. He did a whole fucking lot of destroying dudes. Being the legal man more than Kendrick, he steamrolled Swann for a good few minutes. Pretty soon after the first bell, he got Swann with a snapmare then followed that up with a nasty dropkick to the back of the head, knocking Swann dizzy. Kicks and stomps from then on.
Plus, he hit a picture perfect deadlift German, God I have missed this man.
Whilst that was gorgeous, I think my favourite part of the match was when Neville buried TJ's hopes and dreams of a springboard attack with a foot to the head. Sounds like Mauro fucking loved it too;
I have a sneaking suspicion that Perkins may have discovered fake tan recently, just a hunch though. As you'd expect from the amount of asses Neville was handing people, him and Kendrick came out on top, finishing the job with a magnificent Red Arrow that never fails to impress.
Awesome match here, nice change of pace to 205 Live, and I look forward to where Neville takes the division going forwards.
NXT
Best Match on NXT (21/12/16): Bobby Roode vs Andrade 'Cien' Almas vs Roderick Strong vs Tye Dillinger - No.1 Contender's Elimination Match for the NXT Championship Match
Y'know what types of matches I love most?
- Elimination Matches
- Fatal-Four-Ways
Heel antics out the wazzoo from Andrade and Roode. I'm loving Andrade now that he's gone full 'tranquilo', in the opening promo he even says he wats the belt 'just to shut everyone up'. Such a dick, and its great. And for reasons yet to be explained, he fucking hates Roddy;
Thinking quickly now about it, Almas/Strong at TakeOver: San Antonio would be dope.
Roddy got a fairly good showing in this one, though I would've liked him to have had a bit larger a presence. He hasn't done a whole lot in NXT as of yet, and after having him own PWG and be a big deal in ROH, it feels weird him not being seen as a proper big deal.
Tye was on fire in this match, it was near impossible to root against him. He had a great build in this match, the promo setting up a big redemption story for the guy. Once in the final two, he had a massive flurry against Roode, getting big money moves and the crowd were just eating it all up. They went nuts for it and rightfully so, Tye was gonna do it!
Or so we thought. Who should steal it but BOBBY ROOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo.......
I thought this was a great match, a nice sizeable match to tuck into. All these guys had their moments to shine, and I left more than satisfied. I'd say check this out.
Ring of Honour
Best Match on ROH TV (Episode 274): Christopher Daniels vs Mark Briscoe
We're kicking off the Decade of Excellence, a tournament comprised of roster members who had been in Ring of Honour a decade ago - so whilst Daniels went to TNA, he was in Ring of Honour 10 years ago.
In this first round, we've got Christopher Daniels facing Mark Briscoe. I dunno if it was because of the way I was watching this, not totally focused, but I can't remember anything majorly standing out to me. It was a solid match, great ring work from these guys, but nothing springs to mind really.
I felt the main event was a bit 'too much-too quick' with not a whole lot of tangible wrestling, more here's a move and now another.
As always, you can watch ROH TV for FREE at www.rohwrestling.com/tv/current or on the Fite TV app.
Lucha Underground
Best Match on LU (S3E16): The Mack vs PJ Black vs Jeremiah Crane vs Cage
IT'S ANOTHER ELIMINATION FATAL-FOUR-WAY FUCK ME IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!
It's the final of the Battle of the Bulls tournament do determine the No.1 Contender for the Lucha Underground Championship.
Cage started off monster-ing across the ring, dishing out hefty doses of destruction to all. Plus, we had him coming to the ring from the other side of the steps, first time I've seen that, kinda cool. Crane was on fire in this one, everybody got a bicycle kick and they were all as intense as the last. PJ was a great dick heel, and The Mack had his big babyface run throughout. Mack would end up finishing the match by delivering a stunner to PJ, who sold it like a champ. It looked like someone handed him a grenade.
I can't really recall any specific spots, just that there was a hole lot of holy shit-ness happening all over the place and pretty quickly. It's the type of thing you can expect from LU, quick, lots and loud. David Arquette was shown in the crowd too, what a legend.
The Verdict
Best Match of the Week: The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Big E) vs Sheamus & Cesaro - RAW Tag Team Championship Match - Roadblock: End of the Line
I thought this match ruled, such smart wrestling, genius end with great spots and shock sprinkled in the mix. Cover it in rum and strike a match because this was hot. I also thought the NXT match was also very good, worth a watch if you get chance over the holidays. 205 Live is also a good watch for those interested in the new approach on Neville.
And with those taken into accord, the leaderboard looks like this for Christmas. I haven't forgotten yet, it's time for 'The Best Wrestling Quote of the Week';
Welp, we've come the close of this week and there is just time to wish you all a Merry Christmas, or a Wonderful Whatever-You-Celebrate. Seeya next time!
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