By Graham "GSM" Matthews Adam Rose def. Camacho It's amazing to see just how incredibly over Rose down in NXT compared to the main roster. It's literally like night and day. Granted, he debuted on Raw only a few short weeks ago, but it goes to show how much livelier the Full Sail University crowd is than most Raw and SmackDown crowds. Rose making his way to the entrance via the Exotic Express was very fun and it kicked the show off on a high note. This feud has been nothing of note in recent weeks, but this was a nice matchup with both competitors holding their own. Rose picking up the win was academic and while I couldn't care less about Camacho, he managed to impress me with his showing here. NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension def. Kalisto and El Local The Ascension is in a very strange spot right now. The reaction they receive from the crowd indicates that they are babyfaces when they are actually heels. The issue is that they do nothing to make people boo them. Thus, Kalisto and El Local were in an awkward position since the crowd wasn't behind them much during the match. Some of the spots were missed and it wasn't a good match on the whole. I like Kalisto and El Local as a tandem, but The Ascension is too over to the point where any face tag team they go up against will get booed. As much as I enjoy The Ascension, it's time for them to drop the straps and make their way to the main roster.
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By Graham "GSM" Matthews Curtis Axel def. Cody Rhodes Did anyone else find it comical that Ryback and Axel were mocking the Rhodes brothers about not winning a match yet they themselves haven't won a meaningful match in ages? Axel and Rhodes worked a good match like only they could, though it should have been given more time. Rhodes losing furthered his story that he can't buy a victory, but I hope to see a new chapter develop soon as the constant losses are starting to wear thin. R-Truth def. D-Sizzle (Damien Sandow) Sandow's last three impersonations were bad and they just kept getting worse and worse. D-Sizzle was slightly more comical than the rest, but it could also be considered racist even though I personally wasn't offended by it. It was a throwaway match as expected, but thankfully is wasn't a repeat of their snoozer of a match last week and was instead kept brief. Sandow losing to Truth doesn't even bother me anymore because by this point it has become the norm. By Graham "GSM" Matthews The Authority Fired Raw General Manager Brad Maddox The first portion of The Authority's promo was solid yet uneventful. It felt like a promo for Payback and what else was to come on this show, but on the same token, it gave viewers an incentive to tune in for the rest of the night. Things didn't get interesting until The Authority called out Maddox and (finally) fired him following an attack from Kane. It was about damn time. Maddox hardly ever appears on WWE TV and the General Manager position doesn't mean anything when The Authority is around, so I'd be content if they got rid of the position all together. That goes for Vickie Guerrero as SmackDown GM as well. Cesaro def. Rob Van Dam These two haven't had the best chemistry together in the past, but this was by far their best match yet. They worked a good match, the action was enjoyable and the right person went over. Bad News Barrett was effective on commentary on selling his Intercontinental title match at Payback and Sheamus running down afterward to brawl with Cesaro sold their U.S. title match as well. I'm liking both of these feuds right now and I'm very glad to see the midcard starting to mean something again. By Greg Lowenthal Hey guys, so here's the lowdown for this week. Things haven't exactly been that great for me personally but I'll give you all a bit of a review this week for Raw, SmackDown and Impact Wrestling. So here's Impact Wrestling first. I'm disappointed in the direction Impact Wrestling is taken. It seems the talent management at Spike TV has taken notice of the whole "Authority versus Daniel Bryan" angle and have done their own version with MVP, Kenny King and Bobby Lashley versus the current TNA World Champion Eric Young. This is NOT the direction they need to take. They need to amp it up through some kind of Battle Royal match rather than this stupid angle that doesn't seem to interest me at all as a devout wrestling fan. Raw and Smackdown are going to be combined for this week's review since BOTH took place in England. I'm giving them both a B+ overall with a few highlights. |
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