Noteworthy: Rosa Mendes wrestled and it wasn’t completely horrible. Ryback beat R-Truth in pretty entertaining 10 minute match where he sort of came off like a babyface. “Feed me more!” is back. Finally there’s some light and shade on commentary thanks to Renee Young.
Naomi pinned Rosa Mendes in 5:00
Rosa is going to be on season 3 of Total Divas hence why she’s
starting to appear on television and in matches.
This Richmond crowd were great on Monday and they were very
supportive and respectful here. They were behind Naomi and these two put on a
reasonable five minute match with enough protection from Naomi, who bumped all
over for her.
They lock up and a swift kick from Naomi lets her roll up Rosa who
kicks out at one. A nice hip toss and drop kick send Rosa to the outside where
she checks her hair and composes herself before rolling back in and kicking out
at two.
Naomi climbs the ropes, locks Rose in her legs, wiggles her ass in
face and then kicks her to the floor. Naomi is then thrown clear by Rosa and is
sent to the floor outside. She uses some of the weakest, lamest stomps you’ve
ever seen, rolls her back in and gets a two count. Frustrated, Rosa, repeatedly
thrusts Naomi’s head into canvas.
Out of nowhere, Rose hits a perfectly executed snap suplex – it actually
got a small cheer. She then chokes out Naomi on the middle rope and goes for a
rear chin lock. Then, again, another wrestling move, this time not quite so
controlled but Rosa executes a spinning side slam and covers her for a two
count.
Rosa takes a breather outside, Naomi hits a baseball slide but
gets caught in side slam position outside which she is able to reverse into a
tilt-a-whirl head scissors. Back in the ring, Naomi tries a backslide, but Rosa
kicks out. So, Naomi goes home: drop kicks, clotheslines see her go from the split
leg moonsault which she misses. So she grabs Rosa and hits a modified falling
inverted DDT for the win. This finisher would seem to not have a name yet.
Not the worst Divas match I’ve ever seen.
The Raw rebound was that awesome Swagger and
Rusev segment followed by the Jericho and Wyatt confrontation.
Ryback (w/ Curtis Axel) beat R-Truth
(w/ Xavier Woods) with the Shellshock in 9:50
Ryback
treats Truth like he’s a pipsqueak here and there’s a great moment early where
Ryback looks so shocked that Truth is able to not only knock him to the mat,
but also hurt him. His face was fantastic. Ryback takes most of the early going
until he misses a leg drop and is hit by a missile drop kick from Truth, who lands
a leg drop of his own. Ryback kicks out and gets up to charge at Truth who
merely, steps aside, pulls the top rope down and sends Ryback outside.
Grinning, Truth takes a bow as we go to the break. Lovely house show stuff.
Truth uses a
drop toe hold on Ryback but he gets mad and for a good straight minute teases a
stoppage by repeatedly hitting Truth with knees and stomps. The ref has to prise
Ryback off Truth in the corner as Truth just gets continually pummelled. Ryback
with a huge whip to the corner and Truth just buckles at the knees and looks
half dead. Ryback goes for a cover, gets a near fall and reverts to a headlock.
Ryback
executes a quick scoop slam to set Truth up by the ropes for a top rope splash
which he misses taking a kick to face from Truth. Ryback misses two charges to
the corner, the second time going shoulder first to the post. Truth takes advantage,
hits clotheslines and spinning heel kick and then executes what I can only
describe as Booker T’s Ghetto Blaster and Ryback just about kicks out.
The crowd
are into this now. This time Truth hits a top rope missile drop kick on Ryback
and, again, Ryback just gets the shoulder up. Truth’s charge to the corner is
then blocked by a kick to the face from Ryback. He climbs to the top rope, the
splash misses and it looks like it really sucked – huge bump from such a huge
guy.
Truth uses a
suplex and we get another near fall. The crowd are delighted by every near fall
now. Out of nowhere Ryback executes a huge spinebuster, then climbs the ropes
and starts to pump his arms and asks for the crowd to chant, “feed me more” It’s
back! Who knew? Like Pavlov’s dogs, they duly oblige and he smacks Truth with a
beastly meathook clothesline. They all join in, too, for “finish him!” and
Ryback hits the Shellshock for the win.
Ryback got a
babyface reaction after this match. Probably means absolutely nothing…
The Raw Rebound built up the Fatal Four Way for
the WWE World Heavyweight Championship happening Sunday night at Battleground.
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