Noteworthy: Zack Ryder made his second appearance in as many weeks on this show and again was good. Bo Dallas won a match. Cesaro and Kofi had a really good outing.
Bo Dallas beat Zack Ryder with
the Bo-Dog in 4:30
It feels a
little like 2010. Zack Ryder was pretty much on this show every week back then.
At least it felt like it. Bo Dallas, who I had completely forgotten existed,
came out to some nice heat and they had a fairly good 4 minute match.
Out of an early
wrist lock exchange Ryder takes the upper hand and Bo takes a breather on the
apron. Bo has this great angry face, a kind of scowl that he pulls that is so
incredulous and pained. He could be a pretty decent heel if they booked him
properly. Ryder scoops him up into a hip toss but then runs into an elbow from
Dallas. Ryder recovers, plants another hip toss and then falls to the mat into
arm bar.
Dallas uses
a creative little move where he gets Ryder on the apron and pulls him into the
ropes so that the ropes clothesline Ryder. Zack sells it, too, coughing,
choking and grimacing and Dallas is able to work him over with some knees to
the midsection and a clothesline. When he’s on top, there’s something of Jack
Nicholson to Bo Dallas’ Cheshire cat grin.
Ryder
manages to pull a facebuster out of nowhere and both men go down, buying Ryder
some time. Ryder lands two clotheslines and Bo runs into high knees in the
corner. Ryder goes to the top rope and hits a missile drop kick. Then Ryder
uses another drop kick, this time to plant Dallas in the corner in position for
the Broski Boot. Bo rolls out. Ryder leans out to grab hair, gets swept off his
feet, and as he rolls back in Dallas gets up and immediately uses the Bo-Dog
for the win.
There’s a post-match,
back stage interview later in the show with Byron Saxton where Bo said that
Ryder was saying “Bo, bo, bo-lieve” now instead of his signature “woo”s.
Cesaro beat Kofi Kingston with
the Neutraliser in 8:31
After some
pretty fabulous early chain wrestling, Cesaro uses a headlock take down to
ground Kofi down. Kingston is just back from Malaysia this week and Tom Philips
and Renee Young are kind of playing that into their commentary as a way to warn
us that Cesaro is going over here.
They run the
ropes, Cesaro shoulder barges Kofi to the mat and then, old school style, goes
straight back to the headlock. Kofi then manages to get the space to hit a drop
kick, Cesaro doesn’t even give it the time of day and kicks out before the ref
has even started to count. Kingston then uses a middle rope springboard missile
drop kick to plant Cesaro to the mat.
He rolls
under the ropes on the apron and so Kingston goes to try to suplex him back
into the ring. The suplex from the apron is blocked and eventually after
several attempts each, Cesaro is the one to get the upper hand and Kofi is garrotted
on top rope. Cesaro goes up top and lands an axe handle, Kingston goes down and
we go to the break.
Cesaro is in
control and works over Kingston, using a two footed leaping stomp to the chest,
followed by boots and punches until Cesaro goes back to a wrist lock. The match
then springs to life as both try several quick pin attempts. Cesaro catches a
charging Kingston with a huge boot that completely stops Kofi in his tracks and
the cover gets a two count. Cesaro charges to the corner and hits the most
brutal looking running European uppercut to the corner. It looks like it was
stiff to say the least. They should build Cesaro up properly and put him in
with Brock Lesnar, it would be so great.
An enzuigiri
from Kingston then dumps Cesaro over the top rope and Kingston hits a springboard
cross body to the outside. Cesaro eventually rolls back in at 9; Kofi covers him
but only for two.
Kofi hits
the Boom Drop, goes for Trouble in Parardise but Cesaro rolls under the ropes
and hits the charging Kofi with a shoulder to the midsection. Kofi then
recovers and goes for the SOS, hits it but Cesaro is able to kick out at two.
Kofi runs into a high knee and Cesaro looks like he is going for the giant swing
but it is reversed and then turned into a slingshot by Cesaro. Kofi doesn’t hit
the ropes and instead leaps up onto them, tries a top rope cross body but in
mid air is caught with the European uppercut.
After all
the Vines this week where Orton was super imposed onto people catching them
with RKOs this was like one of those great Randy Orton RKO finishes. And I suppose
that with this move, it’s the kind of move that Cesaro can be creative with in
the same way.
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