PUTTIN’ THAT SMACK DOWN…What Happened Last (Tuesday) Night [Nov. 7th, 2014]
The
WWE main roster is all packed up and shipped off across the pond to let Europe get a taste of its madness but, before they
go, they stop off in Albany , New York for one last stateside romp
We
begin the evening with the Tag Team Title on the line and The Brothers Dust and
The Usos locked in battle within the travel-size Steel Cage. “Truthishly”, the cage looked a bit
small. I’m not sure if it was
proportionate to the venue or the bigger one is in the shop but, it looked
like a practice cage or something.
Nevertheless, the 2 sets of brothers step inside and dance. As always, the match itself was not bad it’s
just…such a small cage. What could you
really do? I mean, it felt as if they
had to account for the limited space as opposed to utilize the cage. Nevertheless, they make it a match after a
lot of colorful back and forth, Stardust sneaks in and gets a pin. As I said on the Twitters, another lost coin
toss to The Usos. Perhaps redemption
will be offered up at RAW.
Next
up, Ryback and Cesaro go at it in a "let’s see what happens here" match. This wasn’t a bad match
either. No lead up but definitely
understood seeing how Ryback is getting paid back for Creative's previous mishandling of him and Cesaro is getting a good showing due to his continuing efforts. The match played out how one would have
figured if you just looked at it and without knowing anything about these
guys. The bigger man won and it was
basically due to just straight overpowering Cesaro. Though, we all know that Cesaro is the
professed strongest guy in the locker room, pound-for-pound, doesn’t
necessarily mean he’s the strongest. I
would assume that would go to Mark Henry officially but Ryback, as we can all
see, is no slouch in the strength department.
Also, for added intrigue, Dad (Korporate Kane) was on the sidelines
scouting out for The Authority’s Survivor Series team. Yet, Ryback continues to be a bit standoffish
when it comes to approachability and gets out the ring before Dad could make a
pitch.
To
follow, R-Truth and Adam Rose decide to go at it. Perhaps due to the rock exchange that
happened last week for Halloween.
Whatever the case for the match, these fellows seem to offer up a spot
of comedic relief for the evening though, it became more about how The Bunny
seems to be getting all the attention and Adam Rose, not so much. Well, he may want to try changing his look;
he’s a bit scary up close. In any case,
shenanigans aside, The Bunny does a bit of interference that inadvertently
costs Rose the win. Irritated, he smacks
The Bunny some which came off as a hint at a heel-turn but, The Bunny brushes
off the abuse and returns to the “party bus” with Rose and all the other
Rosebuds. *Shrug*
After
that, we have Christian, who I teasingly call “Gramps” but with Dad and
GrandDad official monikers for Korporate Kane and Vince McMahon respectively, I
may have to find another to bestow upon Christian. So, I’ll call him Methuselah until I can
think of something wittier. Anyway, Methuselah has made it out tonight to do an installment of his Peep Show to help
move along this building feud between the “wordsmiths” Dean Ambrose and Bray
Wyatt. Well, these guys are talkers and
talk they did. Ambrose comes out, says a
lot about himself. Admits to being a little
nuts, likes getting a little crazy and putting a foot up an ass as time and
circumstance allow. All things we can
more or less understand really but then, Bray Wyatt makes his appearance and
begins to talk of healing. Perhaps Dean
Ambrose is just another lost soul. One
he can save as he did with Luke Harper and as he did with Erick Rowan. He can save Ambrose too, if he’d only let
him. The lights go out, they come back
on and Bray Wyatt is right by Ambrose’s side and then disappears, into the ether. Well, when you have Bray Wyatt in the mix you
have to get ready for some Rob Zombie style country, mystical realism to come
into play and it did. He’s doing a great
job of getting into Ambrose’s head and even got personal by bringing up
Ambrose’s father, though that is an angle that I hazard for Creative to
go. I don’t mind experimentation, we’re
at a time where the WWE definitely needs to be infused with some fresh ideas yet, at the same time, I don’t expect nor need a primetime level of drama. If this gets too focused on plot, we may not
get to any wrestling and I think this showing was indicative of that. Psychological warfare is fine as long as real
warfare is waged and all we got was some mind games. No brawling ensued. I get the draw to Survivor Series but at the
same time, if I wanted to watch real dramatic programming, I’d be watching
something else. It’s a fine line,
careful not to make a misstep.
Next
on the docket, we have some Divas action.
First, we have some talk with Renée Young and AJ Lee backstage that Brie
Bella feels compelled to join in an attempt to vouch for her innocence, seeing how Nikki has been puppetting her around. Yet, it turns out just
to be a ploy for Nikki to get the jump on AJ.
Nikki continues to embrace bitch-itude quite comfortably, which could
make for fun in the ring when she and AJ go at it because AJ relies on being
psycho so, there’s the potential for a perfect storm brewing.
Then, we go into an actual Divas match that plays upon some of the drama going on Total Divas and partially just backstage
between SummerRae and Natalya. Now, I
don’t know why they don’t book Natalya better.
She’s obviously a good wrestler but they seem to have no problem putting
her in bullshit matches. There’s no
reason why she shouldn’t beat SummerRae’s ass and she almost does but Tyson
Kidd, who does the jocky-douche a little too well, calls out her next move
enabling SummerRae to counter and get the win. I won’t go on a full on rant just yet but if
this doesn’t lead into something that makes use of Nattie’s talent a little
more proportionately, I’m gonna start to bitch.
After
a promo with Dolph Ziggler and Renée Young featuring Triple H and a
heartwarming segment promoting physical assistance to our wounded warriors across the
nation, we come to the night’s main event.
Dolph Ziggler and Dad box it out in a steel cage match. I’ve really loved how Dad has been allowed to
be Dad of late. He’s just been throwing
down his newspaper and coming out cracking skulls and I love it. It’s great!
He just starts breaking loafers off in Ziggler’s ass. It’s how it should be, really. Going up against Kane should be like going up
against a video game boss. It should
take more and all hits should devastate.
Not to say he shouldn’t be defeated, but I think he should get a few
more wins. Ziggler scraps his way out of
the cage to get the win but Dad put some good dents in him. He’s doing a great job and I think Creative
can afford to toss him a bone here and there.
I know we have a loose plot to consider but whatever, 9 times out of 10 Dad would
kick most of these jokers’ asses. Let
him every now and then, it wouldn’t hurt and maintains his street cred. You want people to get interested in a match,
right? Make it a little harder to figure
who’s gonna win. Just saying.
Nevertheless,
I had a good time. I’ll be back as
always for RAW (^_~)
See
You Monday,
-Nicole Alexis.
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