Dolph Ziggler (c) defeated John Morrison to retain the United States championshipin a good effort by both men and a solid opener. The match was filled with nice near-falls and also had strong chants of "We want Ryder" and "Woo woo woo" throughout. It may have started a little slow but the ending was strong and made even the chants for Ryder die down.
Afterwards Ziggler explained how he may be a show off and brag a lot but he backs up everything he says. Zach Ryder then raced out and delivered a Rough Ryder to the champ. I honestly cannot thing of any reason at all why they didn't have Ryder face Ziggler one on one for the title at the pay per view? It had the perfect setting, the fans would've been solidly behind it. It baffles me.
Beth Phoenix (c) defeated Eve Torres to retain her Divas championship in a Lumberjill match. The bout itself was a pretty average divas one but with a nicely executed finish where Beth Glamslammed Eve off of the top rope. As for Beth's possible next contender it could well be Natalya I predict, there have been plenty of rumours about WWE turning her face lately and Phoenix has gone as far as she really can with Eve and Kelly in my opinion.
Backstage David Otunga visited CM Punk and passed on a message from John Laurinaitis that Michael Cole could sue Punk for putting his hands on him or Punk could go out and publicly apologise for what he did. Punk said he'd think about it.
The Rock then gave an (you guessed it!) electrifying promo on his history in the company form his debut at Survivor Series 96 with "the worst haircut known to mankind." He even at one point did a rendition of "New York, New York" along with the crowd in attendance when talking about how special the city truly is.
Team Barrett defeated Team Orton in the traditional five on five Survivor Series match. Dolph Ziggler was the first eliminated after an RKO from Orton early on, while it was disappointing to see him go it made sense after him already having competed in a competitive match earlier on in the night. There were yet more chants of "we want Ryder" emitting from the crowd when things quieted down during the match up as they checked on the injured Sin Cara, who had to be next eliminated from the match due to an apparent hyperextended knee from a simultaneous flip dive with Kofi Kingston to the outside. Mason Ryan was next eliminated by Cody Rhodes after a Cross Rhodes. Ryan had mostly played out to boos for the majority of his time in the bout due to his lack of character and ability in the ring, I don't blame them. Rhodes, who had gotten the biggest cheer during the entrances and during the actual match got a nice ovation after eliminating Mason. Kingston next went after a Wasteland from Barrett. Sheamus was disqualified after ignoring the referee's five count when kneeing Swagger on the ropes, but he left a parting gift as he Bro Kicked Jack Swagger. Leaving Orton free to get the one-two-three and eliminate him form the match. Orton, now on his own, then RKO'd Hunico as he made a springboard dive from the ropes and pinned him. As Rhodes distracted Randy, Barrett managed to apply his Wsteland to him to win the match for his team.
The match up itself was entertaining enough, I wouldn't have minded seeing a little more offence from Hunico perhaps. Good choice picking Barrett as the one to win the match and pin 'The Viper' also. Him and Rhodes had a lot more to gain by being the sole survivors in the traditional Survivor Series match, now's the time to start building them up as future World champions. Lord knows SmackDown needs it with Henry as their premier heel, that says it all on how desperate they are for fresh faces in the main event scene.
Before the Big Show versus Mark Henry match we saw the ring being reinforced before the two fat men came out, just incase they destroyed it again like at Vengeance. Am I the only one sick of them going on about it like it was a once in a lifetime thing? It wasn't even original, they did the exact same thing back in 2003. What, that's been erased form history now?
Big Show won via disqualification against Mark Henry (c) after Henry low blowed him in front of the ref. The match was as I predicted, mostly a bore. The crowd even lost interest as chants of "boring," "Undertaker" and "Daniel Bryan" began to fill Madison Square Garden. In the most exciting part Big Show did a diving elbow drop from the top rope onto Henry. Although it did take him a while to get his balance up there.
After the match Henry attempted a dive onto Big Show's leg which had been wrapped with a steel chair but Show managed to avoid it and knocked Henry out with a punch. He then leg dropped Henry's legs which had also been wrapped with the steel chair as retribution.
In a hilarious moment just before the VT for the CM Punk versus Del Rio match we heard the useless and bumbling King say "And it all started at Survivor Series" and Cole had to correct him and say "SummerSlam." Why do they have Lawler on commentary still? The man is worthless.
Also before the match began Punk had his own ring announcer in Hall of Famer Howard Finkel. The reaction overwhelmed Finkel as he began to well up which made the announcement go on long a little longer then expected as Punk amusingly signaled to a fake watch as he saw Finkel on his way out.
CM Punk defeated Alberto Del Rio (c) to win the WWE Championship in a solid World title match. The bout started off a little slowly but the ending really brought the excitement with near falls and submission attempts. The crowd was (predictably) firmly behind the challenger throughout. Punk got the win by forcing Del Rio to tap to the Anaconda Vice and as a bonus 'The Fink' announced his title victory.
Although I felt Del Rio needed a win here to solidify himself as a credible main eventer, I can't help but be relieved that his rather dull title reign has come to an end. Del Rio is just too one dimensional as a character right now. And with his time on the mic it was if he just didn't listen to anyone he was interacting with, he just keeps spouting out the same old cliche heel bragging. I really hope he develops further as he clearly has the ability in the ring.
The Rock and John Cena defeated R-Truth and The Miz in an exciting and thoroughly enjoyable tag team match. The Rock started off the bout and looked good as he didn't miss a single beat. The crowd was even more hostile towards Cena then I had anticipated as they booed him throughout and even when Miz signalled to Rock to tag him in. Like others I wasn't sure how damaging this match would be to Awesome Truth but they were smartly made to look competitive against The Rock and Cena and came out undamaged in my opinion. As usual the Madison Square Garden crowd in NYC were awesome all night but especially in the main event as they just didn't seem to let up at all. It was the most crowd excitement I've witnessed in WWE since Money In The Bank for CM Punk.
Overall Survivor Series had it's dips here and there (mainly Big Show versus Henry and the Divas bout wasn't outstanding) but I enjoyed the majority. Anyone else getting a little excited for WrestleMania yet?
Afterwards Ziggler explained how he may be a show off and brag a lot but he backs up everything he says. Zach Ryder then raced out and delivered a Rough Ryder to the champ. I honestly cannot thing of any reason at all why they didn't have Ryder face Ziggler one on one for the title at the pay per view? It had the perfect setting, the fans would've been solidly behind it. It baffles me.
Beth Phoenix (c) defeated Eve Torres to retain her Divas championship in a Lumberjill match. The bout itself was a pretty average divas one but with a nicely executed finish where Beth Glamslammed Eve off of the top rope. As for Beth's possible next contender it could well be Natalya I predict, there have been plenty of rumours about WWE turning her face lately and Phoenix has gone as far as she really can with Eve and Kelly in my opinion.
Backstage David Otunga visited CM Punk and passed on a message from John Laurinaitis that Michael Cole could sue Punk for putting his hands on him or Punk could go out and publicly apologise for what he did. Punk said he'd think about it.
The Rock then gave an (you guessed it!) electrifying promo on his history in the company form his debut at Survivor Series 96 with "the worst haircut known to mankind." He even at one point did a rendition of "New York, New York" along with the crowd in attendance when talking about how special the city truly is.
Team Barrett defeated Team Orton in the traditional five on five Survivor Series match. Dolph Ziggler was the first eliminated after an RKO from Orton early on, while it was disappointing to see him go it made sense after him already having competed in a competitive match earlier on in the night. There were yet more chants of "we want Ryder" emitting from the crowd when things quieted down during the match up as they checked on the injured Sin Cara, who had to be next eliminated from the match due to an apparent hyperextended knee from a simultaneous flip dive with Kofi Kingston to the outside. Mason Ryan was next eliminated by Cody Rhodes after a Cross Rhodes. Ryan had mostly played out to boos for the majority of his time in the bout due to his lack of character and ability in the ring, I don't blame them. Rhodes, who had gotten the biggest cheer during the entrances and during the actual match got a nice ovation after eliminating Mason. Kingston next went after a Wasteland from Barrett. Sheamus was disqualified after ignoring the referee's five count when kneeing Swagger on the ropes, but he left a parting gift as he Bro Kicked Jack Swagger. Leaving Orton free to get the one-two-three and eliminate him form the match. Orton, now on his own, then RKO'd Hunico as he made a springboard dive from the ropes and pinned him. As Rhodes distracted Randy, Barrett managed to apply his Wsteland to him to win the match for his team.
The match up itself was entertaining enough, I wouldn't have minded seeing a little more offence from Hunico perhaps. Good choice picking Barrett as the one to win the match and pin 'The Viper' also. Him and Rhodes had a lot more to gain by being the sole survivors in the traditional Survivor Series match, now's the time to start building them up as future World champions. Lord knows SmackDown needs it with Henry as their premier heel, that says it all on how desperate they are for fresh faces in the main event scene.
Before the Big Show versus Mark Henry match we saw the ring being reinforced before the two fat men came out, just incase they destroyed it again like at Vengeance. Am I the only one sick of them going on about it like it was a once in a lifetime thing? It wasn't even original, they did the exact same thing back in 2003. What, that's been erased form history now?
Big Show won via disqualification against Mark Henry (c) after Henry low blowed him in front of the ref. The match was as I predicted, mostly a bore. The crowd even lost interest as chants of "boring," "Undertaker" and "Daniel Bryan" began to fill Madison Square Garden. In the most exciting part Big Show did a diving elbow drop from the top rope onto Henry. Although it did take him a while to get his balance up there.
After the match Henry attempted a dive onto Big Show's leg which had been wrapped with a steel chair but Show managed to avoid it and knocked Henry out with a punch. He then leg dropped Henry's legs which had also been wrapped with the steel chair as retribution.
In a hilarious moment just before the VT for the CM Punk versus Del Rio match we heard the useless and bumbling King say "And it all started at Survivor Series" and Cole had to correct him and say "SummerSlam." Why do they have Lawler on commentary still? The man is worthless.
Also before the match began Punk had his own ring announcer in Hall of Famer Howard Finkel. The reaction overwhelmed Finkel as he began to well up which made the announcement go on long a little longer then expected as Punk amusingly signaled to a fake watch as he saw Finkel on his way out.
CM Punk defeated Alberto Del Rio (c) to win the WWE Championship in a solid World title match. The bout started off a little slowly but the ending really brought the excitement with near falls and submission attempts. The crowd was (predictably) firmly behind the challenger throughout. Punk got the win by forcing Del Rio to tap to the Anaconda Vice and as a bonus 'The Fink' announced his title victory.
Although I felt Del Rio needed a win here to solidify himself as a credible main eventer, I can't help but be relieved that his rather dull title reign has come to an end. Del Rio is just too one dimensional as a character right now. And with his time on the mic it was if he just didn't listen to anyone he was interacting with, he just keeps spouting out the same old cliche heel bragging. I really hope he develops further as he clearly has the ability in the ring.
The Rock and John Cena defeated R-Truth and The Miz in an exciting and thoroughly enjoyable tag team match. The Rock started off the bout and looked good as he didn't miss a single beat. The crowd was even more hostile towards Cena then I had anticipated as they booed him throughout and even when Miz signalled to Rock to tag him in. Like others I wasn't sure how damaging this match would be to Awesome Truth but they were smartly made to look competitive against The Rock and Cena and came out undamaged in my opinion. As usual the Madison Square Garden crowd in NYC were awesome all night but especially in the main event as they just didn't seem to let up at all. It was the most crowd excitement I've witnessed in WWE since Money In The Bank for CM Punk.
Overall Survivor Series had it's dips here and there (mainly Big Show versus Henry and the Divas bout wasn't outstanding) but I enjoyed the majority. Anyone else getting a little excited for WrestleMania yet?
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