World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus stated that he was just giving Del Rio a warning when he barged him last week for their title match at No Way Out, stating that the Mexican believes he's better than everyone else because of his fortune, but his money can't buy him the World title. David Otunga joined 'The Great White' and ordered him to apologise for barging John Laurinaitis two weeks ago on Raw. Sheamus refused, telling Otunga that the GM can come and collect the apology face to face.
Alberto Del Rio then came out and mocked the World Champion, calling him a "street hooligan" and such. Otunga decided to punish Sheamus by allowing Del Rio to choose his opponent. Sheamus then Brogue Kicked Otunga for good measure. It was a decent start to the show and the best interaction between Sheamus and Del Rio so far for me.
The returning Sin Cara defeated Heath Slater in a passable if pretty forgettable match up. There's very few wrestlers that Sin Cara seems to work really well with in WWE, and as long as that's the case fans like me just aren't really going to be that fussed about seeing him to be honest.
Damien Sandow defeated Ezekiel Jackson in an average bout. Sandow looked decent here, it just didn't really last long enough for us to see a lot from him. Before the match he once again claimed that his opponent wasn't worthy of him and went to leave before being pulled back into the ring by 'Big Zeke'. I am really enjoying Sandow's persona, he's a brilliant new character for the blue brand.
Ryback defeated a couple of nobodies (I can't be asked to remember their names now) in a Handicap match. It was the usual squash match, with Ryback once again finishing off the opponents with his impressive backwards slam with both men on his back. I'm trying to think of what they could do next with this guy, maybe a feud with Cody Rhodes could be interesting? We'll see. I just hope they don't ruin this momentum he's on.
Sheamus defeated Dolph Ziggler in a very enjoyable contest. Both men put in a solid effort and it paid off. I've mentioned it already but I feel Sheamus has really upped his game this year and put on better matches than ever in the company. And as I've mentioned about Dolph, well, he deserves a higher place in WWE after all the constantly hard work he's been putting into his matches.
Like on previous occasions Ziggler's talent was clear and appreciated with scattered chants of his name. Hopefully him entering back into singles competition and getting fed up of Swagger (who appeared briefly in the bout in an attempt to help Ziggler, but failed) and Vickie Guerrero means a push is imminent, and maybe even a face turn perhaps?
Santino Marella and Zach Ryder defeated Titus 'O Neil and Darren Young in a short and mediocre bout. Marella managed to score the one-two-three with a quick schoolboy to Young. I honestly fail to see the point of this match, it did nothing at all for the team of Young and O'Neil, who as of late have been looking fairly good. Afterwards Big Show took out Santino and Ryder. Ryder received the majority of the attack as Show threw him around the ringside area and slammed him onto some steel steps. Why didn't they just have Show interfere during the tag match? At least then O'Neil and Young's momentum wouldn't have taken any damage?
Like I said after Raw, while it makes sense having Big Show take out people like this, it just all feels too familiar to me. We've seen it all before and I'm already growing a bit tired of it.
Cody Rhodes defeated Tyson Kidd in a fun, if too short for my liking match up. It's a real shame that the talented Kidd wasn't given some more time to show off what he could against Rhodes here, if given the chance I think he could do really well. He just needs to work on his mic skills and connecting with the fans more in my opinion.
CM Punk (c) versus Kane for the WWE Championship ended in a disqualification after Daniel Bryan attacked them both. While the bout had started off fairly flat and drab, it fortunately became much more enjoyable towards the final third as both men pulled out their signature moves for nice near falls to reel back in the fans interest.
After Punk and Bryan began fighting in the ring, Kane decided to make his move and Choke Slam both of them. This cued GM John Laurinatis' entrance and announcement that it will be a Triple Threat at No Way Out between the three wrestlers for the WWE Championship. What a shocker, eh? Why did they have to include Kane into this feud? I was really hoping for another one on one rematch between Bryan and Punk after their superb match at Over The Limit, it could've even been a Submission match or something along those lines to change it up a bit. Oh well, the Triple Threat should still be decent enough.
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