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Tonight’s show starts off with a confrontation in the back. Shane McMahon just arrived and he tells
reporter Larry Morton that he wants a shot as El Chango and Leon Teremoto for
attacking him. Larry tells him neither
are here today. Over walks Mr. Ken Anderson.
Ken blasts Shane about taking away spots (and money) from performers who
are more deserving. He says he wants
Shane’s spot at the PPV and Shane tells Ken to put something on the line. “What, like my career?” Ken asks.
Shane says yes and if he agrees to it (and Max signs off on it), they
can have their match tonight. Shane
dances a bit and then heads off to Max’s office. Mr. Anderson smiles evilly.
We
go to the ring for our first match. Reid
Rothchild comes out first. Reid had
challenged Ethan Carter III for his shot at the Elitist title. ECIII comes out next. Not surprising, the Elitist Champion the
Wraith comes out and sits at commentary.
He waves at both men and sits down and puts on a headset. The match reached the 8 minute mark and the
Wraith was tired of sitting at commentary.
He grabbed a chair and then blasted ECIII with it causing Reid to be
disqualified. The Axe makes his way out
and goes after the Wraith. Just before
the ref could raise Ethan’s arm, GM Max McGillicutty comes out. Max says that he is sick and tired of the
Wraith interfering in a match he has no part of. Max says that at Wrestlemania, the Wraith
will have to defend his title in a Fatal 4 Way between the Axe, Reid Rothchild
and Ethan Carter III with the winner walking out as the champion. The Wraith tried to complain but then got
nailed with the Axe. Reid then picked up
the Wraith and nailed a Reid Bottom.
Ethan then hit a flapjack and hurled the Wraith from the ring. The 3 men stood staring at each other for a
moment before they all departed. (8 ½
min for the match, 13 min for the segment)
We
cut to the back where Max is on the phone and he’s yelling at someone…ah, he’s
talking to Stephanie McMahon. He blasts
Stephanie for interfering in Ronda’s match.
He tells Stephanie that she is a paid talent and will wrestle on the
next weeks’ show. Max promises it won’t
be against Ronda but “Daddy’s little Princess” will have her hands full for
sure. Max slams the phone down.
We
head back to the ring for our first title match. Newly crowned X-Division Champ Sami Zayn
takes on Wade Barrett. Barrett makes his way out first. “I’ve got some bad news for ya. Yer
gonna be the shortest champion on record…even shorter than that flat top
no-talent Ron Garvin.” The fans in
attendance must have liked Ron Garvin because they booed the heck out of
Barrett. Zayn comes out next and the
fans pop. These two went toe to toe with
both men trading the lead quite often.
Barrett hit Zayn with the Bullhammer twice but Zayn kicked out. Zayn managed to hit his tornado DDT but
Barrett had the presence of mind to get his foot on the rope. Finally, Zayn caught a break after nailing
Barrett with an exploder suplex. He
quickly hooked the leg before Barrett could realize what had happened and he
got the 1-2-3. Sami Zayn is successful
in his first title defense. He celebrates with the fans before leaving. Barrett sulked to the back and flipped
everyone off. (24 min)
In
the back, Max meets with Shane McMahon and says he’ll greenlight tonight’s
match against Ken Anderson. He tells
Shane there is a lot riding on this so he needs to be prepared. Shane says he was born ready.
Mr.
Anderson makes his way out to the ring first.
He gets on the mic and calls Shane a “spoiled little rich brat” who
expects things to be handed to him and doesn’t earn a thing. Shane comes out and instead of doing his feet
shuffling routine, he heads right to the ring…all business. Shane gets right into Ken’s face and Ken
throws the first punch starting this one off.
Four minutes in, Shane stunned Ken with a huge forearm smash. Two minutes later, Shane kicks Ken in the gut
and then rolls him up for a quick 1-2-3.
Shane McMahon is victorious in his first ever match in the HWF and
CSWA. With that win, Ken Anderson is now
out of a job. Shane led the fans in “Na
Na, Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.
Ken just walked out never turning around. (6 min)
We
cut to a pre-taped vignette from Triple Crown Champion Bray Wyatt.
"Children
believe in superheroes, CJ. They wear masks and costumes because they want to
believe that the world is good. They haven't lived long enough to understand
that everything is a lie. My childhood, CJ, let me fill you in about something
about Bray Wyatt. My childhood, it wasn't all rainbows and butterflies. You
dare talk about your battles? Well I've got a few scars too. The world gave
them to me. They gave them to me because it was my birth right to have them.
They taught me that fire is hot and that blades are sharp. They taught me that
everything that I love in life, sooner or later, is going to wither away and
die. Well look at me now. I could be just like you. I could sign autographs and
kiss babies and make sure that everyone buys all my merchandise. I could go
home to my plastic girlfriend in my castle. I could take everything I fear and
hide behind laughter. Tell jokes, make sure I feel better about myself. Yeah, CJ,
that's you. But you were right about one thing. I am different than anyone you
will ever face. Because at WrestleMania, I don't care if I never leave. I don't
care if I die. As long as the world sees you the way that I do. Follow the
buzzards."
We
go back to the ring for our next title match of the evening. First, out comes
Heath Slater. He is followed out by
North American Champion Kevin Owens.
Owens immediately starts beating down on Slater. For 16 minutes, Slater
had the champ’s number. Heath hit Kevin with everything in his arsenal but he
couldn’t keep the champ’s shoulders down for the elusive 3 count. At the 18th minute, Owens hit the
KO pop up powerbomb and he took over.
Slater never recovered from it and after getting dropped with a running
senton, Owens made the cover and got the win.
Kevin Owens is successful in his title defense. (28 min)
Max
makes his way out and says that in 2 short weeks, he will be debuting a new
talent. He will not disclose anything at
this time but rest assured, new vignettes will begin airing and says that this
new guy is totally “Rad”. Max leaves so
the Main Event can begin.
Tonight’s
Main event will be another chapter in the rivalry between the A-Team (Alberto
Del Rio, Adrian Neville and Antonio Cesaro) vs the X-Factor (AJ Styles,
Christopher Daniels and (former A-Team leader) Austin ‘the Man’ Aries). Aries
and Del Rio have much bad blood between them after Aries was kicked out of the
group he created. The A-Team was killing
it tonight but Del Rio did manage to hog up lots of the action and Cesaro &
Neville didn’t appreciate it. Del Rio
did manage to get Aries in the match but AJ quickly came in to dispatch Del
Rio. This went on like this for 20
minutes. Aries managed to sequester Del Rio in their
corner and continued to beat him down.
Daniels gets tagged in and right away, hits a double jump moonsault and
lands right on Alberto. AJ and Aries
dispatch Adrian and Cesaro and Daniels hooks the leg to get the 1-2-3. The X-Factor win this one after being on the
short end of the match. Del Rio
recovered after a moment and immediately went right after Aries. Cesaro and Neville joined in the fray as AJ
and Daniels came back in to equal things out.
The show came to an end as not only their teammates but the suits and
refs from the locker room came out to separate the two. There is a lot of bad blood between Alberto
and Austin and this match did very little to settle it between them. (21 min)
Thanks
for reading. Stay tuned as things
continue to heat up.
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