Post#99 » by Starkiller » Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:59 am
One of the wort PPV' I've ever seen, and not even for the result. You can have predictable outcomes and still deliver quality matches or be creative with how it plays out. Outside of the Tag match, nothing else on the card achieved this.
- Tag match was amazing. MOTY candidate. My only complaint is that towards the end there were way too many superkicks, and I felt the Wyatts really needed the win.
- Rollins and Ambrose was probably the most anticipated match of the night, and it didn't happen. -1 out of 5 stars.
- The circle jerk for barely average divas wrestling continues, and a sloppy botch fest of a divas title match is considered good apparently. That match was bad. Pacing and flow was nice, but the execution on a lot of it was just awful and awkward. -.5 out of 4 remaining stars.
- Swagger and Rusev was nice. Did exactly what it needed to. Jack looked stronger than he has in years and remained as such despite taking a loss, a match later in the card should have followed in this ones footsteps. We're even at 3.5/5 stars
- Jericho vs Bray was a fun match, but sloppy. Bray totally whiffed on an uppercut. Few other bad spots in the match and it ended so sudden with no build to the finish. No one was ready for the match to be over at all and also, I'm not sure I give Jericho the clean win over Bray right out of the gate, even if Bray eventually goes over at the bigger show, Bray's momentum was all but dead already, now he eats his 2nd clean pin ever from a returning Jericho who jobbed to a guy on the pre show? -.5 stars from out 3.5.
- IC battle royal was fun. Lot of good spots, but the moment they showed Miz on the floor hiding it was ruined. The ending became painfully obvious and even if it's a masterful way to get heel heat it sucks when you see it coming a mile away. Sheamus points at the belt when it's just he and Dolph but just seems to totally miss the Miz laying right next to it. The fact that Dolph knocked out both Bo and Sheamus (wtf no LOLSHEAMUSWINS?) is amazing and then ruined by obvious troll is obvious Miz who 90% of the audience doesn't even want on TV. -1 star out of our remaining 3.
- Probably the most forgettable fatal four way title match I've ever seen. So much so that the crowd started giving it the Royal Rumble treatment. It was boring, had zero exciting spots and even Reigns kind of looked like he was mailing it in with some of those barely jogging spears he was throwing. I wonder if he was told to start going a bit lighter with them because especially the one on Orton outside looked like he just power walked to it. Exact same finish spot as MiTB and LOLCENAWINS with no Brock appearance. -1 star out of the remaining 2.
Over all 1* PPV. It was really bad, throw in how awful the stream was on the network and I"m regretting actually staying up to watch it. Especially with the app sending me push updates spoiling the title matches to my phone. If they were having trouble getting network subscriptions before, this sent them in the wrong direction.
This ^