HIAC 2015 (Cherry-Picked)

WWE Hell in a Cell 2015

 (2015/10/25)

WWE United States Championship: Alberto del Rio vs. John Cena ©

Fuck you Alberto, you’re a prick etc. etc… The match wasn’t much, tbf. In fact, it was quite bad. These two never had anything that would resemble good chemistry, therefore, I wasn’t even disappointed. Look, I’m not bashing the match just because Alberto jumped ship, I simply thing it was uneventful and with no energy whatsoever. Cena is bad opponent for Alberto, put him in there with Roman, Cesaro and Harper. :) At least Zeb Colter did well on the mic.

bad

SummerSlam (Cherry-Picked)

WWE SummerSlam 2015

 (2015/08/23)

WWE US & World Heavyweight Championship: John Cena (US)© vs. Seth Rollins (HW)©

Wow, Rollins’ white version of his attire looks like shit. I’d make a 70s movie reference, but can’t think of any at the moment, because it truly looks like – SHIT. His black version is not good either, but this one is just horrendous. This match was actually very good until the moment it wasn’t. Obviously Cena got AAed like in every other big match, obviously we got another finisher festival, obviously a referee bump happened and that fucking chode John Stewart interfered. Obviously. Zero fucks given. Eh, at least the figure four leglock sequence was neat.

**

Bork in the East

WWE The Beast in the East

(2015/7/4)

Chris Jericho vs. Neville

First they change PAC’s name to Adrian Neville, and then just to – Neville, lmaooo… Poor fucking guy… Anyway, this was pretty damn good, Jericho put on his working boots and delivered in front of Japanese fans. Don’t get me wrong, Jericho/Mysterio this was not, but it was worked that way, Jericho looked so good at countering Neville’s high flying and other athletic moves. The match got a plenty of time and they took the most out of it.

P.S. Michael Cole mentioned FMW and Dragon Gate on commentary. WHAAAATT???

***3/4

Two Matches from WM Play Button

WWE WrestleMania 2015

(2015/3/29)

NO DQ: Sting vs. Triple H

Hm, judging from the video package, the build-up to the match sucked a bag of dicks. Apparently Sting was sitting in his basement for 13 years and growing a pair all this time to take on Levesque. LOL. But nevermind, I’m here for actual wrestling, not the talking. Stinger’s entrance was great, the daylight certainly helped too, it really looked cool. Then Ahnold announces Levesque’s Terminator entrance and I’m not exactly sure how to feel about the whole thing. It’s a mystery to me. :/ Sting’s in a damn good shape. I’m talking 2006/07 TNA shape. Props to him!

Man, this sucked. Stinger came to this? Even before the interferences the match was simply not good. It had its moments, but it was meh overall. Stinger should really call it a day. I love you, buddy, but c’mon now… I hated, HATED the nWo/Clique geriatrics jerkoff nostalgia, it was so stupid. Save that crap for shitty Raws. Last thing I need is watching a bunch of old farts doing their memorabilia thing, fuck off with that shit. Not to mention DX being presented as the equals to nWo, but whatever, WWE won, they can do whatever they want. Bad match, although I did like the post-match handshake, it saved the match from being a total DUD.

bad

WWE WrestleMania 2015

(2015/3/29)

WWE Championship: Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar ©

Technically, I don’t know how to treat this, is this one match or two? Weird situation, hm. Nevermind, because it was mostly fun. The Reins/Bork portion was really good, could’ve been amazing if they did one F5 less, I could really do without the third one, that was an overkill if there ever was one. One more thing, Roman looked like a total caricature out there, still sporting that Shield outfit and getting his ass kicked for a VERY long time, that’s not how you present someone who’s aspiring for Cena’s spot at the top. He did make a good and exciting comeback, but it needed to happen sooner, IMO. The match gets big bonus points for all around brutality and barbarism displayed through some truly vicious knee strikes, lariats, slaps and slams by both guys, but mostly Lesnar. You’ve never seen strikes this stiff in WWE. And holy smokes, his suplexes never looked better. And then Rollins cashed in, and things happened. I don’t really know what to think about it. Actually, I do know what to think about it – I didn’t like it. Hm, shame, Reins/Bork could’ve been a masterpiece with a thing or two fixed, but the whole thing feels kind of disjointed now.

***3/4

Cena/Rollins/Lesnar

WWE Royal Rumble 2015

(2015/1/25)

TRIPLE THREAT for WWE Championship: John Cena vs. Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar ©

The only match I was half interested into was this one. Fantastic and truly captivating every time with BROCK on offense destroying everyone, but also incredibly dull and head-scratching every time JAWNN SEENAH got in charge, dude is just sooo cringeworthy when it comes to taking care of business as a top dog babyface. Eh, at least he was bumping very well for BORK, it’s gotta count for something, right? Rollins was really good, he did his stuff including the biggest spot of the match, also his Curb Stomp looked devastating, at least visually that is. The match was amazing until the point we got Cena/Rollins 1-on-1 where it got ridiculous with all the kickouts and shit, then it got awesome again with BORK rising from the dead and winning the match. Yeah, bitch!

Moment of the match: all things BORK, especially when he smashed that ugly ass 60s mini-TV screen.

****

Remembering Eddie Guerrero

Yep, it's that day of the year.

WWE No Way Out 2004

(2004/2/15)

WWE Championship: Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar ©

I’m still amazed they let them do this kind of a match on a WWE PPV main event, 30 minutes long, with careful, defensive and deep wrestling that put all its stocks into slow build and payoff. This was brilliant and is up there with the greatest WWE matches of the 00s, right up there with Levesque/Foley (Street Fight), Angle/Austin (SummerSlam), Umaga/Cena (LMS) and very few others, this is a total five star match. As the match was going on you could see Eddie is a far bigger threat to Lesnar than previously thought, and even though Bork kept powering out his way from Eddie’s offense, it was Eddie who controlled the pacing, it was Eddie who gained a more meaningful advantage by targeting Lesnar’s knee relentlessly which slowed Lesnar down so he had to rely on sleeper holds. Excellent big title match and a defining moment for Eddie Guerrero, even the overbooking with the ref bump, the belt and Goldberg was well done, didn’t mind it at all because it made sense. Of course Tazz and Cole sucked on commentary but what else is new?

*****