Dear God, I really enjoyed this entire Miz-Orton segment. I can dig Maniac Headbutting Orton and Miz selling the shoulder almost the entire time and showing fire was not what I was expecting. WTF Dad! Grab his fucking legs. I like Cena's dad better.
Man, loved the jumping knee on the chair. If Orton takes out Kofi next week the same way, he may be my favorite wrestler ever.
Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan
- That's how the Nick Patrick count was supposed to go down at Starrcade 97. Anyway, good match, not near the level of the Cena Summerslam match. They let the crowd go home happy but the title won't be on Bryan for very long. The story continues.
PTP vs. The Shield
- Another heatless match but this was the best match of the night so far. Loved Titus in this. That Titus shoulderblock was nuts. Nothing to go out of your way to see but I look forward to the rematch.
Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler
- Not Ambrose's finest hour. I like his expressions and him as a wrestler but he and Dolph just looked off tonight. They also had a really heatless match.
Punk vs. Axel & Heyman
- The Axel match was fine but did Punk no favors since Axel had already fought earlier in the night. Punk should have had a shorter match.
However, I was calling the Ryback run-in and that was the perfect way to keep Heyman and Punk feuding.
Miz vs. Fandango
- Man, I liked what Fandango was trying but Miz is just the worst. He should be forced to only wrestle Cesaro or Lawler for the rest of his tenure. No body gave a fuck about the match. If Fandango was in there with somebody who was over, this could have been something.
RVD vs. Alberto Del Rio
- Yeah, RVD is sloppy as fuck but since ADR is game, they both just stiffed the shit out of each other with kicks. ADR getting DQed was surprising but I guess they want this program to continue. Fun match but nothing near the Christian match from last month. Having said that, ADR didn't work on any body part long enough for RVD to no sell.
AJ vs . Funkadactyl vs. Bella vs. Nattie
- God bless them but I think the Divas are doomed to fail. Early on, loved the three on AJ. The shit got sloppy midway through. They recovered ok and then the double sharpshooter was neat. Someone needs to ask Corderas if JBL was right.
Kofi Kingston vs. Curtis Axel
- Match was fine and got the crowd behind it. Loved Axel rubbing his forearm across Kofi's face (REGAL~!) but I am just now understanding why you guys shit on Kofi's offense. At the very least, his terrible hand slap strikes.
Thankfully, as I have seen so far, Matt D is an outlier on that cage match so hopefully we can end this AWA set soon so I don't have to hear him harp on it.
I know ....
Curtis Axel & Paul Heyman vs. CM Punk
Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan
I know they are going to have a tag match to determine the tag titles later in the show.
That is all I know.
Six Man Tags that made the New Japan set...
Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Scott Hall, Bob Orton & Dick Murdoch (11/17/88)
Tatsutoshi Goto, Masa Saito, Seiji Sakaguchi vs. Scott Hall, Bob Orton & Dick Murdoch (12/7/88)