GOTNW Posted May 23, 2016 Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 Hate to ruin the fun but this didn't do much for me. Still felt very much like a generic WWE four way just with a better workrate and the overreliance on cheap props to produce drama isn't really my thing in 2016. I liked the finish with Miz getting the pin out of nowhere but when you have stuff like Zayn rolling on the floor asking the ref if it was two instead of going for the pin himself after just breaking up someone else's finisher>pin, Cesaro just staring at Owens while he climbed on the rope and so on it's not the type of stuff I'm going to love. I've seen Cesaro drag Miz into the ring when she tried to save him before, I've seen the tower of doom spots, I've seen the triple suplexes, one guy running at every corner to hit his move three times and so on. Initially I don't even buy them as nearfalls but after a while having someone break up the pin or pull someone out of the ring just becomes tedious and repetitive. **1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElHijodeGorgeousGeorge Posted May 23, 2016 Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 I couldn't disagree more actually. For once this felt like it meant something and I was very impressed with the staging of the match. It didn't feel like a four way clusterfuck as much as it felt like a battle that each man was fighting towards becoming the champion. I loved the hot start with Owens being taken out of the equation for a while and Miz was just fantastic with his character work. I felt like the match was really solid and a low end MOTY for me. I get your criticisms though, a lot of the finish segment was congested and felt really overdone but so much more of the match worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAMS Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 The triple suplexes, the tower of doom, the 'do-whatever-move-to-every-guy-in-each-corner' spots are why I can't go higher, but when this match was on it was really on. The interactions between Owens and Zayn were the best they'd been up to this point in their WWE run and conveyed a level of 'this is personal' that they completely whiffed on in their Payback match. Zayn just honing in on Owens and nailing him with that Helluva Kick got their feud over on the main roster to a greater extent than anything since the initial Owens turn in NXT. Cesaro took a backseat for the first half and then came out strong in the second, nailing one uppercut on Zayn in particular that had me thinking Zayn might have soiled himself. Also a big fan of Zayn seeing red at the end - too caught up in decimating Owens on the floor to realise that Miz was stealing the pin. GREAT (3.75-4*) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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