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Adam’s Clash of Champions 2020 Results and Review

Adam gets to flex his review talents a little more on WWE PPVs! Clash of Champions! Was it good? Bad? Just there?

Published

4 years ago

September 27, 2020

It’s that time of the year again where all that glitters is gold and every championship on SmackDown and RAW is defended tonight. Can Uce get the win and lock the Big Dog in the penitentiary? Can Reigns prove it’s just him, not his family helping? Will Drew send Orton to the Claymore Country Hospital or will the Viper get that fourteenth World Championship and tied Triple H in reigns?

Well, the Balaz pecking order came back to bite me… might need to call a lawyer if this… but, on with Clash of Champions!

Results:

Lucha House Party vs Shinsuke & Cesaro(c) for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships – Nakamura & Cesaro win via Giant Swing/ Knee Strike: ** ¼ – TITLE DEFENSE!!
Ladder Match: Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles vs Jeff Hardy (c) for the Intercontinental Championship(s?) – Sami Zayn wins : *** ¾ – TITLE Defense? Change? Sami has the Belts…
Zelina Vega vs Asuka (c) for the RAW Women’s Championship – Asuka wins via Asuka Lock: * ¾ – TITLE DEFENSE!!
Apollo Crews vs Bobby Lashley (c) for the United States Championship – Lashley wins via Full Nelson: ** ½ – TITLE DEFENSE!!
Angel Garza & Andrade vs The Street Profits (c) for the RAW Tag Team Championships- Street Profits win via The Anointment (Spinebuster) – *** – TITLE DEFENSE!!
Bayley (c) vs ??? for the SmackDown Women’s Championship- Bayley loses via DQ : N/A– BAYLEY RETAINS!!
Ambulance Match: Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre (c) for the WWE Championship – Drew wins : *** ¼ – TITLE DEFENSE!!
Jey Uso vs Roman Reigns(c) for the Universal Championship- Roman Reigns wins: *** ½ – TITLE DEFENSE!!

Review:

Lucha House Party vs Shinsuke & Cesaro(c)

Lucha House Party starts very quick taking it to the champions but it wasn’t enough. Some impressive moves from LHP doing off like Cesaro catching Lince from a dive and Kalisto dives through the ropes after to complete the Tornado DDT to the outside. All flash and no bang however when you deal with Cesaro and Nakamura because they hit hard and quick and come on Kalisto… you aren’t going to beat The King of Strong Style with a Shiranu—sorry… Solida del Sol.

One Giant Swing and an abrupt stop with a knee to the head to keep the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.

Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles vs Jeff Hardy

All three men have done things that were actually DIFFERENT for once in a ladder match. AJ throwing a shorter ladder to halt Sami’s progress, Sami busting out Handcuffs and doing things like cuffing himself to Styles and cuffing Hardy’s ear to a Ladder too but, some things never change because Jeff still throwing caution to the wind with a Swanton from a Ladder through another. Like everyone thought, Sami was going to use his cunning to win his Intercontinental Championship and he did. Tethering himself to Styles with the Cuffs and when Styles was fighting off Hardy when dragging Sami on his shoulder, Zayn unlocks himself from Styles and locks him to the ladder to capture… recapture… Sami won.

That’s all we need to know. Sami is Intercontinental Champion.

Asuka vs Zelina Vega

So Tom Brady threw three touchdowns and no interceptions as a Buc for the fir—Oh right, match is on. Asuka took this match as a joke at first because Vega was too short for a lockup but Asuka was having too much fun with it. During the match, Zelina actually took it to Asuka, damaging her arm in the process with armbars and crucifix in the ropes to pull Asuka’s arms back. In the end however, Tampa Bay is two and one and we were shown once again that nobody is ready for Asuka after an Asuka Lock.

Apollo Crews vs Bobby Lashley

This match had one person in each corner and surprisingly, neither man really did anything to distract the competitors. MVP trash talked Crews when he was getting beaten in the ropes in a four count but, nothing too distracting. Crews has a good amount of offense to have some flashes early on and late in the match but all fall into the business with Hurt Lock… or Full Lashley. I don’t know. It’s a Full Nelson Lock, won via Submission.

Garza & Andrade vs The Street Profits

Garza and Andrade actually are on the same page in the opening of the match. There are frequent tags between them, taking it to the Profits on both of them with tag offense and one on one offense. After a while the train was derailed slightly with Almas’ Knees hitting the turnbuckles instead and Angel using desperation moves to break away from the Profits and after a blown call from the referee, Dawkins actually hits his Chokeslam Powerbomb which his finish and even though Almas kicked out, the ref didn’t see it and the Profits retain… for now.

Bayley vs ???

Bayley is getting cocky and since Nikki Cross is unable to compete and said, “I will take an open challenge from anyone in the back.” However, trying to backpedal out of it because nobody came out right away. Well if you have an open challenge, meaning you aren’t ready for the competitor, who better to not being ready for than Asuka. That’s right, SummerSlam rematch with no Sasha Banks in Bayley’s corner this time. Trying to actually have a match, Bayley uses a chair to hit Asuka in a five minute brawl basically. After that however, Sasha comes out with the neck brace and cracks Bayley in the back with a hard chair shot and take it to her former friend for betraying her.

Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre

Randal Keith Orton… you will be visited by three ghosts of the wronged. When the match bell rings you will be visited by them in some form. Good luck.

The match starts and both men want to kill each other but Orton gets an early advantage inside of the ring, measuring up for a Punt to take Drew out quickly until a Giant palm from out of nowhere grabs the leg of Orton. The Big Show comes back to choke slam Orton through the announce table for taking him out of competition for a little bit. Drew gets an opening and both men take it towards the ambulance, teasing an end until Orton slowly goes to the back, trying to get away and finally after stopping McIntyre near catering, it felt like Orton was in charge of the match like Captaining this ship… then speaking of Captains, Christian comes and takes it to Orton for punting him after the Edge match at Mania. Giving Drew another unknown advantage and going back to the ambulance, we take it to the top of the vehicle this time and after Randy does his best Mufasa and Scar impression and we hear the Sweet Music after the fact. We all know as wrestling fans what that means though.

It’s not theme music, it’s in the form of a Superkick and if you aren’t down with Shawn Michaels superkicking Orton off of the ambulance, he’ll give you a couple of words about it. McIntyre finally seals the deal by Claymore and the receipt in the form of a punt before slamming both doors for the victory.

Jey Uso vs Roman Reigns

Allow me to channel my inner Marty McFly when I say, “Wait a minute. I’ve seen this before!”

Roman basically made any small offense Jey had a joke. Try to trade punches in the face? Jey falls, Roman is unaffected. Jey does a chop across Roman’s chest? Nah, five fingers to the face goes smack. We all kind of knew that there would be a dominating presence from Roman this whole match but it was honestly done phenomenally. Roman just telling him to not go after him and to calm down and take the small punishment instead of being dismantled like he was the whole match all the way to the point that when Charles Robinson checked on Jey, Roman legit says, “What are you doing? I’ve been doing this to him his whole life” and he Roman would have kept the title even if he kept pummeling Jey but Jimmy came limping down and threw in the towel. Roman wins in dominant fashion and as Heyman puts the Lei over Reigns, hailing him as the Chief of the family.

Overall Score: 5.5/10

Well as expected some of the matches fell insanely short or maybe went on a little longer than expected but, it was a good PPV. I know there might be a lot of backlash on a high rating of the Reigns match when he treated Jey like the runt but, that’s what told the story. Jey always felt like the runt of the family and is scrappy, will fight even if it’s a losing effort if it’s going against what he believes. I know for a fact that most people who is a little brother is reading this, you know what I mean where big brother can be a little much and you want to take it to them because you want to prove you aren’t a runt. Think about that, get back to me after losing against Andrew with that one. The ladder match was different with weapons used differently; Orton going through ‘A Christmas Wrestling Story’ was a different twist on losing.

All and all this is setting up pretty decently for a good Hell In A Cell PPV but the draft might throw a bar in possible plans or maybe enhance them.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS

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Komander VS The Beast Mortos; wins.
Texas Deathmatch: Leyla Hirsch VS Diamante; wins.
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ROH Pure Championship: Wheeler Yuta VS Lee Moriarty; wins and
ROH Women’s World Television Championship: Billie Starkz VS Red Velvet; wins and
ROH Women’s World Championship: Athena VS Queen Aminata; wins and
ROH World Championship: Mark Briscoe VS Roderick Strong; wins and

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Andrew’s TNA iMPACT! Results & Match Ratings: 7.25.2024

Slammiversary Fallout! Where do things go on the way to Victory Road?

Published

20 hours ago

July 25, 2024

Andrew Balaz

Well now we start the fall out of Slammiversary. Josh Alexander in his bad bitch summer, X-Speedball legacy, ABC got the t-a-g and Jordynne is still in charge of the Knockouts division. Like I said at the end of Slammiversary, all of the champions being Babyfaces is stupid. They need to drop a couple titles fairly quickly, because I don’t care what some people say, Nic Nemeth ain’t gonna bring any eyes to the brand. He’s about as hot as day old Hamburger Helper over a camping sterno.

We’ll probably open with the luke warm champion, so tune in like 10 minutes late for anything of substance to be happen.

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Ratings:

Steve Maclin vs Cody Deaner: Maclin wins via KIA – *
AJ Francis w/Rich Swann & Josh Bishop vs Sami Callihan: AJ wins via Down Payment – **
Hammer Your ASH (ASH by Elegance & Alexander Hammerstone) vs JuggerYoung (Jordynne Grace & Eric Young): Hammer Your ASH wins via Torture Rack – ** 1/2
The System (Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers & JDC) w/Alisha Edwards vs Matt Hardy & The ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey): Broken Alphabet wins via Twist & Splash – ***

Results:

Nemeth gives the ole “I’ll be a fighting champion…blah blah” promo and drops the “any company” line that we’ve already understood what that means. Campaign Singh cuts him off…and I never thought I’d be happy for Campaign Singh to walk out and say anything…ever. And…Mustafa’s promo is worse than Dolph’s. He’s gone from parody to caricature even saying “it was the biggest screw job Montreal ever saw”. Like some of these lines are cheap heat, but most are just brain dead comments that wouldn’t get a reaction out of anyone (and the crowd was silent for that comment). Mustafa gets caught in an Archer “phrasing” moment about getting screwed hard, but this is painful. Promos written by 14 year olds everyone…

This ends with Ali challenging Nemeth for the World Title. While I’m not against walk up challenges, I watch Japanese wrestling, I don’t really get the point aside from doing it just to do it.

ABC and Matt Hardy have a small promo, and I’m still not really a fan of Unbroken Matt Version 6.0. The floating between Broken voice and his normal voice sounds amateurish.

OH LOOK, finally a match 20 minutes into the show. And it’s my son Steve Maclin! OH CHRIST he’s facing Deaner. This has been 25 minutes of talking followed by the worst god damn attempt at a gimmick. Deaner’s little “Papa Santino told me I can wipe my ass only if the crowd agrees”. This gimmick should die in a fire.

Steve Maclin vs Cody Deaner

Deaner started off quick because Maclin was in disbelief that Deaner was actually gonna fight him. Maclin dodges a Crossbody, Busaiku Knee, and just starts beating on Deaner for fun. And this is fun, maybe Maclin can make sure Deaner gets stretchered out and written off forever. How do you call for an ambulance in French? Maclin with the old Back Breaker into a stretch. Deaner tries to nerd rage up, breaks the Back Breaker Stretch, his punch combo, into a Manhattan Drop and Bulldog. Deaner hits the Crossbody, but Maclin kicks out. This is entirely too competitive.

Deaner goes for the Deaner DDT, blocked, Olympic Slam into Splashing Deaner into the corner, Caught in the Crosshairs, K-I-A, thanks for coming you damn dweeb. Stay in Canada and don’t travel Deaner, please.

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AJ Francis w/Rich Swann & Josh Bishop vs Sami Callihan

As the bell sounds, Sami knocks Rich off the apron, Low Bridges AJ, does the Beats of the Bodhran on AJ and then AJ eats the offense and strategizes with his crew. Bishop and Rich swarm the ring, Sami allows himself to get distracted so AJ slides in and starts beating on Sami. AJ throats Sami across the middle rope and Rich makes his presence felt, AJ distracts the referee and Rich gets in a lot of cheap shots. Bishop throws Sami back in the ring, and AJ keeps up the pressure. Lots of 5 count chokes and leverage moves. After the commercial break ends, Sami dodges a Tennessee Whiskey Knee, gets in a few shots before Rich trips Sami as he’s setting up a Dive, and then AJ takes advantage of the position and hits the goofball knee strike.

AJ calls for his Chokeslam, Sami tries to break it with Axe Handles, then claws the eyes. Sami goes for a Scoop Slam, gets him part way up and then falls over. AJ Chokeslam again, but he bites his hand and starts fighting back. Launches himself at AJ, sends him bouncing off the ropes and uses the momentum to hit that Scoop Slam that was teased earlier. Sami goes for a Western Lariat but eats a Big Boot. AJ does a little Hulk Hogan pose to signal a Leg Drop, but Sami dodges and then connects on a Sliding Lariat. Thumbs Up, Thumbs….interference. Rich distracts the ref, Bishop lays out Sami, AJ connects with the Down Payment.

Hammer Your ASH (ASH by Elegance & Alexander Hammerstone) vs JuggerYoung (Jordynne Grace & Eric Young)

ASH and Jordynne exchange slaps and then Jordynne starts to out muscle ASH. Spinebuster from Jordynne, Juggernaut Driver attempt, but ASH fights off, rope run, Sattelite DDT into both tagging out. EY does the Flair corner flop, slides back in between Hammer’s legs, and connects on a Neckbreaker. EY is the quicker of the two, but Hammer finally gets his hands on him and a Release Belly to Belly into a full mount raining of fists, then a near fall. Hammer smashes EY in a corner, Arm Wringer into an Irish Whip across, but EY moves and Hammer tags out to ASH. ASH levels Jordynne, peppers EY with a few shots and pulls him back to their corner and starts some tandem offense with Hammerman. Hammer Guerilla Presses ASH and throws her into EY for a near fall. Hammer looks to aim for either a Powerbomb or Nightmare Pendulum, but EY drops it into a Small Package, pinfall kick out, they both run, Double Lariat spot. The Knockouts get tagged in.

Jordynne is in control early, World’s Strongest Slam into a Vader Bomb. Juggernaut Driver attempt, but ASH fights it off and tags out to Hammer. Jordynne and EY do some schoolyard stuff with the old Push while Jordynne is down to trip Hammer. All four get in, ASH gets leveled, EY gets leveled, Hammer and Jordynne have a brief face off, but Hammer throws Jordynne to the apron and ASH connects with a Meteora from the apron. Death Valley Driver from Young on Hammer, ASH stares in shock, EY tells her to get, ASH runs away. EY goes up for his Macho Elbow, and ASH causes him to fall to Hammer’s feet, Torture Rack, and EY submits.

Josh Alexander comes out, with new heel music. And it’s not that bad, definitely better than some other people’s new music. Josh yells at the crowd a bit, says he can’t wait til he’s back in a real Canadian town, like his home of Toronto. Then he drops the mic in lieu of an explanation. The crowd chants him off with the “Nah Nah Nah Nah, Hey Hey Hey”.

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The System (Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers & JDC) w/Alisha Edwards vs Matt Hardy & The ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey)

JDC and Hardy start, but JDC quickly tags out to Myers and that doesn’t go well. Hardy grabs a hold of Myers, a few Delete chops, drags him to his corner and they all get in a few shots punctuated with Hardy getting tagged back in and an Elbow into Myers’ extended and worked on left arm. Myers stays isolated, back into the corner, Boot to the gut, Ace tags in and wallops Myers. Ace connects on Double Kicks, into Russian Leg Sweep and his half of Click Click Boom, for a 2 count. Myers finally gets free with a Jaw Breaker and tags out to Eddie. But The System gets no momentum, Ace stifles Eddie’s offense and starts a few quick tags with him and Bey for tandem offense. Moose finally comes down the ramp as Eddie kicked out of yet another pinfall attempt because The System has had nothing going for them. Eddie finally gets some offense since Moose was a big enough distraction.

Eddie thinks they have a spot, so he tags back in JDC, but The ABC stop him cold, tag in Matt Hardy, and Matt walks down JDC, but JDC Low Bridges. Matt is on the outside, so all of The System surrounds Hardy, then Joe Hendry’s music hits! That stops the heel beatdown, and we follow Hendry’s entire entrance. So that proves Hendry is bigger than the 8 other people in this frame. Not really sure if that’s optics you want to push along. Ace and JDC try to remind people there’s wrestling going on, but JDC thumbs the eye to get a little something going. Vertical Suplex for a near fall, tag out for Eddie and Eddie lights up Ace with some of those NOAH Chops. Ace retreats to the ropes and Alisha chokes him with the ropes while the ref is distracted.

Myers gets tagged in, Ace tries to use the crowd energy, Myers stops it at first but then Ace slips a Scoop Slam and tags out to Bey. Hot tag, strike rush, Double Stomp, educated feet, Leap Frog to the corner but Lish climbs on the apron and yells at Bey which stops his rhythm. Myers kicks his feet out and causes Bey to crash. Eddie tags in for a few shots, then to JDC and Slingshot Knees, Wringer Snapmare, Bow and Arrow Submission, and JDC is just doing solid wrestling work right now. Uppercut between the Shoulder Blades as Bey tries to get out, tag to Myers and Bey is still eating offense. Eddie tags in, Bey tries the Sunset Flip, but Eddie tags out before going over, so Myers folds up Bey for a near fall and then tags out to JDC who connects on a Standing Suplex, slams Bey’s face into the corner, Eddie tags in, and Bey finally fights up to his feet, Eddie just flatten Bey’s comeback, tries a Tiger Driver but eats an Enzuigiri for a simultaneous tag. JDC and Hardy come in, JDC tries to exit halfway in, but Hardy is wrecking shop. He disposes of Eddie, Myers slides in but eats a tandem Neckbreaker/DDT from Hardy. Face team does the Delete Corner Face Smashes. Poetry in Motion into a Side Effect into Corkscrew Swanton for only 2 since Myers breaks it up! Everyone throwing hands, referee is distracted, Moose comes in to Spear Hardy, but Hardy dodges and throws him into JDC (I get the call back), Hendry then lays out Moose with the big Lariat. Twist of Fate from Hardy, Splash from Bey, Broken Alphabet wins!

Overall Score: 4/10

Ugh, cliche promos, too damn much talking, a competitive squash match with an imbecile as our first “match”, into an overbooked and slow heel match, finally a decent tag match (with the right team going over), into another overbooked match with a “tease” for the mystery backup being more obvious than Jericho’s WWF debut.

Aside from the afore mentioned tag match, The Rascalz promo and The System Promo; this was hard to watch. A lot of cornball promos, Rosemary licks her conspiracy board, storylines got zero traction. Whoopity Doo, Ryan Nemeth got a match next week and we get an undead wedding.

While this was a bad episode, it was bad by at least new standards. We’re not back in the TNA Dark Days again, but this was…a useless show.

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