The post-match angle was hotter than the sun compared to the actual match. I want to say that this was the best Cruiserweight title defense yet, but that honestly isn’t saying much. This was an interesting triple threat in that there were a lot of moments that felt messy, but things recovered so quickly that it may have all been planned. Jericho’s tights say that he’s the greatest of all time and tonight that just might be true. While he may be a bit slower these days, you couldn’t tell that at all today. Even in loss, Jericho proved that he doesn’t need any friends. It looks like the damage has been done and nothing will bring them back together. The match had a slight bit of interference from Kevin Owens, who was only looking to rekindle his friendship with Jericho. There were some really hot segments of action here, including an awesome closing stretch. Is there anyone that’s a better foil to fiery babyface Seth Rollins than wily veteran Chris Jericho? This was my favorite Rollins match since he made the turn to the side of the angels. While he still needs some work, this was easily Strowman’s best performance and I’m really looking forward to a singles match between these two men when they aren’t shackled to this stipulation. If this match was just the final three minutes, I would be raving about it, but the lackluster first seventy percent of the match really brought it down for me. Giving credit where credit is due though, Strowman was great in his interactions with Foley, who looked extra homeless when he hobbled to the ring with his white towel. I really wanted to like this, but I don’t feel like Strowman is ready to go gen minutes, even with a great wrestler like Zayn to help him. Judging from the amount of “DELETE” chants I heard, I’m going to guess that I wasn’t the only one that zoned out. Was this boring until the last couple of minutes? It felt boring to me. Kofi bought it, and immediately attacked the charging Cesaro, leaving himself open to the still legal Sheamus, who scored the pin and ended the long and lackluster (in ring) New Day reign. Sheamus dove for the corner for a tag, but Cesaro yanked his hand away at the last possible moment to deke Kofi. This was worked at a frenetic, non stop pace, which is exactly what you want out of a big show opener, and had one of the more creative finishes you’ll ever see. Everyone else delivered too, with Sheamus bringing the brute force, Big E being big, and Kofi bumping like a mad man. Cesaro in particular was awesome, flying around like a (non WWE) cruiser and doing wacky shit like corkscrew pescados in what may have been his best overall performance of the year. Luckily, VOW’s King of Banter, Joe Lanza, didn’t have the problems I had and was able to provide a review. We’ve got new tag team champions! I’m sure the match was good, but the award winning WWE Network was not working for me when the match was going on. This was a dumb feud with an even worse match. Not only was this completely out of character for Rusev, but it didn’t make either man look good coming out of this match. Instead, Rusev won via countout after tricking Cass to chase him to the outside.
Ideally, Rusev would have killed Enzo and made Cass eat him. In a just world, our hero would have gotten their comeuppance.
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