![]() Neville for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship Leave your brain at home when watching this if you want to enjoy it. They worked so hard though, and that should not be overlooked. A good spectacle match, but I don’t think these two are the best opponents for one another. I guess this means Stroman will not be winning the rumble tonight, because this surely means they will face off at WrestleMania. ![]() With Reigns in firm control it looks like we are getting a new champion, but Braun Stroman comes out of nowhere chocks slams Reigns through one table and power slams him through another to allow Owens to retain his title. ![]() He follows up with a huge power bomb through the announce table. They start trading big moves and Owens tries again to slam Reigns through his stack of chairs, but eats a Superman Punch and falls back through the pile of metal. The shortcuts of this gimmick match definitively help. Despite not having the most complimentary styles, and neither of them being the smoothest of wrestlers, these two have surprisingly good chemistry. Question thought, why did Jericho have to sneak a weapon into a match where weapons are allowed? Hmm-? Owens begins to look for ways to finish off Reigns, and Jericho drops down some brass knuckles as the WWE Universal Champion mocks Reigns and goes for and hits a Superman Punch on the Samoan. Owen’s keeps targeting the ribs of the challenger with chair shots and brutal looking frog splash from the top rope through a table on the outside. Reigns looks to set up a table, but Owen’s sneaks up with a sick looking back stabber! Nice! You can hear Jericho cheering and clapping for his friend, above. Owen’s sets up a strange multi-chair pyramid thing on the floor and attempts a power bomb from the apron but Reigns fights out and then turns and mocks Owens silly creation. My least favorite part of all Street Fight/No DQ/No Holds Bared matches. Champion and challenger immediately go to the outside and walk and brawl through the crowd. They fake out Reigns and both jump the “Big Dog,” but he fights them off and locks Jericho into the cage. Chris Jericho is just an amazing performer and his reluctance to get in the cage is just hilarious. This is a No Disqualification match for the WWE Universal Championship in which Kevin Owens best friend, Chris Jericho, will be suspended in a shark cage above the ring. Roman Reigns for the WWE Universal Champion ![]() The best news here is that Charlotte looked really crisp and dominate in this opener. I’m hoping for a rematch on Pay-Per-View. This was a good match, but I don’t think Bayley got to be in control long enough to look like a threat to the champion. Bayley perches the champion on the top rope, but she fights her off and hits Natural Selection to Bayley on the edge of the ring apron for a three count! Bayley’s offense is wild and reckless, while Charlotte is slow and calculating. Bayley goes for a beautiful big elbow from the top rope to try and make up some ground, but only gets a two count. The champion wears down the challenger and taunts her calling her “just a fan.” Good stuff. A very clunky opening sequence from Bayley, but Charlotte slows things down and takes control of the offense. Ridiculous isn’t it? Cole then brings up that Bayley does hold two victories over Charlotte in recent weeks. Michael Cole brings up an interesting stat that Charlotte is 15-0 in championship matches on Pay-Per-View. Jesus, does a pre-show really need to be as long as Smackdown? 1. Shawn Michaels, who is really starting to show his age, makes an appearance in front of his hometown crowd to cap off the two hour pre-show. Nia Jax looked dominate beating Sasha Banks so easily, but the crowd was flat for all five minutes of this. It was great to finally see “The Club” capture the titles. Cesaro and Sheamus versus Gallows and Anderson was serviceable, but not must see. The Smackdown’s six women’s Tag Team match was exactly like every other six women Tag Team match we’ve seen. On that night, Shawn Michaels won the WWE Championship in his hometown and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin won the first of three Royal Rumble matches. It’s the start of the “Road to WrestleMania” as the WWE brings the Royal Rumble back to San Antonio’s Alamodome for the first time in 20 years.
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