Damien Sandow v Sin Cara
So, Sin Cara
still exists in WWE, has new ring gear which is just garish and essentially
horrid but doesn’t seem to be wrestling under blue and yellow lighting anymore.
Great! Damien Sandow seemed to gain little from the exposure on Raw with Hugh
Jackman and finds himself here on Superstars on the Network.
Quick mat
wrestling and pin attempts start the match until Sandow slows things down with
arm bars and tries to stop Sin Cara getting into his speedy offense. The crowd
is dead here. Sin Cara also slows down and starts to apply holds; he’s looking a
little heavy and after a drop kick and a few runs between the ropes looks a
little blown up.
Sandow
misses a charge to the corner, gets caught by an elbow and ducks a moonsault.
Sin Cara lands on his feet, rolls backwards and then launches Sandow over the
top rope and hits a tope. We crash to the break.
After the
commercial Sin Cara is still in control, goes for a cover but only gets two.
More arm holds from Sin Cara (weird move set; the old Sin Cara wouldn’t have
done this?) until, Sandow ducks a flying cross body, rolls him up for a cover
but Sin Cara kicks out at two. Sandow starts to stomp and beat Sin Cara down
and he rolls under the ropes to the outside. Back in the ring, more stomps,
kicks and then Sandow applies a bear hug. Again, odd. Sin Cara escapes and goes
for a cover and gets a near fall.
Side Russian
leg sweep, Cubito Aequet and another near fall leads to more heelish beatdown
from Sandow. This match is DULL. Sandow applies an abdominal stretch. Sin Cara
hits a flying back elbow and they both go down for a count of five. Cross body
from Sin Cara, tilt-a-whirl headscissors and then out of nowhere Sin Cara hits
Sandow with a POWERBOMB. I’m not kidding.
The finish
sees Sin Cara go for a senton but Sandow blocks it by putting his knees up.
Sandow hits the You’re Welcome for the win. Really nothing match that went way
too long.
Winner: Damien Sandow in 8:17
The Raw rebound
recaps the opening of Raw with Cena, Wyatt, the cage and the choir – he’s got
the whole world in his hands, you know.
Bo Dallas is
still coming.
They then
replayed the whole of the Jackman, Ziggler and Sandow segment.
Tamina v Natalya
Tamina,
still in AJ Lee t-shirt, started out with some really lovely back-and-forth mat
wrestling with Natalya. I’ve said this many, many times on these reports but
Natalya is such a safe pair of hands in the ring that she can have a great
match with most people. She really gets the best out of these weaker Divas and
made Tamina, here, look vastly better than she probably is – although she is
improving.
Natalya tries for the Black Widow, then slides down for a pin.
Tamina goes for Rear View but Natalya rolls under and out of the way, so Snuka
counters a clothesline by hitting a Samoan Drop.
Natalya hits a double underhook suplex and gets a near fall which
transitions into a backslide. Tamina goes for a torture rack but Natalya slips
out and looks for the Sharpshooter. Tamina gets to the ropes and Natalya yanks
her away so that he her head bounces off the mat like a coconut. She uses a
bridge cover but only gets two. Then out of nowhere, Tamina pushes Natalya back
and hits her with a super kick and covers her for the win.
Great little
four minute bout. This was so much better than the men’s match that kicked off the
show, it isn’t even funny. Crowd weren’t into it either, though.
Winner: Tamina Snuka in 4:14
They
recapped SmackDown to finish the show! I don’t think I’ve ever seen them do
this on Superstars; in fact, it’s like it doesn’t exist normally. They showed
The Shield destroying everyone to build up the Evolution match at Extreme
Rules.
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