This week’s show saw it compulsory for all competitors to have names that ended in ‘o’ (unless you’re Tyson Kidd) and gave Los Matadores and El Torito their debut on a show that will no doubt be their home for the foreseeable future.
Fandango kicks off the show with Summer Rae. Cue a
couple of shots of patches of geeks doing the dance up in the gods. Riley
starts singing Florida Georgia Line to Tom Philips in order to segue into talk
about Raw from Monday and Survivor Series. Clearly, they had nothing to say
about Fandango. Tyson Kidd, tan and all, is his opponent tonight and boy did
they sweeten his reaction in post-production. This ought to be a good match.
Fandango
v Tyson Kidd
Out of the lock up, Fandango hip tosses Kidd
immediately and wiggles his hips, posturing to the crowd. Tyson, looking
disgusted, gets up and drop kicks Fandango through the ropes and begins to do
his own Fandango dance in the ring while Summer Rae goes to Fandango’s aid. As
he approaches the ropes, Kidd swings through between the top and middle rope
and lands him with a missile drop kick as the referee starts the count.
Outside, Kidd stomps on Fandango and rolls him back in
the ring. Tyson leaps over the top rope and goes for a cover with a sunset flip
– Fandango kicks out at two. Kidd then goes for a wheelbarrow victory roll but
Fandango reverses it into a modified German suplex. He gets a two count as
Riley mentions the Total Divas angle that lead to this minor feud.
Fandango starts to hit Tyson with strikes and chops in
the corner and whips him into the opposite turnbuckle as the crowd start to get
behind Kidd. Fandango starts to wear Kidd down with a rear choke. Kidd rolls
him off, ducks out of a charge to the corner and then mounts the second rope
and uses a tilt-a-whirl headscissors to launch Fandango face-first into the
second turnbuckle. Kidd then starts to work on Fandango with kicks and drop
kicks, getting a near fall.
Kidd charges at the recovering Fandango in the corner
who ducks, making Kidd leap frog into the turnbuckle. As Tyson recovers,
Fandango goes to the top rope looking to land the leg drop but eats an enziguri
and sells it by hanging, limply from the ropes. Riley compares Kidd to RVD which
Tom Philips and I both clearly thought an interesting comparison.
The finish comes when Kidd misses a top rope
frankensteiner on Fandango who hits the Beauty in Motion (leg drop) and covers
him for the win. Man is that finisher going to shorten his career. This was a
good 4-minute match; I’d happily see more of these two.
Winner:
Fandango via pinfall (3:59)
The Raw Rebound is next – we get the return of The
Authority with the Orton v Maddox match and we get the Ryback v Big Show match
with the Orton interference.
Out next on Superstars are Los Matadores with El
Torito who make their WWE Superstars debut. Their opponents (minus the bikes)
are Hunico and Camacho. It’s been a while but if memory serves, Camacho is
dreadful while Hunico is tremendous…
Los
Matadores (with El Torito) v Hunico &Camacho
Hunico and Diego lock up and exchange arm drags until
Hunico gets the better of him, does a kip up and generally looks in excellent
shape. Hunico beats down Diego and then locks in a wrist lock which Diego
escapes by climbing the ropes and using a top rope, springboard hurricanrana. Diego
then gets caught charging Hunico but locks in a headscissors and brings Hunico
down to the mat.
Fernando tags in and hits a drop kick on Hunico
followed by a monkey flip that leads him to roll out of the ring. He then hits
him through the ropes with a tope and ‘Oles’ the crowd as we head into a break.
After the ads, Fernando is being controlled by Hunico
until Camacho tags himself in and begins to beat him down. This guy is huge but
is a complete contrast to Hunico – he has no grace and, while the others are
all silky smooth performers in this match, he is ungainly and lumbering.
Camacho lifts and holds Fernando in a side suplex and boots him in the corner
as he tags in Hunico.
Hunico goes for a cover but only gets two and so tries
a rear choke hold to wear Fernando down. Fernando tries to power out but gets
schoolboyed and at the point of kicking out is picked up and slammed back down
for another pin. This time, Hunico hooks the leg but, again, only gets the two
count. Camacho tags in and power slams Fernando and again covers him but only
for two. Back in comes Hunico and they double team poor Fernando.
Finally, Diego gets the hot tag when Fernando
completely botches a tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown. Hunico sells it anyway
(even though the crowd “ooh” and wince) while Fernando gets up, plants Hunico
with a DDT and crawls over to make the tag. Camacho also tags in and Diego runs
wild.
The finish sees Hunico interrupt a pin attempt from
Diego who had spent a good minute trying to get Camacho into the right position
for him to hit his senton. Fernando sends Hunico packing while El Torito flies
off the top rope onto Hunico on the outside. Inside the ring, Camacho takes a
double back body drop from both of Los Matadores and Diego, the legal man,
covers Camacho for the pin.
This had a few botched spots and showed Hunico’s ring
rust and Camacho’s inexperience. There were at least ten headscissor-takedowns
or similar in this match and it all ended up looking a little sloppy.
Winner:
Los Matadores via pinfall (7:58)
This was a clean, wholesome and fun edition of WWE Superstars
that would lighten any WWE fan’s mood on a Saturday morning. The show closes out
with the Wyatts & Shield v Rhodes, Usos, Punk & Bryan match with
Mysterio’s return.
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