Noteworthy: Alberto Del Rio was on Superstars for the second straight week and needed seven stitches to his left eye after his match against Justin Gabriel, who returned. Heath Slater and Titus O’Neil are now a team – ‘Slater Gator’.
Alberto Del Rio beat Justin
Gabriel with the cross armbreaker in 4:14
So Del Rio
is out here on this show for the second week running, yet meanwhile he’s
beating Dolph Ziggler one week and facing Roman Reigns the other in the main
event over on SmackDown. Who knows; your guess is as good as mine but we’re
constantly told that he’s likely running down his contract and then going.
Gabriel gets some early offense and out of an Irish whip he hits a
spinning heel kick on Del Rio who rolls under the bottom rope on to the apron.
Gabriel picks him up and suplexes him from the outside into the ring. Del Rio rolls
outside to compose himself. Gabriel charges and hits a baseball slide on Del
Rio and the both go down. Del Rio gets up first and hits an almighty clothesline
on Gabriel, strikes him to the back of the head and then rolls him back in.
Gabriel has had an odd career to date. Part of the original Nexus,
his style is entertaining but he lacks charisma and is a fairly useless promo.
He’s won tag team gold on three occasions but that was more a case of hoping
the title would make the man rather than a genuine push. He even had a brief
role on Total Divas but Jojo Offerman was quickly removed from all programming
and was never seen again. His extreme sports obsession seems to be more
important to him that his wrestling career.
Del Rio puts him in a rear chin lock and as Gabriel powers out of
it, he is hit with a back suplex as Renee Young tells us that Gabriel enjoys
such pursuits as volcano boarding… whatever that is. Del Rio pings Gabriel into
the corner and then lands a fabulous enziguri and covers him for a two count.
Back to the rear chin lock goes Del Rio and this time his back
suplex attempt is reversed as Gabriel tries a leg sweep but can only make it
count for a one count. Del Rio responds with a back breaker and puts him on the
top rope for a suplex. As he lands on the mat and gets up to posture, “si!”
chants break out but somewhere here Del Rio has been busted open. I think it
must have been from a landing on the suplex. He grabs the arm and puts Gabriel
in the cross armbreaker for the win.
Essentially a squash for Del Rio here.
The Raw rebound showed that fantastic Cena and
Heyman segment followed by Cena v Cesaro and ended with a video package
promoting the Orton and Reigns feud.
Backstage We’re shown exclusive WWE.com
footage of Alberto Del Rio getting seven stitches. Heath Slater and Titus O’Neil
argue backstage – Heath wants to be a team but Titus O’Neil says “I don’t like
you; we’re not a team.” Next thing we know they’re out on Superstars and they’re
called Slater Gator. What happened? I have zero clue.
Slater Gator (Heath Slater &
Titus O’Neil) beat Sin Cara & Zack Ryder in 7:47
Heath and Sin
Cara start things off and Ryder and his goatee is quickly tagged in and hits
his best move (a drop kick) on Heath. Titus tags in a works over Ryder, doing
the Big Show flat hand slaps to the chest in the corner. These clearly suck and
none of the guys like taking them.
A Kick from
Ryder out of an Irish whip slows him down and then he follows it up with a
lariat as he dumps Titus outside over the top rope. Sin Cara comes in to lower
the top rope so that Slater can be dumped outside, too. Since they’re a tag
team in the WWE - and babyfaces - they have to do some dives so, Sin Cara hits
a topé while Ryder uses a rather lame missile drop kick onto Slater Gator and
we go to a break.
As we
return, Ryder powers out of O’Neil’s chin lock and hits his drop kick, tagging
in Sin Cara. Titus gets a tag to Heath as well and Sin Cara does his signature
routine: the top rope punch, the top rope springboard cross body, the back
elbow off the ropes but can only get a two count. A heel kick from Slater allows him some respite
and he tags in Titus who stomps Sin Cara into the mat.
O’Neil does
his torture wrack style backbreaker, which still has no name, and gets a two
count. Slater tags back in and uses stomps, kicks, and a choke with his knee.
He tags O’Neil back in who whips Sin Cara and he blocks the charge as both go down.
There’s a
creative finish at least as Ryder gets the hot tag, get his knees up on a
charge, hits a top rope missile drop kick and sends Slater packing. He hits a
Broski Boot on Titus but only gets a two count because Slater makes the save.
Ryder hits Slater with the Rough Ryder, turns back to do likewise on O’Neil but
gets beaten with the Clash of the Titus.
Nothing to
this match. WWE doesn’t need another hodgepodge comedy heel tag team and, given
the cut backs, I’d be worried if I were these guys.
The Raw Rebound was a rehash of Steph and Brie
from Monday.
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