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Amongst the ruins of Dolph Ziggler's winning streak and Damien Sandow starting (a sure to be short-lived) one tonight, a fun little bit of resolution was finally achieved.
Some six months after Fandango didn't want to wrestle Kofi Kingston, the latter finally Trouble In Paradised the former and won.
It's really weird dialing up the Wayback Machine how much has changed since March: Brock Lesnar was keeping Triple H in check, Ricardo Rodriguez actually served a purpose, and two movie stars (one-and-a-half?) were battling it out to diminishing critical returns for the WWE Title.
And in the midst of all that stepped Fandango, refusing to do his duties until somebody showed him some respect and said his name. Kofi stood in the ring and accepted a forfeit victory, only to be superseded a -few weeks later by Chris Jericho jumping his opponent and the crowd playing sing-along and dance-along with the former dirty one.
After this week's Main Event I completely understand Mr. Rae's POV. Getting hurricane kicked in the face is no good, especially when the guy doesn't call for it first and just uncorks it out of nowhere. With the audience and especially children in the palm of his hands per usual Kingston unveiled a quick, neat display of why he's where he is and why many of us are a bit salty more hasn't been done with him at times:
And I'm saying this on a show where Dolph Ziggler went Full Ziggler and almost did so two more times in a losing bid to Curtis Axel. This loss made sense, as Ryback got involved at the end and he and Ziggler have had a simmering thing going on for the past few weeks. But watching Curtis Axel dominating the bulk of the match -- at one point himself nearing total Zigitude by falling to the floor in one go after the shoulder-to-the-post hit -- was more off than Edward Norton playing the Hulk. Even if he does have a nice Saito suplex, the weirdo facebuster and the fact he has the biggest heat magnet sitting ringside doesn't help matters in drawing attention to the dictionary definition of serviceable.
Of note in the closer, Damien Sandow used the Uncle Slam (known here as the Silencer) for his victory over Justin Gabriel. We'll see if that becomes a thing going forward or if it was just used as the go-home due to not much time and this being, well, Main Event.
Editor's Note: Why don't we let Sandow himself answer that question. -- TH
At least that didn't take six months to resolve itself.
Some six months after Fandango didn't want to wrestle Kofi Kingston, the latter finally Trouble In Paradised the former and won.
It's really weird dialing up the Wayback Machine how much has changed since March: Brock Lesnar was keeping Triple H in check, Ricardo Rodriguez actually served a purpose, and two movie stars (one-and-a-half?) were battling it out to diminishing critical returns for the WWE Title.
And in the midst of all that stepped Fandango, refusing to do his duties until somebody showed him some respect and said his name. Kofi stood in the ring and accepted a forfeit victory, only to be superseded a -few weeks later by Chris Jericho jumping his opponent and the crowd playing sing-along and dance-along with the former dirty one.
After this week's Main Event I completely understand Mr. Rae's POV. Getting hurricane kicked in the face is no good, especially when the guy doesn't call for it first and just uncorks it out of nowhere. With the audience and especially children in the palm of his hands per usual Kingston unveiled a quick, neat display of why he's where he is and why many of us are a bit salty more hasn't been done with him at times:
- Kofi missed a baseball slide, only to get whipped back towards the ring where he
- Did a hilo through the bottom and middle ropes to spring up and
- Fake a tope with his neckjammer faint to mock Fandango with a dance, followed by
- Fandango chasing him in anger and Kofi matadoring him before throwing him out of the ring
- And connecting with the tope on the opposite side of the ring (see above) and landing on his feet in the process.
And I'm saying this on a show where Dolph Ziggler went Full Ziggler and almost did so two more times in a losing bid to Curtis Axel. This loss made sense, as Ryback got involved at the end and he and Ziggler have had a simmering thing going on for the past few weeks. But watching Curtis Axel dominating the bulk of the match -- at one point himself nearing total Zigitude by falling to the floor in one go after the shoulder-to-the-post hit -- was more off than Edward Norton playing the Hulk. Even if he does have a nice Saito suplex, the weirdo facebuster and the fact he has the biggest heat magnet sitting ringside doesn't help matters in drawing attention to the dictionary definition of serviceable.
Of note in the closer, Damien Sandow used the Uncle Slam (known here as the Silencer) for his victory over Justin Gabriel. We'll see if that becomes a thing going forward or if it was just used as the go-home due to not much time and this being, well, Main Event.
Editor's Note: Why don't we let Sandow himself answer that question. -- TH
At least that didn't take six months to resolve itself.