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14. WWE SummerSlam - WWE Universal Championship: Finn Bálor vs. Seth Rollins
I still question why WWE had the “Demon” debut on the go-home show, I understand for the casuals to see him and go WOW maybe I should watch this SSlam show, but really how many people actually did say that. It would have been much more special for the entrance and the gimmick to make its first appearance at the PPV. As cheese as it is, whoever comes up with the entrance choreography and the camera man timing to catch some of these shots, bravo. Finn comes out the block hot hitting the running dropkick and looking for the double foot stomp, but Seth rolls out, Finn follows with a dive to the floor. I really like that they go right into the middle portion of the match, skip the feeling out process, the mat work, just right into back and forth action; Played that well considering the PPV was like 8-10 matches and the placement of the matches was a mess. So as we know about 10 minutes in, Seth hits the running powerbomb to the ringside barricade and Balor tears his labrum in his shoulder, but you wouldn’t know because he pulls his arm back into socket and keeps going. Salute. Seth begins controlling the pace, he doesn’t really target a body part he’s just trying to wear him down, keep him on his back. I really wish Seth would stop using the pedigree and just switch to the five-star-frog splash it’s up there as top 3 all time. Finn’s comeback is good, but the crowd is super dead all sitting on their asses, barely reacting and when they do they just clap. Oh, wait they come alive just to boo whenever the Universal title is shown, smh. Just gonna address the “Universal” title, THE BLOOD BELT! So yes it’s red and yes the name is terrible but the fact that you can’t get past it and potentially ruined a really good hard-fought match is pretty dumb. A really good sequence with both men countering one another’s big moves so they have to bust out new stuff, Seth does manage to hit a pedigree but Seth kicks out at two. Real nice exchanges of big moves, Finn hits the double stomp off the top for the win. This was pretty awesome, damn. You probably won’t like if you’re not into the Indy style or even Japanese JR' Heavyweight styles because this was that kind of match; As I said earlier I liked that they got right into is, shaving potentially 5 minutes off. I also really dug the story with both men being really similar in styles, so they had to adjust and add new things in the plan. All around, good stuff. ****
I still question why WWE had the “Demon” debut on the go-home show, I understand for the casuals to see him and go WOW maybe I should watch this SSlam show, but really how many people actually did say that. It would have been much more special for the entrance and the gimmick to make its first appearance at the PPV. As cheese as it is, whoever comes up with the entrance choreography and the camera man timing to catch some of these shots, bravo. Finn comes out the block hot hitting the running dropkick and looking for the double foot stomp, but Seth rolls out, Finn follows with a dive to the floor. I really like that they go right into the middle portion of the match, skip the feeling out process, the mat work, just right into back and forth action; Played that well considering the PPV was like 8-10 matches and the placement of the matches was a mess. So as we know about 10 minutes in, Seth hits the running powerbomb to the ringside barricade and Balor tears his labrum in his shoulder, but you wouldn’t know because he pulls his arm back into socket and keeps going. Salute. Seth begins controlling the pace, he doesn’t really target a body part he’s just trying to wear him down, keep him on his back. I really wish Seth would stop using the pedigree and just switch to the five-star-frog splash it’s up there as top 3 all time. Finn’s comeback is good, but the crowd is super dead all sitting on their asses, barely reacting and when they do they just clap. Oh, wait they come alive just to boo whenever the Universal title is shown, smh. Just gonna address the “Universal” title, THE BLOOD BELT! So yes it’s red and yes the name is terrible but the fact that you can’t get past it and potentially ruined a really good hard-fought match is pretty dumb. A really good sequence with both men countering one another’s big moves so they have to bust out new stuff, Seth does manage to hit a pedigree but Seth kicks out at two. Real nice exchanges of big moves, Finn hits the double stomp off the top for the win. This was pretty awesome, damn. You probably won’t like if you’re not into the Indy style or even Japanese JR' Heavyweight styles because this was that kind of match; As I said earlier I liked that they got right into is, shaving potentially 5 minutes off. I also really dug the story with both men being really similar in styles, so they had to adjust and add new things in the plan. All around, good stuff. ****