Over The Limit

Over The Limit?

So to kick things off I’m on a quick good note of I liked the tribute for Randy Savage at the start and the couple of elbow drops I saw during the show, expecting they were paying tribute to Savage, but back to reality and here I go.

R-Truth such a how should I say, Scott Steiner promo cutter right now, can’t understand anything he is saying or the point he is getting across, only good part about his promo’s is the “WHAT?” chant, but back to the show. Rey Mysterio comes out as he is R-Truth’s opponent (even though in recent times it seemed like Del Rio was going to feud with Mysterio). Back to the match I don’t have any flaws with this one, Rey Mysterio and R-Truth put on a decent match and I certainly liked the way R-Truth celebrated with the water and then smacking it off the head of Mysterio.

Time for the awful one himself right now, yes I was only joking because The Miz in my honest opinion isn’t the best promo cutter, but he has watched some of the best if you know what I mean. A bit annoyed they didn’t change the W on the microphone to M like they normally do. A couple older names popped up in this promo, those being Batista and JBL. Always bringing up the fact now of there is people who said he wouldn’t do many things and the way he has proved them wrong and will go on to prove them again. You can tell when Alex Riley put his hand on The Miz’s shoulder WWE have planned for them to possibly have a falling out soon and with Riley on Smackdown when is he even going to actually compete over there?

Intercontinental championship time, the first title on the line at Over The Limit and we see Wade Barrett of The Corre going one on one with Ezekiel Jackson who was a part of The Corre. The fan that was chanting boring got on my nerves as the match had only just really started so obviously it is boring as nothing has happened except for them coming down to the ring. This was one of those matches on the night that was more mediocre not the best, but sure as hell not the worse match. First elbow drop of the night came in this match from Wade Barrett which to me looked like a tribute to Savage. As the match continued with saw plenty of scoop slams from Ezekiel Jackson to Wade Barrett which at first seemed good but when it dragged on got a bit boring and just as Jackson was putting Barrett on his shoulders Justin Gabriel of The Corre comes and attacks Jackson. Jackson wins the match but doesn’t gain the title due to the interference (of which the referee rang for the bell when Jackson was attacked). Jackson then began to beat up Gabriel, Heath Slater and Barrett with many more scoop slams until Barrett got one hit that was the end of Jackson as The Corre began to beat him down.

After the match we see Mason Ryan and CM Punk walking backstage to the Nexus locker room, David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty are in the locker room down on the floor and in pain, they ask who attacked them which was obviously their opponents, The Big Show and Kane but I thought WWE would have played a trick on us and had CM Punk tell the two guys before hand to act in pain until Mason Ryan leaves the room to get him angry about his opponents. Just as Mason Ryan is walking off CM Punk quickly comes back into the room and tells Otunga and McGillicutty to walk off the pain they are in which was kind of funny.

Sin Cara Vs Chavo Guerrero is the next match and yet again the big problem that is now becoming very annoying with Sin Cara’s matches is the lights. As Hurricane (Gregory Helms) would say what’s up with that? It becomes rather annoying now because even though I’m focused on the match that is happening I’m more focused on the fact the lighting is different to other matches. A few botches happened in the match but I did notice yet again, Sin Cara quickly turned them into something else; one I noticed was an arm drag which looked like Sin Cara was going for a springboard hurricanrana. Nice to see Chavo go for the Gory Special in the match shame he didn’t get to hit it and at least get a two count. My second biggest problem with this match overall was the finish, the other botch, you could see Sin Cara was going for a hurricanrana but he missed it and that was the finish of the match. I expected to see his finisher hit, such a shame a good match like that got ruined with a poor finish.

The backstage segment with Randy Orton and Christian was decent as both guys know how to cut promos such a shame of what happens later, but reaction wise I wasn’t shocked who was the winner of the match.

Our next match was the WWE Tag Team Championship match which started with Alberto Del Rio rambling on about the area to start with and then how it is his destiny to be the WWE champion (I’m sure I heard the same thing about the World Heavyweight Championship with him). Kane and Big Show then interrupt him and basically force him to leave by saying they will attack him just like they did to Otunga and McGillicutty if he doesn’t go. Just like the first title match this was mediocre. The fans that chanted Batista when Mason Ryan first got going made me laugh a little (even though I can’t see any resemblance still). Kind of obvious that the two big guys would be the victors in this match, good finish with the double chokeslam to Mason Ryan, kind of glad Punk and Ryan didn’t become champions but kind of also annoyed that they could have and then used the Freebird rule.

The Obama/Capitol Punishment section of the pay per view had me laughing as well due to the fact WWE was creative with that. Third title match in and we have Kelly Kelly attempting to become the Divas champion for the first time against Brie Bella (and Nikki Bella). Just like most divas matches I wasn’t bothered about watching it fully, the stinkface in the corner was comical. Kelly was a bit dominant until the switch came around which as the announcers said Brie asked for it I didn’t see that in the match, I just saw Nikki pull Brie out of the ring and then hit the X Factor (yes X Pac’s famous finisher).

Next match was the World Heavyweight Championship and this was another one of the matches with little flaws in it. Had me from start to finish and some people are pulling for it to be a match of the year contender already. The spear situation was confusing though as he rambled on saying spear until he attempted to hit it. Like I said earlier Orton had the biggest pop from the crowd so it was kind of fitting for him to retain the title after an awesome back and forth of going for Killswitch and going for the RKO before actually hitting the RKO and getting the win. The moment where Orton looked to be going for the punt was great but from that I thought he seemed the heel in the situation. After the match Christian pushed Orton who had helped him up and then went for a handshake which I didn’t understand, unless Christian is a tweener?

A match I didn’t give one crap about overall on this pay per view and the whole feud has dragged on as much as the Raw anonymous general manager (of which I believe it is Michael Cole, but still nothing has been said yet). Lawler was the obvious winner of the match, Eve coming and hitting him with a moonsault was nice, J.R putting the BBQ sauce in his mouth was funny and then Bret Hart locking him in the Sharpshooter for good, if anything the proceedings after the match had me rather than the overall match. I would have expected something to do with Swagger to happen but it just didn’t.

Main event time and it is time for the I Quit match for the WWE title. Quite a good match the use of the AWESOME balloon thing was pathetic as it was just opened and then closed. The match was great for me as the whole beat down of John Cena made him look weak compared to the whole super Cena he is. Yes Cena did say he doesn’t quit quite a lot but the use of weapons and everything else was great from The Miz. Am I the only one who thought the kid The Miz was talking to was planted? Steel chair to the head, if Triple H and Undertaker got fined surly The Miz should? Only if though, the use of the mobile phone and the recording of Cena saying I Quit was predictable. Referee restarting the match was obvious and then Miz got screwed over by Alex Riley yet again. Cena destroys The Miz and is still WWE Champion.

My biggest problem with the pay per view overall was no championships changed hands. Not even the small titles like the Tag Titles, Intercontinental or even Divas. Dark match (I wasn’t there but it is on Wikipedia) was Drew McIntyre against Daniel Bryan and Drew McIntyre lost. Shame both of these guys are being underutilized at the minute.

Check back tomorrow for my ramblings about Tough Enough and Raw.