This was a nice way to honor Roddy Piper, although the silent 10-bell salute was ruined by some asshole in the audience who yelled out "Roddy!" towards the end, prompting the rest of the crowd to join in on the cheering before it ended. Considering the weird events Roddy was involved in the last few weeks (him getting fired from Podcast One, him uploading his podcasts to Soundcloud, and getting dropped from his WWE Legends contract), this was still nice of WWE to put this together. It was too damn soon to lose another wrestling legend.
Bad news: Rollins has issued a title vs title match with Cena for Summerslam, taking a page from ROH's recent PPV event with Jay Lethal and Jay Briscoe. Rollins also issued a WWE World Heavyweight Championship Open Challenge for tonight with 2 caveats: that the challenger was under 6 feet tall and under 200 lbs. The first to accept the challenge was was El Torito Neville. So awesome to see 2 former NXT champs go at it and Neville got to showcase more of his moves from NXT. The most damning part was that Rollins got a clean win and there was no interference from Stardust.
Paul Heyman was there just to showcase and hype up Brock Lesnar. Brock didn't do his signature ring jump. He just grabbed one of the metal steps from the corner and threw it in the middle of the ring, just so he can stand on it. And Heyman cut a promo so damn good that it even got Lesnar to smile.
This beautiful moment was organized on r/SC a week ago. It was the work of one wredittor passing out 7000 copies of card stock with "CESARO SECTION" before the event and during the breaks. Cesaro was clearly moved by it (this was posted on his instagram) as he made his way to respond to Kevin Owens for Miz TV.
Miz thanked Piper and Piper's Pit as the originator for his segment. Miz said he should be Intercontinental Champion since Ryback was out (he's still recovering from his staph infection on his knee). When Ryback won the belt at the Elimination Chamber, I wasn't happy, not because he won but it's the fact that the last few champions who held the title were injured to an extent that they had to vacate the title (like Daniel Bryan recently). Anyways, Miz was the moderator for Owens and Cesaro. Owens now recognizes Cesaro as a legit threat after Cena and Cesaro is still getting his push, so this is good for them. The C-Section is working!
Paige, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte have an official stable name: Submission Sorority. This is a horribly confusing name, and it would be a nightmare to search for in Google. Team Paige would've been fine! And I hate to admit it but I'm starting to get Divas Revolution fatigue, since it features the same 3 groups (Submission Sorority, Team B.A.D., and Team Bella) in weekly matches. We know what they can do now, I just want to see them in a story line, especially after Nikki Bella's reign ends.
Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper are cutting a promo as they warn Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose, when all of a sudden Sheamus walks into the frame. This was unintentionally funny.
Reigns and Ambrose also responds (with Ambrose repeating Roddy's iconic quote on how they're here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and they're all out of bubble gum.) Orton walks in saying that they can do whatever they want, just leave Sheamus to him. Dean's delayed reaction upon realizing Reigns called him "crazy" was also funny.
The main event was a 6-man tag team match with Randy Orton, a returning Roman Reigns, and Dean "Crazy" Ambrose vs Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, and Erick Rowan Sheamus. For a good minute or so, Reigns looked crazy strong as he took out the Wyatts and Sheamus. Pairing him up with Ambrose really takes off the heat he got last year, but it's still obvious that WWE is going to push Reigns again. The match felt a bit rushed because of the Stone Cold's Podcast with Paige. It looked like a house show event and it made the smarky San Jose crowd go home happy.
2ND WEEK OF SHIRTLESS AMBROSE AGAIN?!
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