After a recap of the Brock Lesnar is the number one contender announcement, we head to a singles match between Jey Uso and Ryback. Their respective tag team partners are at ringside with them. Quick note, it's strange how on one hour programs like Main Event you get full entrances but on a three hour show like Raw, so many people get jobber entrances. That irks me. Good little match here and Ryback earned "Feed Me More" chants for the Meat Hook clothesline. Interesting, and surprising that he won but I'm okay with it.
The stunning Renee Young is on my screen and I'm smitten once again. She interviews Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil, who are teaming tonight. Heath calls them Slater Gator and Titus is annoyed by this. I liked this interview. SLATER GATOR! They face the new Nation of Domination or whatever this stable will be as Big E and Kofi Kingston are accompanied by Xavier Woods. There's a SLATER GATOR chant which warms my heart. I'm cool with both of these teams honestly and Kofi/Big E needed the win to help establish their stable. Plus, they pulled out a new double team move so that's sweet.
More Renee Young! Interview for "Big Hoss" Jack Swagger and Zeb as they're all patriotic as usual. Then another interview for Heath Slater, who says that he has the worst luck. He shouts SLATER GATOR and the crowd goes along with it heading into the next segment. I wonder if this will actually get over.
Lana looked mighty fine on Main Event. She continues to tell the US fans to shut up before badmouthing them for a few minutes prior to the match. This match was just about even with their Battleground contest. It should be more hard hitting than it is, but it was still pretty good. The crowd was much more into Swagger than they were at Battleground which helped for sure. They nearly do the countout spot from the Pay-Per-View, but Rusev takes the flag and attacks Swagger with it, so he gets disqualified for his first loss, though it's not a pinfall loss. He tries to continue the attack after the match, but Zeb steals the flag and Swagger big boots him out of the ring.
As always, a fun edition of Main Event. Seth Rollins picked up a win, Ryback gained momentum, the new stable of Kofi/Big E/Xavier won their first match and Swagger evened the score with Rusev. Next up, was WrestleMania Rewind. As stated before, these episodes are hit or miss. This was one that I wasn't really looking forward to, but I forgot how good of a nine minute match this was. Kurt Angle was on another level at this point, while Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio were both more than capable of hanging. It was a nice look at Rey Mysterio's crowning moment for his good friend Eddie Guerrero.
Last up is the WWE Countdown. Sometimes the fans do a terrible job of voting such as picking John Cena to have the best debut or the Brood ahead of the nWo and Four Horsemen on the list of factions. We got Riveting Rivalries here and things started with Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper. This probably should be higher on pure importance factor. Next we had Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat which I'm okay with. They had some classics. At eight, we have The Rock vs. Triple H. Again, this is fine because their rivalry spanned the majority of their careers. At seven we have John Cena vs. Edge. I would have HHH/Rock ahead of this but I get it. Easily my favorite Cena feud as Edge was amazing throughout. Kane vs. The Undertaker comes in at 6 and I would have this higher also. It's a feud that started in 1998 and they had their last match in 2010. That's impressive.
At number five, we get John Cena vs. The Rock. I get that their match at WrestleMania 28 was huge and the two highest grossing WrestleManias ever feature them, but the feud was widely disappointing to me. Anyway, at four the Mega Powers explode! I like how a lot of the talking heads agree with me in siding with Macho Man. Hulk Hogan for sure had lust in his eyes for Elizabeth. We get an honorable mention of sorts for Trish vs. Lita which I loved. At three is Steve Austin vs. The Rock, which is my personal favorite but I get it being third. To "main event" three WrestleManias in five years is unheard of. At two, we get HBK and Bret. They had some disappointing matches but the rivalry was very intense and important in history. And of course, at number one, the feud that helped WWE surge past WCW in the ratings war, McMahon/Austin. They had some highly entertaining segments and it has to be one.
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