The Eighties
Forward Thinking Nostalgist
I only saw the stripped down 4 match version of SD but I'm sure like many I made the extra effort this week due to the Taker vs Ambrose match.
First though I have to say what a great match between Sheamus and Show, it still amazes me that Show can work a match at that pace with so much movement and so many bumps. It was physical as hell as well, just two big sweaty beasts smacking the tar out of each other, great stuff!
Now to Taker and Ambrose, anyone who thought Ambrose was going to, or should have, won go stand in the corner. This was a free TV match for starters and Ambrose's first singles outing, personally I'd have just ended it in a DQ but losing to the most Iconic wrestler who is still active did zero harm to Ambrose.
The match itself was probably about 8 minutes long but it was good, Taker gave Ambrose a lot of offense and IMO made him look a star. You have to keep in mind this was Ambrose's first singles match in the WWE and yet Taker worked him like he was an established star, even the finish came more as a quick counter to a young heel getting cocky as opposed to the dominance of a Tombstone win.
The post match beatdown of Taker showed once again his dedication to the business, he took the spear from Reigns through the barricade and then the hardest powerbomb through a table The Shield have done, no soft placements here like on some recent occasions. The show goes off the air with The Shield standing over the wreckage of The Undertaker, showing no fear, the image putting them over huge.
Across the course of this weeks Raw and SD Taker has elevated The Shield massively, first by how he's worked them as a threat, and secondly by how he let them get over on him at the end of SD, now they can brag about how they took the legendary Undertaker out, how they stopped the most unstoppable guy of the last two decades. The ending of SD stood in stark contrast to the farcical ending to this weeks TNA Impact.
First though I have to say what a great match between Sheamus and Show, it still amazes me that Show can work a match at that pace with so much movement and so many bumps. It was physical as hell as well, just two big sweaty beasts smacking the tar out of each other, great stuff!
Now to Taker and Ambrose, anyone who thought Ambrose was going to, or should have, won go stand in the corner. This was a free TV match for starters and Ambrose's first singles outing, personally I'd have just ended it in a DQ but losing to the most Iconic wrestler who is still active did zero harm to Ambrose.
The match itself was probably about 8 minutes long but it was good, Taker gave Ambrose a lot of offense and IMO made him look a star. You have to keep in mind this was Ambrose's first singles match in the WWE and yet Taker worked him like he was an established star, even the finish came more as a quick counter to a young heel getting cocky as opposed to the dominance of a Tombstone win.
The post match beatdown of Taker showed once again his dedication to the business, he took the spear from Reigns through the barricade and then the hardest powerbomb through a table The Shield have done, no soft placements here like on some recent occasions. The show goes off the air with The Shield standing over the wreckage of The Undertaker, showing no fear, the image putting them over huge.
Across the course of this weeks Raw and SD Taker has elevated The Shield massively, first by how he's worked them as a threat, and secondly by how he let them get over on him at the end of SD, now they can brag about how they took the legendary Undertaker out, how they stopped the most unstoppable guy of the last two decades. The ending of SD stood in stark contrast to the farcical ending to this weeks TNA Impact.