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WWE Main Event results: Jason Jordan vs. Aiden English; Kane vs. Fandango

Posted on by Kevin Timothy

This week’s episode was taped before Tuesday night’s Smackdown show.

Kane def. Fandango (w/Tyler Breeze)

Fandango shushes the crowd and they boo in return. Fandango admires his and Breeze’s outfits. Breeze calls Fandango “Dango.” They both look great. The crowd is mad, but Breeze calls them “peasants.”

Kane, having fallen on hard times since losing his job as Director of Operations, has moved back in with his family, and Daddy Devil is making his favorite demon wear the mask again.

Kane looks pissed, so Dango and Breeze offer him a shirt. Breeze attempts to take Kane’s measurements. Kane slaps Breeze, punches Fandango, and clotheslines Breeze out of the ring. The bell rings and Breeze distracts Kane. Fandango runs up from behind and attacks Kane. He beats Kane into the corner, but Kane punches him. Breeze jumps on the apron, and gets punched by Kane. Dango rolls up Kane for two.

Kane hits a sidewalk slam. Dango crawls to the corner, Kane rushes an attack but Dango hits him with a back elbow. Dango jumps from the second rope but Kane catches him and sets up for the chokeslam. Breeze runs in and Kane locks them both in a double chokeslam. He hits it and pins Dango for the win.

After the match, Kane sets off the pyro in the corners. 

Jason Jordan def. Aiden English (w/Simon Gotch)

They lock up, and momentum shifts back and forth. Jordan hits a belly to back takedown and covers for one. They fight back and forth some more. English smashes Jordan’s arm over the top rope. He takes the fight to his arm and screams, “This is what a man looks like.”

He goes back to the arm, stands on it, does squats, then covers him. English locks in an armbar and screams that he is the “alpha male.”

The crowd cheers Jordan to his feet, but English beats him right back down, tucks his arm under Jordan’s body and climbs the top rope. He attempts the senton but misses. Jordan mounts a comeback and hits a bunch of power moves, then a belly to belly. He drops his straps and runs for the spear. Gotch pulls English out of the ring, allowing English to cheap shot Jordan.

English climbs the top rope and jumps right into a half-nelson alpha-plex. Jordan covers for the win.

WWE Main Event results: Ryback battles a Wrestlemania legend

Posted on by F4W Editors

First off, my deepest apologies to my tens of fans for my failure to file over the last fortnight. But, worry not; my difficulties in accessing the show in a timely manner (or, indeed, at all) have been resolved.

Unfortunately, my return to casting a critical eye over Main Event is marked by a show that is over 80% Wrestlemania hype. Video packages were aired on the Reigns/Authority, Shane/Taker (two) and Dean/Brock storylines. One match was taped before RAW in Brooklyn on Monday night, featuring Sunday’s US title challenger The Ryback against the one-time conqueror of Chris Jericho, Fandango.

Ryback def. Fandango by pinfall

Jerry Lawler troubles me with his depth of knowledge on Ryback by insisting that “everything about The Big Guy is bigger”. Yeesh.

Rich Brennan repeats Monday night’s faux-pas by reminding us all that the company once chose to put Fandango over Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania. I guess it’s less dumb when Jericho isn’t in the segment, but it’s still never a fantastic idea to remind your viewers exactly how amateurish you are at judging talent.

Speaking of bad ideas, someone thought it would be pretty gravy to have their monster heel, who is challenging for a belt on Sunday, take over ten minutes to put away a guy who hasn’t won a televised match since mid-December. Solid logic there and no mistake.

Fandango therefore got plenty of offence in this one, including a high knee from the apron to the outside to grab the advantage leading into an early commercial break. Ryback’s heat is that of a man who hasn’t worked heel in a while; painfully dull, including an excruciatingly long chinlock.

Fandango dodges a corner charge and follows up with a baseball slide to initiate his comeback. He even sidesteps Ryback’s first attempt at the Meathook clothesline with a school boy roll-up for two-and-a-half. Ryback immediately pops up and connects with said Meathook however, followed by the Shellshock for the win. Only six minutes of this aired, but it felt longer as it was dull, disjointed and heatless throughout.

Final Thoughts

Not much to add really. Join me again tomorrow for a similarly attenuated edition of Smackdown and be sure to check out my – and the rest of the team’s – Wrestlemania predictions later in the week.