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411’s WWE Main Event Report 5.22.13

May 22, 2013 | Posted by Michael Benjamin

It’s Michael Benjamin here with another Main Event report. I can’t wait for that Barret/Sin Cara match!

Oh…

SHOW ON!

WWE Championship Roll Call:
WWE Champion: John Cena
World Champion: Dolph Ziggler
IC Champion: Wade Barrett
US Champion: Dean Ambrose
Unified Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn
WWE World Tag Team Champions: Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns

WWE MAIN EVENT 5.22.13

Alberto Del Rio (w/ Ricardo Rodriguez) vs. Big E Langston (w/ AJ Lee)
They lockup to start! Alberto corners Langston and delivers a bevy of right hands. He knees Langston in the face and attempts a snap suplex. Big E reverses it with a suplex of his own. He short arm Irish whips Alberto into the nearest corner before choking him on the bottom rope. Langston is in firm control. Big E charges at Alberto but Del Rio pulls down the bottom rope and Langston lands on the outside. Alberto dives through the ropes and rolls Big E back in. AJ distracts Alberto for a moment and Big E kicks Alberto into the barricade from the inside! BREAK!

-Commercial Break-

WERE BACK! Alberto charges at Big E for a running crossbody but Big E catches him and gives him a triple back breaker before getting a two. He stays on top of Alberto and chokes him on the bottom rope. Alberto fights back and delivers some strikes, but Langston is quick to fight back with a large clothesline. TWOOOO. Big E locks in a nice modified camel clutch before Alberto makes it to this feet! Alberto succumbs to a reverse suplex and gets locked back in a modified clutch. Alberto makes it to his feet again and delivers a jaw breaker. He tries to roll him up but ends up getting lifted to his feet and clotheslined by Langston. Every time Alberto tries to fight back, Langston takes charge. ADR finally takes care of the situation with a tornado DDT off the top rope. Both men make it to their feet and Alberto takes control with a back stabber. Alberto goes for an enziguri but Langston makes it to his feet for another clothesline. Big E goes for the cover and only gets two. Langston goes for a running shoulder block in the corner and Del Rio side steps him. Big E counters an assisted back stabber and gets caught with a kick to the skull. TWOOOO! Alberto tries to lock in the cross arm breaker but Langston catches him with a belly to belly suplex! Big E pulls down his singlet straps for the finisher but Alberto catches him with cross arm breaker! Langston LIFTS HIM UP FOR A POWERBOMB! TWO! Langston could very well be the best big man going in the WWE right now. Alberto makes it to his feet and hits an enziguri out of nowhere! He covers Langston for three! Langston is the real deal. He’s still learning his craft and doing a great job in his role. Alberto kept the pace up and Langston’s offense was exciting throughout, which is a problem a lot of big men have. Good match.

OFFICIAL RESULT: Alberto Del Rio @ 13:15 via pinfall
RATING: **3/4

-Commercial Break-

– We get a recap of Ryback’s promo on Raw on top of the ambulance. He’s doing everything he can with what he’s given. “Ryback rules” has to go though. If you make a subtle change to “Ryback’s rules” it makes such a difference. At least he wouldn’t be going on about how he rules like he’s in middle school and would be essentially saying that he plays by his own rules.

– The Usos make their way down to the ring as we head to another commercial break.

-Commercial Break-

The Usos vs. Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal (w/ Heath Slater)
The Uso’s shorts look like swim shorts. Anyways, we have Jimmy starting off with Jinder Mahal. Jinder hits an arm drag and poses for the crowd. Jinder works his way out of a side headlock but gets nailed with a shoulder block take down. They stare down for a moment and Jimmy comes out on top with a flurry of offense. He hits a scoop slam and stomps Jinder in the face. Jinder makes it to McIntyre and Drew takes control. The Usos hit a double face buster and Jimmy covers for two. Drew fights back quickly and tags in Mahal. They double leg sweep Jimmy and Mahal covers him for two. Drew and Jinder make some quick tags with a little striking offense in between. The audio would make you think the Usos are beginning to get support but the crowd is sitting on their hands as far as the visual goes. Jimmy hits a roundhouse kick out of nowhere and manages to tag in Jey! Jey goes upstairs but Slater distracts him from the outside which allows McIntyre to take control!

-Commercial Break-

Drew McIntyre is dominating Jey Uso as we return from break! He hits a nice sideslam and gets TWOOOOOOOO. I still don’t understand what happened to the McIntyre push. Was it all because of his girlfriend? Anyways, Jinder gets tagged in and continues the beatdown on Jey. He hits a swinging neck breaker and gets a near fall. Hey hits a Samoan drop out of nowhere and we get the double tag! Jimmy fucks shit up on the quick. How’s that for play by play. Here comes the ambulance again. Do I call it a no contest when Ryback’s music plays or what? Nope, no bell ring. Slater hides against the barricade from Ryback but Ryback sees him and drags him to the ambulance. He tosses Slater in, hops in, and closes the door. Fuck, I’m sold on the ambulance match now. If you could see me rolling my eyes that would make more sense. Jimmy hits a splash and pins Jinder for a hollow victory. This was whatever. Formulaic tag action with a pretty redundant finish. There’s thirteen minutes left so lets see what we get to watch from Raw.

OFFICIAL RESULT: The Usos @ 14:55 via pin
RATING: **

-Commercial Break-

– We get some recaps of Triple H/Axel and get an update on H’s health. He’s being checked on for some head problems that should have been checked out before he wrestled on Monday. Alright then.

OVERALL: Big E Langston vs Alberto Del Rio was a pretty fun match to watch. The Usos vs 3MB was average at best with a bad finish. The rest was replays as always. There’s not too much to see here. This was a run of the mill episode of Main Event.

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