WWE is pretty short on tag teams. They broke up the Prime Time Players for no real reason, they broke up The Real Americans, they completely sidetracked the Rhodes Brothers with what so far appears to be nonsense, hell, even 3MB is no more. However, two of the tag teams that they do have, and the teams that have recently been featured the most prominently, have been really, really good lately.
The match they had tonight was an improvement on what were already pretty good matches. By having it be 2 out of 3 falls, both teams were able to get more screen time and allowed to do a lot more in the ring, as they had to come up with three separate pinfalls. Both the Usos and Harper and Rowan have clicked really well as tag teams, and so far each one of their matches has been a real treat to watch, with the 2 out of 3 falls match being the best of the bunch.
The result of the match doesn't really trouble me much. The fact of the matter is that Rowan and Harper don't really need to be champions to be scary, and The Usos are a really solid face tag team. Not only was the in-ring action nice and tight, but the match felt like it actually MATTERED. Both teams got a substantial amount of support from the crowd and they were hot for all of the falls and near-falls during the match. We should be grateful that WWE has actually put the thought into constructing a drawn-out tag-team match that really felt like an important contest.
Intercontinental Championship Battle Royal *** (3 stars)
The battle royal, or as it should be more accurately marketed as "Kofi Kingston almost gets eliminated 10,000 times while Dolph Ziggler sells the moves of his less-talented colleagues," was a pretty entertaining match. Like all battle royals, despite the fact that it was filled with roughly 20 guys, only 5 guys actually had a realistic chance of winning the match. With that being said, they came up with some exciting spots and kept the match and the crowd pretty hot for a majority of its duration. Kingston still manages to come up with all sorts of new stuff, this time relying on his "friend" Big E to help him stay alive. Who cares if no aspect of actual friendship has been displayed other than the fact that both men happen to be black? It was still a pretty cool spot. Miz winning it might help him, and it will hopefully get Dolph Ziggler (or D f'n Z) out of his awful spot in the Layla/Fandango/Summer Rae love triangle.
Diva's Championship Match: AJ vs Paige ** (2 stars)
Not a whole lot to this match, other than the fact that AJ beat Paige pretty cleanly in the middle of the ring. WWE might have something with Paige and AJ facing off, but I felt like more could be accomplished in the future if AJ had won this match with a tricky roll-up or something other than hitting a finishing move on Paige. Now with a clean, 1,2,3, victory, it looks more and more like Paige's win the night after Wrestlemania was a fluke, which I doubt is what they want it to look like.
Jack Swagger vs Rusev ** (2 stars)
A match that played out just like Rusev's matches with Big E, with the exception that Swagger got in a little more offense than Big E managed to do. The finish was pretty weak, and it seemed like something that could have easily been done on Raw. The point of the match was to get people interested in the return match at Summerslam, which is fine for Raw, but kind of lame when it takes place on a show that people PAID to see already.
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