WWE Over The Limit 2012 PPV Thoughts
Posted by David Damage on Monday, May 21, 2012
Under: PPV & TV Thoughts
WWE Over The Limit 2012 PPV
WWE Championship: CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan
Intercontinental Championship: Cody Rhodes Vs Christian
Tag Team Championship: Kofi & Truth Vs Swagger & Ziggler
Battle Royal
Diva Championship: Layla Vs Beth
Ryback Vs Camacho
John Cena Vs John Lauranaitis
WWE Over The Limit 2012 PPV Thoughts 20.5.2012
I like that the PPV kicked off quickly with the Battle Royal for the chance to face Santino for the US Championship.
Christian eliminated Regal to boos from the crowd.
Give JTG the “bump of the match” award for his elimination. Yoshi looked like he may have twisted his ankle when he landed outside the ring.
Christian, Tyson Kidd, Miz and David Otunga are the final four in the ring.
Tyson Kidd “skins the cat” and almost pulls Miz out of the ring (after the Miz seemed to forget where he was and it resulted in an awkward moment until Kidd yelled out to The Miz to get back in place for the next spot). Otunga saved The Miz and kicked Kidd to the outside, eliminating him from the match.
The Miz and Otunga double-teamed Christian.
Christian eliminated Otunga and finally Miz to win the match.
The booking of most of the match wasn’t great, but it was great to see Christian win, even though it’s only for the chance to win US Championship later tonight…
Tag Team Titles
R-Truth & Kofi Kingston Vs Jack Swagger & Dolph Ziggler
This was a really good tag match and the best tag match I’ve seen in WWE for a very long time. Everyone worked hard and looked great.
Jack and Dolph cut off the ring and worked on both Kofi and R-Truth in their corner at different times during the match, even breaking out a few double-team moves which I’ve never seen them do before.
Kofi and R-Truth retained the tag team titles after Kingston hit Dolph with Trouble In Paradise and scored the pin.
This was a great match.
Random thought…. Swagger and Ziggler don’t need Vickie Guerrero at ringside. They are not the Godwinns and having a squeeling pig in their corner during matches does nothing for their gimmick, matches or angles.
Diva Championship: Layla Vs Beth
Beth Phoenix worked over Layla’s surgically repaired knee.
Layla is pretty horrible. She seemed to freeze and give up on a kick halfway through doing it at one point.
Beth tries to do a victory roll / reversal spot with her, it doesn’t look good….
Layla does a sloppy looking neck breaker out of nowhere and gets the clean pin on Beth to win the match retain the Divas Championship.
Thankfully this didn’t last too long. It’s a shame Beth isn’t the Divas Champion and she wasn’t protected in any way here. Beth didn’t seem like much of a threat against the much smaller and far less talented Layla, who looked really bad in the ring.
World Championship: Sheamus Vs Jericho vs. Orton Vs Alberto
Not even the mighty Chris Jericho, in what could have been his last match in WWE before leaving to tour with his band Fozzy. could save the slow, plodding, punch/kick style action in this boring match.
I was watching live, but completely lost interest only a few minutes in and I started to just out for Jericho parts in the match. He didn’t seem to be involved as much the others.
Sheamus won after hitting his “White Noise” finish on Jericho.
This match was really dull, slow and boring thanks to Sheamus and Orton and Alberto and Jericho couldn’t really do anything with them to change that from what I watched of it.
I was pleased when it was finally over.
Backstage, Christian tells Cody Rhodes that he wants to face him tonight for the Intercontinental Championship instead of facing Santino for the US Championship….
The Miz comes to the ring and starts talking about being a great dancer. The volume on my TV gets turned all the way down…. Brodus Clay and his transvestite looking dancers come to the ring, dancing.
A match between Miz and Brodus seems to have started…..
The Miz Vs Brodus Clay
Brodus belly flopped Miz and pinned him in a comedy match which featured dancing before, during and after. Hokey stuff. This was horrible.
Embarrassing to watch.
IC Title: Cody Rhodes Vs Christian
Great work by both Cody and Christian. While watching this I wondered if they both kicked it into high gear for this match, knowing that Punk and Bryan would be coming up next. Christian won the match with the “Killswitch” to become the new Intercontinental Champion.
I still think Christian is a main event talent, but I’m pleased to see him become Intercontinental champion again and even more pleased that he has since dedicated his win to his favourite Intercontinental Champion of all time, Randy Savage on Twitter.
I look forward to seeing further matches between Cody and Christian, I thought they really worked well together here and had a really great match.
WWE Championship: CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan
This was a superb match and I really can‘t say enough good things about it. I‘m in disbelief that WWE allowed them to have the kind of match they had here.
For the finish, CM Punk rolled Bryan over while trapped in the “Yes Lock” and scored the winning pinfall. Right after the three count, CM Punk started to tap-out.
Really great work by both Bryan and Punk and it is well worth going out of your way to watch this match. This was the best match I’ve seen in WWE for a very long time and it surely has to go down as one of the best matches in company history.
Daniel Bryan selling his knee, CM Punk trying to fight his way out of submission hold attempts, the reversals and just everything in this match was excellent.
“This is awesome” chants were well deserved. That was awesome.
I turned off my TV at this point during the live show and left it recording. I checked out the rest of the show earlier today which didn’t take very long!
Ryback Vs Camacho
This was just a quick enhancement / squash match for Ryback, although Camacho became the first guy to take Ryback off his feet on WWE TV.
Fans chanted “Goldberg” at Ryback during the match.
I hit “Fast Forward” at this point until my DVD HD recorder was at it’s fastest possible speed and I watched the rest of the show like this in about 60 seconds and here is a recap of what I saw:
John Cena Vs John Lauranaitis
Video recap of promo from Raw…. The two Johns had what looked like a comedy match with one John trying to escape from the other John…. with the speed it was playing at all it needed was the Benny Hill theme and the stupidity in slapstick experience would have been complete.
Big Show came into the ring and did the inevitable heel turn on Cena.
It looked like Big Show punched big John so that little John could lay on top of him for the pin. This whole thing looked terrible even in 60 seconds, I hate to imagine how excruciatingly painful this must have been for someone to actually sit through in real time. Absolutely horrendous way to end the show, but it didn’t waste much of my time thankfully.
WWE’s Over The Limit had three really great matches:
CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan, Christian Vs Cody Rhodes as well as Kofi & Truth Vs Dolph & Jack
If you missed the show for any reason, you really should go out of your way to watch these three matches, but do yourself a favour and skip everything else. I think you’ll be really pleased you did both.
WWE Championship: CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan
Intercontinental Championship: Cody Rhodes Vs Christian
Tag Team Championship: Kofi & Truth Vs Swagger & Ziggler
Battle Royal
Diva Championship: Layla Vs Beth
Ryback Vs Camacho
John Cena Vs John Lauranaitis
WWE Over The Limit 2012 PPV Thoughts 20.5.2012
I like that the PPV kicked off quickly with the Battle Royal for the chance to face Santino for the US Championship.
Christian eliminated Regal to boos from the crowd.
Give JTG the “bump of the match” award for his elimination. Yoshi looked like he may have twisted his ankle when he landed outside the ring.
Christian, Tyson Kidd, Miz and David Otunga are the final four in the ring.
Tyson Kidd “skins the cat” and almost pulls Miz out of the ring (after the Miz seemed to forget where he was and it resulted in an awkward moment until Kidd yelled out to The Miz to get back in place for the next spot). Otunga saved The Miz and kicked Kidd to the outside, eliminating him from the match.
The Miz and Otunga double-teamed Christian.
Christian eliminated Otunga and finally Miz to win the match.
The booking of most of the match wasn’t great, but it was great to see Christian win, even though it’s only for the chance to win US Championship later tonight…
Tag Team Titles
R-Truth & Kofi Kingston Vs Jack Swagger & Dolph Ziggler
This was a really good tag match and the best tag match I’ve seen in WWE for a very long time. Everyone worked hard and looked great.
Jack and Dolph cut off the ring and worked on both Kofi and R-Truth in their corner at different times during the match, even breaking out a few double-team moves which I’ve never seen them do before.
Kofi and R-Truth retained the tag team titles after Kingston hit Dolph with Trouble In Paradise and scored the pin.
This was a great match.
Random thought…. Swagger and Ziggler don’t need Vickie Guerrero at ringside. They are not the Godwinns and having a squeeling pig in their corner during matches does nothing for their gimmick, matches or angles.
Diva Championship: Layla Vs Beth
Beth Phoenix worked over Layla’s surgically repaired knee.
Layla is pretty horrible. She seemed to freeze and give up on a kick halfway through doing it at one point.
Beth tries to do a victory roll / reversal spot with her, it doesn’t look good….
Layla does a sloppy looking neck breaker out of nowhere and gets the clean pin on Beth to win the match retain the Divas Championship.
Thankfully this didn’t last too long. It’s a shame Beth isn’t the Divas Champion and she wasn’t protected in any way here. Beth didn’t seem like much of a threat against the much smaller and far less talented Layla, who looked really bad in the ring.
World Championship: Sheamus Vs Jericho vs. Orton Vs Alberto
Not even the mighty Chris Jericho, in what could have been his last match in WWE before leaving to tour with his band Fozzy. could save the slow, plodding, punch/kick style action in this boring match.
I was watching live, but completely lost interest only a few minutes in and I started to just out for Jericho parts in the match. He didn’t seem to be involved as much the others.
Sheamus won after hitting his “White Noise” finish on Jericho.
This match was really dull, slow and boring thanks to Sheamus and Orton and Alberto and Jericho couldn’t really do anything with them to change that from what I watched of it.
I was pleased when it was finally over.
Backstage, Christian tells Cody Rhodes that he wants to face him tonight for the Intercontinental Championship instead of facing Santino for the US Championship….
The Miz comes to the ring and starts talking about being a great dancer. The volume on my TV gets turned all the way down…. Brodus Clay and his transvestite looking dancers come to the ring, dancing.
A match between Miz and Brodus seems to have started…..
The Miz Vs Brodus Clay
Brodus belly flopped Miz and pinned him in a comedy match which featured dancing before, during and after. Hokey stuff. This was horrible.
Embarrassing to watch.
IC Title: Cody Rhodes Vs Christian
Great work by both Cody and Christian. While watching this I wondered if they both kicked it into high gear for this match, knowing that Punk and Bryan would be coming up next. Christian won the match with the “Killswitch” to become the new Intercontinental Champion.
I still think Christian is a main event talent, but I’m pleased to see him become Intercontinental champion again and even more pleased that he has since dedicated his win to his favourite Intercontinental Champion of all time, Randy Savage on Twitter.
I look forward to seeing further matches between Cody and Christian, I thought they really worked well together here and had a really great match.
WWE Championship: CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan
This was a superb match and I really can‘t say enough good things about it. I‘m in disbelief that WWE allowed them to have the kind of match they had here.
For the finish, CM Punk rolled Bryan over while trapped in the “Yes Lock” and scored the winning pinfall. Right after the three count, CM Punk started to tap-out.
Really great work by both Bryan and Punk and it is well worth going out of your way to watch this match. This was the best match I’ve seen in WWE for a very long time and it surely has to go down as one of the best matches in company history.
Daniel Bryan selling his knee, CM Punk trying to fight his way out of submission hold attempts, the reversals and just everything in this match was excellent.
“This is awesome” chants were well deserved. That was awesome.
I turned off my TV at this point during the live show and left it recording. I checked out the rest of the show earlier today which didn’t take very long!
Ryback Vs Camacho
This was just a quick enhancement / squash match for Ryback, although Camacho became the first guy to take Ryback off his feet on WWE TV.
Fans chanted “Goldberg” at Ryback during the match.
I hit “Fast Forward” at this point until my DVD HD recorder was at it’s fastest possible speed and I watched the rest of the show like this in about 60 seconds and here is a recap of what I saw:
John Cena Vs John Lauranaitis
Video recap of promo from Raw…. The two Johns had what looked like a comedy match with one John trying to escape from the other John…. with the speed it was playing at all it needed was the Benny Hill theme and the stupidity in slapstick experience would have been complete.
Big Show came into the ring and did the inevitable heel turn on Cena.
It looked like Big Show punched big John so that little John could lay on top of him for the pin. This whole thing looked terrible even in 60 seconds, I hate to imagine how excruciatingly painful this must have been for someone to actually sit through in real time. Absolutely horrendous way to end the show, but it didn’t waste much of my time thankfully.
WWE’s Over The Limit had three really great matches:
CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan, Christian Vs Cody Rhodes as well as Kofi & Truth Vs Dolph & Jack
If you missed the show for any reason, you really should go out of your way to watch these three matches, but do yourself a favour and skip everything else. I think you’ll be really pleased you did both.
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