Wwe Clash of Champions 2020 Results Reviewing Top Highlights
WWE Clash of Champions saw about every main-roster champion defend their gilt (Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, Women'due south Tag Team Champions, were taken off the show for unknown reasons), and then it's remarkable that only one title changed easily: The opening bout saw Sami Zayn win back the Intercontinental Championship in an excellent ladder lucifer.
Drew McIntyre retained his WWE Title by beating Randy Orton in a misreckoning Ambulance Lucifer, while Romain Reigns soundly defeated Jey Uso to keep his Universal Championship.
It was a decent show, with nothing abjectly bad to report. Outside of the opener though, information technology's hard to say that annihilation was particularly good. At worst, it was a little slow (Asuka versus Zelina Vega, Apollo Crews versus Bobby Lashley), and in that location was a botched finish (Raw Tag Team Championships).
If you skipped the show and desire to know what to catch up on, watch the opening and closing matches. Everything else is safely skippable.
Roman Reigns retains Universal Championship via forfeit
Roman Reigns, as if there was any doubt, is still your Universal Champion. He defeated Jey Uso after Jey'southward blood brother, Jimmy, ran downward to the ring and literally threw in the towel. Reigns had already speared Jey twice, and was throwing mounted strikes when Jimmy threw in the towel.
A bit of a letdown friction match. The manner it was built -- with Reigns bully Jey around the arena, and the announcers talking at length at how Jey is over his caput -- seemed to indicate a big, fiery Jey comeback with a few shut calls. Only there really weren't any, other than a superkick-splash combo that nosotros all knew wouldn't be a three count.
Jey didn't really smooth the manner he should have, equally this was all about solidifying Reigns as a badass heel. And that'due south fine, but the fashion the bout built up, with a super slow start and heavy Reigns law-breaking throughout, information technology felt similar an anticlimax for Reigns to win so decisively and unceremoniously.
That said, it was mission achieved as it relates to Reigns as a heel. He is awesome in this office.
Rating: 3 stars.
Drew McIntyre is still WWE Champion
Later a fantastically stupid friction match, Drew McIntyre defeated Randy Orton to retain his WWE Championship.
The two competed in an Ambulance Match, then to win 1 had to stuff his opponent into a standby ambulance and shut its doors. Information technology ended with McIntyre hitting a Claymore Kick, a Orton Punt, tossing Orton within and shutting the door on their rivalry (probably).
So that'southward all fine. The dumb part? McIntyre was helped throughout the lucifer by the legends Orton has injured over the past few months. Around a infinitesimal into the bout, The Big Bear witness appeared and chokeslammed Orton through the announcer'due south table. Later, when McIntyre and Orton were brawling backstage, Christian gave McIntyre a reprieve by surprise attacking Orton. Towards the stop, every bit Orton was standing tall atop the ambulance, Shawn Michaels hit him with a surprise Sweetness Chin Music.
Each time McIntyre, the hero, got a huge helping manus, Orton, the villain, valiantly fought back. The psychology was all wrong. Instead of McIntyre getting a hard-fought victory, he barely won after getting help from three legends.
Rating: 1 star. Just re-sentry their awesome SummerSlam match.
Sasha Banks attacks Bayley
Bayley was meant to defend her SmackDown Women'south Championship against Nikki Cross, but Cross, possibly due to COVID-19, was unable to make the show. Instead Bayley had an open challenge -- which was answered by Asuka.
It was a quick match that saw Asuka dominate a flustered Bayley. But after a few minutes, Bayley, scrambling on the outside, hit Asuka with a steel chair to retain her championship past disqualification.
After the match, Sasha Banks appeared out of nowhere and hit Bayley with a chair of her own. Afterwards Bayley briefly got the upper hand, Banks wailed on her with a Kendo Stick a bit before Bayley retreats.
Street Profits beat Andrade and Angel Garza
Botched finish to an otherwise strong tag team friction match. Angelo Dawkins pinned Andrade with a spinebuster even though Andrade very conspicuously kicked out at ii. Information technology appears to accept come afterward Angel Garza legitimately injured himself, every bit Andrade and a bunch of refs were checking on him after the match.
I understand going home early if someone gets hurt, but if it's a tag match and the two people in the ring are not hurt, there has to exist a better way to end the friction match then to simply have the ref count three when it was a two.
— Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) September 28, 2020
What on paper was looking to be another Raw-quality tag team championship match ended upwards beingness a lot of fun, thanks in big part to Andrade and Garza beingness so heady to lookout. They're both just so well-baked, and The Street Profits are solid babyfaces, with quality selling and comebacks.
Rating: ii.5 stars. Bad terminate notwithstanding.
Bobby Lashley retains US Championship
After a back-and-forth friction match, Bobby Lashley tapped out Apollo Crews with a Total Nelson (or Hurt Lock, equally it's now being called).
Not much to say about this match. They had a similar bout at Payback, and though they worked hard it was a very straightforward tour. Back and forth moves, not much of a story (other than MVP talking smack to Crews throughout, which was moderately amusing) just at to the lowest degree a clean ending.
Rating: 2 stars. Information technology was fine.
Asuka submits Zelina Vega
Asuka retained her Raw Women's Championship subsequently Zelina Vega tapped out to the Asuka Lock.
This was rough going. Zelina Vega's force isn't in wrestling -- at to the lowest degree, not yet -- so this match was essentially Asuka wrestling around Vega, working hard to make Vega's criminal offence expect as formidable as possible. The story of the tour was that Asuka kept attempting the Asuka Lock, but Vega kept on finding ways to counter.
It got more than fun as it went on, but Vega'due south weaknesses were hard to ignore.
Rating: 2 stars. Afterwards the match, Asuka cuts a promo saying Vega was a tough opponent but non set up for Asuka. She tried to shake hands, but Vega threw a fit and kicked Asuka. Asuka and so spoke angrily in Japanese, which is awesome all the time, ending the segment. Expect a rematch soon.
Sami Zayn wins awesome ladder match
Jeff Hardy, Sami Zayn and AJ Styles beat the crap out of each other. This triple threat ladder friction match ended with Sami Zayn unhooking the two Intercontinental championships -- Jeff Hardy'due south, and Sami Zayn's old one he claimed he never lost -- to become the undisputed IC champ.
This was a fantastic match. It started as a standard, very good ladder match. It escalated with thrilling spots, like Jeff Hardy being a maniac and hitting a Swanton Bomb off the tippy top of a ladder, crashing Zayn through another ladder. AJ Styles owned much of the match, dominating the first two thirds.
The final stretch was extra imaginative. Zayn brought out two pairs of handcuffs. He tied Hardy -- through his earlobe -- to a ladder, and handcuffed himself to Styles. Every bit Styles struggled to climb a ladder while hoisting Zayn, Hardy, even so attached to ladder, attacked Styles.
Zayn got a key from his oral fissure, uncuffed himself from Styles, climbed the ladder and won the lucifer.
Rating: 4.25 stars. Great ladder match. This is ane of those matches you lot wish had a crowd.
Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro retain tag team titles
Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro defeated Lucha House Party in the offset prove to retain their SmackDown Tag Squad Championships. Nakamura and Cesaro hitting their awesome tag team finish -- Cesaro's Giant Swing into Nakamura's Kinshahsa -- for the pivot.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/culture/wwe-clash-of-champions-2020-results-full-recap-and-analysis/
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