Well...I absolutely loved Battleground 2016...but then I've never seen
any of the earlier Battleground shows. I'm not really interested in watching
older pay per views.
Well then, lets have fun then and jump in the New Day-Lorean because IT'S TIME! TO GO BACK IN TIME!!!
(looking at the top 3 matches + the women's match + anything else of interest here)
so the 2016 show happened, and it had the overarching story of "who's going to have the title as the brands are splitting up these next two nights??
okay, that's a great way to get a pay-per-view on the right foot, and I totally forgot the Shield Triple Threat happened at this show! Yay!
That was really good!
and the recap I was reading had this picture, soooo...
Anyway there was the Cena/Enzo/Cass vs AJ/Gallows/Anderson six man that was a good match and SO MUCH BETTER IN HINDSIGHT, but this show was obviously stolen by Sami Zayn vs Kevin Owens in a forgotten classic, as well as the sorta debut of Bayley... Man, one year ago this was a massive pop moment that would have left people so disappointed if it wasn't Bayley. She was so supernaturally over and beloved... screw you Raw writers... screw you...
This show was a blast to watch. In hindsight, it's even better....
2015, though? You had a main event of Brock Lesnar vs Seth Rollins that ended after 8 minutes when Undertaker teleported in and kicked Lesnar in the balls. That's less good.
...then CENA WINS LOL. Ahh yes, when Kevin Owens had a string of nothing but good matches coming up from NXT and then immediately feuded with Cena and everyone was PUMPED for the era of Owens... how far we've come indeed. This was strangely the worst of Cena, I've always said this feud didn't damage KO as you could have stuck him in the next main event, but he never truly main-evented again after this. And gosh this feud was absolute horseshit for anything that didn't involve Machine Gun Kelly meeting his untimely demise.
You were out of your head, you were out of your mind. And bad things happened to you tonight.
also #IgnoreReigns's push really started to show the cracks of being past the point of no return here, as he faced Bray Wyatt in a match that was a real struggle to care about... and WYATT WON. due to a random Luke Harper return but I totally forgot and can't imagine Wyatt pinning Roman in any way shape or form... Charlotte vs Sasha vs Brie Bella also happened. I'm laughing right there with you.
Then there was 2014, a show I remember REALLY looking forward to... when [HASHTAG]#IgnoreReigns[/HASHTAG] got his first solo main event... I hated this at the time, because it was so forced and manufactured. The month before, Seth Rollins stabbed his Shield brothers in the back when he hit Ambrose and Reigns with a chair, and... Ambrose went after Rollins to feud with him while Roman kept all the Shield stuff and just kinda floated up to the title picture, and Triple H just announcing him as contender didn't help. That was so awful in storyline... Stay gone Triple H... but John Cena painfully obviously won a fatal 4 way with for the vacant title setting up the BEST MAIN EVENT EVER at Summerslam 2014. Seriously I know you don't care about watching that but I still giggle every time (even though that was the birth and reason for Suplex City and why people love Brock to begin with)... as for the match? It was Cena, same old Orton, really green Roman and motherfucking Kane in there. What do you expect...
also Chris Jericho pinned Bray Wyatt clean, and I turned the show off then and posted in the rate thread that Wyatt was dead. It's been three years... The match on the card I was most looking forward to, of course, was Dean and Seth which never happened and turned into a parking lot brawl. Think that's why Battleground has the stigma it does for me moreso than anything else... Then there was the Fall 2014 Women's Division, when I also posted that it "killed women's wrestling forever" so lol @ me, but good grief. That AJ Lee vs Paige feud, right before Bella VS Bella. DO NOT GO BACK AND WATCH THIS.
then Battleground 2013 was the infamous show where Daniel Bryan's quest for the championship stolen by him by Triple H and giftwrapped to Randy Orton, playing the corporate choice (when the Authority had a reason to exist) was designed to end, as Big Show lumbered into the ring after a few minutes and punched both contestants out. Yay. This was before the Network, by the way. People paid $54.99 for this... This show also had a sleeper MOTYC well worth going back and watching, with the Shield (represented by Rollins and Reigns) vs the Rhodes Brothers (Cody and Golddust), titles vs careers match. Very good, very emotional showing from these four... CM Punk defeated Ryback as well, when I think Paul Heyman was supposed to be attacked but he retreated to the back or some other lack of closure moment... and then AJ Lee faced Brie Bella because Total Divas
WELL THIS WAS FUN AND PROBABLY TAUGHT YOU A PILE OF NOTHING. enjoy reading this!
