Night of Champions Rate Night Of Champion 2013

[Snowman1]

 

[C.M. Shaddix]

this ppv sucked, all titles were retained excepted the wwe title, which would of saved the night until Bryan was stripped of the title the following raw, so basically, nothing changed, I LIKE CHANGE PEOPLE, its what I want to see in the product 3/10

 

[Mustafar Reginald]

Recently with these reviews I start off by typing something along the lines of "I won't be talking long because I actually enjoyed the PPV" and that's the best case scenario with these PPV's. What's the worst case then, is it when I will be talking forever because the PPV sucks and had a myriad of problems? Something akin to WrestleMania XXIX? Nope, that's middle ground for me because I do get enjoyment out of bitching and I feel I can at least add something to the discussion. The worst case scenario is Night of Champions, a PPV that I won't be talking long about because it was one of the dullest PPV's I've ever had the misfortune to witness. Like, it took me two days to finish this PPV (it may be wise to take that into consideration while skimming this review). Almost all the matches felt like they lasted twice as long than the actually did and at the conclusion of them I felt nothing was accomplished at all. Luckily, there were some enjoyable bits and one match was probably the second worst [PPV] match this year for me, you know ignoring obvious filler matches with no time to become anything worth while.

Night of Champions Review​

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I Liked the Setup​

Heyman & Trips are great on the mic so I enjoyed the little bit prior to the bout but that doesn't do much to salvage the score at all, in fact it doesn't affect the score at all. As for the match, it was competent but forgettable. We've seen a million matches like this before and will see a million after it (though normally it's a shortened version on Raw or something, maybe a match on Smackdown . . . not good for a PPV). No real point of excitement, just thirteen minutes of waiting for the match to end or to pick up (though it felt like at least twenty minutes).​

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Match Rating: 3/10​

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Loved Nattie's Top​

Not as speaking as a pervert but the design was aesthetically pleasing. As for the match it was okay, definitely one of the better bouts of the night. On the plus side, they utilized the fact that it was a fatal-four for some nice spots, Naomi had a good amount of energy and pulled off some fun moves & I enjoyed the double sharpshooter but the match also had a few flaws. Probably obvious at this point that I'm a fan of Natalya, so the finish being Aj fuckin' Lee (and I've definitely expressed my opinions on her here before but as a refresher, they aren't positive) making her tap out doesn't really sit well with me. Now, logic dictates that this means she's out of the championship running because making someone tap out, fair and square with no traces of foul play, means you shouldn't immediately be given another shot at the championship. WWE's going in this direction aren't they. Natalya is going to get another title shot immediately, isn't she? *sigh* Well, if she wins I won't care too much.​

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Right, there was a match I'm suppose to talk about. The match has other "flaws" too, from an objective standpoint. This match was really N-centric, as outside of winning I don't think Aj really did much of anything to contribute to the match and Brie Bella was just there as a prop to help provide spots (it was so blatant too [which takes me right out of the match], she made no kind of impact on the match outside of the spot prop). Now, I don't like either of those ladies, in fact I detest them (especially Brie, I can at least appreciate some aspects of Aj from an objective standpoint) but the fact of the matter is it's still a flaw so I'm deducting points.​

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Match Rating: 4/10​

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So, This is What You TNA Guys Were Talking About​

Bad, bad, bad. The moonsault botch was pretty bad but outside of that I was tuning in and out during this bout because quite frankly this match didn't having any kind of build or progression or story to it. When Del Rio was going for the Arm Breaker for the first time it didn't feel justified, it didn't feel like he exhausted the rest of his options after a long fought battle, it felt like it was time for the finisher spot. This came across to me more as an exhibition of spots than an actually championship bout. I rarely felt any kind of flow in between the parts of the match resulting in the sum feeling rather unfocused and just snippets of other RVD matches you've seen before (ADR's not innocent here either but this was more clearly on RVD's head). Instead of trying to engross me into the match, it actively repulsed me and not to criticize the individuals parts, though I will because most were pretty hackneyed, but it's the full picture that bothers me much more. And as a supporter of RVD, it really hurts this for me personally and I'm counting that as part of the scoring. As much as I may try and give some objective view, let's not kid ourselves of the fact that wrestling leans much more to subjectivity than objectivity since the goal of all wrestlers is to connect to the fans. And RVD just severed our connection with this god awful bout.​

Match Rating: 1/10​

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Dancing?​

I have two positives for this match really. First, the mid-air kick to Miz was pretty sweet and secondly, I liked that Fandingoatemybabio sold the leg throughout the entirety of the match once it was damaged. The first half of the match was rather poor with all the constant dance breaks and the spot where Fandingatemybabio leg-dropped Miz, who was lying on top of the second rope was terrible. Mostly because the setup was painfully obvious and unrealistic (no way he would've landed like that from the move Fandingatemybabio used).​

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Match Rating: 3/10​

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Punk's Fight​

The best match of the night so far on the pure basis that it didn't feel triple the length it actually was and provided a fair share of fun moments (particular with Heyman; facial expressions,;attempts to weasel his way out of Punk's punishment & questioning Punk's sanity when he starts wailing on him with a kendo stick) but I still wouldn't say this was a particularly strong bout. First of all, I have to bring this up, why didn't Heyman break Hennig out of the Anaconda Vise? Axel didn't tap out immediately, Heyman clearly had enough time to break it up and save himself the abuse. Secondly, why did it take so long for Ryback to come out? From a story perspective it makes sense, it makes the most impact at the moment he comes in and of course coming out while Axel was still out would've been stupid. But he had plenty of time to come out and save Heyman prior to when he actually did. Granted, he choose the perfect spot but he didn't know that opportunity was going to come, he could've easily came out when Punk started the assault on the handcuffed Hemyan. Not really a huge deal for me, the Heyman letting Hennig tap out was but this is forgivable, just bringing it up because it crossed my mind. Also, the Axel/Punk parts weren't much better than the Kofi bout earlier.​

Match Rating: 5/10​

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Meh​

During this match it truly sunk in how un-PPV this PPV felt to me. The feeling was apparent all-throughout the night, don't get me wrong but this match highlighted it for me. Maybe it's because several matches earlier already felt like filler (thrown together last minute IC title match, Diva's match, etc.), I don't know but this was the match that those, "this doesn't feel like a PPV at all," thoughts stayed fresh in my mind. For the match itself, refer to the title. Ziggler had a fair amount of energy & liked Ambrose clawing his back, the counter into the sleeper hold and the sit-out facebuster from the top rope is always nice to see but this didn't really have any meat and winds up with pretty much the rest of this night as a forgettable bout​

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Match Rating: 4/10​

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Millions of Dollars​

Match of the night for me . . . yep, I'm serious. It was rather short which means it really didn't have any time to develop itself into something fully realized but I enjoyed what we were giving in the short amount of time they were allotted. Titus & Darren were a lot of fun (the whistle part being the most obvious example) and Rollins & Reigns were good as usual (not the greatest showcase of their work by far, but an enjoyable outing for sure). ​

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Match Rating: 6/10​

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Wait, Something Important Just Happened!?​

Yeah, I wasn't really surprised by that. It was good, I suppose. The ref bump resulting in the second temporary ref was weird, and by weird I mean it served no function in the slightest and I have no idea why it was even included. Putting that aside, I couldn't really get into this match, aside from the few spots at the end and when Bryan was going crazy in the middle. Outside of those moments, I liked Orton's apron DDT and Bryan's spider suplex (though the setup was obnoxious) but I always like those moves. As for something new, Orton's backbreaker on Bryan was rather cool. The finish itself wasn't that good and I sincerely hope this is it for the Bryan jerking. Like, we really don't need him to be a five time WWE Champion by the time he finally wins it and gets to keep it. ​

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Match Rating: 5/10​

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PPV Rating: 3.9/10​

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Rankings​

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PPV's​

I. Payback ~ 6.3/10​

II. SummerSlam ~ 6.1/10​

III. Elimination Chamber ~ 6/10​

IV. Money In The Bank ~ 5.9/10​

V. Extreme Rules ~ 5.5/10​

VI. Royal Rumble ~ 4.9/10​

VII. Night of Champions ~ 3.9/10​

VIII. WrestleMania XXIX ~ 3.8/10​

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Matches​

I. WHC, Alberto Del Rio vs. Dolph Ziggler (c): Payback ~ 9/10​

II. Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk, No DQ: SummerSlam ~ 9/10​

III. The Shield vs. The Justice League (Cena, Sheamus & Ryback): Elimination Chamber ~ 9/10​

IV. Orton vs. Bryan vs. Punk vs. Sheamus vs. Christian vs. RVD, MITB Ladder: Money In The Bank ~ 9/10​

V. WHC, Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. Christian: SummerSlam ~ 8/10​

VI. WWE Title, The Rock (c) vs. CM Punk: Elimination Chamber ~ 8/10​

VII. Sandow vs. Rhodes vs. Cesaro vs. Swagger vs. Barrett vs. Fandingoatemybabio, MITB Ladder: Money in the Bank ~ 8/10​

VIII. Tag Titles, The Shield (Reigns & Rollins) vs. Team Hell No (c), Tornado: Extreme Rules ~ 8/10​

IX. CM Punk vs. Chris Jericho: Payback ~ 8/10​

X. WHC, Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler: Money in the Bank ~ 8/10​

 

[Brad.]

Out of interest, you are giving WM29 a low score because it didn't live up to WrestleMania standards, right? Because to say WM29 was worse than NoC is ridiculous.

Also, Dolph v ADR a 9/10? You may have loved the double turn, as did I, but the actual match itself consisted of ADR kicking Dolph's head for 15 minutes. There was some good spots and the double turn was executed perfectly but no way was it 9/10.

 

[Mustafar Reginald]

Out of interest, you are giving WM29 a low score because it didn't live up to WrestleMania standards, right? Because to say WM29 was worse than NoC is ridiculous.

Also, Dolph v ADR a 9/10? You may have loved the double turn, as did I, but the actual match itself consisted of ADR kicking Dolph's head for 15 minutes. There was some good spots and the double turn was executed perfectly but no way was it 9/10.

Somewhat. The biggest show of the year does have a higher expectancy to deliver and the scale for ratings is slightly different for Mania than other PPV's but on the other hand I fully expected that Mania to suck big time going into it so I can't say I went in with high expectations at all for that (same for Night of Champions, I heard the massive hate for it prior to watching it, so I went in with similar expectations). If you're actually interested, my review of WrestleMania can be found here, so you can understand how I came to the conclusion (I'm not planning on really getting into since there's more that goes on in my reviews than simply my subjective thoughts, which caused the ratings to turn out that way but I figured it's worth posting). As for WM29 ranking lower than NoC, I've got three responses for that . . .

I. As I previously alluded to, my subjective thoughts on the only thing I take into consideration when assigning scores, I try and look at it from an objective standpoint as well. This is important for the second response too but I feel the need to clarify that I enjoyed WM more than I enjoyed NoC. NoC's took me two days to get through it, it's one of the most dull PPV's I've ever seen and totally inconsequential as well. Not only was it a drag to get through but it wasn't even worth anything aside from keeping my promise to watch & review every PPV as my little way of contributing.

II. That all said, something being dull does not necessarily mean it's more flawed. Basically, objectively a botch filled match with no sense of story will always be worse than a match that's competent (zero to no botches essentially with some semblance of story) but totally dull and lacking life (you can argue which is worse out of the two extremes of bad but critical speaking I believe it's the former [feel free to argue]). WrestleMania did have more botches, just as many bad matches (there is not a single match at that Mania that I enjoyed more than the PTP vs. The Shield match) & a heavy reliance on past stars that resulted in very poor matches.

III. Most importantly, it ranks lower than NoC by 0.1. That's negligible.

As for Dolph vs. Del Rio, of course it was a lot of Del Rio kicking Dolph in the head for fifteen minutes, that was integral to the story & psychology of the match, if they mixed it up so-to-speak from that it would have weakened the double turn and thus the match as a whole. I'm not sure what else you could want for a match designed to achieve a double turn by exploiting a concussion. Matches should be judge mainly on what they're trying to accomplish (again, from an objective standpoint) not on merits they could have had. It's like me criticizing Flair vs. Shawn for being a terrible match if you remove the emotion, it's true but that's because the match was designed around emotion, not as a technical clinic (not trying to imply most matches [in WWE] don't have emotion in play but the degree changes a lot). Similarly here, this match was designed around emotion (not in the same manner of course, for one with a double turn, psychology is just as important, if not more so, than emotion) as any match focused around a double turn should be so it should be judged from that standpoint instead as a technical clinic (hope this isn't coming off as hypocritical, as it's not due to the scenarios being different themselves). Side note, from a technical standpoint the match was great too, fantastic selling and I don't recall any botches but back to the main point matches like this kind of depend on how the fan takes it (kind of echoing my review of RVD's/ADR's match here) personally, minus a few bits here and there at the very beginning, I was completely enthralled in the story they were telling (something that's a bit of a rarity for me). It was perfectly executed and pretty much perfectly built up to. However if you weren't enthralled after a few minutes like I was (and I'm guessing you weren't) then I completely understand where you're coming from.

The biggest flaw with Dolph vs. Del Rio was easily when Del Rio went for the Cross ARMBAR after spending the entirety of the match focusing on Dolph's head and not touching his arm once (he may have touched it once but certainly not enough to justify going for that over the target he's been hammering away at for the rest of the match). Totally going against the psychology set in motion just so Del Rio can include his finisher in the match . . . terrible. But clearly didn't do enough damage for me to justify knocking it down to an 8/10. It's still my second favorite match of the year (Cena/Punk on Raw in the build to Mania is my favorite so far) but it might change when the end of the year comes and I re-watch everything in my PPV top ten and Cena/Punk.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Out of interest, you are giving WM29 a low score because it didn't live up to WrestleMania standards, right? Because to say WM29 was worse than NoC is ridiculous.

Also, Dolph v ADR a 9/10? You may have loved the double turn, as did I, but the actual match itself consisted of ADR kicking Dolph's head for 15 minutes. There was some good spots and the double turn was executed perfectly but no way was it 9/10.

Ziggler/ADR was great from start to finish b

 

[Italianman3100!]

Preshow: Should be Kickoff cause Miz ain't there. 7/10 cause PTP won.
Axel Vs. Kingston: 4/10 Match was really boring
Del Rio Vs. R.V.D: 6.5 R.V.D should of won. I hate Alberto
Ambrose Vs. Ziggler: 7.5/10 Hate Ziggler and like Ambrose. Pretty happy.
PTP Vs. Shield: 6/10 PTP should've won. Millions Of Dollars!
Miz Vs. Fandango: 1/10 Boring
AJ Vs. Natalya Vs. Naomi Vs. Brie Bella: 9/10 Me girl AJ wins. Enough said.
Axel/Heyman Vs. Punk: 7/10 Punk should've won. Screw Ryback!
Bryan Vs. Orton: 100/100 YES! YES! YES!

 

[Tumbas' #1 Fan]

Preshow: Should be Kickoff cause Miz ain't there. 7/10 cause PTP won.
Axel Vs. Kingston: 4/10 Match was really boring
Del Rio Vs. R.V.D: 6.5 R.V.D should of won. I hate Alberto
Ambrose Vs. Ziggler: 7.5/10 Hate Ziggler and like Ambrose. Pretty happy.
PTP Vs. Shield: 6/10 PTP should've won. Millions Of Dollars!
Miz Vs. Fandango: 1/10 Boring
AJ Vs. Natalya Vs. Naomi Vs. Brie Bella: 9/10 Me girl AJ wins. Enough said.
Axel/Heyman Vs. Punk: 7/10 Punk should've won. Screw Ryback!
Bryan Vs. Orton: 100/100 YES! YES! YES!

HOW DOES SOMEONE HATE ZiGGLER!??!?!?!?!??!?

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

HOW DOES SOMEONE HATE ZiGGLER!??!?!?!?!??!?

Either his parents are brother/sister or his mom smoked crack while she was pregnant with him. Anyone's guess

 

[Tumbas' #1 Fan]

Either his parents are brother/sister or his mom smoked crack while she was pregnant with him. Anyone's guess

I heard a story about his mom doing a shitload of crack from some other place while he was inside ze womb. So that explains it all.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

I heard a story about his mom doing a shitload of crack from some other place while he was inside ze womb. So that explains it all.

It's a pity. Such a selfish bitch she was..


.. What, with costing Ziggler a fan like that. I hope she burns in hell.

 

[Tumbas' #1 Fan]

It's a pity. Such a selfish bitch she was..


.. What, with costing Ziggler a fan like that. I hope she burns in hell.

I wouldn't be mad if she died.....just saying. She should have been more responsible.

 

[Italianman3100!]

HOW DOES SOMEONE HATE ZiGGLER!??!?!?!?!??!?

I liked him before. Now I just hate him.

 

[deathclaw4721]

Well, I only watched AJ's match, like always. That match I give 10/10 because it was funny how everyone though that she was going to lose, but I knew she was going to win. It was a lot of fun to rub that in everyones faces. ^_^

 

[Messiah1]

HOW DOES SOMEONE HATE ZiGGLER!??!?!?!?!??!?

You really expect every wrestling fan to be a fan of his? Every wrestler has at least some haters.

I use to hate Ziggler as well, not so much anymore. A lot of people hate him i've noticed.