This week's edition didn't have a lot of stuff happen because it was really just a fun entertaining episode that wasn't very story driven except the two main stories with incredible mic work from AJ Styles and Seth Rollins tonight it was incredible how much AJ Styles has improved on the mic since his time in TNA and it is great to see.
The night kicked off with a pretaped backstage segment where all the WWE superstars were in a room and they were having a feast, Tyler Breeze and Fandango had their shirts off for some reason, Apollo Crews and Cesaro are having an arm wrestle and Big E and R-Truth were singing. But Aidan English stops them and it looks like they are working the old character of his into the new one because he starts singing and someone throws food on him and he attempts to stop a food fight from happening but it doesn't work because Fandango sprays chocolate sauce on the Miz and then something hits Maryse and everything kicks off.
The worst thing about this thing was that Darren Young was in it and so were the shining stars that was a small annoyance because they just show up in weekly vignettes and for no reason are they being kept on like the Shining Stars who are dead in the water already, speculation leads us to think that they are waiting on Carlito but who really knows?
Anyway, the food fight goes on for about a half minute as Kevin Owens hides under the table eating a bag of crisps/chips depending on what part of the world you are on. Then Heath Slater hits Kane and Big Show with some food which leads to Kane and Big Show hitting a double Chokeslam to Slater threw a table which then followed by Curtis Axel spraying mustard all over Heath Slater which was hilarious to see. Kevin Owens stands up ou from under the table saying this would never happen on Canada day before being smashed in the face with a pie of some sort.
US Title match
This match opened the show and it was a really good match. This feud has done nothing but good things for the two men involved because it really has shown how much talent Titus O'Neil has and it has put Rusev back up into the threat status and it is really good to see. Something that could have given Rusev a huge amount of heat was if he interrupted Lilian Garcia singing the national anthem it would have been incredible now not like through the middle but when she hit the high note at the end if they hit Rusev's music that would have had the people boiling but that was just a thought. Rusev and Titus O'Neil is a great feud. Rusev made Titus tap out to the Accolade.
Tag Team action!
Next up was the Social Outcasts - Enzo and Cass, it was good match, props to Bo Dallas for the sell off Big Cass's big boot that looked like it destroyed his face it was such a great looking move, all the Social Outcasts are great workers and amazing sellers something they are overlooked for. Well, this match was everything you'd expect from Social Outcasts it was to quickly put Enzo and Cass over with the rocket launcher.
Woman's promo
Dana Brooke and Charlotte come out to the ring and Charlotte says that Sasha and all her friend's and family are just jealous of her and everything she has accomplished so far in the WWE, Sahsa Banks comes out heated and tells Charlotte what a boss actually does and what a boss really is. Dana swings at Sasha and a fight breaks out. Now this segment worked great, Charlotte has improved so much on the mic and it shows being a heel has really set the tone of how great she is going to be. Dana Brooke messed up a sell from Sasha Banks the combo of the forearm and kick which took the segment back a little but that's why she is with Charlotte she is there to learn and a good thing for her that it was the only women's mess up of the night.
Champion - Champion match!
This match was a great showing from The Miz as he is so good from where he was when he was WWE champion it is a really nice thing to see his because most of the time you go from champion to get maybe a title chase and get beat up by Rusev no knock on Jack Swagger. A problem with Dean Ambrose as the WWE champion? No, there really isn't but JBL keeps telling us that he is a bad champion and nothing says that he is, he had a good TV match he understands less is more when he doesn't need to have crazy high spots in the match he doesn't put them in. Also, he beat the Miz clean and that was that nothing was bad he didn't cheat to win or anything bad as champion.
Seth Rollins - Dolph Ziggler
This match was a classic showing between the two men, pretty normal stuff for Dolph Ziggler beat up, thrown around, kicked someone in the chin with the superkick, sells like crazy then goes for the Zig Zag, ends up hugging the opponents back followed up by being tossed back to get the Pedigree hit on him and that was that. It really was Dolph Ziggler going through his steps ask a five-year-old, they'll tell it to you too. After the match, Seth Rollins cuts this crazy amazing promo on how he isn't going to let Roman Reigns pull him down, his mic work has been on fire lately, he has gotten so much better since before he was injured. Dean Ambrose then stood up and threw the belt at Seth Rollins and hit the Dirty Deeds on the Seth on the table a little side note on that is it was a great thing that the table didn't break because it looked like it killed Seth Rollins it was really good to see.
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30 Minutes of vignettes and promos
Talking backstage segments and vignettes the middle hour was filled with it all. First up we got a Wyatt Family Vignette where they invite the New Day to the compound saying the world they live in isn't real and positivity isn't real. Then we got a Baron Corbin vignette where it dug a little deeper into who he is and where he came from because unless you watched NXT you don't understand where he came from or who he really is so he is about to make a big splash watch out Miz he's coming for you! Then we jumped back to SmackDown 2010 because Vickie Guerrero returned to the WWE and stood up saying she should be the one to run SmackDown live, she talks until security comes and removes her. It then shows her being removed from the building where Dolph Ziggler is on the phone to his mom and Vickie pleads with Dolph to say he knows her Dolph tells the Security that he has never seen this woman in his life and she is escorted off screen. #Vickierunssmackdownlive
Golden Truth - Vaudevillians
This was upsetting to see that the Vaudevillians were just put in the ring to lose to the GoldenTruth in about five minutes with Breezeango on the outside they did nothing at all not even after the match. This seems to be a recurring thing of the NXT stars when they come up from NXT they have a feud and that's it they just sink names like Tyler Breeze, Ascension, Bo Dallas, Neville, Adam Rose and as of now The Vaudevillains it is a horrible thing to see but as the saying goes that's the nature of the beast.
John Cena and The Club
John Cena came out to the ring and told the crowd to wake up because they weren't there all night but the crowd had no intention in doing so they went "no Cena you good". John Cena addressed the Club and then the Club came out to address John Cena about addressing them. Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows are great they have really come into their own in the WWE when backing up AJ Styles they are great and on their own they are even better. They named a bunch of holidays and after all of them they put and then beat up John Cena which was the birth of the newest internet meme.
The Club went to beat John Cena down because they told him no one was coming to save him because he has put himself on an island and no is coming for him. As they beat them up Big Cass and Enzo Amore came to the rescue of John Cena and cleared the ring. It will be interesting to see if Enzo and Cass will get the same stupid things said about them as the Usos did. How long will take people to say Enzo and Cass the good guys are burying The Club?
Becky Lynch - Summer Rae
Now this was a disaster of a match, Summer Rae must have three years of ring rust because she swung a kick and it missed Becky Lynch by a mile by a long shot I mean the breeze wasn't felt on that one it was shocking. Then she went for a suplex and everyone's heart burst out of their chests because Becky Lynch was dropped on her head straight down like a sack of potatoes and it was scary, thank god she wasn't hurt because it would be a horrible time for her to get injured. This match was long enough for it to gain momentum again and enough time had passed for Becky Lynch to gain momentum and she got the win with the disarmher. Send Summer down to NXT because she isn't a bad wrestler, she did good before in NXT before and could improve.
New Day promo
This was a great segment where the New Day again play games towards the Wyatt Family and not take them seriously until The Wyatt Family again pop up on screen and invite the new day to the Wyatt Compound which everyone's first thought was lets do the TNA Hardy - Hardy angle where it's over the top have New Day fireworks and a Sister Abigail into the river.Then Xavier Woods speaks up to Kofi and Big E and he tells them that they need to take the Wyatt Family serious. It may be a sick crazy mind game by Xavier Woods to swerve the Wyatt Family.
Team USA - World Alliance.
This match was a 16 man elimination tag team match that was just on the show for the sake of it being there it wasn't very clear it was there for the fourth of July and that was it. It didn't do anything for any storylines or anything. The coolest moment in this match was Jack Swagger and Cesaro doing the We the People thing and that was very fitting. The match ended with Zack Ryder getting the win for team USA that was a pleasant surprise for the crowd.
This episode was a throwaway episode and it isn't their fault because they knew the viewer count would be way down for this week. So they couldn't do a huge thing where people were gobbed smacked by so they played it hyped and it really is a well-played move by WWE because the whole show was entertaining. This show was- 7/10
