Monday Night Raw – April 18, 2016: What’s The English Word For Good Show?
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Night Raw
Date: April 18, 2016
Location: 02 Arena, London, England
Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield, Byron Saxton
Opening sequence.
Chris Jericho vs. Sami Zayn
Tag Team Tournament Semi-Finals: Enzo Amore/Colin Cassady vs. Dudley Boyz
Baron Corbin vs. Fandango
Baron kicks Ziggler in the face and gives him End of Days on the floor.
Greetings from Puerto Rico.
Rusev vs. Cesaro
League of Nations/Miz vs. Cesaro/New Day
Rating: C+. This got better at the end but again it was a lot of standing around before we got to the entertaining stuff. New Day and Cesaro is a very fun combination though and beating up the League is an easy layup win. The League needs to go somewhere soon or just split up because you can only beat them so many times before it stops meaning anything.
Natalya/Becky Lynch/Paige/Sasha Banks vs. Tamina/Charlotte/Summer Rae/Naomi
Summer comes back in and chokes in the corner for a bit before handing it off to Naomi for some kicks (thankfully minus the dancing). Becky finally sends Naomi through the ropes, setting up the diving tag off to Natalya. The basement dropkick puts Summer down but she gets in a quick spinning kick to the face. Charlotte comes in as everything breaks down with Natalya getting the Sharpshooter on Charlotte for the submission at 10:45.
We recap Anderson and Gallows laying out Reigns earlier and AJ saying he had nothing to do with it.
Styles is with Gallows and Anderson again.
Greetings From Puerto Rico.
Tag Team Tournament Semi-Finals: Vaudevillains vs. Usos
Video on Apollo Crews.
Heath Slater vs. Apollo Crews
Kevin Owens vs. Dean Ambrose
Rating: B-. Pretty strong main event style match here with both guys trading big shots near the end. I could go without Owens losing another big match as he should definitely lose to Sami at Payback but at least he can bounce back from losses faster than almost anyone else on the roster.
Post match Jericho comes in and gives Dean a Codebreaker to end the show.
Results
Chris Jericho b. Sami Zayn – Codebreaker
Enzo Amore/Colin Cassady b. Dudley Boyz – Rocket Launcher to Bubba
Baron Corbin b. Fandango – End of Days
Cesaro/New Day b. League of Nations/Miz – Neutralizer to Sheamus
Natalya/Becky Lynch/Sasha Banks/Paige b. Charlotte/Tamina/Naomi/Summer Rae – Sharpshooter to Charlotte
Vaudevillains b. Usos – Whirling Dervish to Jimmy
Apollo Crews b. Heath Slater – Lifting powerbomb
Dean Ambrose b. Kevin Owens – Dirty Deeds
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