The build is here.
Summer Slam 2011 –Los Angeles
Joey/JR is your announce team. Josh does interviews.
Dark: Ambrose d. Black
DiBiase/McIntyre d. Tatsu/Sydal
Both dark matches further storylines; Black, you may recall,
finished second to Ambrose on WWF Underground; he then moved to training in
developmental, and has been having his will bent to Regal’s. So postmatch, Ambrose extends his hand – and
Black takes it. That’s a spot they’ve
been doing for a few weeks by this point.
The show opens with the results of the end of the second
match, a postmatch beatdown of the two GDI members by Underground – Sydal and
Tatsu are helped from the ring on the first shot of the live telecast.
They’re immediately replaced in the ring by WWF Commissioner
Bret Hart – Bret welcomes us to the 98th WWF PPV and reminds us that
his contract was originally set to expire at WM 27. But with all of the planning for WWF100, the
biggest WWF show of all time, Bret agreed to stay on until Survivor Series.
But at Survivor Series – in the WWF’s historic home – MSG –
Bret will give up control to the new Commissioner of the WWF – a man who always
puts the best interest of the WWF first – the Head Trainer of WWFU – Steve
Regal.
Regal enters, he and Bret raise their arms above their heads
and wave at each side of the crowd as if they were running for office, and
they’re encountered by CM Punk – as its match time.
1
.
CM Punk
d. Wade Barrett (DQ)
Barrett is positioned in this inner circle
in Underground with Nemeth/Sheamus; the story of this match is how he hangs
with the 3 time WWF Champion Punk – until he doesn’t, Punk gets control, has
him ready for the GTS, and then he’s attacked by Underground (not the
beltholders), they have a quick beatdown, enough that Punk is laying as Bret
has Howard Finkel announce the next match.
2.
CM Punk
d. Alex Riley
With Punk laid out, this looks like any
easy, cheap win for Riley, but in a matter of seconds, Punk rolls him up, gets
the fall, rolls out of the ring and escapes through the crowd. Underground fumes in that way you’d
expect. Following the next match there’s
a shot on the video wall of Punk, shielded from security by a wall of fans,
escaping the arena, getting into a car and driving away. As Bret watches that – we see that he turns
to Regal and says “lock the gates.”
3.
Dos
Caras, Jr. (w/Ricardo/Vicki/Atlas) d. Randy Orton
Dos Caras promised a surprise for the Rock
when he came to his “hometown” of Los Angeles, that surprise is a new limo
driver – Tony Atlas. The story here is
that Atlas, as Rock’s dad’s longtime tag partner, is Rock’s godfather – but,
he’s down on his luck enough, apparently, that he’s now under Caras’s
employ. Atlas does the typical
reasonably degrading stuff to serve Caras; Orton remains as listless as he’s
been all summer and submits.
4.
Ka$h
Kingston d. @TruthKills (countout)
Killings plays the crazy man, leading to
him walking out of the match – not because it seems like he is losing, to the
contrary – he just hits a highspot – but because he is late for his part time
job at Ikea. He puts on his vest,
apologizes to Kingston, and makes his way up the ramp.
5.
No DQ:
Bryan Danielson d. John Cena
Cena’s got a receipt coming; ideally this
is a fairly intense brawl, much of it taking place outside the ring, the type
of things you’d expect to see used get used, Danielson goes over strong and
then is absolutely mauled by Underground; everyone but the beltholders. There are no GDI members left – Punk roars
back to the building but is blockaded by security from re-entering the arena –
Tyler Black stands in the ring with Underground – and eventually lays in some
shots to the defenseless Dragon himself.
Danielson’s spent the summer looking to get over as the best wrestler in
the world from the outside of the company – and that ends here.
6. Tags: Empire (Barrett/Riley) d. Clique
(Nitro/Miz with Natty)
With Empire having wrestled earlier tonight
and now facing the Clique, they could be expected to go in as underdogs; the
finish comes when Riley pulls a mask out of his trunks, puts it on, and falls
to the outside, rolling under the ring, when he emerges, still with the mask,
it’s to quicky tag in as he’s going to the top rope to hit Gabriel’s signature
highspot and get the fall on Nitro. He
immediately disappears back under the ring – and emerges quickly again, Riley
removing his mask to the confusion of the officials, protests from the Clique –
but still holding the belts.
7. IC: Sheamus d. Christian
Christian’s unable to win his first singles
belt in WWF as Underground’s big night continues; Sheamus goes over clean in
the best match they can have and ends it the way he ended Edge’s career, by
tossing him shoulder first into the ringpost.
8. WWF Championship: Nick Nemeth (w/Kelly) d.
Rey Mysterio
So, this is designed to give Nemeth
credibility; Rey’s been talked about in reverential terms for the past year; he
really moved to transcendent status; partially because of the failures of young
wrestlers like Nemeth to beat him, Rey not losing all year until his career
unbeaten streak at Mania fell to Danielson.
He loses clean here, it’s an enormous win
for Nemeth – his immediate response is to scream up at the skybox where Mistico
and his crew have been all night – for weeks, the potential of a
Mysterio/Mistico title match at MSG had been almost impossible not to foresee –
Nemeth, constantly feeling slighted, really came into this match with a chip on
his shoulder and he taunts the Mistico box postmatch – grabbing at his genitals
and pointing at Mistico – and then, with the full adrenaline of the moment
raging, he begins to stomp out the defeated Mysterio.
It takes the rest of the Underground crew,
all of them who emerged to celebrate postmatch, a beat to go along “really,
this is okay, to stomp out Rey Mysterio” – but then they do.
Everyone here has to go bananas – the announcers
– ideally the Latino fans, Bret Hart – who begins yelling at Regal in the front
row – and then the WWF locker room (guys who weren’t on the card) runs in, some
faces, some heels.
Colons.
DMW.
Mark Henry
Santino – there’s a spot where Henry and
Santino work together briefly
Lawler - the color announce on Fight Night
Booker - last seen as one of the trainers on WWE Underground, beaten up by the Underground vets
The Undertaker
HHH-M
And that makes it a good brawl – but Underground
still has the numbers:
Nemeth
Sheamus
Barrett
Gabriel/Riley
McIntyre/Ted
Tyson Kidd
Black/Ambrose
Douchebags:
Ryder/Slater/Hawkins/Reks/Barretta…
…and they leave the WWF locker room laid
out.
They do the Whose House….Our House call and
response chant….and the show ends.
Underground controls the World Wrestling Federation.
I’ve got two more entries in my series of
recaps of every WWF PPV; there will be another TNA show when real world Bound
for Glory occurs; October, I’d guess, we’ll see the build to Survivor Series –
and then November will the the 99th WWF PPV, Survivor Series from
MSG, where Nick Nemeth will defend the WWF Championship against Mistico. It’s going to be a happening.
