Night of Champions 2015 Preview Match

Night Of Champions, the one night of the year that all of WWE’s titles are defended… if you don’t count nearly every other pay-per-view event on the calendar, but I digress.

In the Kickoff pre-show match, Stardust and The Ascenscion (Konnor & Viktor) beat Neville and The Lucha Dragons (Sin Cara & Kalisto).

Stardust comes back in but Kalisto gets the upperhand. Well done all around, in a match that was your typical New Day match – which is to say, tons of fun, since this was probably the night’s most enjoyable match overall. Until Sunday night, the Big Red Machine hadn’t been seen since Rollins attacked his already-injured ankle on a July edition of Raw – presumably the reason for his beatdown of the WWE Champion. There’s one. Um… the suplexes that Nikki delivered where she drove Charlotte’s knee into the ropes to tell the story of Charlotte working with a bad knee were somewhat impressive. With the crowd chanting for Lana, Rusev gets distracted enough for Zigler to slam Rusev with impressive strength. They go through a few counters to get the match flowing. There are also the layers of possible discontent between Reigns and Ambrose, if they eventually go that route, with this being the second partner that Ambrose has been credited with bringing in (after Jimmy Uso on SmackDown two weeks ago) that ended badly.

What happened: This was another incredible match between these two. -Grade=C+ -There was good action in the match, but the finish was put together to just put more heat on the inevitable Summer/Rusev break-up. Frankly, there hasn’t been another competitor like them since that can show as much agility in a wrestling ring.

Charlotte did a good job selling the injury throughout the match, which lasted for close to 15 minutes. Having Jericho blind tag in and NOT win the match was disappointing. The three babyfaces took turns wearing down Luke Harper before he was able to tag in Strowman.

Jericho goes for a codebreaker, but Strowman catches him! Cena and Rollins exchanged some good offense. Rollins reversed momentum, dropping the challenger with a sleeper hold. The champ seems to have studied Cena, predicting most of his moves before he performs them. Rollins blows by him, but Cena grabs him and hits an AA!

Rollins will defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Sting.

The match ends when Seth Rollins is down and Cena starts climbing the top rope. Sting collapsed moments later in the ring and the doctors were called out. Rollins hit a superplex into a suplex. Sting quieted his critics with an awesome match at 56. Sting applies the Scorpion Death Lock and Rollins is in trouble. Rollins could have looked strong than even after the PPV, but Kane’s beating voided that. I expect a less-than-stellar feud with Kane and Rollins. Rollins lost to Cena, but outlasted Sting in back-to-back matches.