WWE Night Of Champions 2010

It's the Night Of Champions! Where all the championships are on the line! And there's a couple other matches on the card too.





Intercontinental champion Dolph Ziggler defeated Kofi Kingston to retain the title. I'm starting to feel a bit tired of watching this match. It's still a good match and these guys are good workers, but if I hadn't already seen these guys wrestle a couple times beforehand, I'd probably be into this one a little more.

Big Show defeated CM Punk with a punch to the face... Fucking Big Show. Nuff Said. Next.

Daniel Bryan Danielson defeated United States champion Miz (with Alex Riley) via submission to win the title. I like this Danielson kid; he impressed me quite a bit here in his ability to make me care about a Miz match. Though, to be fair, Miz held his own here too and made Bryan's win seem like a big deal, which more than makes up for his shitty run in NXT. Here's hoping Bryan gets a nice strong run in his future.

Women's champion Michelle McCool defeated Divas champion Melina to unify both titles. Does this mean they can ditch the butterfly belt now? Goddamn, that thing looks awful.

World Heavyweight Champion Kane defeated the Undertaker to retain the title, presumably so that they can have another match at the next PPV where I'm guessing Taker wins the title in Hell in A Cell. Admittedly, the thought of sitting through another Kane/Undertaker match was pretty nauseating and in all honesty, that could have been a factor in my inability to fully embrace this latest iteration. I like the story that was being told - a diminished Undertaker whose power has left him and possibly embraced the monster Kane - and the last promo on Smackdown did a really nice job of selling this feud. But at the end of the day, it was still the same Kane/Undertaker match that I've seen before, only with a couple minor differences here and there. Nice to see Kane win a match over Taker (to my recollection, hasn't really happened outside of a match they had on RAW back in 1998), but that was obvious given that they might feud again in Hell In A Cell two weeks away.

Next up, we have a Tag-Team Turmoil match for the Tag-Team titles, so this was probably thrown together at the last minute because "We need to have ALL the champs defend their titles, so here's a tag title match." Now I had predicted the champs to retain but that was on account of a one-on-one match. Early on, that was scratched out... so no prediction. But in any case, here's the end result of the Turmoil match:

Round 1: Usos defeat the Hart Dynasty (c). As a result, new champions to be crowned.

Round 2: Usos defeat Santino Marella & Vladimir Koslov

Round 3: Mark Henry & Evan Bourne defeat the Usos.

Round 4: Dashing Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre defeat Mark Henry & Evan Bourne to win the titles.

I'll admit that I missed a significant amount of this match, but I knew that there would be new champs crowned the minute they announced the Tag-Team Turmoil.

Randy Orton defeated WWE champion Sheamus, John Cena, Wade Barrett, Edge, and Chris Jericho in a Six-Pack Challenge to win the title. Eh, it was a thing that happened. Oh well.

Being that this was the first PPV that I've seen in a good long while, I'll probably go out and say that the card had some potential. But overall, it was okay. Nothing great, but nothing terrible either. The Miz/Danielson match was great as expected, the Kane/Undertaker match was honestly nothing special, I wish they hadn't done the one non-title match so that the six-pack challenge could have a bit more time, and I sure wish they didn't spend so much time showing Randy Orton make faces while posing with the title.

So overall... it was okay. But nothing great.