The Shield vs. Kane & The New Age Outlaws
Out first are The New Age Outlaws. Road Dogg was in the middle of doing his usual trash-talking promo as he walked to the ring, but half-way through it, when The Outlaws were still on the middle of the ramp, The Shield’s music plays to cut him off. All three members of The Shield — Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins make their way to the ring. As soon as they hit the ring, Kane’s fire pyro explodes and his music plays. He comes out to join The Outlaws on the ramp, and they finish their walk to the ring together as video highlights are shown of some of the moments on RAW and SmackDown that led to this match.
The bell rings and Kane and Dean Ambrose start things off for their respective teams. Kane immediately gets Ambrose in the corner and goes to work on him. Ambrose fights back and makes the tag to Roman Reigns. Reigns goes to work on Kane as Billy Gunn and Road Dogg try and come in to help, but Reigns takes them out too. Reigns blasts Road Dogg and Gunn both from the floor with his flying boot to the face on the apron spot. He enters the ring and immediately blasts Kane with a huge Superman punch. Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose enter the mix now, and there’s bodies flying all over the place.
This match sure feels like it’s being rushed, as Reigns spears Kane in the ring while The Outlaws and the other members of The Shield battle on the floor. Ambrose, who I guess was the legal man, tagged in Rollins. Everyone is in the ring now. Ambrose and Rollins feed Reigns both Road Dogg and Gunn for a double-triple powerbomb. He pins him and 1-2-3. That went really quick. Kind of a shame that they sped through that match so quickly.
Winners: The Shield
Legends Playing With Action Figures
Tons of legends and Hall Of Famers are shown backstage playing with WWE action figures. Really nothing much to mention here. Ricky Steamboat got a bit of an entrance during the segment, as did “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase and Ron Simmons, who finishes the segment with his “Damn!” catchphrase.
Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
After that, the rushing kind of pace continues as Big Show’s music immediately hits. It’s time for the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Sheamus is out next. Those are the two that got solo entrances.
There are bodies everywhere. Yoshi Tatsu gets eliminated. Out next is Brad Maddox. Next is Brodus Clay. Zack Ryder is eliminated after him. Next out is Darren Young. Mark Henry nearly eliminates Rey Mysterio, but he ends up hanging on. Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre are eliminated. Heath Slater is out next. Big Show eliminates Mark Henry.
Fandango gets a cool little impressive spot and now the fans are “Fandango’ing” in New Orleans. Eventually, Fandango too gets eliminated. Guys are dropping off pretty quickly now. There are nine guys left, I believe.
I’m having trouble keeping up with the rapid eliminations, but I do know that we’re down to Big Show, Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio, Rey Mysterio, Dolph Ziggler, Cesaro and Kofi Kingston. Mysterio gets eliminated.
Now we’re down to six. Cesaro is thrown over the ring post and onto the floor, but his feet never hit the floor, as they were laid across the ring steps. He points it out, the refs agree, so he gets up and goes back in the ring. The fans applauded that. It looked like he was supposed to land standing up on the steps, by the way, but ended up laid out on his back with his feet touching the steps.
Anyways, Cesaro grabs a hold of Kingston in the ring now and does the big Cesaro Swing as the fans count along. They eventually give up the count as Cesaro swung him what seemed to be at least 30 times. As soon as he’s done, Big Show chokeslams him. Show turns around into a Brogue Kick. Sheamus eliminates Kingston. Ziggler is thrown over the top, but hangs on. However, while hanging on he’s hit with a superkick from Del Rio and ends up getting eliminated anyway.
Back to the action, Del Rio slaps the Cross Armbreaker on Sheamus. Sheamus powers out of it, goes to eliminate Del Rio, but they end up both getting dumped out to the floor.
We’re down to just Cesaro and Big Show now. Big Show goes to clothesline Cesaro but Cesaro escapes. Cesaro tries clotheslining Big Show over the top, but Big Show avoids it. Cesaro comes off the top rope but is met with a King Kong like swat from Big Show. Cesaro ends up scooping up Big Show out of nowhere, and in an incredible show of strength, literally holds him up, hoists him up even higher and easily slams Big Show over the top rope and onto the floor. Cesaro pulls off a shocker and gets the win.
Winner: Cesaro
John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt
After the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal, the video package for the John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt feud airs. Up next will be the battle between these two.
Following the video package, we see a bunch of fire at the top of the WrestleMania XXX stage. A bunch of drums are being pounded as women dance around in a dark and fiery scene. After that goes on for a second, we have The Wyatt Family cut-in happen. Then, we see the latern and Bray with his Wyatt members. “New Orleans, we’re here.” The fans erupt. Next, the band who performs the theme song are shown singing it live at the top of the stage. They actually sound damn near identical to the recorded version, by the way. Out walks Bray and his Wyatt Family members with the latern as the band continues performing the theme song. Very cool sight visually.
Out next, with a simple, typical entrance, is John Cena. He runs to the ring, throws his hat, etc. Same stuff we always see from him. The bell rings and this one is officially underway.
As soon as the bell sounds, Bray gets on his knees and extends his arms, “sacrificing” himself to John Cena. He yells out that “this can all be over now” and tells Cena to “give these people what they came to see” and tells Cena to “show them that you’re a monster.” Cena tells Bray to get up. Long story short, they collide and this fight is underway.
A loud “let’s go Cena” and “let’s go Wyatt” dueling chant breaks out. Meanwhile, Bray gets the better of the physicality in the ring and has Cena right where he wants him at the moment. Bray keeps shouting stuff, in typical Bray Wyatt fashion, as he pummels Cena all over the ring.
After several minutes of domination, Cena finally decks Bray. He spends a moment in the corner turning into a vicious state of mind. I’m assuming the story here is Cena finally turned into the “monster” that Bray predicted him to be all along. As Cena attacks Bray, Bray starts loudly laughing. The announcers point out how weird it is that Bray is laughing while Cena is viciouisly attacking him.
Bray goes back to dominating Cena for several minutes, including a lengthy beatdown on the floor that featured Bray smashing the ring steps into Cena’s skull. Back in the ring, Bray is seated on the mat and he grabs Cena’s head, cradles it in his arms in his lap and starts singing “he’s got the whole world in his hands” again. Cena starts fighting back, but Bray cuts him off and remains in control of the offense.
Out of the blue, Bray hits his “Sister Abigail” finisher on Cena. He covers him, 1-2 …NO! Cena kicks out. The crowd pops. Bray goes from smiling to looking nervous and confused as to how Cena didn’t stay down for the three-count on that one. He goes out to the floor and takes the top off of the announce table. He grabs a steel chair and slides back into the ring. Now Erick Rowan enters the ring.
Rowan exits the ring. Bray throws the chair to Cena and kneels down, extending his arms, shouting at Cena to “finish me.” Cena grabs the chair and stands up. The ref is pleading with Cena to “don’t do this.” Rowan hops back on the apron so Cena knocks him off with the chair. Bray uses that distraction to capitalize. He snatches Bray up for another Sister Abigail attempt, but Cena powers out, hoists Bray up and blasts him with the Attitude Adjustment. 1-2-3. Cena wins.
Winner: John Cena
WWE Hall Of Fame 2014 Class
A video package is shown of Saturday night’s WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony, and then all seven inductees into the 2014 class of the WWE Hall Of Fame are introduced on stage. The first six come out, followed by Ultimate Warrior, who gets entrance music treatment. They all smile and wave and then we shoot backstage.
Backstage: WWE Trainer Examines Daniel Bryan
Backstage, we see Daniel Bryan with his shoulder still heavily taped up, being checked on by one of the WWE trainers. The announcers put over the post-match attack on Bryan from Triple H earlier in the evening, and they question what his status will be for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship main event later in the evening.