By Mark Rodriguez
We get three matches this time around as we see KiLynn King return to action alongside Skye Blue. We also haven't seen Katalina Perez in a while either.
Katalina didn't waste time and jumped Nyla while her entrance music was still playing. A knee to the mid-section from the Native Beast was enough to slow down her momentum. Nyla picks her up but Katalina slips from her grasp and socks her in the back. The Queenpin bounces off the ropes and runs towards Nyla, but the Native Beast does a jumping knee that knocks her to the mat. Nyla runs into Katalina as she's up against the ringpost and then knocks her down.
Nyla picks up Katalina and throws her up against the ringpost, then hits her with a running elbow. Katalina drops the mat and Nyla hits her with a rolling cannonball. With Katalina practically unconcious, Nla picks her up and destroys her with the Beast Bomb. Nyla Rose wins the match and Vickie Guerrero comes in to lay out a 'I survived Nyla' shirt over Katalina Perez.
Match 2- Skye Blue & Kilynn King vs The Bunny & Emi Sakura
The match starts with Skye and The Bunny squaring off. Bunny shoved Skye against the ringpost and pies her face. Skye gets angry and they grappled, but Bunny manages to hit her with knee strikes and slams her back against the mat. Bunny slams Skye's face into the turnbuckle and tags in Emi Sakura. Bunny and Emi shove Skye towards the ropes and as she bounced back, Emi doubles her over with a knee to the midsection, and Bunny sends her back with a running knee lift to the jaw.
Emi and Bunny pose, before Emi starts kicking and stomping at Skye. Emi quickly turns to sock KiLynn off the apron. Emi flings Skye against the ropes, hoping to get her into an armdrag but Skye reverses it into a pin attempt. Emi kicks out. Skye lands a thrust kick to Emi's face and goes for another pin, but can't keep her down. Skye grabs Emi's arm and tags KiLynn in.
Skye and KiLynn fling Emi towards the ropes, but she holds to them rather than bouncing back. Skye knees her in the face anyway. Skye rolls Emi to the mat with a snapmare nd KiLynn runs at her with both knees. KiLynn tries for a pin but Emi still kicks out. KiLynn tags Skye back in who grabs Emi in a headlock.
Emi shoves Skye off her and towards the ropes. Both women try to shoulder tackle each other, with Skye being the one to stumble back. Not to be deterred, Skye knocks Emi down. Skye runs to the ropes but the Bunny grabs her. Emi is able to use this chance to grab Skye into an underhook backbreaker. Skye gets up against the ringpost and Emi runs at her with the flying crossbody. She goes over to tag in The Bunny.
The Bunny runs over and starts kicking at Skye, keeping her from tagging in her partner. The Bunny taunts Skye and her fans as she slams her face against the mat. As Bunny picks her up, Skye starts punching her stomach. Bunny knees her in the midsection to break her momentum. Bunny gets Skye up against the ropes, choking her with her boot pressed up against the throat and tags in Emi. Emi starts throwing in chops but Skye starts chopping back. Emi rakes her across the eyes.
Emi gets Skye up against the turnbuckle and goes for a flying crossbody. Skye gets out of the way and tries to pin her, but Emi kicks out. Skye runs and slides under Emi and tags KiLynn into the match. KiLynn hits Emi with an elbow to the face, then grabs her arm and starts dishing a series of chops and punches, knocking her down. Bunny runs in and gets clotheslined by KiLynn.
KiLynn runs at Emi but she gets out of the way so she's up against the ropes. Emi runs at her but KyLinn jumps out of the way. KiLynn picks up Emi for a power bomb and goes for the pin. Emi kicks out. KiLynn tries to pick up Emi again, but she gets shoved back to the opponent's corner so The Bunny gets tagged back in. Emi pins KiLynn up against the ringpost so her partner can run in to attack, but KiLynn shoves Emi into the Bunny so the bump into each other.
KiLynn runs to tag Skye but gets tripped by her opponents. Skye leaps off the ropes but misses her targets as well. Emi and Bunny hit KiLynn with a double-thrust kick to the face. Bunny grabs KiLynn and Emi grabs Skye and they slam both women Down The Rabbit Hole. Bunny pins KiLynn and wins the match for her team.
Match 3- Amber Nova vs Ruby Soho
Amber smacks Ruby a bit and gets on top of her. Ruby pushes her off and starts hitting her in the stomach. Amber grabs Ruby and pulls her down to the mat. Amber goes for a pin but Ruby kicks out. Amber then goes for a submission hold. Ruby tries to power out and get back to her feet, but Amber knees her in the side. Ruby falls back down and Amber tightens her grip on the headlock.
Ruby finally fights her way out of it and hurls Amber towards the ringpost. As Ruby goes over to her, Amber grabs her head with her legs and pulls her facefirst into the turnbuckle. Amber goes for a sunset flip but Ruby rolls out and knees her in the face. Ruby keeps knocking Amber but she continues getting up to try to attack her. Ruby lays her out with a sock to the face.
With Amber up against the ropes, Ruby rushes towards her. Amber gets her boot up, but Ruby stops and catches it in time, and knees her in the face. Ruby climbs the ropes, catches Amber with her legs and slams her face against the turnbuckle. Ruby grabs Amber and tosses with a snap release suplex and then finishes her off with the No Future kick. She gets the pin and wins the match.
My Opinions-
Kind of an average episode, at least in terms of the women's matches. The Nyla match was pretty much a squash, I felt bad for Katalina Perez being brought out here just to get destroyed. At least she got a Nyla t-shirt out of it.
The tag match was the best one tonight, though I would have liked to have seen KiLynn King be a bigger part of it. Out of the 4, she was the one we have seen the last off and the crowd did pop when she was finally tagged in. I know KiLynn and Skye are on the lower card but KiLynn was on fire there, until they had to do the part where she tripped and Skye missed her mark. This was a time I would have liked those two to have score the win, as they looked like a pretty fun tag team. I hope to see them team up again, or maybe in a trios match but someone like Ruby on their side so they have a greater chance of winning.
The Ruby match was cool. She's always fun to watch, though just once I'd like to see someone legit shake her hand without her getting attacked. Amber did get some good offense in. I did like how she did her own variation of the 'use legs to slam face into turnbuckle' move on Ruby. I would like see of her as well.
Overall a decent show though I guess wasn't terribly impressed this time around. The tag match was fun and the Ruby match was good, I just feel bad for Katalina Perez.
On other news, today also marked the day where we lost one of the greats, The Diamond Stud, Razor Ramon, Scott Hall, The Bad Guy. Sadly due to hip surgery some blood clots cause him to have three heart attacks in a day and be put on life support. Even though he lasted several hours after being removed from life support, the Bad Guy left us.
Razor Ramon got me into the WWF back as a kid. All my high school buddies (that were into wrestling) were saying 'chico' and 'hey meng' like he would. Back then when the SNES version of WWF Royal Rumble came out, we were glad to see it was his first game appearance. Scott Hall got me more invested into WCW later on. The nWo thing was nuts back then and I'm glad to have watched the whole thing unfold live. Years later I would get the chance to meet him in person with Johnny. I still say for those brief moments with all four of us posing together, it felt like Johnny and I were members of the nWo. He had a great wrestling career, was a two-time WWE Hall of Famer, faced his personal demons with help from Diamond Dallas Page, and was a good long time buddy to Kevin Nash.
Rest in Peace Scott Hall. I'm glad we had the chance to meet up even if it was for a little while. He was indeed a wrestling legend.
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