WWE, Night of
Champions will take place on the 21st of September 2014 at the
Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
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There are 8 matches announced. The following is the match card:
- Brock Lesnar Vs.
John Cena – WWE World Heavyweight Championship
- Seth Rollins Vs.
Roman Reigns
- AJ Lee Vs. Nikki
Bella Vs. Paige – Diva’s Championship
- Chris Jericho Vs.
Randy Orton
- Mark Henry Vs.
Rusev
- The Usos Vs.
Stardust/Goldust – Tag Team Championship
- Cesaro Vs. Sheamus
– US Championship
- The Miz Vs. Dolph
Ziggler – Intercontinental Championship
As every single
title is on the line, there are multiple potential title changes.
Starting with
Dolph Ziggler Vs. The Miz for the IC title, I do see Ziggler retaining. I’m
guessing there’ll be some type of involvement from their “stunt doubles”, but
nevertheless I see it being a solid match. Ziggler can never really have a bad
match and his past few against The Miz have been pretty good imo; Ziggler is
just a fun guy to watch, despite where he is on the card, he’s one of those
performers that I will always pay attention to. The Miz and Damien Sandow
(Mizdow) paired together has really surprised me, it’s worked pretty well imo considering
the fact that I’ve never had an interest in The Miz; I’ve just never been a fan
of his. The fact that the IC title is meant to be the second most important
title in WWE is pretty disheartening however; they have the talent and
potential there to make it much more important and to have fans invested in the
storyline but they are simply not doing that. Overall, I don’t think the
majority of fans really care too much about this feud, yet for me, it is
Ziggler that is keeping me interested in this match and the outcome of it.
Sheamus Vs. Cesaro
for the US title should be really good and imo, will surprise everyone. I see
it being a hard-hitting match and to put it simply; just an all out FIGHT. I
hope that the belt is put on Cesaro, at this point I think he needs it, but I
don’t know if I see it happening… Post WM30, Cesaro was on top of the world, he
was over with fans, his popularity in general was growing and fans saw him as
the one to keep their eyes on who could potentially be World Champ soon but
then… it all suddenly took a massive hit and the spiral started falling
downwards. He has been booked pretty weak as of late and as a fan of his, I
would love if he won the belt here in order to slowly elevate him back up; this
loss would not hurt Sheamus imo. Cesaro has shown great charisma on the mic recently;
check out his post-match interview with Renee Young on Main Event 2 weeks back,
he came across as highly witty and self-centered, but in the best of ways. Both
Sheamus and Cesaro have great chemistry together and if any of you watched the
WWE 2K15 Panel last August you would have been able to have seen what I exactly
mean; the way they feed off of each other is great. All in all, I am really
looking forward to this being just a great wrestling match featuring two big,
strong, egoistical guys.
Mark Henry Vs.
Rusev… okay, let me just say it; I do not care. This whole nationalistic
storyline is so over-done and outdated. Besides, if you’re not from the USA
(which I’m not), do you even care? To make it worse, I’ve even seen that a lot
of US fans are not interested, aren’t invested and couldn’t care less. I don’t’
even remember what exactly happened in the main event segment between the two
on this past week’s Raw… that’s how much I was not paying attention. I see
Rusev picking up the win here, his undefeated streak will probably last quite a
long time, before someone “worthy” comes along to end that.
The Usos Vs.
Goldust/Stardust for the Tag Titles should be a good, solid match. Despite
being, to put it plainly, bored, of The Usos and their title reign - on PPV
matches, these guys step their game up and constantly deliver; their past few
matches against Rowan/Harper were insanely good (although the titles should
have been dropped to them). I have an odd feeling that The Usos may retain once
again, even though, imo they should not. The Tag Team division is completely
stale at the moment, there needs to be some type of change and mix up, to keep
fans invested, which at the moment they really are not. The titles should have
been dropped to Harper/Rowan, for them to then feud with Stardust/Goldust;
however, who would the babyfaces be? The mix up of turning Stardust/Goldust
heel has been a well needed change so under those circumstances, I guess that
feud would not work well. In an ideal world, I want to see the titles change
here, for The Ascension (from NXT) to then debut on Raw and confront the Dust
brothers.
Chris Jericho Vs.
Randy Orton is a very random match, but hey, I’m not complaining. These are two
future hall of famers who have done it all in the WWE; they KNOW how to put on a good match and this
will be must see. Despite it being weirdly rushed, I am looking forward to it.
I do see Orton going over here, with this putting Jericho out for the end of
his current WWE run. I initially thought Jericho would be leaving after his
cage match on Raw against Bray Wyatt, so I could potentially be wrong here but
it does make sense in this situation, plus Jericho has himself said that he
will not be at HIAC.
The Triple Threat
match between Paige, AJ Lee & Nikki Bella for the Diva’s Title is…meh. Remember
all those months ago when Paige was down in NXT and everyone was going on about
how incredible an AJ Lee/Paige feud would be? Erm, yeah, about that… Could WWE
have messed it up any more if they tried?! I try SO hard to not be critical
about the WWE but man they really dropped the ball here. Being a female myself,
it annoys me even more how they treat their women wrestlers who CAN legitimately
wrestle; it’s an insult to all female WWE fans.
We FINALLY get this feud that I had been anxiously awaiting for, for MONTHS and
what has it turned in to… some weird unnecessary sexual, “frenemy”, mixing with
Total Diva’s rubbish. AJ/Paige can genuinely WRESTLE, they can go in the ring;
I’m not going to lie, their match at Battleground was weak and an odd match
overall but their SummerSlam match, they stepped up and it had potential, had
WWE given them the time that they deserved. Had they been given even 8 minutes,
they could have proved why they deserved to be respected and called women’s
wrestlers but nope, WWE could not provide that to them. Absolutely ridiculous. The
story-telling aspect of it has not been great either.
Why can’t it be an angle concerning two females in the WWE who are fighting to
be the no.1 in the company? Where they have legitimate resentment towards each
other? Where they just want to beat the hell out of one another? This “frenemy”/sexual
tension is unnecessary, makes no sense and something that I personally find
insulting. The involvement of Nikki (which is 100% a way to promote Total
Divas) is also ridiculous; no one cares for the Brie/Nikki storyline and there
was no need to involve Total Divas, into a Divas Title feud. Anyway, I think I’m
ranting now, but I see Paige retaining (hopefully, anyway).
Roman Reigns Vs.
Seth Rollins… again… oh yeah, we got it for FREE last week on Raw. Makes sense, doesn’t it?...Anyway, I’m still
confused as to why WWE had this match on Raw, I genuinely did not think it was
going to take place, as did a lot of other people, yet, the bell rang, the
match started AND ended clean…odd. It was a decent match but throughout it I
was questioning why this match was happening so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I
could have. Roman winning clean on Raw was unnecessary imo; especially since
Dean Ambrose has NEVER had a clean victory over Rollins…yet.
I do see Ambrose
returning at NoC (fingers crossed), I do think it would make the show that much
more must-see and interesting if he shows up and interrupts this match, costing
Rollins the victory. I have read that Ambrose could return and potentially turn
on Reigns, turning heel in the process but I really hope that does NOT happen.
Ambrose has been shining as a babyface recently and there needs to be an
Ambrose/Rollins re-match with Dean going over cleanly. Dean could also
potentially return when Seth is attempting to cash in; I would be happy with
either. He is confirmed for Raw but imo, NoC is where the return NEEDS to
happen.
Also, anyone else
find it pretty hilarious that now WWE are realising that Roman was part of The
Shield? 3 months later.
Finally, the big
one…Cena Vs. Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship…Lesnar has to
retain, end of. I do not see Cena going over and he should not. Lesnar has to,
for months, be seen as a complete and utter beast that cannot be stopped. The
build to this match has been solid and overall, I’ve enjoyed Paul Heyman’s
promos the most and have loved how we have seen him talk Cena into questioning
his beliefs, teasing a heel turn, but we all know it won’t happen. What I do see
however, is Cena getting a lot more offence in this match, compared to
SummerSlam where he had nothing… at all (which was great). Overall, this match will be a fight, no doubt
about that and I do see Lesnar retaining but not without Cena going down fighting.
If Cena somehow manages to get the victory…I’ll be pretty speechless, that’s
all I’ll say.
The fact that this
was originally meant to be Bryan Vs. Lesnar is SO disappointing; the matches
between those two would have been something incredible to see… but overall, I’m
still happy with what we’re getting.
Ultimately, this
card could surprise us. There are a few matches here that have the potential to
be 5* which people will not be expecting, e.g. Cesaro/Sheamus. However, I can’t
help but notice that the Wyatt Family are not on the card, although, a
pre-show match has not been announced as of YET, so they could potentially be
on that. Nevertheless, they deserve to be on the card and deserve to be at much better places in the company right now, but hopefully
there is a new direction for them on Raw the following night…hopefully…
What matches are
you guys looking forward to at NoC? What do you think of the card? What’re your
predictions? – You can tweet me and let me know at: @WrestlingMenu
- Zara
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