WWE Capitol Punishment - June 19th 2011

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A hit and miss show for me.

I thought Kofi vs Ziggler was a cracking opening match.  The commentators ruined the ending though, making out they weren't sure who had won.  Since when has pushing off the ropes been illegal?  It wasn't like Ziggler held the ropes, I mean people bounce off the ropes all the time, seemed a bit whacky, but the nearfalls leading up to it were great.

Riley beating Miz was great to, although I question the ending, with nobody really knowing Riley's finishing move (I'm still not sure if that DDT was it), the ending fell flat because I don't think anyone expected the 3 count.  Still giving Riley the clean win here was cool, and surprising to me.  I thought they would go back and forth, try to make Riley look on the same level, but have Miz pull out the win.

Mark Henry crushing Big Show was cool to see, seems they are trying to convince us Henry is a monster again.  Not much interest in the match with Del Rio.  It was too obvious the pre match beatdown was to give Big Show an excuse for losing.

Wade vs Zeke was a tedious match, the fans seemed indifferent to it and Zeke, the "face"

Mysterio vs Punk was superb!  CM Punk finally got a completely clean win over Rey.  And the drama was classic, I just hope Punk doesn't leave, he's the best thing going.  Chant it now "CM Punk! CM Punk"

I wasn't that into Christian and Orton, to be honest the feud is boring me now, the ending was seemingly another reason to keep it going, can't say I'm thrilled.  It was a solid match, nothing amazing though.

Bourne vs Swagger, good match, but RAW filler....

The Obama segments...AWFUL, time wasting!

R-Truth vs John Cena has been a really entertaining feud, but, unfortunately these 2 guys are medicore workers, having them go on last is just asking for trouble.  The match for the most part I just found boring. 

Overall a show with great matches (Punk, Ziggler) and the not so good (Cena...)

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Thought the crowd hurt the event too. They just didn't seem into much of it. Whether that was the fault of what was going on in the ring I don't know, they just seemed a bit quiet....

Orton/Christian isn't grabbing me much either. The Christian heel turn doesn't seem to have been too well though out. I'm sure the plan was for him to turn heel on Edge, and with Edge now gone, they just went ahead and turned him heel anyway.

I hope Barrett isn't about to become 'Evil Foreigner Heel #347' after his promo. Hopefully it was just a one-off to antagonize the Washington crowd.

It was an OK show, just nothing startling or really noteworthy...

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Mediocre PPV.  The opener was good and Henry pre match attack was a good angle advancement.  Punk-Mysterio was great.  Christian-Orton have had better matches in the past.  The rest of the stuff was either boring or just plain awful.  Cena being a wrestling superman who overcomes the odds is becoming really old.  Orton too but at least his matches are more watchable.

The last PPV only did 65,000 buys.  I wonder how much this one will do?

Yeah, the crowd being totally dead didn't help this at all.  Not mentioned--Booker T was awful as a color commentator.  I had no idea what he was saying most of the time.

Thank god Money in the Bank is the next PPV.  There is very little chance that WWE screws up that PPV.