Men's 5 on 5 Raw vs. SmackDown Survivor Series match
It's Team Raw (Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Austin Theory and Bobby Lashley) versus Team SmackDown (Drew McIntyre, Jeff Hardy, Xavier Woods, Happy Corbin and Sheamus) up next.
The match begins with Kevin Owens arguing with Team Raw about who's starting. Eventually, captain Seth Rollins relents and lets Owens start. Owens gets fired up to fight with SmackDown's Xavier Woods -- and then bails outside and walks up the ramp to purposefully get himself counted out. Right off the bat, it's 5-4.
Becky Lynch pins Charlotte Flair
Arguably the night's most anticipated matches opened the show as Becky Lynch defeated Charlotte Flair in a clash between Raw and SmackDown women's champions. Lynch scored the W by outsmarting Flair, rolling her up and holding onto the ropes to snag a win.
The story of the match is that Lynch and Flair, who were known to be best friends some years ago, now have real-life heat with each other backstage -- Lynch did interviews with the likes of Sports Illustrated saying as much. The bout started with appropriate fire, with the two scrambling and landing snug-looking strikes on each other.
They wreslted inside the ring, and brawled outside. Pat McAfree claimed that documentaries would be made on this match, which is a bit of a stretch.
After Becky landed a top-rope leg drop for a two count, the crowd gave a polite "This is awesome!" chant. Charlotte used a few of her fiancé Andrade El Idolo's moves, including a top-rope moonsault into a standing moonsault, and a big-boot fake into a back elblow.
The first proper false finish came when Lynch hit a Man-Handle Slam, her Rock Bottom-esque finishing move, but Charlotte was able to get her foot on the ropes. Lynch then locked Flair into a "Figure Four" (I put it in quotes because she didn't lock it in properly, as Corey Graves pointed out), but Charlotte fired up and the two got into a slap-fight while in the Figure Four, which got a bigger "This is awesome!" chant from the Barcley's crowd.
Charlotte paid Lynch back for the Figure Four, as after hitting a big moonsault on the outside Flair rolled Lynch in the ring and locked in the Disarmer Armbar onto Lynch, who quickly got to the ropes.
The finish came soon thereafter when Flair rolled up Lynch and tried to steal a pin by holding onto the ropes. The ref saw her and stopped counting, allowing Lynch to reverse the rollup into one of her own. At the last moment, out of the ref's line of sight, Lynch grabbed the rope to secure the three count.
Rating: 3.5 stars. This was good, but too long. It had a fantastic start and a good ending, but the middle bit dragged a bit. Not because the action wasn't good, as these two work well together. It's just that the story is that they were really going to scrap, and it did feel like a fight between enemies at the beginning and end, but more of a standard wrestling match in the middle.
That said, the ending where Lynch outsmarted Flair by cheating better than her was good storytelling. It felt like something her character really would do, and Lynch played it up great afterwards.
Kickoff Show results
I was surprised this match was on the Kickoff Show, until I saw the finish. Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura defeated United States Champion Damian Priest by disqualification when Priest hit Nakamura with a guitar.
After about 9 minutes of action, Prist took Nakamura sidekick Rick Boogs' guitar, smashed it and hit Boogs with the destroyed guitar -- then clobbered Nakamura with it on the outside.
Also of note on the Kickoff Show: Vince McMahon is here. Angle alert.
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