Match three and Cesaro has kinesio tape on his lower back as
well as his shoulders, so that finish from the previous match is now canon in
this series - His back is fucked. I look
forward to match 7 where Cesaro will be more kinesio tape than man.
Cesaro comes out swinging right from the bell, going for a
quick pin and a flurry of offence. His
desperation showing here, but one simple back body drop has him playing defence
immediately due to his pre-existing back injury. I can’t say the action is anything to go out
of your way to see, but I’m digging the week to week story. Commentary are doing a great job in pointing
out that match #4 is scheduled to be just 2 days later on a live event in
London and with such a short recovery time, plus a flight across the Atlantic,
Cesaro will be in an even worse condition for that match. Corey Graves suggests that if Cesaro can’t
win this match, the clean sweep is on.
Sheamus shows as much mercy here as Anakin Skywalker shows
to younglings. He puts about 8 knees
into the back of Cesaro, does 4 consecutive Irish Curse Backbreakers and then
when you think he’s gonna execute the Celtic Cross, he drops Cesaro on his knee
again for the first ever Celtic-Backbreaker I can remember seeing. The referee asks if Cesaro wants to give up,
but Sheamus runs in with the Brogue Kick to end this one at around 5 minutes
for 3-0. I think a back related move
would have come off better here than Sheamus just winning with his routine
finisher. A celtic cross would have been
perfect. That’s nitpicking though. This is such a fun Sheamus performance as a
ruthless heel showing no mercy to his opponent.
I imagine this will be the match I’d recommend the least as a match to
watch in a vacuum as it’s so short and there’s very little Cesaro on show (I
did love him punching his way out of a cloverleaf attempt but that’s about it for
impressive Cesaro offence), but it perfectly fits the story they’re telling and
I look forward to seeing how they progress that story in London.
And now for my first gripe about this series - The worst
possible way to book a best of seven series is to have someone go 3-0 up. This matters less in a retrospective re-watch
where you already know what the outcome of the series is, but in real time the
3-0 lead gives away the finish to the next three matches as the guy chasing is
obviously winning the next three matches to avoid it wrapping up quickly. Wrestling is always at it’s most exciting
when matches are unpredictable, and now we’ve got three predictable outcomes
coming up in this series. While Guy
Pearce in Memento would have a better shot at recalling the action of the 3rd
Elite/Death Triangle match than I would, Tony at least avoided the 3-0
problem.
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