Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The current MOTY.

WWE Championship:
John Cena © vs. Umaga (with Armando Alejandro Estrada)
Royal Rumble 2007
This is a last man standing match and a lot of people online called this a MOTYC, so now I'm going to see for myself.Cena and Umaga go nose to nose and exchange shots. Cena blocks a suplex and hitsa jaw breaker, but runs gut first into Umaga's fist. Cena retreats to ringside. Cena drags himself to the apron, but Umaga knocks him back down. Cena is already acting dazed. Umaga rams Cena into the steel steps. Umaga stands around for several seconds before following this up with his methodical offense, directing Cena up the entrance aisle. Cena fires back with a fury of shots and knocks Umaga's head into the ring apron. Umaga shrugs this off and hits Cena in the gut. Back in the ring, Umaga connects with a head butt and continues to focus on Cena's gut, which is bandaged. Cena is such an underdog. Umaga slowly corners Cena and slugs away. He Irish whips Cena and charges, but Cena gets a boot up. Umaga knocks Cena down anyway. Cena is dead now, and Umaga waits patientlly as the ref counts. Cena gets up only to suffer a scoop slam. Umaga brings some steps into the ring. Umaga takes too long and gets dropped neck first on the ropes. Cena then grabs the steps and throws themm over the ropes onto Umaga at ringside! HOLY SHIT! That was a brave spot right there. Umaga gets up before the ten count, but is in a daze. Cena is fired up and aggressively directs Umaga to the ring, but takes a spinning heel kick. Umaga goes back to attacking the gut, which leads to a bear hug. It makes sense in the story of the match, so I won't spend any time bitching about it. The bear hug leads to a belly to belly suplex, and Cena appears to be dead. Umaga grabs more steps, you know, just in case Cena doesn't get up. Cena gets up at 9, but Umaga is ready for him. Umaga knocks Cena down and positions the steps in the corner. Umaga sits Cena on the steps and prepares for the running ass shot. Cena moves out of the way, and Umaga hits the steel hard! Cena grabs the steps and drives it into Umaga's head! Umaga makes it to his feet and barely manages to catch Cena flying off the turnbuckles for a tirt-a-whirl slam. Umaga uses the ropes to splash Cena. Cena gets his knees up on Umaga's third try. Cena bulldogs Umaga into the steps! Cena then drops Umaga back first on the steps! That's it, Umaga has to be dead now. Cena does the five knuckle shuffle while Umaga is still laying on the steps, which actually makes the move look cool. Cena goes for the F-U, but his back doesn't hold out and both men hit the steps. That was kind of awkward. This is enough to warrant a blade job from Cena. Umaga smells blood and targets a flurry of shots to the bloody forehead, turning the gore level up a couple of notches. Estrada positions the steps on the side of the apron, as Umaga continues his attack. Cena gets up at 8, and is helpless to numerous shots. Umaga hits some chops, but Cena shrugs them off and tries to mount a comeback, but runs right into a damn Samoan drop! Umaga signals the Samoan Spike, but Cena blocks it. Umaga hits a head butt and places Cena upside down in the turnbuckles. Cena sits up to miss a running head butt. Cena hits a leg drop off the top and then drives Umaga into the ring post! Cena grabs a television monitor from the announce table and pushes Estrada away. Cena smacks Umaga in the head with it, glass first, and you can see the dust from the screen in the air! HOLY SHIT! Gimmicked or not, that had to hurt. Cena tackles Umaga through the ropes, but gets caught when he lept off the apron. Umaga rams Cena spine-first into the apron and positions Cena on the announce table. Umaga runs down the announce tables for a splash, but Cena dodges! DAMN! I've never seen anything like that before! Umaga barely gets up before the ten count, while Estrada removes some turnbuckle padding, and unties the top rope in the process. Interesting, I say. Umaga takes the loose turnbuckle and tries to hit Cena with it, but Cena dodges and hits an F-U. Cena knocks Estrada down and incorporates the ring rope into the STFU, choking the life out of Umaga! Cena lets go of Umaga so the ref can count, but Umaga crawls up. Cena reapplies the choke, which looks far more blatant this time. Umaga is unable to get up and Cena wins the match at 22:39. This match lived up to the hype, as it incorporated some truly inventive spots and satisfying violence. This match deserves to be talked about for a long time, ****3/4.
Winner and still WWE Champion: John Cena

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