Posted in: House Shows WWE House Show Results from Dublin, Ireland 4/16/09
By PainLord
Apr 16, 2009 - 9:34:44 PM
Report sent in by Eoghan
Starts off with Tony Chimel welcoming everyone to the event. Dublin's O2 arena is quite small, no ramp or monitor. It was set up like the old ECW arena.
Match #1: Kofi Kingston beat William Regal with Layla. Nice pop for Kofi. The arena shouted the place down booing Regal. Nice mic work form Regal. Good back and forth match with Kofi getting the win around the 8 minute mark. Layla looked glorious.
Match #2: Santino Marella beat Charlie Haas. Santino does hilarious promo pre-match mocking Haas. Haas didn't do any imitation, came in wearing his standard gear and to his regular World Greatest Tag Team music. Haas showed good moves in the ring but got little or no crowd reaction. Santino wins via roll up after around 5 mins.
Match #3: Goldust beat The Miz. The Miz gets big heat after taunting the crowd. Little or no reaction for Goldust. Good match, Goldust looked fresh but very uninterested. Picks up the win around the 6 minute mark.
Match #4: Melina retains Womens title against Beth Phoenix with Rosa Mendes.. Special referee Kelly Kelly. KK immedaitely bans Mendes from ringside. Beth dominates a lot of the match with excellent power. Continously fights with referee. Melina gets clean win after good comeback and celebrates with Kelly Kelly.
Intermission
Match #5: Carlito and Primo retain Unified Tag Team titles over Kane and Mike Knox: Bid pop for Kane. The crowd remained really behind him for muhc of this match. Good reactions also for the Colons. Nice contrast here of brute power agianst the high flying Colons. The borthers get over powered in many areas but manage to keep Kane down long enough for Carlito to nail Knoz with the backstabber and get the win.
Match #6: CM Punk beat Chris Jericho. Gets a decent enough pop Jericho does a promo claiming he punched an Irish guy who made fun of him for losing the night before. Pop turns to major heat as he continues to criticise the Irish fans. Excellent heel work. Punk comes down to so so Pop. Gets the win after about 12 mins or so. Exellent match, easilt match of the night. Punk celebrates with MITB briefcase afterwards.
Mathc #7: John Cena and Rey Mysterio beat Edge and The Big Show. Rey Mysterio draws massive cheer. Cena draws biggest cheer of night. Match gets goin with Mysterio and Edge. Mysterio looks excellent, does good work with Edge. Cena comes in and plays to crows excellently as he works with Show. Big Show puts in good performance, looked tired though. Does good scenes with Edge as they clearly don't get along. Edge plays well to crowd. Accidentally spears Big show. Mysterio hits Edge with 619 and Cena displays remarkable strenght in getting Big show up for the FU. Mysterio pins Edge. Crowd goes nuts.
Cena and Mysterio celebrate with respective titles as show closes down.
Biggest Pops:
1. John Cena
2. Rey Mysterio
3. Kane
Biggest Heat:
1. William Regal
2. Jericho (once he started insulting everyone)
3. The Miz
Good show overall. WWE here in Ireland has a massive following from young children so they would have been delighted with the final match.
