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Meltzer's star ratings for Battleground

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#1 ·
Bad News Barrett vs. R-Truth - **
Randy Orton vs. Sheamus - ***1/2
The Prime Time Players vs. The New Day - **1/2
Bray Wyatt vs. Roman Reigns - ***3/4
Charlotte vs. Brie Bella vs. Sasha Banks - **3/4
John Cena vs. Kevin Owens - ****1/4
Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins - **
I definitely didn't think that Cena/Owens was ****+ worthy.
 
#5 ·
Re-watched this PPV again today, and no way is the Cena/Owens that good. Sure it was better than a lot of matches, tons of big moves, never a dull moment etc etc, but there was a pin almost EVERY single move, came to a point where I nearly broke my PS4 with the sheer amount of near-falls.

The Rollins/Lesnar match was terrible and shows how WWE are wasting Lesnar by putting him in these shite matches. I hope his match with Taker is better at SS, because dominating a whole match doing nothing but suplexes is boring. I get it with the whole Suplex city thing and all that, and doing lots of suplexes is fine, I'm not complaining, but do other moves as well (Lesnar has a shit ton of moves); also let Taker get plenty of offence as well. 20-25 minute classic with both guys having plenty of offence and plenty of different moves and you've got a 4* minimum match on your hands; non stop suplex-fest isn't very exciting
 
#6 · (Edited)
Cena and Owens got way too repetitive. They blew their load on the first match, had a similar match the second time, and the third one was just lazy finisher spam. Meltzer has a boner for finisher spam, so there you go. Brie Bella brought down the Divas Triple Threat. She really didn't belong there. Alicia would have been a much better option, because she can actually keep up with Sasha and Charlotte. That's a fair rating on the Reigns/Wyatt match. You could even bump it up to 4. I like those hard hitting slobber knockers.
 
#7 ·
I only watched the women's match and Owens/Cena after the fact... so I can't comment on the rest. The women's match was dragged down by Brie, but was passable enough still at ** 1/2.

Owens and Cena however is vastly overrated. Finisher spamming, no selling, no psychology, absolutely mind numbing detriment to professional wrestling... it was ** if you are generous. But if you want real wrestling with psychology, selling, and fundamental execution then I wouldn't give it more than *. I'm sorry, but ruining finishers, no selling everything, and absolutely shitting on wrestling is not my idea of greatness. Don't know what the fuck Meltzer is smoking.
 
#9 ·
So is this another one of those threads where everybody shits on Meltzer because he rated things not exactly to what people wanted him to? It always seems like that's the case.

That aside, I agree with everything except Cena/Owens. I'd give it a ***1/2 or ***3/4.
 
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