{"id":1469,"date":"2016-02-12T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2016-02-19T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:36:41","slug":"superstars-recap-review-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/superstars-recap-review-retribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstars Recap &#038; Review &#8211; &#8220;Retribution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>February 12, 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Episode 357<\/strong><br \/>\n(taped February 8, 2016)<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: Seattle, WA<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Key Arena<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: Rich Brennan, Byron Saxton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Lilian Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Intro Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;New Day Coming&#8221; by CFO$<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>The Ascension vs Fandango &amp; Damien Sandow<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Rod Zapata)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e75240cc59f','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e75240cc59f\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> <em>Show\/Hide Results<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e75240cc59f\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Viktor pins Damien Sandow after Fall of Man<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 4:53<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nPretty good match, but it was nothing special. There was a little back and forth, but The Ascension kind of ran this match. The crowd was cheering for Sandow nearly the entire time and did not like it whenever he was on the losing side of the battle. It was interesting to see Fandango and Sandow not antagonize each other like on Main Event this week, but this show was taped before Main Event so it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRAW Rebound featuring Reigns, Ambrose, and Lesnar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nCelebrating Black History Month with a profile of Mark Henry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Stardust vs Zack Ryder<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Chad Patton)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e75240cc72d','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e75240cc72d\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> <em>Show\/Hide Results<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e75240cc72d\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Zack Ryder wins via pinfall after a Rough Ryder<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 8:07<\/strong> (1 break)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nThis was another good match between these two. Again, the ending seemed a little sudden, but it was good. They seem to be developing a nice little rivalry. A rivalry that pretty much nobody will see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nA look at Daniel Bryan&#8217;s WWE career.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nA replay of Daniel Bryan&#8217;s retirement speech from RAW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe matches this week are worth watching. Ryder and Stardust were nicely competitive, and the tag match had Sandow in it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Stardust vs Zack Ryder<\/strong><br \/>\nDefinitely the better match, and a good continuation of their little feud.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this show I got to thinking that the US title should be a Superstars\/Main Event title. Not exclusively, but they should defend it on these shows every once in a while. Guys like Ryder and Stardust deserve to be in that title picture, and these shows are where they thrive. Plus, the matches could actually get some decent time so they could potentially be better than matches on Raw and Smackdown. But then, maybe that&#8217;s one of the reasons they don&#8217;t want to develop stories and defend titles on Superstars and Main event&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Ryder looked for retribution against Stardust from last week, and Damien Sandow teamed up with Fandango to take on the Ascension in a couple of good matches for Superstars this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,466,622],"tags":[438,492,454,382,521,485,534,464,560,568,520,522,7,305],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show-results","category-superstars-tv-report","category-wwe","tag-byron-saxton","tag-chad-patton","tag-damien-sandow","tag-fandango","tag-konnor","tag-lilian-garcia","tag-rich-brennan","tag-rod-zapata","tag-stardust","tag-superstars","tag-the-ascension","tag-viktor","tag-wwe","tag-zack-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}