{"id":1683,"date":"2016-07-24T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2016-07-28T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:42:16","slug":"battleground-2016-kickoff-recap-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/battleground-2016-kickoff-recap-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Battleground 2016 Kickoff Recap &#038; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>July 24, 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n(aired live)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WWEBattleground&amp;src=typd\">#WWEBattleground<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>City: Washington, DC<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Verizon Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel: Renee Young, Corey Graves, Booker T, Jerry Lawler<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Social Media Lounge: Tom Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRenee introduces the panel and mentions that Roman Reigns appeared at a WWE Live event recently.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the Cena versus Styles 6-Man match.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Panel<\/span><\/em><br \/>\nGraves talks about unity in The Club. Lawler makes jokes about how stupid Enzo is. Booker says Cena is a great leader. Graves and Lawler pick The Club, Booker picks Cena, Enzo, and Cass.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the New Day versus Wyatt Family match.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRenee wonders how New Day can be prepared to face the Wyatts. Booker thinks Woods might fight back. Graves has ever seen Woods not smile. Lawler mentions that the teams (mostly) have been drafted to different shows. Graves picks New Day, Lawler picks Wyatts, Booker doesn&#8217;t pick.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nAndrea D&#8217;Marco asks Zack Ryder about his match. Ryder thinks he has a chance, but no one else does. He&#8217;ll prove the doubters wrong.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nGraves and Lawler pick Rusev, Booker picks Ryder.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe panel wonders who Sasha Banks&#8217; partner is going to be. Lawler thinks it should be Summer Rae because she got drafted late&#8230; Graves thinks it should be Nia Jax. Booker thinks it will be Lita.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the Zayn versus Owens match.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\nCesaro replaces Graves on the panel. Cesaro thinks they will blow the roof off the building, and it frustrates him since he is sitting down and isn&#8217;t in the ring tonight. Cesaro and Lawler pick Owens, Booker picks Zayn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Social Media Lounge<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nMick Foley and Daniel Bryan talk about their shows and moving forward in the new era.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Earlier Today<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nDarren Young and Bob Backlund do some squats while Maryse puts makeup on The Miz.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nGraves is pulling for Darren Young tonight. King picks The Miz. Booker also picks The Miz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>The Usos vs Breezango<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Shawn Bennett; commentary: Mauro Ranallo, Byron Saxton; ring announcer: Greg Hamilton)<\/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_69f37c0c34b72','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_69f37c0c34b72\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69f37c0c34b72\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Tyler Breeze pins Jimmy Uso with a small packages after countering a Samoan Splash<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 5:27<\/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 \/>\nVery good match. This one had a lot of energy and was very fast-paced. The end got chaotic, but in a really good way. People were running and flying all over the place. It was a really well-done finish, and a very entertaining match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the WWE Title triple threat match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe one match was really good, so the show was fine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>The Usos vs Breezango<\/strong><br \/>\nObviously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renee Young and the panel talk about the matches at Battleground, Daniel Bryan and Mick Foley are in the Social Media Lounge, and The Usos face Breezango in an entertaining match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[917,625,297,622],"tags":[853,918,919,147,38,847,438,495,535,272,309,382,536,291,446,445,626,102,737,98,354,451,541,564,444,570,478,7,305],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battleground","category-ppv","category-show-results","category-wwe","tag-andrea-dmarco","tag-battleground","tag-battleground-kickoff","tag-bob-backlund","tag-booker-t","tag-breezango","tag-byron-saxton","tag-cesaro","tag-corey-graves","tag-daniel-bryan","tag-darren-young","tag-fandango","tag-greg-hamilton","tag-jerry-lawler","tag-jey-uso","tag-jimmy-uso","tag-kickoff","tag-maryse","tag-mauro-ranallo","tag-mick-foley","tag-ppv","tag-renee-young","tag-shawn-bennett","tag-the-miz","tag-the-usos","tag-tom-phillips","tag-tyler-breeze","tag-wwe","tag-zack-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}