{"id":1947,"date":"2016-09-25T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2016-12-09T04:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:31:58","slug":"clash-of-champions-kickoff-recap-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/clash-of-champions-kickoff-recap-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Clash of Champions Kickoff Recap &#038; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>September 25, 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n(aired live)<br \/>\n#WWEClash<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: Indianapolis, IN<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Bankers Life Fieldhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kickoff Show Panel: Renee Young, Lita, Booker T, Jerry Lawler<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Social Media Lounge: Tom Phillips<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Commentary: Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Jojo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe panel welcomes us to the show, and Tom Phillips talks about Sami Zayn being in the Social Media Lounge later on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the Reigns\/Rusev match including the wedding cake, Summer Slam, and Rusev costing Reigns a chance at the Universal Title.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBooker T tells Roman Reigns to keep trying. Lawler says that Reigns is picking the wrong fight. Lita picks Reigns, Lawler picks Rusev, and Booker doesn&#8217;t pick.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nAndrea D&#8217;Marco welcomes Sasha Banks and asks her about her emotions. Sasha gets emotional. Dana Brooke then walks up and tells Sasha the only emotion she should be feeling is fear.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the Women&#8217;s Title match.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBooker T is excited about the Women&#8217;s Title match and says Charlotte is the most dominant female champ of the modern era. Lita thinks Sasha can win the title again. Lawler thinks Sasha is either scared or an idiot. All three of them pick Charlotte to win.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe panel recounts all of the matches in the Cesaro\/Sheamus Best of Seven series. Sheamus joins the panel and says that he doesn&#8217;t feel pressure, though he performs best under pressure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nA new Cruiserweight Champ was crowned at the Cruiserweight Classic, and a number one contender was named on RAW.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBooker T is excited about the cruiserweights. Lawler thinks Kendrick has the edge because of his experience in WWE.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBooker and Lawler don&#8217;t care about friends.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Social Media Lounge<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nTom Phillips asks Sami Zayn some questions from social media.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nLawler and Lita pick Jericho to win. Booker T doesn&#8217;t pick. The panel also talks about the tag title match. Booker T picks New Day. Lawler and Lita pick Anderson and Gallows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Alicia Fox vs Nia Jax<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Darrick Moore)<\/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_6a059c93316da','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_6a059c93316da\" 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_6a059c93316da\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Nia Jax wins via pinfall after a Samoan drop<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 4:56<\/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 \/>\nThis was easily Nia&#8217;s best match since being called up to the main roster, but it still mostly consisted of Nia standing in the center of the ring while Alicia Fox did all the work around her. Alica Fox did look good though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Panel<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe panel talks about the Universal Title match.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBuildup for the Universal Title match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIt was a fine kickoff.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Alicia Fox vs Nia Jax<\/strong><br \/>\nDefault!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Fox takes on Nia Jax during a fine kickoff show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,625,297,622],"tags":[463,853,38,438,1053,1054,535,557,629,291,532,626,277,87,538,354,451,480,533,183,570,7],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clash-of-champions","category-ppv","category-show-results","category-wwe","tag-alicia-fox","tag-andrea-dmarco","tag-booker-t","tag-byron-saxton","tag-clash-of-champions","tag-clash-of-champions-kickoff","tag-corey-graves","tag-dana-brooke","tag-darrick-moore","tag-jerry-lawler","tag-jojo","tag-kickoff","tag-lita","tag-michael-cole","tag-nia-jax","tag-ppv","tag-renee-young","tag-sami-zayn","tag-sasha-banks","tag-sheamus","tag-tom-phillips","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}