{"id":2069,"date":"2017-02-14T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:56:04","slug":"main-event-recap-review-episode-229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/main-event-recap-review-episode-229\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Event Recap &#038; Review &#8211; Episode 229"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>February 14, 2017<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Episode 229<\/strong><br \/>\n(taped February 13, 2017)<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: Las Vegas, NV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: T-Mobile Arena<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: Tom Phillips, Byron Saxton, R-Truth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Mike Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Intro Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;On My Way&#8221; by CFO$<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Sin Cara vs Jinder Mahal<\/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_69e606bfae736','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_69e606bfae736\" 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_69e606bfae736\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Jinder Mahal wins via pinfall after an arm-trap neckbreaker <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 5:04<\/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 \/>\nAn okay match. It wasn&#8217;t terribly exciting, but there was nothing wrong with it. It was pretty even with both guys exchanging leads in the match. The finish seemes kind of matter-of-fact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nFrom RAW, Braun Strowman fights Mark Henry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nFrom RAW, Jericho hosts the Festival of Friendship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Mustafa Ali &amp; Cedric Alexander vs Tony Nese &amp; Drew Gulak<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: John Cone)<\/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_69e606bfae829','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_69e606bfae829\" 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_69e606bfae829\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Mustafa Ali pins Tony Nese after an inverted 450 splash<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 6:34<\/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 \/>\nGood match. Gulak and Nese worked very well as a tag team. Alexander and Ali didn&#8217;t work together as well, but they kept the pace up whenever Nese and Gulak slowed things down with their power advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nFrom RAW, Bayley faces Charlotte for the RAW Women&#8217;s Title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI liked the second match enough to recommend the show, but I think this was a pretty average Main Event.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Mustafa Ali &amp; Cedric Alexander vs Tony Nese &amp; Drew Gulak<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is pretty easiy the better match. More competitive and it had more action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustafa Ali and Cedric Alexander team up to face Tony Nese and Drew Gulak, and Jinder Mahal takes on Sin Cara in an okay episode of Main Event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457,297,622],"tags":[438,786,629,903,469,468,569,871,890,310,332,570,906,7],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-event","category-show-results","category-wwe","tag-byron-saxton","tag-cedric-alexander","tag-darrick-moore","tag-drew-gulak","tag-jinder-mahal","tag-john-cone","tag-main-event","tag-mike-rome","tag-mustafa-ali","tag-r-truth","tag-sin-cara","tag-tom-phillips","tag-tony-nese","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","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=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}