{"id":3375,"date":"2018-01-16T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2018-03-01T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:35:35","slug":"wwe-mixed-match-challenge-recap-review-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wwe-mixed-match-challenge-recap-review-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Mixed Match Challenge Recap &#038; Review &#8211; Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?cat=622\">WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=mixed-match-challenge\">Mixed Match Challenge<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Week 1<\/strong><br \/>\n#WWEMMC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Air Date: January 16, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Event Date: January 16, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WWEMixedMatchChallenge\/videos\/151343012312448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">aired live on Facebook watch<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=laredo-tx\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Laredo<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=texas\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">TX<\/span><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=laredo-energy-arena\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Laredo Energy Arena<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hosts: Renee Young, Byron Saxton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Commentary: Michael Cole, Corey Graves, Beth Phoenix<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Greg Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nCourtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegitSashaBanks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">@LegitSashaBanks<\/span><\/a> on Facebook, Finn Balor and Sasha Banks are confident in their chances of winning the Mixed Match Challenge.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nCourtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/NatByNature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">@NatByNature<\/span><\/a> on Instagram, Natalya and Nakamura act like cats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Mixed Match Challenge First Round Match<br \/>\nFinn Balor &amp; Sasha Banks vs Natalya &amp; Shinsuke Nakamura<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Jason Ayers; watching in the back: Becky Lynch, Sami Zayn)<\/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_69e6033a2bcbb','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_69e6033a2bcbb\" 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_69e6033a2bcbb\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Sasha Banks forces Natalya to submit to the Bank Statement<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 12:49<\/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 \/>\nGood match. I liked how it built up to the finish. It started with the women facing each other, but we quickly started to see the cracks in Natalya and Nakamura&#8217;s team when Natty tagged out even though Nakamura wasn&#8217;t expecting her to. The commentators didn&#8217;t call it of course, but that lack of cohesion for Natalya and Nakamura popped up a few times during the match. The men and women each took a few turns before everyone started interacting with each other towards the end. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised with the result, but I did enjoy the match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nNew Day and Carmella say they are going to hand Asuka her first loss. The Miz and Asuka are going to win because they are Awe-ska.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis was a good start. I watched the match after it happened, so I didn&#8217;t interact with the chat, but I feel like that would have just been annoying to me anyway. I think it&#8217;s a neat idea though, and the interactivity is there if you want it. Although, it&#8217;s not so much interactive as it is simply live and reactive. To be interactive the fans would have to affect something on the live show as it happens. And yes, I realize there will be a second chance team voted in by the fans, but that&#8217;s not the same thing as being truly interactive. I guess Zayn and Lynch were being interactive in the chat, but that doesn&#8217;t hold much appeal to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE Mixed match challenge begins with a good match between the Boss Club and Natalya and Nakamura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1830,297,622],"tags":[633,345,438,535,655,536,516,1829,1828,87,1831,1015,294,451,480,533,614,1620,7],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed-match-challenge","category-show-results","category-wwe","tag-becky-lynch","tag-beth-phoenix","tag-byron-saxton","tag-corey-graves","tag-finn-balor","tag-greg-hamilton","tag-jason-ayers","tag-laredo-energy-arena","tag-laredo-tx","tag-michael-cole","tag-mixed-match-challenge","tag-mixed-tag-match","tag-natalya","tag-renee-young","tag-sami-zayn","tag-sasha-banks","tag-shinsuke-nakamura","tag-texas","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}