{"id":4167,"date":"2018-10-16T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T21:52:15","slug":"mixed-match-challenge-2-recap-review-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/mixed-match-challenge-2-recap-review-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Match Challenge 2 Recap &#038; Review &#8211; Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>WWE Mixed Match Challenge<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Season 2, Episode 5<\/strong><br \/>\n#WWEMMC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Air Date: October 16, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Event Date: October 16, 2018<\/strong> (aired live on Facebook Watch)<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=washington-dc\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Washington DC<\/span><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=capital-one-arena\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Capital One Arena<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: Michael Cole, Renee Young, Vic Joseph<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Mike Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKayla Braxton and Vic Joseph welcome everyone to the show and talk about the tournament so far.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThree weeks ago, Cathy Kelley asked Awe-Ska how they feel after their victory. They feel good. Also, they&#8217;re still undefeated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Selfie Promo<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nAwe-Ska is confident that they will win tonight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRusev and Lana imitate The Miz and Asuka.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nA closer look at Bobby Roode.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKayla and Vic welcome Natalya and Bobby Roode. Team Pawz intends to win it all, and it will be glorious. Natalya assures everyone that Bobby loves cats.<\/p>\n<p>After Team Pawz leaves, Lio Rush walks up. Rush tries to silence rumors by saying that Bobby Lashley and Mickie James are just teammates, and they are going to dominate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Natalya &amp; Bobby Roode vs Mickie James &amp; Bobby Lashley<\/strong> w\/ Lio Rush<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_69e6034c464bf','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_69e6034c464bf\" 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_69e6034c464bf\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Bobby Lashley pins Bobby Roode after a spear<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 9:52<\/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. It wasn&#8217;t as goofy as a lot of the Mixed Match Challenge matches can be, but it was fine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Selfie Promo<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nFinn Balor and Bayley&#8217;s win next week will be glorious.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKayla Braxton asks Natalya for a comment. Natalya wants Bobby Roode to stay positive despite their start as a team. Asuka walks up and says &#8220;we will win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Asuka &amp; The Miz vs Lana &amp; Rusev<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Jason Ayers)<\/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_69e6034c465d2','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_69e6034c465d2\" 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_69e6034c465d2\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Asuka forces Lana to submit to the Asuka Lock<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 7:56<\/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 fun. It started off kind of silly, but there was also some good action between both pairings. The Miz took advantage of Rusev and Lana&#8217;s current problems with Aiden English to get an advantage, and Asuka just used her skill to get an advantage over Lana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Selfie Promo<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nJimmy Uso and Naomi are ready to beat Awe-Ska next week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis was pretty good. The second match is worth watching, though the first isn&#8217;t one I&#8217;d go out of my way to see.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Ravishing Rusev Day vs Awe-Ska<\/strong><br \/>\nThey continue to win, but I think they&#8217;re going to lose before this tournament is over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Official Results:?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wwe-mixed-match-challenge\/2018-10-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wwe-mixed-match-challenge\/2018-10-16<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awe-Ska faces Ravishing Rusev Day in a fun match while Country Dominance attempts to take advantage of the newly formed Team Pawz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1830,297,622],"tags":[556,2172,2187,547,943,854,1863,537,883,2185,2166,2171,655,516,445,1149,452,966,87,186,871,1831,2164,1015,460,294,310,2186,451,632,2168,564,1365,1666,7],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed-match-challenge","category-show-results","category-wwe","tag-asuka","tag-awe-ska","tag-bnb","tag-bayley","tag-bobby-lashley","tag-bobby-roode","tag-capital-one-arena","tag-carmella","tag-cathy-kelley","tag-country-dominance","tag-day-one-glow","tag-fabulous-truth","tag-finn-balor","tag-jason-ayers","tag-jimmy-uso","tag-kayla-braxton","tag-lana","tag-lio-rush","tag-michael-cole","tag-mickie-james","tag-mike-rome","tag-mixed-match-challenge","tag-mixed-match-challenge-season-2","tag-mixed-tag-match","tag-naomi","tag-natalya","tag-r-truth","tag-ravishing-rusev-day","tag-renee-young","tag-rusev","tag-team-pawz","tag-the-miz","tag-vic-joseph","tag-washington-dc","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}