WWE SummerSlam 2013: CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar
Looking back on this, it feels a little weird considering how much more dominant Brock got w/ the Suplex City gimmick just a year or so later, and then there's of course Punk's whole MMA stint. It doesn't affect my views on the match at all, but it's just funny to think about how much different this match would be now. Anyways, this is really great. Punk makes for a great badass underdog; loved him utilizing aerial attacks throughout, and that Triangle spot was pretty terrific. Brock also of course delivers big time; his beatdown of Punk is amazing - especially loved him busting out those bearhugs, and him talking trash while delivering that said beatdown rules. His selling is also tremendous -- maybe my favorite singular moment of the whole match is when Punk bites his way out of Brock's hold & then continues with a little kick-flurry which Brock just sells AMAZINGLY w/ that "I don't know where I am" look on his face while still having his hands pretty up, ready for battle. That's some truly amazing wounded-bear type shit. The final act of the match with Punk getting a little too focused on Heyman is also a brilliant way to cap the match off; he pretty much had the thing in the bag, but since Heyman interfered, he had to get his revenge, which allowed Brock to recover & put that final nail in the coffin, so to say. Still holds up as a classic & it surely is one of the finest matches of both men's WWE careers. ****1/2
WWE RAW 11/28/13: CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Daniel Bryan, Goldust & The Usos vs. The Shield & The Wyatt Family
What a stacked line-up on paper. WWE delivered so many terrific multi-man tag matches in 2013, and this was no different. Just super fun action from bell-to-bell w/ THE highlight, for me, being Daniel Bryan's superb hot tag -- he was the best hot tag in all of wrestling in 2013, and this was a good reminder of that. Loved Rollins trying to come n' save Harper from his frenzy there, only for him to eat a German Suplex -- I also loved how that gave Harper a bit too much time to recover, resulting in him countering Bryan's running dropkick counter into a hellacious powerbomb. Definitely the best stretch of the match. Punk's hot tag later on was very good too, and so were the last few minutes with everyone getting their signature moves in. FUN! ***3/4
WWE Survivor Series 2013: CM Punk & Daniel Bryan vs. Erick Rowan & Luke Harper
Sadly not as awesome as I remembered, but it's still good. I think Harper & Rowan are a bit too basic with their control segments, as it feels like the crowd died during those, and the action sure wasn't very interesting. VERY resthold & elbow drop heavy, you could say. Thankfully & unsurprisingly things always picked up when Bryan & Punk got back into the offense though; especially Bryan made sure that the energy never fully died after those chunks of Harper & Rowan on top. I would low-key say that this was a bit of a carryjob by the megapairing of Bryan & Punk. ***
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