Night Of Champions 2011 Review

Night Of Champions 2011 Review : Mark Finally Does It


Kofi Kingston & Evan Bourne vs R-Truth & The Miz
This is when WWE started caring about the tag team division for a couple months . Kofi and Evan dominate the start of the match . Really fun tag match here . The last part of this match was like a reverse tag match , with the ref in favour of the faces instead of the heels . The Miz gets disqualified after pushing the ref down . Was going great until the DQ . *** After the match , both Miz and Truth attack the referee .

Cody Rhodes vs Ted Dibiase 
This looked to be a good match , but the crowd obviously didn't agree . It has been a pretty good match so far though . Cody wins the match and retains the IC Title after a school boy . **3/4

Christian comes out to the ring to say he deserves one more match to become the new World champ . He thinks he should face the winner of the World title match once that match is over . He gains some cheap heat by mentioning the superbowl . Sheamus interrupts and gives Christian a brogue kick . Well that seemed pretty pointless .

John Morrison vs Alex Riley vs Jack Swagger vs Dolph Ziggler
I remember this match being awesome at the time . Let's hope it still is . John and Ziggler were great in this match . It's a shame John didn't go anywhere . Alex hits the impaler DDT and only gets 2 ! Swagger hits the gutwrench powerbomb , but Ziggler pushes him away and picks up the victory to retain his title . Very fun match here . ***1/4

Randy Orton vs Mark Henry 
Got to give it to the WWE for finally giving Mark this honor . I was so sure that somehow Randy would retain as he usually did , but I was proved wrong and Mark was given his greatest moment in the WWE . It's even more amazing that he held the title for around 3 months . I think most of us predicted it would end in a couple of weeks . This is also probably Mark's best match of his career . Mark wins with the world's strongest slam . ***1/2

Kelly Kelly vs Beth Phoenix
And we now have our obligatory divas match . At least we have Beth and hey ! She's in her hometown tonight . And yet she still loses and wins 2 weeks later at the HIAC PPV . What was the point of that ?? This could have been so much better . There's even a ' Kelly sucks ' chant . Great superplex by Beth . Kelly wins with a roll through . **1/2

John Cena vs Alberto Del Rio
I remember this match being great at the time , so let's see if I was right . And yes I was , this ended up being great even though the build up wasn't very good . Cena picks up another WWE Championship by making Del Rio submit to the STF . ***1/2

Triple H vs CM Punk : No DQ
This match was going great at the start but turned into a Russo-like match at the end . It was still match of the night for me and had great moments like the Savage elbow through the announce table . HHH picks up the victory with a pedigree . ***3/4

7/10 . This was another good PPV for WWE in 2011 . 3 great matches , one good one and a great moment  makes this a really good event .