There is one more week until the Biggest Wrestling Show of the Year, WrestleMania 27. With all eyes on Atlanta, other wrestling promotions such as Ring of Honor and Dragon Gate are getting ready for some of their biggest shows of the year in the ATL as well. Eddie Edwards took center stage last Saturday when he surprisingly captured the ROH World Championship. Now he is off to Atlanta to take on his first challenger in the “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels on the first night of Honor Takes Center Stage. Then the ROH World Champion is off to re-unite with tag team partner Davey Richards as the American Wolves face Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas, Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team in a Tag Team Dream Match. These two iPPVs from Ring of Honor will serve as excellent appetizers for WrestleMania. Speaking of WrestleMania, WWE set-up the last few matches for the Show of Shows while also continuing to build all the matches already announced for WrestleMania. There were quite a few great matches this week. Daniel Bryan & Gail Kim vs. Tyson Kidd & Melina from WWE Superstars and Wade Barrett vs. Kofi Kingston and Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian both from WWE Smackdown are all up for the award this week. All these matches were great, but one of them was just phenomenal. Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian takes home the Silverdome Match of the Week for this wonderful week.
For the second week in a row, Christian got a chance to face the Mexican Aristocrat, Alberto Del Rio. Back in October of last year, Alberto Del Rio would attack Christian’s pectoral muscle to the point that Christian needed to take four months off in order to recover. Christian returned at WWE Elimination Chamber and got some well-deserved revenge on Del Rio. Since then, Christian and his good friend Edge (Del Rio’s opponent at WrestleMania) have been battling it out with Del Rio and his entourage, Brodus Clay and Ricardo Rodriguez. Last week, Christian just pulled out the victory against Del Rio in a Steel Cage match. Now Del Rio and Christian would go one-on-one with no gimmicks or stipulations. The two competitors start the match pretty even as they each traded moves. It would remain that way until Christian flung Del Rio over the ropes to the floor with a back body drop. Christian would follow the back body drop with a cross body from the top rope onto Del Rio. Del Rio and Christian would continue to battle for advantage as the match progressed. Del Rio worked on Christian’s arm while Christian tried to use his high-risk offence to get the better of Del Rio. This match grew ever exciting as Del Rio and Christian both started to throw out all their devastating signature moves. Their efforts were for naught as both superstars would counter each others’ signature moves. This went on until the very end when Christian would hit the Killswitch after a distraction from Edge for the win. The Steel Cage match these two superstars put on last week was great, but this match was better. Personally, this is one of the best matches I have watched on TV so far this year. Hopefully with Christian beating Alberto Del Rio again means that he will be added to the World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania. Christian is one phenomenal WWE superstar and keeping him from competing on the Grandest Stage of Them All this year would be rather disappointing.
As we all enter WrestleMania Week, there is a lot in store. There will finally be some build for Undertaker vs. Triple H after weeks of absolutely no interaction between these two superstars on Raw this week. At least we will not have to see another up-and-coming superstar join the Triple H Squash Express this week. Also The Rock will be at Raw to confront both John Cena and The Miz. Expect one hell of a three-way stare down from these three. WWE is packing a lot into the go home shows for WrestleMania, so do not miss a second of either Raw or Smackdown. This week will be BIG! Until next Saturday dear readers, have a delightful WrestleMania Week and to all those travelling to Atlanta for WrestleMania, safe travels. Cheers.
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