WWE Over the Limit 2011 - PPV Review

WWE: Over the Limit 2011WWE PPV Review Over The Limit


By Phil Allely

Over the Limit had an awful lot against it from the get go. WWE main eventer Edge had retired due to a neck injury, Undertaker and Triple H were off TV for various reasons and Edge’s (storyline brother Christian had won and lost the World Heavyweight Title. So with only a few big names to hold things together how’d things go?

A heel turning R-Truth took on (the much injured) Rey Mysterio in the opener. Truth’s new attitude and Rey’s enthusiastic move all helped things move nicely. Not PPV standard perhaps Truth’s win was still a fresh start to proceedings.

Former CORRE member Ezekiel Jackson then tackled his former boss Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship. In a decent big man match it all boiled down to Barrett’s remaining CORRE members running in to disrupt proceedings. Jackson winning by DQ, but Barrett retaining his strap.

New Mexican superstar Sin Cara faced off against the ever reliable Chavo Guerrero next. Guerrero was on fine form throughout, however Cara botched a few moved and it showed. Guerrero controlling the action and sequences, Cara somehow pulled off the win, he owes Chavo for that.

CM Punk and Mason Ryan then set their sights on the WWE Tag Team Title. The New Nexus duo fared well against champs Big Show and Kane, but there was only one way this encounter was going. Ryan being the unfortunate recipient of a double choke slam to lose the match for his team.

Divas Champion Brie Bella took challenger Kelly Kelly to a pretty reasonable Divas match next. An old school style swap with Brie’s twin Nikki trade places with her exhausted sister, to take advantage of a prone Kelly for the pin fall win.

In the match of the night Christian took on World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton for the Viper’s title. Orton and Christian are a very well gelled duo, Orton’s shock win over his nemesis may well be the best thing to happen the WWE in years. Christian looking like the true star he is and Randy cementing himself even more as a future hall of fame wrestler. Orton kept his belt, but it did seem touch and go for a long time.

The long winded Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler feud reached its pay off finally in the penultimate bout of the night. The Kiss My Foot match saw Lawler finally get some form of retribution on Cole. Cole was battered in and around the ringside area, he even took a tumble through his own ‘Cole Mine’. Lawler’s popular win saw him not only gain some form of revenge, but also saw surprise appearances by Bret Hart and Eve Torres, both of which helped bring a cowardly Cole back to the ring. Lawler gaining a foot kissing with the aid of a Hitman Sharpshooter.

The main event saw WWE Title holder John Cena battle The Miz in an I Quit match. The cunning Miz and his sidekick Alex Riley turned this into a handicap match from the off, using the no DQ rules to their advantage. Riley taking every opportunity to assault and side track champ Cena. Here can be only so many double team moves and sneak attacks before you break and that is exactly what happened here. Cena finally heading into Hulk Hogan territory with a superman comeback, Cena dodging a belt shot to hit an Attuitude Adjustment on Miz to keep his gold for another while.

Over The Limit was a decent if not overly exciting PPV, there were some sub standard matches (although they may have worked well on Raw or Smackdown), the Orton/Christian match certainly made its point. The big question now is where do the WWE go now , their big guns are on hiatus and they need to ring in young blood, so maybe this is the time of Alberto Del Rio, R-Truth, Sin Cara and other mid-card mainstays.