The Big Takeaway:
The Prime Time Players were certainly better when they were together, but in the spirit of 50/50 booking, Darren Young lost to Stardust while Titus O’Neil beat to Tyler Breeze in the main event.
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Stardust beat Darren Young (6:15)
Stardust’s not going anywhere at the moment and this gimmick isn’t doing anything for him. “Cody” chants start up and I’m reminded that my previous sentence is exactly what irks Rhodes; his tweet this weekend was rather noteworthy:
They lock up and Young shoulder tackles Stardust who then goes to the ropes for safety. He gets up, takes a bow and does a cartwheel. When they lock up again, Young puts him in a side headlock and Stardust just pushes him off and rolls outside to go for a walk.
When Stardust comes back in, they lock up again and Young whips him into a turnbuckle and nails him with a couple of hip tosses, before stopping to work over his left arm. Cody gets out of the hold but runs into a big forearm. Young hits him with an inverted atomic drop, followed by a swinging neckbreaker for two. Stardust shows us shades of Arn Anderson, by begging off, and then smashing Young with a forearm to the midsection.
Cody takes over with stomps and a snapmare, so that he can now work over Young’s left arm and neck. Young fires up with clotheslines, a belly-to-belly suplex and a back body drop on the apron, for two. Young looks to end it with a Gut Check but it is blocked and Stardust wins with the Queens Cross-Bow.
Titus O’Neil def. Tyler Breeze (6:02)
Tyler Breeze comes out in an outfit with tassels on the legs that look a bit like dreadlocks and Titus O’Neil plays babyface here in Miami, which made sense, especially as they gave him the win here. His gimmick is he’s strong and his move set is essentially full of throws, shoves and power moves but then they don’t always book him to match his size.
Breeze ducks under Titus’ charge and goes to lay across the ropes. O’Neil then tosses him to one side and, just as Swagger did the other week, O’Neil poses on the ropes, but for some reason does it on the middle rope. It is kind of like mockery but also feels like he’s too big and stupid to get himself up to the top rope.
Breeze does everything he can to dodge O’Neil’s open hand chop attempts. He even tries some of his own, but O’Neil just looks completely disgusted at his efforts. He hits a huge shoulder tackle and then precedes to open hand chop the heck out of Breeze, we even get “one more time!” chants. O’Neil catches a crossbody attempt and uses his patented side backbreakers, tossing Breeze aside as we head to a break.
Breeze hits O’Neil with a missile drop kick through ropes when we return. He then rolls Titus back in and hits him with the Super Model kick, for two, followed by a drop kick, also for a two count. Breeze goes up top for punches, but is thrown off and O’Neil gets the heat with a running shoulder tackle, a big clothesline and a big boot. After a failed first attempt, he then hits Breeze with the Clash of the Titus for the win.