STEP UP: Lesnar & Cena & Rollins
How good was that match?
I’ve seen in three times now, and it holds up, possibly getting better with each viewing. With English commentary I still think Nakamura/Ibushi from Wrestle Kingdom will take Match of the Year (unless something truly mind-blowing happens in 2015), but this is a very, very close second. Ultimately you have to try and distance the 3-way from the rest of the Rumble pay-per-view, which was complete garbage, and after only three days that’s not an easy thing to do.
John Cena and Brock Lesnar work well together. That may have been the last time we ever see them in the same ring, and it’s fitting they go out on their absolute best note. Seth Rollins was the one that most people had a hard time picturing in the match. It made sense to reward him for bringing back the Authority, but I don’t think anybody was expecting him to show up and steal the pay-per-view in a triple threat with Lesnar and Cena. It was an odd pairing that turned out so much better than even my most optimistic of expectations.
While Rollins was the most flashy performer in the match, don’t discredit John Cena, who pulled out a variation of the Michinoku Driver and a nice pop-up powerbomb to add to his Moves of Doom. Lesnar was Lesnar, and that’s never going to get old.
