WWE Live from MSG results & analysis - Oct 3, 2015

A glorified squash matchWWE marked its return to Madison Square Garden with the special ‘WWE Live from MSG’ featuring Brock Lesnar vs The Big Show as the featured contest.The event that took place on October 3rd saw the Intercontinental, United States and Tag team titles defended and was billed as a part of  Lesnar’s Go To Hell tour. It also marked Chris Jericho’s 25th year in professional wrestling and the veteran took on Intercontinental champion Kevin Owens at the event.Zack Ryder defeated Bo Dallas and Mark Henry knocked on Brad Maddox in dark matches at the event. The following list gives the results and analysis of the event.

#1 Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler vs Rusev and Sheamus

Dolph Ziggler drops an elbow on Rusev

A decent enough match to open the event featured the continuation of the never-ending saga of the rectangular love story as Dolph Ziggler teamed up with Randy Orton to take on Rusev (w/ Summer Rae) and Sheamus.

MSG was unusually quiet for most of the match till Orton got the hot tag at the end. The Viper cleaned house with a trademark middle rope DDT to Sheamus while Rusev ate a Superkick from Ziggler on the apron.

A second of distraction allowed Sheamus to set Orton up for the Brogue Kick – but he ran straight into another Ziggler Superkick and fell victim to an RKO to concede the match.

Rusev berated Sheamus for the loss at the end of the match which resulted in the Celtic warrior decking the Bulgarian Brute with a Brogue Kick which was followed by another pathetic Summer Rae scream.

Analysis: The match was actually OK, but a lot of time was spent by the commentators ignoring the action in the ring and talking about the ‘Lana situation’ despite the fact that the WWE Universe has clearly grown tired of the angle.