12/1 House Show Results Yokohoma, Japan: Cena/Show v Nash/Miz, Funaki Special Ref, Punk/Del Rio

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WWE Raw house show results
December 1, 2011
Yokohoma, Japan
Report by Wayne Keimig, PWTorch reader

(1) Zack Ryder beat Jack Swagger. Ryder got a nice pop. Swagger got annoyed by a "Sooners suck" chant by a few Americans in the audience.

(2) Santino beat William Regal. Even pop for both Superstars. Decent match.

(3) Alex Riley beat Primo. The crowd was VERY quiet during this match, but the fave was A-Ry.

(4) U.S. champion Dolph Ziggler beat Mason Ryan and Drew McIntyre in a triple threat match to retain the U.S. Title. There was a "U-S-A" chant during the match. McIntyre and Ziggler teamed up against Mason, but their team-up was no match against him at first. Mason hit his finisher on McIntyre, but Ziggler zig/zagged Mason and pinned McIntyre for the win.

(5) Kelly Kelly beat Divas champion Beth Phoenix in a non-title match with Funaki as special referee. They had some fun with Funaki. The match went back and forth with the usual Kelly moves. She won with a roll-up.

After the match, The Miz came out and delivered Skullcrushing Finale to Funaki. This got a lot of boos from the audience. Miz then got on the mic and said this is what happens to everyone who gets in the ring with him, then he introduced Kevin Nash, who got a pop. Out next was Big Show to an average pop, followed by John Cena to a mixed pop. Yes, even in Japan, he gets the same reaction and crowd chants. Except, no Rock-related chants. "Let's go Cena / C.M. Punk" was heard, though.

(6) John Cena & Big Show beat The Miz & Kevin Nash. Great back and forth match. The best part of the match was when Show asked the audience to be quiet when he gave Miz giant chops to his chest. He did three of them and each got a great reaction. Big Shows gave the WMD to Nash and Cena delivered AA to Miz for the win. Afterward, Cena and Show posed for the audience.

(7) WWE champion C.M. Punk beat Alberto Del Rio to retain the WWE Title. For the main event, Del Rio came out first sans car and Ricardo to a huge negative reaction. Punk was out next to the biggest pop of the night. They were evenly matched during the contest. This was pretty much the only match that went to the floor. Del Rio applied his cross arm-breaker, but Punk got the ropes with his feet. Punk then hit the GTS, but it looked like Del Rio kicked out at two. The bell rang, though, and that was it. Even Punk seemed upset at the finish. Del Rio retreated fast to the back while Punk celebrated to end the show. Japanese star Yoshihiro Takayama raised Punk's hand on the way out.
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Do you think you would like like this card if you saw it live?

I would probably like some of the matches.

For the most part I think I would like this card.

The US title match is fresh and I would love to see it on Raw.

The diva match has proven in the past to be better than a lot of them and Punk/ADR always have great matches.

It is kinda weird Nash is tagging with random heels but I guess he can't work his own match just yet?

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