Rhodes Sandow

In the segment-by-segment, the show open with Brad Maddox, John Cena and Randy Orton did a 2.99 quarter. Randy Orton vs. Fandango lost 85,000 viewers. The Mark Henry interview where The Shield laid him out gained 78,000 viewers. Alberto Del Rio vs. Dolph Ziggler gained 273,000 people at 9 p.m. peaking at 3.19. The Bray Wyatt interview, Performance Center vignette and Zeb Colter interview lost 209,000 viewers. Usos vs. Jack Swagger & Antonio Cesaro and Christian vs. Damien Sandow lost 253,000 viewers. Brie Bella vs. Naomi gained 265,000 viewers. That’s a surprise. One of the two big segments was the C.M. Punk, Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar angle which gained 498,000 viewers to a 3.41 quarter at 10 p.m. Backstage stuff with Cena & Khali and Maddox & HHH & Stephanie lost 497,000 viewers. Rob Van Dam vs. Chris Jericho lost 172,000 viewers. John Cena picking Daniel Bryan as his SummerSlam opponent was the other big segment, gaining 669,000 viewers, one of the best segments of the summer, with a 3.41 overrun.


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2. Damien Sandow won the World title Money in the Bank ladder match over Jack Swagger, Antonio Cesaro, Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, Dean Ambrose and Fandango in 16:24. Fandango was introduced during the pre-game show as a tease showing intros before the PPV got on the air to whet people’s appetite and push late buys. Zeb Colter did an interview and was mad that Americans were eating tacos and burritos instead of American food. You know, like Hamburgers and French Fries. He said that Swagger or Cesaro winning this match is the key to us taking our country back. When he said “We the People,” the crowd chanted it with him. Sandow, who took the mic from Rhodes, cut a promo on that fictional ignoramus Rocky Balboa. Cesaro gave Rhodes a salto on the ladder. Swagger rammed the ladder into Rhodes. Barrett gave Ambrose a high kick while he was under the ladder. Fandango kicked the ladder into Barrett’s face. Fandango came from the apron in, over the top rope, with a leg drop on Barrett on top of the ladder. Barrett broke off a piece of a ladder and destroyed Sandow with it. Cesaro and Ambrose were on top of the ladder. Cesaro choked him off the ladder and dropped him. Barrett destroyed Swagger with the bull hammer elbow. Barrett climbed, as did Fandango. Fandango used a sunset flip power bomb on Barrett off the top of the ladder. Fandango was climbing and Ambrose stopped him. Ambrose used a headlock DDT on Fandango. Ambrose did a spot like Terry Funk with the ladder on his head spinning and knocking everyone down. Swagger and Cesaro picked up the ladder with Ambrose in it. Ambrose for some reason did a skin the cat spot to get on top of the ladder that Cesaro and Swagger were holding up. It took him two tries. That seemed really stupid, and they tipped over the ladder and he went over the top, but a few guys caught him. Colter told Cesaro to get on Swagger’s shoulders and get the briefcase. Rhodes used a springboard dropkick to Swagger, and he dropped Cesaro. Rhodes used the crossroads on Fandango & Barrett. Rhodes brought in the big ladder. He and Ambrose were climbing. Both were punching. Ambrose delivered a number of head-butts to Rhodes, opening him up. Rhodes smashed Ambrose in to the ladder. Rhodes was about to win when Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns interfered and pulled Rhodes down. This got a good deal of heat. Reigns speared Fandango. The Usos came in for the save and everyone was brawling outside the ring. Ambrose was climbing and Rhodes knocked the ladder over. Ambrose went flying over the top rope onto just about everyone but Rhodes and Sandow. Rhodes climbed to the top and was about to pull the briefcase down when Sandow showed up and threw Rhodes off and took the briefcase down himself. ***3/4