3/3 Shore's WWE Superstars Live Coverage: William Regal vs. R-Truth, Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov vs. Zack Ryder and Primo, and Chris Masters vs. Curt Hawkins

By Chris Shore

Superstars on WGN America
Taped in Buffalo, N.Y. and Cleveland, Ohio.

[Q1] Technical difficulties prevented me from seeing the first quarter hour…

Shore's Slant: My apologies. I will fill this in off the replay later tonight.

[Q2] 2. Vladimir Kozlov and Santino Marella vs. Zack Ryder and Primo. Santino and Primo started. They traded arm drags to start and then Primo punched Santino in the mouth. Santino teased the Cobra and Primo slid to the floor. He tagged Ryder back in and Ryder went right at Santino. Santino hit a STO and tagged Kozlov.

Kozlov slammed Ryder to the corner and then tagged Santino. He tossed Santino into Ryder and Santino covered for two. Kozlov tagged back in and hit his headbutts to the chest. He kicked Ryder to the floor and then tossed Primo over the top when he ran in…[C]

Back at 6:56, Primo worked a headlock on Kozlov. He broke and tried for a springboard crossbody. Kozlov caught him and hit a fall away slam. He charged at Primo in the corner. Primo moved and Kozlov hit the corner. He tagged in Ryder and the heels worked in and out on Kozlov.

Santino finally got the hot tag on Ryder. He hit a hip toss and diving headbutt. Kozlov took out Primo and Ryder took out Kozlov. Santino split ducked the Rough Ryder and followed with the Cobra for the win…The announce team hyped showing the Rock's response to John Cena on Raw…[C]

Shore's Slant: Typical Santino and Kozlov match. I had no idea Primo was still on the roster. And Ryder sold the Cobra like he had been shot. Yep, it's Thursday night.

[Q3] Back from commercial, Matt Striker and Jack Korpela took over on commentary and setup the Shawn Michaels interview video from Raw…[C]

A video hyped the Sin Cara announcement…

3. Chris Masters defeated Curt Hawkins at 3:16. Only Masters got an entrance. They traded blows to start and Hawkins tripped Masters. He kicked him in the gut and locked in a body scissor. Masters powered out and hit a slingshot into the corner. He followed with a shoulder tackle for two. Masters ducked a clothesline attempt and hooked the Masterlock for the win. Post-match Tyler Reks ran out and destroyed Masters…[C]

Shore's Slant: A storyline on Superstar? Well color me surprised. I like Curt Hawkins. I really like Tyler Reks. If Masters disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't care in the least. I just hope Reks is the one who goes over at the end of this feud.

[Q4] A video recapped John Cena's original response to Rock, and then the announce team setup a video that replayed Rock's response on Monday…

Shore's Slant: So the Rock closes Superstars. Wow. Is all of WWE programming not named Raw going to be replays of Raw with some other stuff mixed in? God I hope Smackdown isn't that way. But I won't be covering tomorrow. My oldest is having her basketball banquet, but I will be back on Saturday with that hitlist. I'll get the opening match later and have more to say tomorrow on this hitlist. Thanks for reading and I'll see you then.

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