{"id":45705,"date":"2017-08-02T01:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=45705"},"modified":"2017-08-02T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T06:12:06","slug":"729-wwe-detroit-mich-final-event-joe-louis-arena-lesnar-vs-joe-cena-vs-rusev-nakamura-orton-vs-jinder-ziggler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/08\/02\/729-wwe-detroit-mich-final-event-joe-louis-arena-lesnar-vs-joe-cena-vs-rusev-nakamura-orton-vs-jinder-ziggler\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/29 WWE in Detroit, Mich.: Final event at Joe Louis Arena: Lesnar vs. Joe, Cena vs. Rusev, Nakamura &#038; Orton vs. Jinder &#038; Ziggler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1193609175\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>WWE HOUSE SHOW<br \/>\nJULY 29, 2017<br \/>\nDETROIT, MICH. AT JOE LOUIS ARENA<br \/>\nREPORT BY BRYAN METRO, PWTORCH CORRESPONDENT<\/h3>\n<p>I attended my first show at Joe Louis Arena in grade scholl in the &#8217;80s with my Pops, so I had to attend the last-ever event (not just WWE, but all sports\/concerts) at the Joe.\u00a0 I went in with high expectations based on the MSG show, was a little disappointed, but it was a very good live event.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" title=\"\">(1) A.J. Styles<\/span>\u00a0beat Kevin Owens. I was about five minutes late to the opener due to the merch stand situation (more on that later).\u00a0 The middle section was a basic house show &#8211; stall, heel, hope spot, heel, finish.\u00a0 The crowd was into A.J. but were turned off by Owens&#8217; constant restholds.\u00a0 A.J. won via the Forearm.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Tye Dillenger &amp; Sin Cara beat Aiden English &amp; Erick Rowan. Basic cool down match for a live event.\u00a0 English was able to get a large amount of heel heat.\u00a0 Tye was over with the &#8220;10&#8221; chants and the kids loved Sin Cara.\u00a0 Tye pinned Rowan with a roll up into a (Belle Isle) bridge.\u00a0 After the match, Rowan refused to to leave the ring and blew up balloons.\u00a0 Cue Luke Harper.\u00a0 Next match.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Luke Harper beat Erick Rowan. \u00a0Your basic five second house show special.\u00a0 Discus lariat.\u00a0 Pin.\u00a0 Crowd was receptive to Harper.<\/p>\n<p>(4) Baron Corbin beat Sami Zayn. Decent match with both putting in the work.\u00a0 Sami was over and Corbin is really good at heeling up the crowd.\u00a0 Finish came after Corbin hit Zayn with End of Days.<\/p>\n<p>(5) New Day beat Breezango and The Usos. New Day were very over with the crowd. The Usos were too.\u00a0 Standard tag team triple threat with lots of comedy from New Day who won with their double team finisher on an Uso.<\/p>\n<p>(6) Brock Lesnar beat Samoa Joe. It&#8217;s probably bias, because I was there, but I thought this match was equal to or better than their Great Balls of Fire PPV match.\u00a0 Joe was ridiculously over with the crowd, as was Lesnar.\u00a0 Heyman did the ring intros and kind of phoned it in before dropping the mic.\u00a0 Joe got in a lot of offense and had the crowd ready to blow up during a near fall with the Clutch.\u00a0 Lesnar came back and won with an F5.\u00a0 Lesnar seemed engaged and didn&#8217;t phone it in.\u00a0 Joe saluted the crowd after.\u00a0 Numerous &#8220;Joe&#8217;s gonna kill you&#8221; chants which may have been a tribute to Joe Louis Arena&#8217;s notoriously dangerous steps.<\/p>\n<p>Intermission<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1965341350\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>(7) Becky Lynch &amp; Charlotte\/Naomi vs. Carmella\/Natalya\/Tamina-\u00a0 All the women worked hard to engage the crowd rather than put on a five-star match.\u00a0 Carmella was especially great at antagonizing the ringside crowd.\u00a0 The face team looked to be having a blast interacting.\u00a0 Naomi eventually won with a pin over Carmella.<\/p>\n<p>(8) Shinsuke Nakamura &amp; Randy Orton beat Jinder Mahal &amp; Dolph Ziggler. Maybe the match of the night.\u00a0 The crowd was electric the entire time.\u00a0 Even Ziggler got a face pop until they realized he was teaming with Jinder.\u00a0 Both Singh brothers were taped up from the PPV match, while Jinder had insane heat; not go-away heat, but he had the crowd frothing.\u00a0 The only problem is was you could not hear him on the mic which prompted a &#8220;You can&#8217;t hear me&#8221; chant.\u00a0 Nakamura was really over, but Orton actually received the pop of the night, even louder than Cena.\u00a0 Standard tag match which ended with Nakamura taking out Jinder so Orton could hit the RKO on Ziggler.<\/p>\n<p>(9) John Cena beat Rusev. The crowd was very pro-Cena instead of a divided audience.\u00a0 Standard Cena house show main event.\u00a0 Tables, chairs, kick outs, an AA, and that&#8217;s it.\u00a0 Cena took to the mic after to thank everybody, and officially close down the Joe.<\/p>\n<p>Random Notes: I had a blast.\u00a0 There were some snags such as not too many merch stands and some parts of the concourse\/arena were already closed down (because the arena will be demolished soon).\u00a0 I was curious about this because the Red Wings played their last game months ago and there have only been sporadic concerts since then.\u00a0 That being said, the draft beer was completely skunked and the wait at the merch table was 45 minutes for me.\u00a0 Everybody wanted the limited, exclusive &#8220;Last Throw at the Joe&#8221; shirts.\u00a0 People in line were actually plotting to buy a bunch (at $30) and go to the back of the line and sell them for $40.\u00a0 Detroit hustles harder, I guess.\u00a0 Overall, it was a great show and I wish my dad (who passed in 2015) could have been there as he took me to my first ever show in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thats it.\u00a0 Hope it gives you a fun insight to the experience aside from the standard so and so beat so and so.\u00a0 Keep up the cool site.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CHECK OUT THIS OTHER REPORT ON THE SAME EVENT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/07\/30\/729-wwe-detroit-joe-louis-arena-lesnar-vs-joe-cena-vs-rusev-styles-vs-nakamura-plus-shinsuke-new-day\/\">7\/29 WWE in Detroit at Joe Louis Arena: Lesnar vs. Joe, Cena vs. Rusev, Styles vs. Nakamura, plus Shinsuke, New Day<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-991951714\"><div id=\"pwtor-985667776\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WWE HOUSE SHOW JULY 29, 2017 DETROIT, MICH. 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