The WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between Damian Priest and Seth Rollins at Cash within the Financial institution was abruptly elevated to a triple menace dynamic as Drew McIntyre cashed in his Cash within the Financial institution briefcase within the midst of the motion. McIntyre’s championship pursuit was in the end squandered by an ambush from CM Punk that later paved the best way for Priest to retain. On a latest episode of “Busted Open Radio,” former WWE persona Jonathan Coachman weighed in on this title match’s end, significantly the second through which Priest did not kick out of a pinfall try from Rollins.
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“Again once we had been studying …. we had been taught that, and that is what Vince [McMahon] wished to do, that for one thing like that, to guard the referee, he counts three, and then you definately take care of the repercussions after that,” Coachman recalled. “What ended up occurring is all the [questions] with Drew, ‘Oh, now was it the lights? Was it the music? Was it his fault?’ Then he comes down and CM Punk [attacks Drew]. You have got all of that, however but all anyone’s speaking about is the truth that Damian Priest may have been knocked out for a second and did not kick out.”
“What the referee ought to have achieved within the second is counted to 3,” Coachman continued, “after which you can have pivoted and it may have been Drew going after Seth because the champion after which form of make all of it make sense.”
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As Coachman alluded to, Rollins’ pinfall try on Priest got here on the heels of laying him out with a Falcon Arrow. Reasonably than counting to 3, since Priest’s shoulders remained grounded on the mat, the referee stopped the depend at two, ruling that Priest had kicked out. WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque has since claimed this to be a “mistake” that he hopes is not dwelled on for too lengthy.
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