Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 9/10/10

Edge & Chris Jericho def. Wade Barrett & Michael Tarver.
Super fun match. Both Edge and Jericho were playing 100% babyface since they’re Canadian. Edge even cut a promo before stating that these two Canadian boys were going to kick some ass. Clearly at house shows wrestlers are allowed to be a bit more loose, as Jericho was laughing it up with Charles Robinson, even when he was seriously trying to argue against the Nexus’ heel tactics. So funny. They win with a Codebreaker/Spear combo. Edge then cuts a promo about how he had his first match 19 years ago only 10 miles from here. He finishes with, “it may not even happen but, Go Leafs Go.” to a big pop.
WWE Championship: Randy Orton def. Sheamus via DQ. Orton is a machine and got a big pop. Such a star. Long match that ended with Sheamus shoving the referee after Orton had kicked out of a pump kick (I think). Sheamus went for a chair, Orton countered into an RKO. Miz runs out IMMMEDIATELY, hands in his briefacase– BOOM. RKO. Amazing. Ref calls off the match and Nexus runs in, but Orton tries fighting them off, but it’s four on one. Hart Dynasty for the save. Jericho runs in. Edge runs in. Finally they scare off all but Otunga, who takes an RKO, then a Spear. Edge likens him, Jericho and the Hart Dynasty to a new Team Canada, then sings “O Canada” in it’s entirety, which ends with Jericho hitting a Codebreaker on the final note. Really fun show. Can’t stress how much fun it looked like Jericho and Edge were having.

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – 9/11/10

Edge, Chris Jericho & WWE tag champions Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kidd & D.H. Smith w/Natalya) beat Nexus (Wade Barret & Michael Tarver & Heath Slater & Otunga) in an elimination tag match.
Edge won after spearing Barrett. Edge cut a promo before the match about how Nexus would get beat by four badass Canadians. They played to the Canadian crowd a lot during the match. Unlike on TV, Jericho was really loose and smiling before and after the match. He was totally out of his heel character. Edge, too, was joking around with Natalya quite a bit. There were lots of “Y2J” and “spear” chants. Natalya got the crowd to chant “Canada,” as well. She also told our section that we were awesome fans.

The order of eliminations: Tyson Kidd, D.H. Smith, Tarver, Otunga, Slater, and Barrett.

After the show, Edge cut a promo about his start in WWE right here in Hamilton, and thanked his family, who were sitting ringside. He also thanked Jericho, which made it seem like Jericho is indeed leaving WWE. Jericho thanked the fans as well and called all of them his family, which got a huge pop. Edge shook hands with everyone and Justin Roberts thanked the fans to end the show. All in All, it was a great show.

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada – 9/12/10

Hart Dynasty (w/ Natalya) & Jericho & Edge def. Nexus
Nexus comes out as a unit to absolutely insane heat. Team RAW came out seperately, each to crazy pops. But before the match can start….Justin Roberts receives a message from the General Manager. Apparently the match was now going to be an elimination match, with an added stipulation that if an eliminated member of Nexus interfered in the match after being eliminated, Barrett would lose his spot in the main event of Night of Champions. The match took a while to get underway as both Jericho and Edge took to the mic. Jericho started a chant likening Slater to the Wendy’s girl, and throughout the match you could hear chants of “WENDYS!” or “I WANT A BACONATOR” coming from somewhere in the crowd. This was easily the match of the night, with Team RAW playing the “faces in peril” role quite well. One of the best spots in the match was with DH Smith holding Slater in a delayed vertical suplex with the crowd counting along. Slater was upside down for a good 40-45 seconds before Smith hit the move. That Smith kid has some freakish strength. Both Kidd and Smith were eliminated from Team RAW, but Jericho cleaned house, eliminating Slater and Otunga before tagging Edge back into the match. Edge takes care of Tarver, and then the match quickly goes into the finishing sequence (which I was lucky enough to catch on film). Edge had Barrett lined up for the spear, but it got countered into Barrett’s finisher, but before Barrett could hit it, Edge shoved him into the corner where he was met with a Codebreaker from Jericho, and as he stumbled to the center of the ring got met with a spear for the final 3 count. Edge and Jericho both take to the mics again to thank the crowd for coming out, and said how they always love coming back to Canada to perform.