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#2 Matt Riddle vs. Roderick Strong
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At first, I thought that this was an odd way to open the night. Usually, that sort of stuff gets reserved to things like ladder matches, but here we saw the opening go to a match without a title on the line. Nobody argued with this, though. It was a superbly worked psychological match.
Roderick Strong attacked Matt Riddle's back relentlessly. Matt sold it excellently. The punishment just got more and more severe, and the crowd got more and more into it as Strong dished it out. Matt Riddle couldn't even secure the Bromission at first. A Final Flash knee strike also failed.
But eventually, Riddle fought through the pain and prevailed. Title aspirations have to be part of his near term future. Indeed, rumors are now swirling that he'll take on Adam Cole in Toronto, though I think it's too soon for that.
