Randy Orton vs Luke Harper
Harper and Orton locked up as soon as the match began. Harper then took Orton down with a shoulder tackle as Orton rolled out of the ring. Harper followed him out and hit him with right hands before sending him crashing into the barricade. Back inside the ring, Harper hit Orton with a dropkick before heading to the top turnbuckle.
Orton got up and hit Harper with a forearm, sending him crashing down onto the floor. Orton then planted Harper back-first into the announcer’s table. He then rolled Orton back in and covered him for a 2-count. Orton then locked in a headlock before hanging Harper out to dry on the top rope.
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After posturing for the crowd, Orton went back to work on Harper. Orton sent Harper crashing into the ring-post but he exploded out of the corner and took Orton down. Orton then went for the draping DDT but Harper reversed with a Guillotine before catapulting Orton into the middle rope.
As Orton recovered outside, Harper went for a suicide dive only to be met by a forearm. Harper knocked Orton back down and went for another attempt at this suicide dive, this time hitting it. He then sent Orton back-first onto the announcer’s table. Orton hit back with a Powerslam on the floor but didn’t catch it as clean as he would have liked.
Harper and Randy then headed to the top rope as ‘The Viper’ hit a superplex. Orton then went for the RKO but had to change it up into a Full Nelson Slam after Harper had countered the initial RKO attempt. Orton followed it up with the Draping DDT before signaling for the kill.
Harper hit Orton with two Superkicks out of nowhere but only got a nearfall out of it. Harper then countered another RKO attempt and hit a sitout Powerbomb for another nearfall. Harper and Orton then traded uppercuts before Orton countered a lariat attempt from Harper into an RKO before finally pinning Harper. A great match.
Randy Orton def. Luke Harper
