Randy Orton versus Daniel Bryan in a No Disqualification Match
They lock up and Bryan works on the arm and wrist. Orton with a reversal into a hammer lock. Bryan with an escape and he goes for the leg. Bryan with a kick to the hamstring and then he sets for the surfboard but he decides to drive Orton’s knees to the mat. Bryan with kicks to the back of the leg but Orton with a head butt and kicks of his own.

Orton with a slingshot suplex and Thesz Press but Bryan escapes and he applies a single leg crab. Orton gets to the ropes but Bryan does not have to release the hold. Orton kicks Bryan away. Bryan with kicks in the corner. Orton with a rake of the eyes and then Orton sends Bryan to the floor and Orton with a clothesline.

The referee starts his count because this is not a No Count Out Match. They return to the ring and Orton gets a near fall. Orton with a reverse chin lock. Orton with a head butt followed by punches on the turnbuckles. Orton with an Irish whip but Bryan flips over and he hits the flying clothesline. Bryan with the running drop kick into the corner followed by the hesitation drop kick for a near fall.

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WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins vs. Daniel Bryan & Randy Orton
The bell rings and Reigns catches Bryan with a kick and chases him into the corner. Bryan turns things around and catches Reigns with a series of kicks before flipping over him and running into a giant running right hand from Reigns which is good for a two count. Reigns beats on Bryan in the corner and tags out to Rollins who comes in with a series of stomps in the corner before choking Bryan with his boot. Reigns tags back in and he whips Rollins into the corner for a big running forearm that Reigns follows up with a clothesline for two. Reigns traps Bryan in a rear chin lock.

Bryan fights to his feet and out of the hold, but Reigns catches him with a knee to the chin for another near fall. Reigns traps Bryan in another rear chin lock and the crowd attempts to get behind the challenger. Bryan fights up to his feet and hits a huge running clothesline. Orton and Rollins tag in and Orton hits a couple of clotheslines before hitting a huge snap powerslam. Orton sends Rollins out to the apron, and drops him, hitting Roman Reigns with the suspension DDT instead. Orton runs into a big boot from Rollins, but turns a crossbody into a powerslam that’s good for two. Orton goes for the suspension DDT on Rollins, connecting and dropping him to the mat.

Orton drops to the mat and Rollins rolls out of the ring. Orton reaches for Rollins and Reigns blasts him with a huge right hand. Rollins brings things back into the ring and pins Orton for a two count. Rollins stomps away at Orton before tagging back out to Reigns. Reigns comes in and beats on Orton for a bit before going for another pin and getting two. Reigns chokes Orton with his boot and Rollins gets in on the action while the ref is distracted.

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Daniel says that Kane thinks he is the weak link. He says that they had the Shield beaten already and he will prove on Sunday that he is not the weak link. Kane will have to sit back and know that Randy and him did something that they could never do. Kane wants to know if Daniel is calling him the weak link. Daniel says maybe Kane is right, this may not be the team. Daniel says that Kane is the weak link. Kane grabs Daniel’s throat and Randy Orton’s music plays. Randy tells Kane he cannot let him do that. He knows and understands why Kane wants to choke slam Daniel, but he needs Daniel at 100% at Payback. Whatever Kane does to Daniel affects him . . . so if Kane choke slams him, it might start a chain reaction that leads to an RKO. Kane says that he is ready to go.

Daniel tells Randy he did not tell him to come to the ring. Randy says that he came out here to help Daniel because Kane was going to choke slam him through the mat. Daniel says that he did not tell Randy to save him. Randy reminds them about the fact that they are partners. Kane says that he is done with this, but Daniel tells him that he is walking away from things like he always has.

While the Bickersons bicker in the ring, The Shield appear on the TitanTron. Seth says that it is funny watching them out there. Dean calls it a car wreck. He says that after being embarrassed for six months by the Shield, they would be mad, but they are mad at themselves. Every ‘super team’ that is put together, they are unable to stop the Shield. Dean asks them if they believe in the Shield. He says that there is no need to argue because tonight will be like every other night. Roman says that they will lose on Sunday and that is why the Hounds of Justice rule.

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Perhaps it’s only natural, given their often larger-than-life personas, but professional wrestlers have been among the biggest beneficiaries of modern-day “branding” and branching out in the entertainment world. World Wrestling Entertainment, or the WWE, has smartly tabbed a number of its rising stars for movie properties. Among the latest to test the acting waters is nine-time world champion Randy Orton, who takes his first crack at a starring role in “12 Rounds 2: Reloaded,” a discretely plotted sequel/spin-off to 2009′s “12 Rounds,” starring John Cena. In the movie, Orton plays Nick Malloy, an emergency medical technician who finds himself locked in a “Saw”-like game of cat-and-mouse with a vigilante tied to his past. For ShockYa, Brent Simon had a chance to talk to Orton recently one-on-one, about acting outside versus inside the ring, his wrestling family roots, and his tattoos. The conversation is excerpted below:

ShockYa: Wrestling obviously takes a lot out of you physically, but its action exists in a longer form. The action in movies can be very intense, but it’s often shot in bits and pieces. How did you take to that change — was it hard to keep the adrenaline up?

Randy Orton: It was two completely different things for me. The stuntmen loved me because I was wanting to do everything. There were only a couple stunts that I wasn’t allowed to do myself. Short little takes are how a lot of directors would piece a scene together — and spend days and weeks on a fight scene. Roel Reiné, our director, spent five hours on a fight scene where I fight two cops. It’s not the longest fight scene — it’s about a minute or a minute-and-a-half (in the movie). It’s really cool. Even though it’s take after take, we shot for a long time. That was all we did that day. As a matter of fact, I think that was our first day. Roel knew that beating up the stuntmen and kicking them in the face would probably be a little easier for me, and less stressful (laughing), than any of the real heavy acting stuff. So he was warming me up. But I was a lot more dressed than I am when I’m working in the WWE. There are lots of differences. Usually I’m wearing my little tights out there, and on the movie I’m dressed (with pads). And I had the EMT outfit, which also felt really awkward. But I had to feel like an EMT. The few hours of acting classes that I was able to get under my belt before this movie definitely helped me try to get as comfortable as I could playing the character I was playing.

ShockYa: You mentioned jokingly the stress of some of the bigger acting scenes. But when you’re wrestling there is definitely an element of performance — it’s just that you’re playing big dramatic moments to a crowd, in the round. How do you take that experience and shrink it down to acting for the camera?

RO: Like you said, in the WWE ring, with viewers at home, I’m working toward five, six or sometimes even seven cameras at a time, where I know that at any time one of those cameras could pick me up. I’m also working to the people that are sitting up in the rafters — well, there’s no such thing as a cheap seat, but I’ll say cheap seat for now — because I want them to see every little thing I’m doing. So things in the ring are definitely bigger, so that you can see them. But the movie world is completely different, and you have to hone things down because when that camera is so tight on you and so intimate and right up in your face, it’s going to catch every little thing that you give it, and it’s very easy to overdo it. I think the best advice I got is that acting isn’t acting — you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react. If I’m in there with someone like (costar) Brian Markinson, who’s been around and knows the ropes, I need to be able to react off of him. But I was surrounded by great actors, and even some of the lesser known actors in the film were fantastic for me to work with. They were light years ahead of me as far as knowing what to do in that world. If they were in a WWE ring they’d be lost and yeah, I’d have to help them, but here I needed their help. I approached it like that, very humble, and just said, “Hey guys, I’m a first-timer, so please help me.” And of course they want the movie to be as good as possible.

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Friday Night Smackdown: Results and Photos for June 15th, 2013

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Monday Night RAW: Results and Photos for June 10th, 2013

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