WWE Roadblock 2016 Review: What we learned, takeaways, future projections
By Luke Norris
Seth Rollins vs. Chris Jericho
What we learned: I think we’ve known this for a while now, but if we learned anything, it’s that at the age of 46, Chris Jericho may be more over than he’s ever been.
The crowd was split for this match, which is always fun, and got a nice little chant going as the match began…probably just wanted to wake up a little following the previous snoozefest. This feud has evolved nicely and while I wasn’t overly excited about these two going at it again, it was a decent match. It was pretty technical at the start with a few more rest holds than I would expect from performers of this caliber but it was fine. Instead of the chinlock that Jericho put on Rollins, I think I would have rather seen a three-minute armbar (old school Jericho fans will understand this) but I’ll let that slide.
The action picked up a bit towards the end with the suicide dive and the top rope maneuvers and such. And of course there was that whole Kevin Owens costing Chris Jericho the match thing that everybody knew was coming. But overall, this was a decent match with a very cool exchange for the finish.
What’s next: Well, as we saw at the end of the night, we know that the heat between Rollins and Jericho isn’t quite finished as we’re probably looking at a tag match pretty soon with Rollins and Reigns taking on Owens and Y2J. We know that Rollins is on a collision course with Triple H and the question is whether or not they’ll drag that out to WrestleMania or have it at the Royal Rumble to help sell some extra tickets to fill the Alamodome. It wouldn’t surprise me if Triple H shows up at the first RAW of 2017 as they usually like to make that a big show. And how much fun do you think Seth Rollins is having right now? He’s got to be thrilled about being involved in these storylines with guys he looked up to for years. I mean, his revenge road to Triple H goes through Chris Jericho. What year is this? And I’m certainly not complaining. Jericho is better than ever and the Rollins vs. Triple H match should be solid whenever we get to it.