Over the Limit was a new event to the WWE’s annual calendar of Pay-Per-View shows. The idea being that the night would push the participants to the limit and offer forth some full throttle action.
The card itself did have some very promising battles on it and overall the event was very good indeed.
The lack of bloodshed and overly violent behaviour on WWE programming does lessen the impact a tad, but not as much as you may think. 
From a trivia point of view the fact that Over the Limit came on the anniversary of Owen Hart’s death did add a touch of the surreal to proceedings, considering that ill-fated event was entitled Over the Edge and saw the legend in the making fall to the ring, and perish after a stunt entrance went wrong.
However back to the newest 2010 PPV that was Over the Limit. Things opened up nicely with Mr McMahon’s new favourite Drew McIntyre taking on the popular Kofi Kingston for the Intercontinental Title.
For an opening match it was decent enough and ended suitably for the crowd to liven up for the upcoming ups and downs of the night to come.
Ted DiBiase versus R-Truth was okay, but there is a lot more to young Mr DiBiase and his pedigree, he really is a star in the making and needs some truly skilled performers to hone his persona, he is getting there however. R-Truth is an as always exciting prospect in the ring, but perhaps will forever be a mid-card player.
In a rematch that could make or break the pairs series of match-ups Rey Mysterio placed his fans adoration against CM Punks hair one more time. Rey would have to pledge his allegiance to Punk’s ‘Straight Edge Society’ if he lost, but if he won Punk’s hair was on the line once more.
Not wanting to spoil this one, I’ll just say that it’s well worth watching and perhaps showed the pair’s great working style to its best.
The Hart Dynasty against Chris Jericho and The Miz for the Unified Tag Team gold was a pretty decent effort form all concerned, Tyson Kidd is still the strongest link in the Hart team, but Davey Boy Smith’s son David is improving greatly from the ‘green’ youngster I saw a few years ago. He is not as out of his depth these days and looks sharper with each outing.
Miz and Jericho are a fun and worthy addition to the tag team scene, Jericho is superb when he has his work boots on and Miz is surely just treading water until Vince McMahon decides to gamble a world title reign upon his ego.
The foursome had a really good series of exchanges and proved that tag team wrestling is not dead and buried yet in the WWE.
Pitting Randy Orton against Edge was always going to impress, the duo just click in the ring and seem to be able to deliver the goods each and every time they meet. Their ensuing brawl is well worth a second viewing and certainly makes the grade.
Poor old Jack Swagger, his stint as World Heavyweight Champion saw him portrayed as the ultimate underdog, losing non-title matches galore and barely leaving with his belt on many occasions.
So pitting him in the ultimate David versus Goliath match seemed logical I guess, his opponent the Big Show of course enjoyed giving him a pasting in a thoroughly enjoyable match where the champion had to use his speed, size and in-ring abilities to their utmost against a much larger and stronger foe.
Maryse and Eve for the WWE Divas strap was perhaps an odd choice for the penultimate match on a PPV, the usual form for Diva matches is to have them early on the card and let the girls do their thing before the momentum really picks up.
That’s not say that a healthy amount of the female roster can’t wrestle, its just more of a fact that their bouts don’t go down as well when the testosterone has begun to increase and things are on a veritable roll match quality wise.
Anyway I digress, both Divas did their best and fair play to them as they were wedged between a pretty good title match between Swagger and Big Show and of course the much anticipated ‘I Quit’ main event between WWE’s resident supermen at the time Batista and John Cena.
As a main event this was a worthy sequel to their epic and oddly ending ‘Last Man Standing’ brawl at Extreme Rules. This time the gloves were off and ego’s were fully loaded, for a war to end all wars (plus a grapplers WWE career too for a while anyway).
Let’s just say this one had it all and although as we know the new PG WWE frowns upon blood (where it can help it), these two didn’t hold back in what must go down as one of their best in-ring duels.
On the extras front WWE (and of course our good buddies at Silvervision) have went for a nice few things that help make this an essential addition to the by now hefty dvd collection we all posses.
First up ther is the nice and historic match between stroke survivor Bret Hart and United States Champion The Miz, where the Hart Dynasty, Vladimir Kozlov, William Regal and Chris Jericho couldn’t fail to make a one-sided fight bearable and most of all exciting, as a No DQ, No Count-out brawl.
Hart of course has limited in-ring ability and shouldn’t really be involved in any contact sports, but heck he’s a legend and this showing proves the fans still love him so much.
Next there are some fun to view Monday Night Raw commercial spots and less interesting surveillance footage of the CM Punk/Straight Edge Soicety, taken from the Over The Limit event.
Over the Limit was more hits than misses and as a standalone DVD release does make for a worthy purchase, the extras and match quality certainly stand out above some other more recent releases.
The event itself went down well indeed and proved to bring a few great new additions to long-running feuds, end one or two and showed the injury wracked roster to their best, offering some lower card stars some much needed PPV time.
Over The Limit gets a 7 out of 10 from me.
Over The Limit which is available from September 6th 2010 check out www.silvervision.co.uk for more information on it and other WWE releases.
By Phil Allely
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