WWE Main Event results: Julius Creed vs. Luca Crusifino

This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the Amelie Arena in Tampa, Florida before Monday’s episode of Raw.

Not much to get excited about in the opener this week, but the Creed vs. Crusifino match at the top of the show was a lot of fun by the end.

Xia Li defeated Gigi Dolin (5:46)

This was fine, but nothing special. Dolin is still winless in 2024, while Xia Li picked up her first win of the year.

Watching Li here showed just how much presentation is key in wrestling sometimes. She brings so much energy to what she does that it masks what is otherwise quite basic stuff in the ring.

Li has started to plait her hair and the bottom halves of them are dyed blonde. They whip around her when she works and, together with her face paint, create a colorful image. She’s made a way to make herself stand out.

Dolin worked from underneath for a lot of the match but showed a lot of fight. Li applied a camel clutch that looked brutal on Dolin’s neck and back, but she managed to escape and fired up with strikes and a clothesline.

Dolin looked like she was setting up for her finisher as she had Li in an abdominal stretch position, but she escaped and used a spinning leg lariat to get the win.

The finish looked a bit soft as it didn’t connect, but otherwise, this was fine.

Julius Creed (w/Brutus Creed) defeated Luca Crusifino (6:25)

The Creed brother has enjoyed a run of singles matches on this show over the last month or so and has impressed. The debuting Luca Crusifino was just the latest to get thrown around by a ridiculously strong wrestler with the surname Creed.

Crusifino currently plies his trade on NXT Level Up and so this match marked his first outing on a main roster TV show. He is tall and lean and looks like he could do some serious damage. He was largely methodical throughout this one, playing the heel, but certainly didn’t look out of place here at all.

The highlight of the match was undoubtedly the spot after the ads where Creed fought his way out of several chin locks to explode with six – yes, six – German suplexes in a row. Each was made the more impressive by the kip-up that Creed did between each. I don’t think some people will realize how difficult that is to do.

The crowd certainly appreciated the effort and straps came down. Creed hit a beautiful standing shooting star press, but it was a false finish as Crusifino kicked out at two.

He kicked out at Creed’s left leg and then hit him with a kind of fisherman’s suplex into a neckbreaker which looked cool. He lay across Creed, exhausted, but Creed also kicked out.

The finish saw another German followed by a clothesline to end a fun match between these two.