WWE has done a fairly dreadful job of the buildup of the show itself - but they have some buzz around Charlotte vs. Becky and Big E vs. Roman should be fantastic. King is on the pre-show in his finest pillow case while Peter Rosenberg says the NY fans are the best in the world. Boogs and Nakamura are on the pre-show. THE ROCK TRIBUTE BATTLE ROYAL is something else. Becky and Charlotte arrive backstage. They actually cue up ads nicely for the pre-show now.
Charlotte's UH OH stuff is unreal-annoying. SD women's team bickers backstage while Shotzi just flops all around. Her outfit tonight is a tad bit different from the norm from her. Spinkick by Priest to Nakamura off the top. Rebound lariat by Priest! Kinshasa gets 2 before an enzuiguri hits for 2 for Priest. Gogaplata by Priest leads to Boogz playing Nakamura back to life and then beating the shit out of him. Guitar shot DQ. What the fuck!? KO says he'll leave it all in the ring tonight and he wants to redeem himself. E vs. Roman video really puts E over huge. VINCE EMERGES FROM A LIMO WITH A GOLD EGG AND THE GEEKS CHEER. MARIAH CAREY acknowledged Roman. So her last big hit was what 16 years ago...that's about right for WWE now.
THE OPENER is Charlotte vs. Becky. The video for it sets the stage nicely for them being former friends turned rivals. Charlotte's out in black while Becky's out in a Scarlet Witch swimsuit getup that is form flattering and then some. They start off with a lot of strikes before Becky gets a kneeling Black Mass. Charlotte eats a knee and misses a dive to the floor.
Flurries of forearms from each before Charlotte avoids the Bexploder and hits one into the corner before telling Becky to talk more shit. Charlotte hits Andrade's fakeout moonsault/double knees moonsault. Becky traps her in the rope for a chop and elbow combo before a second rope legdrop gets 2. Double armbar by Becky into a sunset flip for 2. European uppercut hits hard for Becky. Big boot from Charlotte gets 2. Christian-style reverse DDT by Becky gets 2.
Manhandle slam gets 2 when Charlotte gets to the rope. Figure four by Becky before Charlotte reverses it and she breaks at 4.5. Moonsault off the top kinda hits. She's gonna blow a knee on that one day. MACHINE GUN CHOPS BY CHARLOTTE after she puts Becky in the disarmher. Charlotte cheats with an O'Connor roll with the rope, but BECKY OUT-CHEATS HER TO WIN! 5 on 5 mens match is up. Lashley is out and looks amazing. Austin Theory definitely qualifies as "some help".
KO walks out. Woods beats up Theory for a bit in the corner with some nice chops. Drew chops him up too. EVERYONE BEATS HIM UP in a Puder Rumble '04 hazing homage. Balor doublestomp takes out Corbin. Hardy hits a whisper in the wind on two guys before Lashley fireman carry slams Drew into the post. La Mistica legsweep by Woods. Woods taps to the Hurt lock. Drew vs. Lashley is up and Lashley gets the elevated flatliner. Drew avoids the post but they fight on the floor and get a DCO.
Seth talks shit to Drew and eats a headbutt that gets 2 for Sheamus. Peacock gets all wonky and when it comes back, Jeff's splashing Seth for 2 off the second rope. Poetry in Motion stinger splash by Jeff hits I think. JEFF AND SHEAMUS DOUBLE CLUBBER! Seth cheapshot leads to a cradle and cheating win for Theory over Sheamus. Sheamus take out Jeff. Theory tags Seth in - oh yeah, they were a team before and Jeff kicks out. Swanton to Theory takes him out! Twisto hits and gets 2. Swanton hits knees and the curb stomp ends it.
Roman goes to Mr. McMahon's office WITH THE GIANT GOLD EGG as he plays on his phone. He tells Roman that he got THE REAL EGG from Dwayne and he came into WWE with seven bucks and look where he is now. Those USWA paydays really were shit. Vince says the egg is worth $100 million and Roman says that's his next contract. Okay then.
Bunch of geeks battle royal to pay tribute to the Rock...and get a sponsorship deal with Pizza Hut. T-shirt wars and I'm sure NBC is happy to pay $200 million to put Fox's logo all over their streaming service. Lots of nothing beyond Pizza Hut shilling. OMOS AND SHANKY square off to nothing. Azeez is out and takes AJ out leading to Omos getting pissed. Cesaro and Dawkins taken out by Omos and then Ricochet before Omos wins it with 12 eliminations.
Usos are out in white looking slick. Jimmy talks about Orton being in more PPV matches than anyone in history tonight. Usos run wild before Matt twisting swantons. Great shine from Riddle and the Usos get a nice dive. Orton draping DDT is avoided Draping back suplex to the announce table by Orton. Middle kick combo by Riddle and a Pele. BUCE EXPLODER by Riddle. Back suplex neckbreaker by Jey. Snap German by Ridde gets 2. Pop-up Samoan drop gets 2 for the Usos. Gamenguiri and then a superkick hits Riddle. Kneeling superkick combo by the Usos. RK-Bro wins it. Diving RKO ends it.
Carmella gets schoolgirled out by Toni. Toni gets a couple of wins before Bianca has to take out the whole of Team SD - and does! Roman vs. E is every match they could have had - kinda plodding. Not much to it. E gets the stretch muffler and Roman escapes. Roman gets the choke in the rope, but E escapes. Spear to the floor has E land right on his right wrist hard. Spear gets 2, but a second spear wins it. E loses cleanly - so they told the "one man is clearly better" story, but in a way that can really hurt E in the long run.
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