The show opens with the usual batch of video packages and arrival montages, plus a host segment from Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, and Naomi where they welcome us to the show etc.
Goldberg and Killer Mike are shown in the front row.
CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre (Hell in a Cell)
Squaring up, McIntyre jawing at a stonefaced Punk and we start trading shots! Ramming CM into the corner, haymakers landing, Punk turns him around, kick blocked, goozle denied and Drew throws him hard into the corner! Throwing him to the floor, McIntyre stalks out after him but CM recovers and whips him hard into the wall of the cage!
Back and forth, getting plunder into it, Punk grinds an adjustable wrench into Drew’s forehead! Back in the ring, Trying to set a table up, CM cuts Drew off as he breaks the legs off a chair and drop toeholds him throat-first into the edge of the table! Continuing to use the table, trying to gouge McIntyre’s eye out with the leg of the table but he fights away to the floor!
Finally Punk is busted open after Drew puts him into the steel on the floor and he punishes the wound by spiking his head into the steel! Promising to end Punk’s career and get his wife to leave him, taking him back inside and jamming a wrench into CM’s open wound! In the corner firing up for the Claymore, Punk recovers enough for the rising knee but Drew counters the bulldog!
Putting CM on the apron, right hands, Punk off the top with a double sledge! Off the top again with the wrench but Drew counters with a belly-to-belly suplex! Counting down but Punk rolls to the floor! CM PUNK BLASTS HIM IN THE FACE WITH A TOOLBOX AND DREW IS POURING BLOOD! Another toolbox shot and Punk goes up top… DIVING TOOLBOX TO THE FACE! GO TO SLEEP CONNECTS BUT DREW ROLLS TO THE FLOOR!
Back inside, Claymore… PUNK WON’T STAY DOWN! Sidestep a second Claymore, CM locks the Sharpshooter in! WRENCH SHOTS FORCE A BREAK AND DRWE USES THE WRENCH TO GRIND PUNK’S FACE! Trading “boo!”/”yay!” punches, Future Shock blocked, Go to Sleep denied and McIntyre lays chops in! Up top…. DREW SUPERPLEXES PUNK TO THE FLOOR THROUGH A DAMN TABLE!
Recovering, back inside… GO TO SLEEP HITS AGAIN AND AGAIN DREW MCINTYRE WON’T STAY DOWN! DREW HITS WHITE NOISE ON THE STEEL STEPS! Bossman Slam… REVERSED INTO THE ANACONDA VISE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING! CM GRABS THE WRENCH BEFORE DREW CAN USE IT TO REVERSE AND HAMMERS MCINTYRE IN THE FACE WITH IT OVER AND OVER!
Holding it high like the australopithecus that touched the monolith, Drew begs off, CM tells him to pray he dies… AND MCINTYRE UPPERCUTS PUNK’S GENTLEMAN’S AREA! Drew is in the corner and he gets a black bag and dumps friendship bracelet beads all over the ring! Charging in for the Claymore… PUNK SIDESTEPS AND HE SLIPS AND WIPES OUT ON THE STEEL STEPS!
CM Punk loads his knee with a chain and shoves a handful of beads in Drew’s mouth… GO TO SLEEP WITH THE CHAIN! IT IS OVER!
CM Punk wins by pinfall with a chain-loaded Go to Sleep.
Post-match, Punk exits the ring and the cage under his own power but collapses in the ramp and gets some medical assistance. Eventually he leaves under his own power while the medics check on Drew.
We see Jacqueline, Lilian Garcia, and Booker T in the crowd.
Cathy Kelly is in the VIP suite with our hosts for the night.
Bianca Belair says everybody is here, Mickie James, Pete Rosenberg, Diamond Dallas Page, and so on. Jade Cargill is looking forward to Liv vs. Rhea but Naomi is wanting to see her girl Bayley take Nia Jax down.
Bayley vs. Nia Jax (c) (WWE Women’s Championship)
Jax freight trains her early, whip across into a huge lariat for two! Grinding Bayley down with a reverse chinlock, shifting to a bear hug (I can hardly bear it) but the Role Model reverses to a sunset flip! Nia grabs a half crab and wrenches it in hard, body avalanche in the ropes!
Slamming Bayley into the corner, hip attack follows, Frankensteiner counters a powerbomb and a Samoan Drop… SO CLOSE! Fireman’s carry drops the Role Model into the turnbuckles, putting her down in the corner, this time she sidesteps the hip attack! Running knee connects, sunset flip powerbomb into the corner and Jax falls on top of her! Diving elbow… NOPE!
Nia rolls to the floor, Bayley drops an elbow on her spine but she’s dead weight and Bayley has to break the count! Off the steps… JAX BLASTS HER IN THE BREADBASKET! Powerbomb into the steel steps, tossing her into the barricade, Nia takes her back inside and slaps her awake, posing for the crowd! Samoan drop for two!
Back elbow takes Bayley down again, Role Model with a Samoan drop of her own and Jax throws Bayley into referee Jessika Carr on the kickout! Carr stunned, Bayley kicks Nia and she falls on the referee and knocks her out for real this time! Big Stunner from Bayley, Roseplant, cover… NO REFEREE!
Tiffany Stratton is here!
She runs down and wallops Bayley with the briefcase a few times and wakes Carr up! Jessika picks the briefcase up as Nia wakes up and Tiffany has to take it from her and beg off! Bayley wakes up, nearfall, sidestep whiplashes Jax to the mat, Role Model up top and Stratton throws the briefcase at her!
Nia climbs up top with her… AVALANCHE SAMOAN DROP! Into position in the corner…
Nia Jax wins by pinfall with the Banzai Drop, retaining the WWE Women’s Championship.
We get Xavier Woods doing an ad for a Dragon Ball game, which is pretty cool.
We see X-Pac, Tully Blanchard (the only good Blanchard!), and Arn Anderson in the crowd.
Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor
Balor slaps him and Priest drops him with a right! Into the corner, chop, Damian pops him up and stampedes him across the ring into a whirlwind of punches! Whip across, big pop-up flapjack, Finn with Kawada kicks from the apron and choking Priest over the ropes! A kick sends Balor to the floor, back and forth, back inside, huge right hand from Damian!
Tilt-a-whirl Russian legsweep gets Finn two, falling knees, Damian lights him up with rights, kicks, elbow in the corner, short whip, float over, reverse the headlock into Broken Arrow… NOPE! Off the ropes, Sling Blade connects, big lariat in return, cover for two! Boxing the ears, laying kicks in, Finn hits the Pele and both men are down!
Out to the floor, Damian shoves him over the announce desk! Back inside, Carlito and JD McDonagh run in but aren’t enough for Balor to win! Shotgun dropkick, Coup de Grace… NOT ENOUGH! Balor with a chair, Damian boots him with it, sends Judgment Day packing! Off the top a second time, Damian catches him…
Damian Priest wins by pinfall with South of Heaven.
Commentary hypes up Raw on Monday.
Triple H makes his entrance for a big announcement.
He talks about the crowd here making history, with attendance at 16,092 making for WWE’s 60th sold out show this year and again a new record for largest gate for an arena show. The next history-making event is in just four weeks, Crown Jewel.
This year’s Crown Jewel will mark the beginning of a new era in WWE, annual event at Crown Jewel where the reigning WWE Champion will face the reigning WWE World Champion for both the men and the women, and the catch is of course neither title will be on the line, but he promises us there will be a definitive winner, and that winner will be crowned 2024’s Crown Jewel Champion.
He unveils the ugliest, gaudiest title belt you’ve ever seen in your life. It’s got 50 carats of diamonds on it, apparently.
Enter GUNTHER.
He talks about how he’s gonna be winning this piece of crap (my words) after he defends his title against Sami Zayn on Monday and calls Bill Goldberg out in the front row to clarify something. He may have seen a few weeks ago where he told Bret Hart that Goldberg was a childhood hero of his, but that’s not true.
How can the greatest wrestler in the world today be impressed by a one-trick pony like him? But no, he’s just busting balls, but he has serious advice for Gage Goldberg, which is that he hopes Bill is a better father than he is a wrestler. That gets Goldberg to stand up and GUNTHER taunts him, so Bill jumps the barricade!
GUNTHER tells him he’s got three minutes for him and security swarms to keep Goldberg away! SAMI ZAYN BLINDSIDES HIM AND THEY BRAWL UP THE RAMP AS ROAD AGENTS DESPERATELY TRY TO BREAK THEM UP!
Security finally does their job and the segment ends with Goldberg posing in the turnbuckles for the crowd.
We see “Diamond” Dallas Page, Mickie James, and Scott Steiner in the front row.
Cathy Kelly and our hosts chat with Metro Boomin backstage and he says he told Cody to handle his business. Everybody holds their noses as Chelsea Green rolls up, she tries to flounce off with Piper Niven but Piper wants to stay so she goes off alone and sad.
Liv Morgan (c) vs. Rhea Ripley (WWE Women’s World Championship)
Dominik Mysterio is suspended in a shark cage for this one.
Rhea Ripley laughs at Dom for being scared of heights as the cage is raised.
Big dropkick from Ripley to start, biel, lighting her up with punches and a fallaway slam follows! Taking her to the floor, hammering her into the barricade, throwing her in the ring. Liv lands a dragon screw and targets the knee with a chop block, punches, and stomps!
Bridging suplex for two, whip across, Morgan trips her up and smashes her leg into the apron! Smashing the leg into the ringpost as “Dom, you suck!” chants rain down! Sunset flip powerbomb into the barricade, Liv in control, back inside, Codebreaker… NOPE! Riptide blocked, the Cobra Twist driver… SO CLOSE!
Slaps, jawing at the challenger, a little shimmy, blowing a kiss to Dom and looking for the Three Amigos! Third suplex blocked, float over, powerbomb lift… RAZOR’S EDGE BUT DOM GETS THE CAGE DOOR OPEN! Rhea lands a frog splash.. STILL NO! Prison Lock applied, Liv crawling and she forces the break!
Ripley takes her to the floor and puts boots to her in front of Mysterio… RIPTIDE ON THE FLOOR! Dominik tries to be brave and leave the cage but he slips out and is hung from his foot by the chain that kept the door closed! Rhea walks over and swats at him for fun as crew members consider what to do about him.
Back inside, Rhea asks Dan Engler for a minute for some unfinished business and he gives her the go-ahead! Ripley gets a kendo stick out from under the ring! She wishes herself a happy birthday and goes to town on Mysterio with the kendo stick until Raquel Rodriguez stops her?!
Raquel rolls her back in the ring, Engler calls it…
Rhea Ripley wins by disqualification.
Rodriguez powerbombs Rhea and puts Liv on top of her but the match got called so who cares? She goes and gets the title belt to give to her buddy.
We get the cryptic Detroit skyline vid that’s probably for Motor City Machine Guns again. (Hot take— Time Splitters is and has always been the better Alex Shelley team, I said it.)
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes & Roman Reigns vs. the Bloodline (“Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu & Solo Sikoa)
Rhodes and Fatu to start, the Werewolf absorbs Beautiful Disaster and returns a superkick, which leads both Tribals Chief get in the ring for a showdown! Sikoa tags in, Reigns offers his hand and Cody tags him in! Whip across, front kick, Solo with a headbutt and he mocks him! Roman blocks getting shoved into the corner and climbs up for mounted punches!
Whip reversed, elbow wipes Sikoa out! Passing him to the floor, Jacob slides back in the ring to confront Roman! The distraction allows Solo to cut Roman off and work him over, with Fatu getting some cheap shot headbutts in there! Ode to Rikishi connects, the heat segment rolls on and eventually Cody comes in hot with a powerslam!
Turning jabs, the Flip, Flop, & Fly into the Bionic Elbow! Cody Cutter takes him down, Rhodes laying in wait, inverted facelock but Solo runs in and the Werewolf hits a Samoan drop! This leads to another heat segment as Cody finds himself getting worked over. Finally he gets the path cleared but Fatu pulls Roman off the apron!
Sikoa lays him out with a lariat for two, Fatu off the top with the senton atomico… THE KNEES ARE UP! Roman fires himself up on the floor and gets back up on the apron… TAGS MADE! Roman taking Solo out with lariats, whip reversed, leaping lariat! Calling for it, Superman Punch denied, Samoan Spike ducked, crucifix pin… NOPE! Superman Punch connects this time… NOPE!
He howls… AND FATU IS RIGHT BEHIND HIM! Big slicing right, Jacob with a superkick, Bloodline superkick party, moonsault sets him up, Sikoa diving splash… CODY BREAKS IT UP! Right hand from Jacob, dumping Cody out of the ring, whip reversed and the Werewolf goes into the steel steps as Rhodes clears the announce desk!
Fatu blasts him with a superkick, Cody sidesteps… JACOB FATU GOES THROUGH THE BARRICADE! CROSS RHODES ON THE FLOOR! He sets Fatu up on the desk and perches up top… CODY RHODES DIVING SPLASH THROUGH THE DAMN ANNOUNCE DESK! Solo and Roman back on their knees, trading right hands as they get to their feet.
Roman is ready but Guerrillas of Destiny are here for the distraction and Solo hits a spear… NOPE! Sikoa yells at Roman that he lied to him about being the next Tribal Chief, there’s a man in a mask and a hoodie on the floor, Guerrillas grab him but he takes ‘em both out with superkicks! “BIG” JIM USO IS BACK!
Roman lines Solo up…
Cody Rhodes & Roman Reigns win by pinfall with a spear from Reigns on Solo Sikoa.
Jim and Roman have a lovely little reunion after the match.
Reigns turns to Cody Rhodes as the American Nightmare gets himself to his feet in the corner and he and Roman stare each other down but Reigns and Uso leave peacefully.
Guerrillas of Destiny attack Cody from behind and Solo and Jacob join the beatdown. Jim asks Roman for instructions, and Reigns gives the nod… THE OG BLOODLINE MAKES THE SAVE AND CLEARS THE RING!
Reigns ends up holding the Undisputed WWE Championship title belt as Cody makes it back to his feet and he gives it back to Rhodes in a show of respect. Cody raises the belt…
THE ROCK IS HERE!
Rock surveys the scene and puts an eyebrow up before throwing his one up, then two, then three, and his music plays again.
Source: CageSideSeats
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