“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Kevin Owens (WWE Undisputed Tag Team Championship)
Soaking in the atmosphere, squaring up, Code of Honor handshake and we’re off! Rhodes with a wristlock, moving up the arm into an armbar, Owens gets him in the ropes and breaks clean. Cody shoots low, Kevin blocks, front chancery applied, Rhodes with a hammerlock and into a side headlock.
KO steps on the back of his knee to reverse to a side headlock of his own, shot off, shoulder block, stalemate. Back to a headlock, Cody takes a knee for leverage, shot off, drop down, leapfrog, Cody Cutter blocked! Rhodes shoots in for a waistlock, standing switch, Cody working on an escape, back elbow, Kevin ducks Beautiful Disaster and hits a senton!
Jockeying for position, Cross Rhodes reversed, Stunner blocked, and they go forehead-to-forehead! Owens shoves him and jaws at him, grabs a waistlock, Cody reverses, passes him to the floor, off the ropes, suicide dive blocked and KO throws him into the apron and follows it up with a cannonball to the floor!
Back inside, Beautiful Disaster connects this time and Owens crashes to the floor! Cody off the ropes, this time the suicide dive lands true! Popping up on the apron, posing for the Berlin crowd. Back inside, judo throw sets up a short armscissors! Kevin rolls through and gets the ropes!
Off the ropes, kitchen sink knee gets Cody a two count, chops from Owens and Rhodes dropkicks him to set up a figure four leglock! To the ropes, back on their feet, Cody runs the ropes and gets passed to the apron and KO blasts him off of it and into the barricade! Owens working the ribs, elbows, punches, side Russian legsweep for two.
Headlock, shot off, drop down, shoulder block, both men go for lariats and end up down and out. Manhattan Drop, Rhodes off the ropes, up and over, snap scoop powerslam! Back and forth, chops for forearms, pumphandle fisherman neckbreaker over the knee from Owens! Up top, avalanche Finlay Roll… CODY KICKS OUT!
Stunner attempt, countered into Cross Rhodes… OWENS KICKS OUT! Up in the turnbuckles, jockeying for position… KO COUNTERS WITH THE AVALANCHE FISHERMAN BUSTER AND IT’S ONLY A NEARFALL! Trading punches in the middle of the ring, trading superkicks, neither man falling, Cody with the drop down slap!
He goes up for the Cody Cutter but his knee gives out, as Kevin Owens predicted! He charges to attack it but stops short, unwilling to have a tainted victory! Back inside, pressing the attack, Stunner… RHODES KICKS OUT! Back up top, senton atomico… CODY GOT THE KNEES UP! Staggering over, inverted facelock…
Cody Rhodes wins by pinfall with Cross Rhodes, retaining the WWE Undisputed Championship.
Post-match, Kevin Owens refuses help and gets to his feet under his own power and has a moment in the ropes before turning around and hugging Cody Rhodes and then raising his hand. Cody tries to return the favor but Kev isn’t having it and raises his hand again.
Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill vs. Unholy Union (Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn) (c) (WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship)
Belair in the ring with both champions, referee Dan Engler failing to control the situation, all four women in the ring. Things settle down, Belair on Fyre, fighting in the corner, moonsault up and over, Alba whips her into the turnbuckle by her own hair and the champions are in control!
Heat segment rolls on at some incredible length, tag champs keeping the ring cut in half. Bianca sidesteps a dropkick and the path is clear! Back body drop sends Fyre to the floor, lands on her feet off a back suplex from Dawn, back suplex of her own, Jade mere feet away… TAG MADE! Jade in like a house afire, Jackhammer on Isla… NOPE!
Blind tag from Alba, Cargill with a superkick on Dawn, tag to Bianca, Fyre cuts her off, up for the KLR Bomb, reverse STO combination… JADE BREAKS IT UP! Challengers with a double military press, assisted big splash… NOPE! Bianca rolls away from a double-team, Jade tags in, roll through, wheelbarrow DDT…
Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill win by pinfall with the wheelbarrow DDT / wheelbarrow suplex combination, becoming your new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions.
CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre (Strap Match)
McIntyre attacks him during his entrance, brawling on the floor, into the ring and Drew puts the strap on his wrist and whips Punk with it while encouraging referee Rod Zapata to securit on CM’s wrist! McIntyre does it himself and yells at Zapata to hit the bell and we’re off! Back and forth, Punk hits a Go to Sleep but chooses not to tag the turnbuckles and presses the attack!
To the floor, CM looking under the ring for plunder but McIntyre cuts him off and bounces him off the announce desk! Underhooks on the desk but Punk back body drops him instead! Whipping him with the strap, back inside, Drew turns the tide and slams him on a steel chair and CM Punk is busted open!
Hammering with punches, headbutts to the wound! Running bulldog sends Drew crashing to the floor, Punk goes out after him and sets a table up, back inside, McIntyre hits a Claymore! Drew hits two turnbuckles, a third, heading for the fourth but CM bails to the floor and McIntyre goes spiraling face-first into a steel chair wedged into the turnbuckles!
Drew recovers and counters a bulldog with a powerbomb over the ropes and through a table on the floor! Back inside, touching the turnbuckles, one, two, Punk touching them himself as well, all three of them, CM slips out, trying to keep him away from the turnbuckles, both men reaching, stretching, desperate, no deal!
Frye/Takayama punches, Claymore blocked with a kick, Punk with a Sharpshooter, Drew tapping but no finish! CM dragging himself over, one turnbuckle, two turnbuckles, Drew yanks on the strap and hits a neckbreaker to reset the turnbuckles! McIntyre pulls the friendship bracelet out, counts down… CLAYMORE!
One turnbuckle, a second, a third, just one more but Punk pulls him in, Go to Sleep and both men are down! A second Go to Sleep! Turnbuckle! Turnbuckle! A third Go to Sleep! Turnbuckle! The path is clear but he wants to keep McIntyre down and hits a fourth Go to Sleep! He takes the bracelet…
CM Punk wins, touching all four turnbuckles to put us all out of our miseries.
Sebastian Hackl is in the ring to read an announcement auf Deutsch about how Bash in Berlin is the highest grossing arena show in WWE history.
Judgment Day (Dominik Mysterio & Liv Morgan) vs. Terror Twins (Damian Priest & Rhea Ripley) (Mixed Tag Team Match)
Priest and Mysterio to start, circling, Dominik begging off, ducking and dodging, front kick, overhand chop and Damian boots him down hard! Throwing Mysterio into the corner, windmill punches, off the ropes, under the lariat, Priest with a back elbow! Elevated wristlock, whip into the corner and a boot follows!
Tag to Morgan, Priest piefaces her so Ripley can blast her with a missile dropkick. Shoulder block in the corner, mounted punches! Liv rolls to the corner and tags Dom in, Rhea is game to fight him but referee Dan Engler warns her off. Damian takes Mysterio to the floor, scoop dropping him face-first into the apron!
Dominik knocks Priest into the announce desk and shoulder checks him into the steel steps! Morgan running interference, allowing Mysterio to work Punishment over for a while! Rhea tags in, running hot, big lariat takes Liv out! Dropkick follows, she’s fired up, Dominik in the ring and begging off, trying to reconcile but she’s not having it!
Back elbow drops Liv Morgan, Ripley turns to Mysterio and drops him with a series of short-arm lariats! Facebuster, figure four headlock in the turnbuckles! Letting go of Dom, kicks to Liv, pumphandle but Morgan saves Mysterio from Riptide! Striking away, lungblower connects and Rhea crawls to the corner!
Rising knee, Liv throws her aside, flipping Cobra Twist slam…. SO CLOSE! Tag back to the men, Priest lighting Dom up with kicks, big elbow, back elbow in the corner, lifting reverse STO connects!
Off the ropes, lariat… LIV BREAKS IT UP! Terror Twins standing together, boxing the heels’ ears, stereo Razor’s Edges! Ripley throws Morgan out of the ring like a sack of trash, Damian takes the straps down and lifts his chokin’ arm! The rest of Judgment Day is here to run interference!
Finn Balor with a Sling Blade, Dominik hits 619, off the top for the frog splash… PRIEST KICKS OUT! Liv dives on Rhea, throws her back inside, arm drag, she’s got Morgan isolated and blasts her with a headbutt! Pumphandle…
Terror Twins win by pinfall with Riptide from Rhea Ripley on Liv Morgan.
GUNTHER (c) vs. Randy Orton (WWE World Heavyweight Championship)
Circling, soaking in the atmosphere, collar and elbow, struggling in the corner, Orton breaks clean. Trading headlocks for headscissors to a stalemate, GUNTHER looking for a double wristlock, Randy in the ropes, and the Ring General breaks clean. Cobra Clutch attempt, Orton backs him into the corner, clean break again.
Uppercuts in the corner, Randy down and out, fighting back into it, trading punches and GUNTHER cuts him down with a huge chop! Action to the floor, Orton puts him hard into the steel steps a few times and back suplexes him into the announce desk! A second back suplex into the desk, break the count, back outside to torment the Ring General some more!
A third suplex into the desk, back inside, Gojira Clutch but Randy shoulder armbreakers the champion a few times to block and follows with a judo throw! Throwing his wrist into the mat again and again, back on their feet, trading chops, Divorce Court, cover for two! Scoop and a fallaway slam but nothing he does can keep the champion down for long!
Randy clubbing away, choking GUNTHER in the ropes, and the champion comes back with lariats, clutching his arm in agony after each one! Big boot staggers Orton, off the ropes, Randy cuts him off and drops him with a lariat! Snap scoop powerslam connects… NOPE! To the apron, hanging DDT blocked and GUNTHER hits an inverted Hot Shot!
Up top, jockeying for position, superplex from Orton and both men are down and out! Back on their feet and trading punches, backing the Ring General into the corner, he comes out of the corner with boots, clutching the injured are but Randy thumbs his eye and sets him on the apron… HANGING DDT CONNECTS!
Orton posing for the crowd, going to that special place, hammering the mat with both fists, waiting, RKO reversed into a German suplex! Randy turns into the shotgun dropkick, GUNTHER up top, diving splash connects… SO CLOSE! He wants the Tenryu Powerbomb but his arm gives out!
Trying again, powerbomb, lateral press… NOT ENOUGH! Trying again, powerbomb denied, RKO outta nowhere… GUNTHER KICKS OUT! To the floor, Randy clears the German announce desk, doing a little feng shui with the steel steps, GUNTHER meets him on the floor and they brawl! Back suplex into the steel steps!
Orton goes and gets the other half of the steps, GUNTHER breaks the count as Randy stacks the steel stairs back up right in front of the German desk. Bouncing the champion’s face off of the diamond plate, climbing the stairs, drawing him up… BACK SUPLEX OFF THE STEPS AND THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE DESK!
Posing on the steel steps, dragging the Ring General back towards the ring, throwing him inside. Posing for the crowd, back to that special place, GUNTHER blocks the RKO! GOJIRA CLUTCH IS IN! THE CHAMPION FALLS BACK! Orton gets to his feet and rams the Ring General into the turnbuckles to loosen his grip but he rolls through and keeps the hold on!
Randy fading, face a rictus, prying GUNTHER’s arm down, in position for the RKO, blocked and a chop to the back of the neck! Back to the Gojira Clutch! Overhead elbows, lock the hold back on, Orton gets to his feet, GUNTHER off of his, senton to force the break… BUT GUNTHER SITS RIGHT BACK UP AND LOCKS THE GOJIRA CLUTCH BACK IN! More overhead elbows! Back to the Gojira Clutch… IT’S OVER!
GUNTHER wins by referee stoppage with the Gojira Clutch, retaining the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
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