raw opens up with brock lesnar and paul heyman as the crowd pops hard for both men, (video package for last weeks promo between rollins/hhh/steph and brocks arrival). heyman tries to get a word in but the crowd chants suplex city, heyman introduces the return of brock lesnar and the crowd gets hot. heyman asks for production to show past footage of lesnars past footage of what lesnar can do. heyman informs lesnar that he needs to apologize to cole and jbl for his actions a few months ago on raw. if he does not he will not be allowed to claim his title shot against seth rollins, lesnar stalls for a few seconds and goes towards the commentary. first he shakes JBL’s hand and apologizes, then he goes over to cole and messes around with him with a headlock and says he’s sorry as well. now he gets granted his shot for complying to the rules he was given. now lesnar and heyman get back to business that he will decimate rollins at the battleground ppv and that suplex city is back bitch!
out comes dean ambrose to a nice pop from the crowd, next comes kane to barely any reaction as the ref calls for the bell and kane with the upper hand to start, kane with a bunch of mounted punches and some elbows, kane really putting a work on dean ambrose. ambrose with a small comeback but gets a uppercut from kane, now kane backing ambrose into the ropes with a foot choke, now ambrose fighting back with some corner punches, ambrose with a small attack and kane comes back with a heavy elbow. both men take it to the outside for a 3 count and kane brings ambrose back into the ring, kane makes his way back into the ring but ambrose cuts him off with a kick and a legdrop off the 2nd rope, afterwards kane retaliates with an attack of his own and knocks ambrose into the corner steps as raw goes into a commercial.
raw comes back as kane is dominating ambrose as he gives him some shots to the head and then a side slam, kane now with a submission on ambrose as he fights his way out of it but kane counters it and hits him with a running ddt, kane gets a 2 count, kane backs ambrose into a corner and nails him with more punches, now kane with some irish whips into the turnbuckles and ambrose counters that into a neckbreaker, ambrose fights back with some attacks of his own and rolls up kane for a count of 2. ambrose now taking the fight outside to kane and hits him a dive and then a clothesline, they bring it back into the ring and he hits a 2nd clothesline onto kane, ambrose goes for a dirty deeds but out comes rollins to interfere and kane attempts a chokeslam, he breaks out of the hold and goes out to attack rollins, he climbs up the top turnbuckle and kane delivers him with a huge chokeslam for the 3 count.
winner – kane ***
video segment from MITB between cena/owens as cena returns tonight.
kane and rollins backstage segment with rollins sucking up to kane insinuating that rollins needs help with brock lesnar at the battleground ppv, rollins tries to convince kane but kane walks off.
recaps of last weeks segment with reigns/wyatt.
Out come the tag team champions the prime time players as the ascension already waits by ringside. titus with the upper hand against connor as he tags in darren young, young with a small offense as he tags back in titus. in comes viktor as titus cleans house. afterwards connor gets the upperhand as he tags in his partner, after multiple tags and attacks the prime time players get the upperhand as young hits his gut check finisher.
winners – prime time players ** 1/2
afterwards their celebration is cut short as sheamus comes out to the ring preparing for his match against sheamus, raw cuts to a commercial, as raw returns in the ring is sheamus still waiting for reigns to come to the ring as they cut a video package from 8 days ago when he secured a guaranteed shot for the wwe championship. out comes reigns to a small pop from the crowd as he heads to the ring, reigns tries to get into the ring but sheamus cuts him off at the stairway and he makes an alternate way into the ring and they confront each other. ref calls for the bell as sheamus starts with small offense against reigns, but reigns regroups with his own attack and a samoan drop as sheamus retreats to the outside, reigns with a few minutes of offense. both men trade blows against each other but roman reigns nails him with an elbow of his own, sheamus fights back with a top rope stunner as he regains control of the match, 2 count for sheamus, sheamus bringing reigns to the rope as the ref gives him the count of 5, reigns unable to fight back as raw goes to a commercial.
raw returns with sheamus putting reigns in a headlock, reigns fights his way out and hits him with a headbutt, now reigns with some clotheslines, and irish whip by sheamus as reigns hits him with a flying lariat, now reigns backs him into a corner with some strongarm clotheslines, reigns completely dismantling sheamus as he sets him up for a ringside dropkick but gets countered by a clothesline, sheamus rams reigns into security railing and then brings him back into the ring for a 2 count, sheamus with a headlock on reigns as reigns tries to fight his way out of it, some small punches to the gut of sheamus but sheamus hits him with 3 irish curses for a 2 count. sheamus going for the cloverleaf but reigns keeps fighting his way out of it and sheamus gives him the bottom rope springboard guillotine. sheamus finally hits the cloverleaf but reigns fights his way out of it reaching for the rope. sheamus with alot of offense but reigns tries to overcome that with an attack of his own, reigns finally gets the upperhand but sheamus goes charging at reigns, reigns fighting for everything he’s got as top rope clotheslines sheamus bringing him to ringside, reigns finally hits his running dropkick outside the ring and connects sheamus with a diving elbow on the commentary booth. meanwhile on the titantron is bray wyatt taunting reigns to come back and join the party as nobody is sitting next to him.
match ends in a no contest. ** 1/2
replay of what happened just minutes ago.
meanwhile reigns is backstage looking for bray wyatt as he finds a room with the table and pictures all over the wall of roman reigns but no bray wyatt to be found.
replay of brock/heyman from earlier.
J&J security in the back having coffee as seth hands noble his cup as he tosses it. tries to play mindgames on the guys trying to get them back into his good deeds but they walk off as they want no part of him or brock lesnar.
out comes neville for his match against kofi kingston, quick 10 minute match as we see alot of distractions from big e and woods on the outside, neville with 90% of the offense in the match and out come the prime time players to support neville but get ejected quickly, but not only do they get ejected but so do woods and big e as well, kofi not liking the results of that as he turns around into an enzuguri which sets up neville for the red arrow.
Winner – Neville ***
up next we see King Barrett going up against zack ryder, ryder with a dropkick and a 2 count, ryder with the upperhand and gives him the 10 punch but barrett evades it and knocks him off the 2nd rope and gets the upperhand, now barrett with a headlock on ryder as ryder slowly fights his way out of it into an irish whip and hits him with a face buster, ryder with a missile drop kick, ryder going for the broski boot but barrett evads and gets the boot outside the ring, ryder brings him back into the ring and becomes victim to the bullhammer.
winner – king barrett **
out comes john cena to the john cena sucks chant from the crowd and a mixed reaction fron the crowd. cuts a promo on kevin owens. calls him a man on fire and a human piece of garbage for what he’s done in the last few weeks. says he has a choice to make to accept kevin owens challenge for battleground, tells owens if he wants some to come get some, and out comes kevin owens with mic in hand, he says that he guesses that he should be upset about what cena has said about him but he’s not, he doesnt put anything into anyones opinion. kevin owens speaks in french but cena does the same as well as chinese and says he’ll kick his ass at battleground.
backstage we have seth rollins with HHH and Steph as they ask if he’s scared of brock lesnar and he admits he isnt but hhh and steph know he is, he mentions J&J and kane about how they walked off on him and steph easily said if he were to apologize things would be much easier, then HHH steps up on the convo and says if you want the band back together you know what to do, the camera pans on seth as he makes up his mind on what to do later tonight.
we come back from commercial as we see the backstage promo with paige and the other divas.
out come the bella twins w/ alicia fox for some tag team action against naomi and tamina snuka, the match starts off with naomi and brie, afterwards naomi makes the tag to tamina who comes in with some very strong offense, she quick tags back to naomi, all hell breaks loose in the ring as naomi and tamina setup for her rear view finish but tamina gets the ass end of it and nikki nails naomi with the elbow for the finish.
winners – the bella twins. **
in ring we already have mark henry waiting for ryback to come out as the big show sits with the commentary team, meanwhile in the ring mark henry is dominating ryback with power clotheslines, ryback regains control of the match as he takes the action outside, but big show telling mark henry to show that strength and tosses ryback into the security railing. ryback now in a headlock by mark henry but fights his way out of it and hits him with a spinebuster, he sets mark up for the meathook clothesline but gets a big boot. big show telling mark to finish him off and he goes for the worlds strongest slam but ends up getting a huge clothesline by ryback, ryback goes to the top rope and finishes off mark with a frogsplash.
winner – ryback ** 1/2
post match big show confronts henry why he didnt win and henry shoves him away as the big show walks off.
afterwards we get a ryback promo followed up by big show mocking him calling him a little boy in a giants world, ryback and bit show brawl for a bit as ryback knocks him into set a pipes that knocks out show instantly as officials get to the back to get ryback off him.
replay of what just happened between ryback and big show.
meanwhile we have adam in the rose in the ring while his opponent dolph ziggler makes his way out, adam rose with a quick promo and makes out with rosa. dolph with the upper hand early in the match but adam rose comes back with an attack of his own and bodyslams dolph into the mat, now rose with a sleeper hold on dolph but counters with a back drop dolph goes for a pin and gets a 2 count. now both men trading blows but rose with the upperhand and gains control of the match for a little bit, rose goes to the top rope to finish off dolph but becomes victim to a superkick.
winner – dolph ziggler ** 1/2
afterwards dolph and lana make out, rusev loses his cool and throws his crutches around and summer rae hands his crutch back to him as he slowly tries to get up.
backstage segment with hhh/steph/J&J Security and Kane
Out comes seth rollins to a set the record straight and to apologize to them, out comes J&J security and kane, seth tells them that they are his foundation, says this has nothing to do with brock lesnar and they he beat him before and that he’ll do it again. he says this is about family and gets cut off by the crowd with suplex city, he says that he patterened himself after noble and mercury because of their work style, he apologizes to kane saying he didnt mean to call him a dinosaur and says he’s like a fine wine and gets better with age. seth desperately asking them to come back to him, they stall as he offers his hand out comes brock lesnar to circle the ring, J&J and Kane leave the ring leaving rollins in there alone, but before he can get in the ring kane attacks him followed by mercury and then noble, lesnar finally gets in the ring as they brawl and it follows with a series of release german suplexes. we almost see an f5 attempt by brock but kane gets involved and gets a release german suplex as well, after that J&J security get involved and help beat down brock, the show ends with lesnar getting put in a pedigree by rollins as he kane and mercury celebrate in the ring.
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