Cena mocked Reigns' pre-Superman punch "Hoo-ahh," they exchanged blows and then Reigns turned it up. Two Superman punches and one spear later, Reigns' run of dominance continued, and there was a brief moment of triumph.
Until Lesnar showed up to spoil the party. What's next: The only question that lingers is whether or not Lesnar wants to battle Reigns right away. Or, a month out from the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, we won't have to wait that long.
The swing in emotions inside of Allegiant Stadium was off the charts. After advertising Belair vs. Sasha Banks for weeks, despite cancelling live event versions of the match and Banks not appearing on SmackDown in the leadup to SummerSlam, a video package previewing the match ran before Belair made her entrance.
Then, ring announcer Greg Hamilton casually announced that Banks would be unable compete, and Carmella would be the replacement opponent.
That did not sit well with the crowd in Las Vegas. Just before the bell rang, Lynch's music hit and the crowd erupted, as it suddenly became clear this was a weekend for more than one highly anticipated return. Lynch took out Carmella, challenged Belair to a match and, after a moment's pause, Belair accepted. Immediately after the bell rang, Lynch turned a handshake into a punch, followed by a Uranage labeled the "Manhandle Slam" and locked down a three-count, ending the contest in well under a minute -- once again leaving the audience conflicted.
After building up a lot of good will with increasingly impressive performances since winning the title from Banks in a WrestleMania main event, Belair's title reign was over in a flash. What's next: Ideally, some answers. Like why Banks was missing. Or some context as to why such a quick match was necessary.
Belair and Lynch are likely to have a real match sometime soon, ideally. And Banks doesn't seem likely to be going away from the title picture, assuming she's not seriously injured. Before the WWE championship match between Bobby Lashley and Goldberg began, Corey Graves laid out clear expectations for the match from the commentary table.
That statement couldn't have been more on point. Lashley and Goldberg shuffled with a slow, clunky, occasionally brutal match that wasn't received as the WWE intended, and ended in the most unsatisfying of ways.
Lashley, clearly set up as the villain, received cheers throughout the match whenever he had the advantage. Goldberg was booed throughout. Outside of a spear on the outside, neither man hit their signature offense successfully. And with an MVP cane shot to Goldberg's knee, and further damage done during the match, Goldberg lost the match by a puzzling referee stoppage when he failed to stand up. As if that weren't already a clear, heavy-handed setup for a rematch, Lashley used a steel chair to further damage Goldberg's knee, until Goldberg's son Gage jumped the barrier and onto Lashley's back.
Gage got shaken off, and then Lashley put the hurt lock full nelson submission on the year-old, quickly incapacitating him. Lashley and MVP scrambled away as Goldberg covered his son and stared daggers at the champion retreating up the ramp. If this doesn't feel like a match that could be held in that circumstance, nothing does. Coming into the night, Edge vs. Seth Rollins had every expectation of being the best pure wrestling match on the SummerSlam card.
They lived up to that billing, and then some, as Edge and Rollins battered each other in a match that was physical throughout and felt personal from beginning to end. After dropping a blood-like substance on Rollins on SmackDown, Edge continued to channel his days in The Brood and rose through a ring of fire to his music from that era, to the delight of the audience. Rollins was frustrated early on, but from the moment he drove Edge's head into the ringpost and then the stairs a half-dozen times, followed by a neckbreaker, Rollins locked into the zone.
The match really started to pick up when Rollins got incredible air on a frog splash and the first serious two-count of the match. As the fight spilled up to the top rope, Edge countered that momentum with a swinging neckbreaker from the top.
Edge dropped Rollins neck-first into the top rope, connected with a big boot and planted Rollins with an Edgecution DDT, garnering his own two-count. Edge continued to break out the classics with an Edge-O-Matic sitout slam, but got stuck on the top rope long enough for Rollins to bounce up for his superplex into Falcon Arrow combination.
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And special it was! I was worried for a hot minute there: After the opening sequence, we got a long heat sequence where Rollins wore down Edge in not particularly exciting fashion. But once it picked up, it really picked up. Just fantastic action. Rollins hit a superplex into a Falcon Arrow.
Edge used his wife Beth Phoenix's Glam Slam as a nice false finish. Rollins tried to Curb Stomp Edge on the ring arpon as Edge was crawling out of the ring, but Edge moved out of the way and then landed a gnarly spear to the outside. There were some outstanding near falls throughout, including Rollins countering a spear into a Pedigree, and Edge dodging a corkscrew splash from the top then cutting Rollins down with a spear.
The psychology of the match was very well done, as it was built largely around the curb stomp. Rollins kept going for it, but Edge kept finding creative ways to counter. The finish came with one such counter, as Rollins attempted a stomp but Edge turned around, grabbed his leg and put Rollins into his Edgecator submission hold. He then transitioned into the crossface submission. As it looked like Rollins would roll out, Edge took his head, slammed it into the mat and then turned it into a chokehold.
Rollins tapped. Charlotte Flair has won her four-millionth women's championship. She made Nikki A. This was a very good match, thanks mostly to Charlotte and Ripley. These two are superstars -- not the way WWE uses the term, they actually have significant star presence -- and they work so well together.
That's no surprise. It was hard to get into at first, mostly because Nikki A. If the women's titles are meant to be similarly important to the men's world titles, then having an opening-match comedy wrestler be champion just throws everything off.
TheQueen is made for these moments! MsCharlotteWWE has done it again. The bout eventually featured less and less of Nikki, which was for the best. Charlotte Flair was the star of the match, taking the middle third and looking amazing in the process.
She hit a beautiful corkscrew moonsault to take out both Ripley and Nikki. There was also a standout spot where Ripley and Nikki double teamed her by hoisting her up for a double vertical suplex, but Flair countered into a double DDT. Later, Flair and Ripley were brawling on the outside and Nikki did a top-rope splash onto both and hyped herself up to the crowd.
Again, she just stuck out as a cartoon character who shouldn't be in a marquee match. She did, however, contribute to a great false finish: Flair had Ripley in the Figure Eight, but Nikki jumped off the top-rope out of nowhere to break it up. Ripley went for the Riptide on Nikki, but she countered it into a Figure Eight. Flair then put Nikki in the Figure Eight for the win. A nothing match here.
The fued between Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre has always been asymmetrical: McIntyre was the company's biggest star of , while Jinder is a lower-middle-card guy. This match reflected that. It was a five minute Raw match, basically. McIntyre won with a Claymore. In a proverbial cool-down match from the insanity we just witnessed, Drew McIntyre dispatched of Jinder Mahal with the Claymore.
After it was announced that Sasha Banks was unable to compete at SummerSlam, Carmella was offered up as her replacement for the title match. But then suddenly, Becky Lynch made her long anticipated return in front of a raucous crowd. Once the bell rang, Lynch hit her with a forearm and her Manhandler finisher to shock Belair in seconds and leave with the belt. The Usos managed to retain their Smackdown tag belts in a classic encounter with the Mysterios.
Rey and Dominik pulled out several tricks and included quite a few tributes to the late Eddie Guerrero in the showdown. However, the Usos managed to hit a double-superkick to the head of the elder Mysterio before a frog splash to the back put him down for the three count. Go back and watch this match when you get the chance. A second title change for the Raw brand as Damian Priest downed U.
Champion Sheamus in an all-out brawl to capture his first singles title on the main WWE roster.
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