Posted on 5/16/123 by Colin Vassallo
Arena: Greensboro Coliseum Complex
City: Greensboro, NC
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are out first
and are excited to be facing Solo Sikoa
and Roman Reigns at the Night of
Champions.
The Judgement Day came out Kevin was
ready to fight them before they even
said anything. They said good luck
against the Bloodline and if you win
there will be a whole line of Superstars
waiting for you and the line starts
here.
A short fight started after a sucker
punch to both Sami and Kevin until Sami
comes back in the ring with a chair and
clears the ring.
Shinsuke Nakamura VS. The Miz
After the Miz poked Nakamura in the eye
and hit a Skull Crushing Finale’,
Nakamura gets his foot on the rope and
eventually landed the Kinshasa Kick for
the win.
Winner: Shinsuke Nakamura
Adam Pearce is in his office rubbing his
head as Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville
are yelling and Raquel Rodriguez is also
arguing with them. It was reported that
Liv Morgan was injured on Smackdown, and
they cannot defend the tag team titles
tonight.
Corey Graves interviews Seth “Freakin”
Rollins, they talked about Seth first
winning the NXT championship to the
night he turned on the Shield.
Gunther is out and announces a Battle
Royal to determine who faces him at the
Night of Champions for the
Intercontinental Championship.
Battle royal for #1 contendership for
the Intercontinental title
Ricochet was the first one out for the
battle royal. Apollo Crews, Matt Riddle,
Bronson Reed, Otis, The Viking Raiders,
Elias, Tozawa who was eliminated first,
Baron Corbin who was eliminated second,
Mansoor, Mace, Chad Gable, Dexter Lumis,
Mustafa Ali, Johnny Gargano, JD
McDonaugh, Dolph Ziggler, Von Wagner,
Humberto, Cedric Alexander, Xion Quinn,
Shelton Benjamin, Riddick Moss
After Wagner eliminated Ziggler and
McDonaugh who was just eliminated by
Ziggler, McDonaugh attacked Ziggler.
Ali and Ricochet teamed up to get Reed
over the top rope, but he never fell to
the floor, Ricochet tried a few
dropkicks, but Reed held on. Ricochet
goes for another maneuver off the second
rope, but Reed catches him and puts
Ricochet on his shoulders at which time
Ali recovers and flies with a dropkick
and knocks both off the apron and gets
the win.
Winner and will face Gunther for the
Intercontinental Championship at Night
of Champions: Mustafa Ali
The Man Becky Lynch is out next. Becky
thanked Trish for giving evil a name and
face and she is going to take her out at
Night of Champions.
Rhea Ripley is interviewed, and Natalya
comes out and Rhea said if you ever
interrupt me again, I will not boost
your career, I will end it.
Alpha Academy with Maxine were in the
locker room arguing about losing the
battle royal and Mustafa Ali came in and
told them they needed to start thinking
positively for good things to happen.
Gunther then told him he was going to go
halfway around the world to get the
beating of his life and come back with a
loss. Mustafa then said he feels bad for
him for having to come back embarrassed
after he takes his Intercontinental
Championship at Night of Champions
Xavier Woods VS. Dominik Mysterio
Rhea Ripley hit Woods while outside and
throws him back in the ring and Dominik
rolls Woods up for the pin.
Winner: Dominik Mysterio
Indus Sher with Jinder Mahal VS. Drake
Thompson and ??
They didn’t spend much time talking
about the local talent that was
destroyed by Veer and Sanga.
Winners: Indus Sher
Owens and Zayn are in the back talking
and Imperium walked up, and Gunther told
them he will not put up with the
disrespect they showed his men last week
and Owens said then we will fight you
all next week, we can’t fight you
tonight because we already have a match
but next week we fight.
The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes is
out to the ring next. Cody says Brock
Lesnar is better than 99.99% of the
wrestlers but at Backlash he wasn’t
better than him. Cody says he will beat
Brock again because he is no longer the
next big thing, he is just in his way.
Zoey Stark was trying to talk to Nikki
Cross and Candace LeRae comes in and
tells her not to call Cross a freak and
challenged her to a match.
Raquel Rodriguez VS. Chelsea Green
Raquel destroys Chelsea with her
Chingona Bomb finisher for the win.
Winner: Raquel Rodriguez
While Rodriguez stands triumphant on the
stage holding her tag title with one
arm, she is kicked in the side by Ronda
Rousey and attacked by Rousey and Shayna
Baszler. Rousey grabbed her hair and
said what are you supposed to do with
that title? Defend it. We are tired of
waiting and so with or without your
partner you will get this same beatdown
every week until we get our shot at
those tag titles. Shayna then gave her a
kick.
We see Imperium and they look at each
other then nod their heads in agreement
and Gunther shakes a hand from a figure
off screen who turns out to be Paul
Heyman.
A video of Apollo Crews was shown, and
he is happy to be back, and his time is
now.
Finn Balor & Damian Priest VS. Kevin
Owens & Sami Zayn
During the match, Rhea Ripley and
Dominik come to ringside they are only
there for a short time before the
referee throws them out. As they make
their way to the back Dominik is jumped
by Xavier Woods who is still upset about
the way their match ended tonight. As
they fight out of sight, Paul Heyman
comes out from the back.
Zayn has been laid out at ringside for
several minutes. But finally makes it
back to the apron. Zayn hits the Helluva
kick on Balor and Imperium is up on the
apron at the pin attempt, Owens goes out
and shoves Gunther but receives a
chokeslam onto the corner of the ring
apron from Priest. Zayn flies over the
top rope and takes out Priest.
Back in the ring, Zayn sets up Balor for
another Helluva Kick but is held by
Gunther as the referee was busy trying
to get Ludwig Kaiser out of the ring.
Balor took advantage with a dropkick
into the corner and then hit the coup de
grace for the win.
Winners: Finn Balor & Damian Priest