[intro music]
[narrator] Rules.
They're built to control us.
Designed to keep us in line.
Created to dictate what's right
and what's wrong.
But on this night, we do what we want.
We make our own rules.
This is our night,
this is a war.
On this night,
we rise.
[music]
[narrator] We will come at them
from all sides.
[Michael] The fatal 4-way match
for the Intercontinental title.
[narrator] A revolution
unwilling to submit.
[Charlotte Flair] Submission.
[Michael] Could Charlotte win
without her father ringside?
[narrator] Unhinged warriors
of the rebellion.
There is no escape.
[presenter] Welcome to The Asylum.
Make no mistake.
They who take the most
extreme measures,
they will create a great change.
[A.J. Styles] I will not hesitate
to take out Roman Reigns.
[Michael] Anything goes with the WWE
world championship on the line.
[music]
[Roman Reigns] I don't believe that A.J. Styles
could beat the guy on his own.
[Michael] It is the moment of truth for Syles
[A.J Styles] I'm gonna be champion my way,
on my own.
[JBL] Can you imagine what these
two are going to do with each other?
[presenter] Tonight,
power shifts.
Tonight,
we raise our instruments of anarchy.
Tonight,
we are unbound by law.
Tonight,
we go extreme.
[music]
[presenter] And now,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows
presents WWE extreme rules.
[fireworks]
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Tonight,
WWE superstars take it to the Max.
Tonight, they go extreme.
You are looking live
in a sold-out prudential center
in Newark, New Jersey.
15,963 WWE fans are here,
sold out for extreme rules.
[music]
[The Usos] [in Samoan]
[performing Samoan War Dance]
When we say "uce", y'all say "oh."
-Uce. -Oh!
[music]
[ring bell]
[Lilian Garcia] The following
is a tornado tag team match,
in which all four men are legal at the same time.
The winner will be declared by pitfall or submission.
Introducing first,
at a combined weight of 479 pounds,
the team of Jimmy and Jey, the Usos.
[Michael] The Usos set for tag team action.
And we'd like to introduce ourselves here at ringside.
I'm Michael Cole, the legendary JBL,
and Byron Saxton as we get ready for extreme rules.
We're also joined at ringside
by our German counterpart,
none other than Carsten Schaefer
and Sebastian Hackle.
[Sebastian] [in German]
[Carsten] [in German]
[Michael] And our Spanish team out here as well.
Carlos Cabrera and
Marcello Rodriguez.
[Carlos] [in Spanish]
[Marcelo] [in Spanish]
[music]
[Michael] And here we go.
[Lilian Garcia] And their opponents.
At a combined weight of 505 pounds,
the team of Luke Gallows
and Karl Anderson.
[JBL] These two men burst on the scene last month
when they attacked the Usos
after an Usos tag team match-up,
and they beat the hell out of Jimmy and Jey.
and the Usos have not forgotten that night.
-[Michael] Ron Simmons and I had a… -[JBL] Oh, look at this.
[Michael] Whoa, wait a minute.
[JBL] Here we go.
[Michael] The Usos' not wasting any time,
they're going right toward Karl Anderson and Gallows
in the aisle way.
Remember, Tornado Tag Team rules,
all four men in the ring at the same time.
The only way you win it is via pitfall of submission.
There'll be no count-outs,
there'll be no disqualifications.
[Bryon] And you had to believe
these two teams were destined to have
to have to fight each other in this sort of environment.
[JBL] And Jimmy and Jey double-teaming Karl Anderson.
Here's the first cover of the match-up, and a kickout.
And Luke Gallows blasted into the corner.
[Bryon] Oh man.
[JBL] The Usos tagging into the…
…huge Luke Gallows
who's knocked over the top rope.
And the Usos out for blood tonight.
Of course part of the bloodline
with WWE world heavyweight champion Roman Reigns.
[Bryon] The Usos have continually said,
"we don't care if what we d is right or wrong."
[JBL] Yeah, and most people here
are cheering the Usos but
there's quite a few that are booing the Usos.
[Michael] I think that's because of the
relationship with the WWE world
heavyweight champion?
[JBL] I think that's exactly the reason.
Roman reigns, the most people's
poll rising champions we've ever had.
-[Michael] Oh! -[JBL] We love him or hate him.
You had a passionate emotion about him,
and that means to me we've had a megastar
and a hell of a main event coming.
-[Bryon] Uh-oh, watch out. -[Michael] And look out.
Launching himself over the top rope,
Jimmy Uso.
[Bryon] Talking about passion, how
how about the passionate disdain
that these two teams have for each other?
[JBL] And that was Jey actually coming over the top rope,
and now he sends Karl Anderson back in to the ring.
Jey gonna go up top here.
Two-time tag team champions,
the Usos.
Here's the cover off the high crossbody,
and Anderson kicks out at two.
[Michael] And this is one of these dream match ups,
you just sit around in a little fantasy league,
you wonder
what would happen if you take one of WWE's,
maybe the best tag team of the current generation.
[Bryon] Whoa.
[JBL] The Usos…
[Michael] Oh. And Japan's best tag team,
you put them together and see what happens.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Look at Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson.
[JBL] Oh, no.
[Michael] Oh, down goes Uso.
[JBL] That's what happens.
[Michael] I'll tell you what, that was like a…
it looked like a version
of the boot of doom off the apron.
[Bryon] Yeah, certainly was.
You know, when Gallows and Anderson were in Japan
they were used to competing in this sort of environment.
Look at this again.
Anderson, right there.
[Michael] Yeah, the boot of doom from off the apron,
a variation of their finishing maneuver there.
[Bryon] They're used to having the freedom
to do what they wanted
with very little repercussion.
This match fits them perfectly.
[JBL] Anderson, hook to the leg,
and a kickout.
[JBL] Well, one thing I found,
if you're bad enough you can do whatever you want
without much repercussions anywhere you are.
[Michael] Anderson and Gallows'
Three-time IWGP tag team champions in Japan.
[Bryon] One of the great tag teams that have come out of Japan,
the hell raisers, one of my favorites.
[Michael] Oh man! [JBL] Hawk and sasaki.
[Bryon] Oh my gosh.
[Michael] Gallows following that up with a splash.
Here's the cover by Anderson,
and a kickout.
And again Jimmy Uso
blasted off the apron
as Anderson and Gallows
continue to work on Jey.
[Bryon] I'm talking about operating under your own set of rules,
these guys even… when they were in Japan,
attacked a member of the local media
just because they could.
[Michael] And that is where Anderson
and Gallows forged their relationship
with the number one contender
for the WWE championship tonight,
A.J. Styles.
[JBL] So the [indistinct]
Brody and Hansen were the funks
but a lot of guys did stuff like that.
That's how you make a name for yourself.
[Bryon] And Usos looking to do just that here.
Roll up by Gallows and a kickout at two.
The Usos have not forgotten the night
that they were ambushed
and attacked from behind, on the…
…night that Anderson and Gallows
burst out the scene here at WWE.
[JBL] I'll tell you what I like about Gallows and Anderson.
They believe one thing.
They believe you make an impression
by beating people up,
and they do it quite well.
[Michael] And look at how Gallows was just
just hanging on to the leg.
-[Bryon] Did you hear that? -[Michael] Uh-oh,
and Anderson…
…knee right to the side of the face.
[JBL] When you pound a guy so hard,
you hurt your own foot.
-[Michael] And a cover-up. -[JBL] That's impact.
[Michael] Jey, and again a kick out.
-[Michael] Listen to this. -[JBL] Watch this.
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] Look at this.
[Bryon] And I think we've just scratched
the surface here on
WWE of what these two men,
Gallows and Anderson are capable of.
[Gallows] Did you hear that?
-[Michael] Man, you talked a lot about… -[Gallows] Do you like that?
[Michael] …you even called Anderson
and Gallows bad dudes.
[JBL] Absolute bad dudes.
Look.
[Michael] Oh man.
Again Anderson into the cover,
is this enough?
And a kickout.
[JBL] Ron Simmons and I
[indistinct] Relished the fact
that when we showed up the fight started.
I see the exact same thing at these two guys.
These guys show up, the fight starts.
[Michael] Anderson trash-talking yet again.
[JBL] Boot of doom.
[Michael] And there's Jimmy.
Jimmy,
grabbing the leg of Karl Anderson,
hits him with the right hand.
Gallows misses wildly.
double superkick by the Usos.
[Bryon] Bulls eye.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Uh-oh.
[Bryon] And this could be it.
[JBL] We've seen the Usos do this before.
[Michael] Heading up to the top rope looking for a …
-[JBL] In-stereo. -[Michael] a double splash on Anderson.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Gallows back to his feet.
Gallows runs into an elbow.
Oh man,
missed with that corkscrew up the top rope
and now Gallows goes to work,
the Gallows pole.
[JBL] They better keep up…
[Michael] Samoan drop.
Spine buster by Anderson.
[Bryon] That could be it.
Cover yet again, and another near fall for
Anderson and Gallows.
[Bryon] Action has virtually been nonstop.
[Michael] Since the beginning of this match started.
[JBL] Well, that's what you expect
when you have two great teams like that.
These we have right now, and
both of these are great teams.
[Michael] And there's a reason this is
called a tornado tag team match.
Got it started, of course, John, down inTexas.
[JBL] Texas tornado match.
I'm sure you were…
-[Michael] I've been with… -[JBL] …involved with a few of
those early on in your career.
[Michael] I've been in a bunch of them with dick Murdoch,
Von Erich Boys,
The Free birds.
Great times, just like these
just like boys right now
are having a lot of fun beating people up.
[Bryon] That's not fun for the Usos.
[Anderson] Do you know who you're messing with?
Huh?
[Michael] And Karl Anderson,
look at the look on his face,
the intensity
of Anderson.
[JBL] Oh.
[Michael] He runs way into that kick.
[Bryon] Man.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Jey uso caught Anderson
with a kick to the jaw.
[JBL] [laughs]
I think they're having a pretty fun time
in this tornado match, Bryon
[Bryon] Oh, no you don't think…
[Jey Uso] Uce.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Uh-oh. There he is backing it up!
[Bryon] Oh man.
[Michael] And a respect to a manga
and then a clothesline by Gallows.
[Speaking in foreign language]
[Michael] That's the problem with tornado rules,
there are no tags in and out,
you got to watch your back at all times.
[Bryon] You got to keep your head on its level
because you could lose it from your shoulders.
[Michael] Now driven over the barricade
and out of the WWE fans,
it's capacity crowd, sold-out tonight.
[Gallows] Hey, hey, get up.
Get up.
[Michael] Gallows trying to get Anderson up,
but Anderson might still be out.
[Crowd chatter]
[JBL] Oh, my goodness. What the hell is he thinking?
[Michael] Gallows is going to go--oh.
[JBL] Get the--he's got the ring bell.
[Bryon] Yeah, that's the…
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] The ring bell?
Remember, no disqualifications
in this tornado match.
[referee] Come on Gallows.
Hey, come on, what are you doing with that bell in here?
[Michael] Official can't do anything about this,
Gallows can use this as a weapon.
-[referee] Gallows. -[Gallows] Get your ass up.
Get up.
[JBL] I don't know if I wanna see this.
[Bryon] Jimmy Uso, oh.
Jimmy uso felt him coming from behind
and turned around,
delivered a superkick.
Jimmy going to try to pull himself up to the top rope
to take out Luke Gallows here.
[Michael] Prime opportunity for Jimmy Uso.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Oh no, and he moved.
And Jimmy landed right on the ring bell,
right to the middle of his chest.
And now Gallows…
-[Michael] Uh-oh. -[Bryon] And Anderson.
-[JBL] Call that bad luck… -[Bryon] Magic killer.
[JBL] …Call that fate,
I call it ball game.
[referee and crowd] One, two, three.
[bell ringing]
[rock music]
[Lilian Garcia] Here are your winners,
Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson.
[JBL] That was a hell of a fight.
I tell you, kick all the extreme rules.
[Bryon] Well, we talked about Gallows
and Anderson being in their element
in this type of match up, we just saw why.
[Michael] Get some revenge here tonight
on Jimmy and Jey Uso
to kick off extreme rules.
[rock music]
[Michael] When Gallows had grabbed that ring bell,
and this change the course of this match up.
[Bryon] Jimmy Uso thought this was his chance,
this was his chance to capture a victory
for his team,
right there landing on that ring bell,
and we only go downhill from there.
[Michael] Yeah, the magic killer from
Anderson and Gallows.
[Bryon] You might call it a little lady luck
for Gallows and Anderson,
but nonetheless.
[bell ringing]
[Michael] An important victory tonight at extreme rules.
[rock music]
Look, look, one right there.
And one right there.
Finished.
We finished them.
[rock music]
[Michael] How impressive were Anderson and Gallows, John?
[JBL] Well, they came out here,
they took the fight straight to the Usos,
they won the fight.
[Michael] Oh Jimmy and Jey Uso.
[JBL] Well, these Usos are incredibly tough guys.
They are a great tag team.
[Michael] But John, Jimmy and Jey Uso,
they're banged up, they're hurt.
You have to wonder to what extent if any
this could affect the main event tonight.
Could Roman Reigns be in a disadvantaged
with his cousins being helped out of the arena?
We know Anderson and Gallows
will definitely get involved on behalf of A.J. Styles.
[JBL] When Anderson and Gallows
shows up in WWE at the same time A.J Styles does,
we show them that's not a coincidence.
Gallows and Anderson involved in the main event?
Pretty safe bet.
[rock music]
[narrator] Tonight on an all-new camp WWE
Ah.
Stephanie.
[narrator] Love is in the air.
You would take me out on a date,
the same way you'll take out Stephanie
and I'll know if you're right for my daughter.
[narrator] But what's in Mark Henry?
I'm constipated
and it's all because of your -- lava cake.
Charm the pants off Vince,
so I can take the pants off Stephanie.
I'll skin off my ass.
Oh, no, I think my water just broke.
Sponge --.
-We're almost there. -Ahh!
-Just push. -Ahh!
[narratoe] Camp WWE, an adult animated comedy.
Available only on demand and only on WWE Network.
New episode available on demand tonight,
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And again, ladies and gentlemen,
tonight immediately following extreme rules,
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You know what we have to do?
we have to have a camp WWE viewing party,
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Byron, Byron, it's bad enough
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you tonight filming an episode for ride along.
-Yes. That would be awesome. -Now you want us to do this?
Well, nonetheless, switching gears
ladies and gentlemen, coming up next,
The United States championship
will be defended by Kalisto against Rusev.
Want to take it back to last
Monday night on Raw.
Kalisto just got through a grueling matchup
against Alberto Del Río when Rusev attacked.
[JBL] Yeah, and Rusev tried to send
a very physical impactful
message to Kalisto.
[Michael] And John, I wanna…
-[JBL] And look at this, look at this. -[Michael] Watch the way Callisto's body
is bent here.
[JBL] The body is not supposed to bend like that.
Kalisto doesn't show up on smackdown,
uh, there's no way Kalisto is a hundred percent tonight.
No way.
Look at that body,
it's bent like a freaking pretzel.
[Michael] And Kalisto--we understand
according to WWE doctors
that he suffered a strained intercostal muscle.
And also strained muscles in his back.
How will that affect his defense
tonight of the United States championship?
[Lilian Garcia] Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome, the ravishing Russian,
Lana.
[crowd cheering]
And now America, please stand up
and put your hands on your heart
and welcome your next United States champion,
the Bulgarian brute,
Rusev!
[In Bulgarian]
[Michael] In order to become the United States champion,
Rusev is going to have to pin or
submit Kalisto tonight.
The Bulgarian brute,
a former United States champion
and at one point,
undefeated for nearly a year here in WWE.
[Bryon] Yeah, Rusev was last United States champion
coincidently last year at WrestleMania.
He actually said on the free show,
um, he comes here earlier tonight,
"I've already called my friends, my family
I've told them, I'm already United States champion."
[Michael] Well, again, an international
feel to extreme rules here tonight
live in Newark, New Jersey.
We are joined by
an international row of announcers so to speak.
We're gonna start things off
with our Brazilian announce team,
Marco Alfaro and Roberto Figueroa.
[in Portuguese]
[Michael] And our Russian announce team,
Moti Margolin and Zhan Pomerantsev.
[in Russian]
[Michael] And our Japanese announce team,
Reiji Sato and Funaki.
[in Japanese]
[music]
[Michael] So, Rusev getting set to
battle Kalisto for the United States championship.
[Bryon] Rusev has promised to devour the heart of Kalisto.
[Mexican music]
[Michael] Oh, admittingly that is a lot of heart,
but we'll see if he has a body to match.
Because that accolade looked
like it took a world of hurt,
and to Kalisto and I still don't think
he's a hundred percent.
[Mexican music]
[Lilian Garcia] The following contest is for
the United States championship.
Already in the ring from Mexico city,
weighing in at 170 pounds,
he is the United States champion
Kalisto.
[JBL] Look, it's very simple.
Kalisto's gonna have to do whatever he's done before,
but it is a long shot.
He's going to have to pull out moves we've never seen.
He's gonna have to use speed.
He's gonna have to fly around.
If this big Russian hits him,
it could be over with one blow.
[Bryon] I remember Kalisto… you're right, John,
he's been in this situation before
where he's been told, "hey, you're too small.
You're not Big Enough.
You're not strong enough,"
and that's what motivates Kalisto
in big time matches like we have tonight.
[JBL] Yeah, he's better motivated
because he's got a Bulgarian brute
that wants to SWAT him out of the sky.
[bell ringing]
[Michael] So, here we go for the United States championship.
Kalisto has had an impressive
reign as champion.
One hundred seventeen days
since he beat Alberto Del Rio back at the royal rumble.
And Rusev misses wildly with a kick
and Kalisto got to work on the legs
of the Bulgarian brute.
The 300 pound, Rusev.
[Bryon] It's 27 years since the day
Lex Luger defeated Michael Hayes
for US title and held it for 523 days, a record.
[Michael] Kalisto's second row
corkscrew and swatted away…
-[JBL] Oh, that's what I'm talking about. -[Michael] …by Rusev.
[JBL] That's how you SWAT a mosquito out of the sky.
[Michael] Rusev has been so intense
over the past couple of weeks.
So focused since he has one goal
and that is to, again,
become United States champion.
Watch this again.
Look at this.
Oh, SWAT.
Rusev and Lana were very, very confident
when they joined the social media lab
just part of the extreme rules kickoff show earlier on tonight.
[Bryon] Well, Rusev, he's maintained confidence.
I mean, calling Kalisto a child,
saying he doesn't belong, you know, but
you talk all that, but you got to back it up,
you got to deliver when it counts.
[JBL] Yeah, well, my prediction is very simple.
This ain't gonna last very long.
Kalisto getting there like he
pretend like there's nothing wrong with him.
There's something with him.
And he's about to get eaten alive…
-[JBL] …by that Bulgarian. -[Michael] Well, just, the doctor said
there is, strained intercostal muscles,
strained muscles in the back.
Obviously not at a hundred percent.
[Bryon] Well, that just speaks to how much pride
Kalisto has in being United States champion,
being a role model.
[Michael] Here's the cover again by Rusev.
Hook to the leg and kick out.
[JBL] Inspiring people to do what
most don't expect you to do.
[Michael] John, were you ever
a hundred percent?
[JBL] Never a hundred percent,
are you kidding me?
You walk out there in whatever
body you've got, it's a hundred percent
of what you have that day.
[Michael] And that's what Kalisto's doing here tonight,
defending the United States championship.
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] That is an incredible
tradition of the United States champion,
WWE just put out a DVD
of the United States championship
hosted by me.
[Michael] You're a former United States champion.
[JBL] The most proud moments of my life.
[Michael] Rusev blasting Kalisto.
Here's the cover on the champion.
Is it enough?
And Kalisto again forced to kick out
and every time he kicks out, John,
he's trying to knock that 300 pound
frame off his body
with a bad back and bad ribs.
[JBL] Yeah, and he keeps taking a shot,
he keeps trying and take the kicks
as well try and take out those knees,
trying to take Rusev off his feet,
it's just not working.
[Michael] And now the bear hug,
great strategy
by the Bulgarian brute.
[referee] What do you say, Kalisto?
[Miachel] Attacking that target area,
the lower back.
[Bryon] Well, Bruno Sammartino
once won a championship in
48 seconds with that bear hug…
[crowd chatter]
[Bryon] …beating the great Buddy Rogers.
[JBL] Look at Rusev.
Arms wrapped around the waist to Kalisto,
trying to squeeze the breath from the champion.
[Bryon] Rusev knows what that
United States championship means.
-[JBL] Look at this. -[Michael] Listen to Kalisto.
-[referee] Come on, Kalisto. -[Kalisto] Ah.
-[Michael] It's like a three… -[Kalisto] No, no.
[Michael] …three-hundred-pound anaconda.
[Kalisto] No.
[Bryon] You can't--you can't help but
feel badly for Kalisto.
I mean, I don't…
[JBL] Byron, there's nothing more fun
than when your opponent cries and screams in pain.
[Michael] Now remember, this is a traditional matchup
here guys tonight.
If Kalisto can make it to the bottom rope,
it's gonna a force a break.
Rusev has to pin or submit Kalisto
to win the championship.
And Kalisto's trying somehow to make it.
And finally, Rusev
breaking the bear hug
and delivering a knee to the spine.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Yeah, and Rusev breaking for…
…strategic reasons.
-[Bryon] Look at this. -[JBL] Oh, man.
[JBL] Oh, yes, speaking of the rack,
you've talked about Lex Luger
holding the title, 532 days,
Rusev may win it right here.
[Michael] Yeah, with the move that Luger made famous.
And look at again, putting so much pressure on
the back of Kalisto.
This has been a perfect game plan
so far for Rusev.
[crowd chatter]
[Bryon] The question is how much--how
much can Kalisto withstand right now?
How much of punishment?
this attack?
[JBL] Ah, Kalisto's become
a trophy.
This Bulgarian may put him on his manhole.
-[Michael] Oh, oh, oh, look at Kalisto. -[JBL] There you go.
[Bryon] Kalisto now has switched this.
He switches in with a sleeper hold.
Rusev in the middle of the ring
and he's struggling, you can see Rusev
could be fading here.
Trying to make it to the rope to
force a break, but Kalisto
last ditch effort here perhaps.
[Michael] Rusev, a hand's length away
from the top rope,
but he's fading.
[JBL] Oh, yeah, yeah, he's starting to fade a little bit.
[Michael] Rusev is fading.
[Bryon] And Kalisto hasn't locked it
as deep as you can get it.
[Michael] Kalisto gutsy performance here.
-[Bryon] Oh, man. -[JBL] Oh.
[Bryon] That's how you break it.
Can't teach size.
[JBL] He almost snapped Kalisto in half.
[Bryon] Jarring the back of Kalisto
at the same time.
[Michael] And not only the back, but
now Kalisto grabbing his neck.
Watch this impact here.
This is 300 pounds landing on Kalisto.
[Bryon] At this point of the match,
if you're Kalisto,
you may have to severely
adjust your game plan.
[Michael] Oh. Irish whipped it at a corner.
Kalisto still fighting back now
with the boot to the face
caught by Rusev.
Planted him.
Kalisto planting him on the DDT.
Does it buy Kalisto
enough time to climb back into this?
[Bryon] Oh, if he buys enough time,
I think that--I think it puts him back
back in the match, Michael.
I didn't think we had seen this happening.
[Michael] Kalisto now has got to find a way to suck up the pain,
trying to mouth some sort of consistent offense.
[JBL] Oh, the hell with sucking up the pain,
he needs to find a way to get
this Bulgarian brute down for a three count.
[Michael] And now Kalisto again
kicks to the hamstrings and the knees
of Rusev,
trying to take the big man off his feet.
-[Michael] Caught again. -[JBL] Uh-oh.
[Michael] Kalisto lands on his feet.
Here comes the quickness of the champion,
Kalisto.
Oh.
[JBL] There's the corkscrew, connects this time.
Kalisto picking up the pace now.
Hurricanrana, clamps him.
Cover for the win.
[Rreferee] One, two…
And a kickout at two.
[Michael] How gutsy is Kalisto?
Watch this.
[Bryon] Yeah, and I think he's beaten some guys,
it's just Rusev is so big and strong
Kalisto wasn't able-- wasn't able to hold the cover for three count.
[Michael] Yeah, but that affected Rusev,
trying to shake the cobwebs out of his head.
And now Kalisto
launching himself off the top rope has to roll through.
Rusev set over the top rope now.
And Kalisto looking to fly.
[JBL] Oh.
Face first into the steps.
[Michael] Innovative offense…
-[Bryon] Nice. -[Michael] … that of Kalisto.
[Bryon] You feel that momentum shift right now?
You feel the momentum heading into the corner of Kalisto?
[Michael] Watch and listen.
[crowd] Oh.
[JBL] I heard the stairs.
[Michael] And Kalisto gets Rusev
back into the ring,
and now Kalisto, the United States champion's
fired up, the adrenaline's pumping now.
Blast off the top rope to cover
to retain the championship.
Oh, I thought he had it.
[JBL] It had a little viva la raza to it.
[Bryon] Eddie Guerrero, former United States champion
as well as Rey Mysterio, a two-time.
[Michael] Kalisto really thought that was it.
Now he's trying to fire up with the lucha chance.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Kalisto--oh, I think it's salida Del sol.
[Michael] Looking for the salida Del sol,
his finishing move and Rusev,
able to counter.
And now Kalisto,
apron, up to the top rope.
Takes out Rusev.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Man, this Kalisto is fun to watch, isn't he?
[JBL] Yeah, you're right, Byron. That was fun to watch.
That was spectacular,
but you can't beat a man outside the ring,
you've got to get this--
[Bryon] Oh, he's getting him in there, he's getting him in there.
[Michael] Oh, Kalisto could beat him outside the ring tonight
in this type of matchup.
[JBL] You can retain the title, you are correct.
[Michael] And now Kalisto heading up to the top rope,
Rusev is in trouble.
Kalisto trying to dig down deep one more time
and Rusev catching him on the top rope.
Ah.
-[JBL] Oh, man. -[Michael] Oh my god.
[JBL] Spine first on the apron.
[Michael] The hardest part of the ring, John.
[Bryon] Bad back and all.
[JBL] And that's where you have that brace around the ring,
that's the--where that steel
barrier is right underneath that ring apron.
That's what Kalisto landed on.
His got that hurt back to begin with.
[Michael] And the official looking to back--
[JBL] I mean, this is--this is it.
[Michael] The official trying to back Rusev off.
Rusev though wasting little time.
[JBL] Hey, this is it.
Kalisto has not hardly moved.
[Bryon] Just like that, Rusev…
-[Michael] Kalisto's legs have not moved. -[Bryon] And just like that,
Rusev is about to become the United states champion.
[Michael] And Kalisto's legs have not moved.
[Bryon] I'll tell you what I do, I'd boot that--
doctor in the head.
I'll get Kalisto in there and I'd pin him.
Come on, Rusev.
There you go. That's what you should do.
-[Michael] No way. -[JBL] No, it's a title match,
you're getting into disqualification.
[Michael] And the official again backing Rusev off.
He's gonna check on the champion
here to see if the champion can continue.
[JBL] Rusev knows, he's in a panic here, This is a DQ.
[Michael] Yeah, but, John, if--
-[Michael] Kalisto… -[JBL] Kalisto keeps the championship.
[Bryon] If Kalisto can't continue,
he's gonna lose the title.
[JBL] Come on. Get him back.
[Bryon] And again Rusev backed off into the corner by the official.
-[Bryon] What the-- -[Michael] Oh, accolade.
[Michael] Here's the accolade. Oh, my god.
[Bryon] Look at his back. He's got to tap,
he's got to tap out.
Rusev is the United States champion.
[music]
[Lilian Garcia] Here is your winner by submission
and the new United States champion,
Rusev.
[Michael] Rusev is now our two-time
United States champion.
A very valued effort by Kalisto tonight,
but Rusev too much.
[JBL] Hey, yeah, incredible valued
effort by Kalisto.
You give all the props in the world,
but what a dominating
performance by Rusev.
I mean, there's pure domination.
[Michael] Kalisto had Rusev on the ropes there.
Well, a few moments in that matchup.
[JBL] Could've, would've, should've, who cares?
There is your United States champion.
[Bryon] He's coming over here.
Well done, Rusev.
[crowd cheering]
Well done.
[Music]
[JBL] He says he's the greatest United States champion
since Harley Race first won it January 1st, 1975.
When he beat Johnny Weaver,
that right there may be the greatest
United States champion.
Wait and see.
[Bryon] We know how dominant Rusev
was the last time he was United States champion.
[Michael] And tremendous reign
on the first time around
and he looks to do even better now.
The United States champion for a
second time is Rusev
and now the doctors out there
are checking on Kalisto,
who guys again, after he, uh…
… landed on the apron.
Watch how he falls on the apron there
he buckled up and then did not move.
At that junction, Kalisto could not move
and he had the referee attempting to back Rusev off,
finally Rusev dragging Kalisto to the center of the ring
and watch this,
bends Kalisto in half.
[Bryon] And Kalisto had no choice guys,
guys, he had to tap out.
[music]
[Bryon] Tremendous hard show by Kalisto,
tremendous desire coming out here,
less than a hundred percent,
but guys, we got a new United States champion.
The greatest United States champion.
[JBL] Forget about who finished second,
right there is the United States champion,
that's what matters,
-[JBL] right there. -[Rusev] I am the greatest.
[music]
[Michael] Well done Rusev.
The greatest United States champion to ever live.
Machka.
[music]
[narrator] It is my absolute destiny
to be in control.
[music]
You never know what's gonna happen in the WWE.
Timing is everything.
I came back to ensure our future.
There is nothing and I mean
nothing that I won't do.
[music]
This is definitely the time
and this is definitely the place.
[music]
I cannot wait for this show tomorrow night,
can you imagine what Shane McMahon
is gonna tell about his father,
about why he left the company,
what he thinks about his sister,
what he thinks about his brother-in-law,
why he jumped off that crazy cage in
hell in a cell at WrestleMania,
this is going to be awesome.
Shane McMahon tell-allpodcast
hosted by Mick Foley tomorrow night immediately
following Monday night raw only on the WWE network.
[bell ringing] The following tag team contest
is scheduled for one fall
and it is for the WWE tag team championship.
[JBL] Oh, Bridge City,
don't you dare be sour,
clap for your world famous two-time champs
and feel the power.
[music]
[Lilian Garcia] Introducing first,
they are the WWE tag team champions,
the New Day.
[music]
[Bryon] What is that on the hand of Big E?
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Not quite sure,
but nonetheless, you know, the New Day
have taken us on some wild trips
during their reign as tag team champions,
but this past Monday night on raw
may have been the wildest and most bizarre yet.
This is my time machine.
To the bygone era.
[music]
Why did you bring us here?
Because regardless of the era
we will forever and always be their
WWE world…
[Michael] And look at this.
They were mocking the Vaudevillians
and the vaudevillians, the number one
contenders to the tag team
titles would attack New Day from behind.
[Bryon] Now, Vaudevillians see no
humor on the New Day's antics
trying to be a new level of seriousness
as they call it to the tag team division.
[Michael] And they made the New Day pay
setting the stage for tonight.
[music]
Well,
so much for the morals and values
of a bygone era.
The Vaudevillians destroyed
my time machine.
No.
[crowd chatter]
But let's be honest,
it's not a time machine.
It's clearly an empty refrigerator box…
It was a time machine.
To travel through time.
Now, now,
ladies and gentle ladies.
Quick reminder.
I am on Twitter @xavierWoodsphd
and my dm's are still open.
So, in my painful, sorrowful
time of need if you want to send me any
pictures or
videos with sound, you know,
just to console your boy.
-Console this man. -It would be greatly appreciated.
Rob, this is not the time or the place.
Let me shoot my shot.
[crowd chatter]
Let him shoot his shot.
Now…
[crowd cheering]
Oh, he's gonna shoot his shot.
Meanwhile…
we're gonna focus on our match
that we have coming up right now.
You see
if you will direct your attention
to my good friend Big E,
you will notice that he has two tools
on his shoulders.
One is Aiden English,
the other is Simon gotch.
And because we're in the garden state.
[crowd cheering]
We're about to put a couple hoes in the ground.
[crowd cheering]
Meaning that tonight
we will leave this arena
still your
WWE
world tag team
champions.
Because…
[Crowd cheering]
Gather around everyone and
witness the debonair devastation
of such exquisite sophistication.
Aiden English, Simon Gotch,
the Vaudevillians.
[music]
[Michael] Talking about the polar opposite in attitude.
[Lilian Garcia] Introducing the challengers
at a combined weight of 435 pounds,
Aiden English and Simon Gotch,
the vaudevillians.
[Michael] Aiden obviously visited
the Haberdasher Earlier today
as the Vaudevillians gets set to
take on the New Day for the tag team championship.
Byron you followed the vaudevillian's career since they
burst on the scene at NXT,
what do you know about them?
[Bryon] Well, these two, I mean,
they truly believe they are [indistinct]
They truly believe that the WWE
needs the "class and sophistication"
that they bring to the table.
In fact, they call the New Day
a part of the society of entitlement.
Believe that the New Day has
all fluff and no substance.
[Michael] Well, the New Day actually
has some substance
because they've held the tag team titles
for an impressive 273 days
winning the gold back at Summer Slam
in Brooklyn.
[JBL] But there is a--
that's what it's all about right there.
There's a bit of a throwback here
in Newark, you know,
in 1866 James McLaughlin won
the collar and elbow championship
against Louis Ainsworth.
[Michael] Where do you get this stuff?
[JBL] Well, virtual encyclopedia.
[Michael] Xavier Woods with a clothesline
as he starts things off against Aiden English.
So, the combination of this match,
Woods and Big E.
Kofi Kingston will be outside the ring.
Xavier Woods showing off
with a nice hurricanrana to Aiden English.
[Bryon] Oh, Xavier's right down fierce.
[Michael] Xavier Woods
perhaps the most underrated of the New Day team,
but he has tremendous in-the-ring prowess.
Simon Gotch pays for it,
but Aiden English takes advantage
and Xavier Woods bounced off the steel post.
[JBL] Yeah, you know,
They often compare them to the free birds,
another great duo--triplet that
goes into the hall of fame this past year.
[Michael] Oh.
[Bryon] Xavier will be like Buddy Roberts
who is also very underrated
and a terrific performer.
[Michael] And talker.
[Bryon] And that's right.
[Michael] Simon Gotch sending Xavier Woods
into the ring and Gotch
with a knee right to the chest
and then one to the face.
Simon Gotch taking it to Xavier Woods,
hook to the leg now and a kickout.
[JBL] Talk about underrated,
I think the Vaudevillians are the ones that are under-rated.
[Michael] I can see that
the Vaudevillians winning a number one
contenders tag team tournament
to get this opportunity tonight.
Remember the match versus Enzo and Cass,
cut short back at payback
when Enzo suffered a concussion.
But nonetheless the Vaudevillians here tonight
with an awesome opportunity.
Cover by English, kick-out by Woods.
[Bryon] Yeah, and think about that
in a month's time, the vaudevillians
burst on to the scene here on WWE
and now could be on the verge of becoming
WWE tag team champions.
[Michael] Aiden English, six foot four,
215 pounds,
cover again,
hook to the leg and a kick-out.
[JBL] Well, you look at [indistinct] in the premier league,
it's not where you start, it's where you finish.
-[Michael] Think about… -[Bryon] The vaudevillians have
a chance here to walk out tag team champions.
[Michael] And Xavier Woods talks
all the time, Byron, about
being a PhD which indeed he is,
Aiden English is a, he's
a classically trained actor and artist,
he once performed on Broadway.
And English again cover,
look at this forearm right in the face
and a kick-out by Woods.
[Bryon] Yeah, and it's not just competing in the ring,
it's their whole lifestyle
that they say represents sophistication
from the way they dress.
Aiden actually told me their outfits are all hand-stitched.
[JBL] And they believed this.
-[JBL] This is just-- -[Bryon] Yeah, 24 hours a day…
… this is the life they live.
The way every fan here in the arena tonight
be dressed up in formal wear.
[JBL] Look, they're trying to make themselves be known.
They want to be different,
they want to look different,
they are different.
[Bryon] Simon Gotch six-one, 221.
For Simon Gotch,
he's style in the ring is indeed old school,
really old school.
[JBL] I think of Sharpe brothers,
like, Ben and Mike,
great tag team
or Dick The Bruiser and The Crusher.
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] Look at Karl Gotch, he's the greatest Gotch of all time.
He talked to anybody,
even Lou Thesz said that.
[Michael] Xavier Woods
with the right hand to Gotch, still trying to make a tag,
Big E has yet to be in this matchup.
And Simon Gotch will not allow it to happen at that point.
Woods now, enzuigiri.
And that creates an opening
for Xavier Woods to bring the big man in.
[Bryon] Xavier's got to get his bearings
right now figure out where Big E is.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] New Day chants from the sold out
crowd here tonight at Rock in Newark.
And Xavier Woods trying to make to Big E,
tagged English
and a tag to Big E,
and here comes the 300-pounder.
And Big E with a belly to belly
to start things off.
[JBL] And another one to Aiden English.
[Bryon] English is getting flying lessons right now.
[JBL] It's cool, look at that.
[Bryon] Gotch suffers one.
[Michael] It'll be like "The Golden Greek" Jim Londos.
-[JBL] Well more. -[Bryon] English again.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Ring rattling,
belly-to-bellies.
[JBL] Uh-oh, the hips are going.
[Michael] And Big E, watch the 300-pounder fly.
-[JBL] Running splash. -[Michael] Splash to English.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Oh, and English
caught Big E with a couple of elbows
in the third drives Big E
back creates the separation.
[Michael] English launched over the top rope,
lands on the apron,
look out, here comes Big E.
[JBL] Oh, no, what a great counter by Aiden English.
-[JBL] That could be it. -[Bryon] And is Aiden English…
…can he put Big E away?
Face first goes Big E,
for the tag team championship.
-[JBL] Hook the leg. -[Bryon] English cover, shoulders down.
[Michael] Oh. Kick-out by Big E.
Wow.
How close are we to having new tag team champions just now?
[JBL] Well, I think Aiden English thought that was it.
[Michael] Aiden English now,
screaming back to Kofi Kingston,
he's mouthing up in ringside
and Big E…
uh-oh, looking for the big ending.
-[JBL] That is great. -[Michael] Tag to Woods.
[Michael] Gotch, oh, Gotch just blasted
Big E into his own partner.
And now Big E dumped out of the ring.
And Gotch driving Big E into the steps.
Vaudevillians got to be careful here.
[Bryon] Smart strategy.
[Michael] Yeah, it's smart strategy,
but they can only win via pin falls or submission
to take the championship.
They knocked down kofi Kingston, now is your chance to win the
tag team championship.
-[JBL] Xavier's all alone. -[Bryon] Here we go.
[Michael] Tag to Simon Gotch.
[JBL] We're about to have an old school tag team champion.
[Michael] For the titles, Gotch cover to end the New Day's reign,
Woods kicked out, woods kicked out.
Gotch can't believe it.
Byron, I don't know if anybody's kicked out of that.
[Bryon] Oh, I can't believe it.
I thought we're gonna have new champions.
[Michael] Everything went their way,
everything went according to plan,
he just forgot to tell Xavier Woods
that there was gonna be new champions.
[Bryon] Yeah, but remember, Xavier's still alone here.
Big E is still out of the mix in this matchup.
[Michael] Gotch and English cannot
believe that Woods kicked
out of the whirling dervish.
[JBL] This is where you don't get rattled.
What you're doing is working,
just keep doing it.
[Michael] Xavier Woods trying to fight
back out of the corner.
Aiden English taking advantage.
The official…
-[JBL] Oh, no. -[Bryon] Look at that.
-[JBL] No, no, no, no, no. -[Michael] Oh.
Woods caught him in the knee I think.
[Bryon] Big E is back.
[JBL] Big E, that's what he want.
-[Bryon] Oh. And bam. -[JBL] Fly.
[Michael] [laughs] Uh-oh.
[Bryon] A flying unicorn, had to be
a Pegasus.
[JBL] You aren't kidding.
-[Michael] What? -[JBL] It's mythical.
[Bryon] Kofi Kingston…
-Kofi Kingston, the official… -[JBL] Uh-oh, trouble in paradise.
[Bryon] The official never saw kofi get involved.
Woods caught Simon Gotch.
Cover.
[Michael] Count it, count it, count it.
[Bryon] New Day retains the titles.
[JBL] The numbers game.
[Lilian Garcia] Here are your winners and
still the WWE
tag team champions,
the New Day.
[Michael] Wow, what a matchup.
The Vaudevillains, I thought on
a couple occasions they were
gonna win the tag team titles tonight.
[Bryon] I mean, the Vaudevillains
came about as closer to you can
come without actually winning the match but…
[JBL] Yeah.
[Bryon] …New Day once again…
with the numbers advantage.
[JBL] Vaudevillains took it to the limit.
-[Michael] And John… -[JBL] New Day knows it.
[Michael] And if there's a reason the New Day
have been tag team champions
here in WWE for 273 days,
you noticed what kofi did
when the official was dealing
with stuff on the other side of the ring.
[JBL] Absolutely.
One thing, New Day rocks.
[music]
[crowd cheering]
Excuse me, AJ,
the latest champion to face Roman Reigns
in your first-ever extreme rules championship match.
Well, some people are wondering
how much Anderson and Gallows
are going to be involved and if
they're gonna have any effect on
the outcome tonight.
Have we not talked about this enough?
Let's talk about tonight.
No matter what happens tonight,
I will walk out WWE world
heavyweight champion.
And I will continue to be phenomenal.
[crowd cheering]
[music]
[Michael] You climb a ladder.
You grab the briefcase.
Inside that briefcase,
a contract guaranteeing you
a world title opportunity,
any place, anytime over the next year.
[JBL] Are you kidding me?
[Michael] Get that contract.
You got yourself a championship.
The opportunity of a lifetime.
[music]
[Michael] That's how you become a champion.
[narrator] WWE money in the bank,
Sunday, June 19th.
Live only on WWE network.
[Michael] And somebody's career,
somebody's life
will change four weeks from tonight.
But tonight, we are sold out in Newark,
15, 963 WWE fans on hand
for extreme rules.
And it has been quite a night.
Again, congratulations to the New Day
who, keeps the tag team titles.
What an incredible team they have become.
Numbers in their favor, but so what?
They're entertaining, they're a great team.
Byron, coming up next,
the match I'm really looking forward to,
it is a fatal 4-way
for the Intercontinental Championship.
[Bryon] Oh, yeah. The Miz,
only a 25% chance
of walking out extreme rules' champion
because he has to defend
against Kevin Owens,
Sami Zayn, and Cesaro.
[Michael] Tonight, it is all about
the prestigious 37 year-old
Intercontinental Championship.
So, the stage is set at extreme rules.
The miz will defend
his Intercontinental Championship
in a fatal 4-way match
against Cesaro, Sami Zayn, and Kevin Owens.
[Music]
[Maryse Mizanin] Bonsoir.
Show some respect,
and help me welcome my husband,
your Intercontinental champion,
The Miz.
[Michael] Five-time
Intercontinental champion.
[The Miz] I bring this title prestige,
and I bring celebrity to it.
[music]
[Michael] That is complete power by Cesaro.
[JBL] What an incredible athlete.
[Cesaro] Cesaro is gonna become
the new Intercontinental champion.
[kevin Owens] When I say
I'm going to do something,
I deliver.
This is the Kevin Owens show.
[Michael] Owens is as cold and
calculating as a cop.
[music]
[Sami Zayin] The new era is about giving
the people what they want.
[Michael] WWE fans
are gonna will Sami Zayn on.
[Sami Zayn] They wanna see me prove that
I can be a champion.
I spent my entire life
getting ready for this opportunity,
and I didn't come this far to lose.
[music]
[Michael] The first man to gain pinfall
or submission becomes the champion.
It's every man for himself.
[music]
[crowd cheering]
[bell ringing]
[Lilian Garcia] This is fatal 4-way match
and it is for the Intercontinental Championship.
Introducing the challengers,
first from Marieville, Quebec, Canada,
weighing in at 266 pounds,
Kevin Owens.
[Michael] As Kevin Owens get set for action here tonight,
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[crowd cheering]
[Micahel] Kevin Owens' only the second person
on the current roster
to compete on the main card of every pay-per-view
in his first year.
The only person to ever do that beside Kevin?
The Undertaker.
[Bryon] Yeah. But The Undertaker actually--
[Lilian Garcia] From Lucerne, Switzerland,
weighing in at 232 pounds,
Cesaro.
[Michael] You were saying?
[Bryon] The undertaker actually 1991 Summer Slam,
he appeared but did not compete.
So, Kevin Owens is the only guy
to actually want to wrestle in every pay-per-view,
in his debut year.
Think about that stat.
[Michael] And here is Cesaro.
Never been Intercontinental champion,
has that opportunity tonight.
[Bryon] And Cesaro came very close at
payback, very controversial way
of not being able to win
the Intercontinental Championship.
But tonight, you can call it like,
could be redemption for Cesaro.
[JBL] A veteran Cesaro, the French [indistinct]
But Switzerland may
have somebody to cheer tonight.
[Michael] Cesaro with knee pads,
Kinesio tape,
and that arm wrap band.
[crowd cheering]
[Lilian Garcia] From Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
weighing in at 212 pounds,
Sami Zayn.
[Michael] Sami Zayn looking to win his
first championship here in WWE.
Would love to become the Intercontinental champion
right here tonight in extreme rules
in a fatal 4-way match
for the first man to gain pinfall or submission
will become the champion.
[Bryon] Everyone Sami Zayn was 10 years old,
the Intercontinental championship was always
his favorite title to win.
And tonight could be his--
[JBL] Byron, shut up.
We have a-listers walking out.
And shut up the rest of the show.
[laughs]
[Michael] Calm yourself down.
[music]
[Lilian Garcia] Their opponent,
accompanied by Maryse,
from Hollywood, California,
weighing in at 221 pounds,
he is the Intercontinental champion,
The Miz.
[Michael] You know guys, on the extreme rules kickoff show tonight,
The Miz said in an interview
that he's had many challenging roles in his career.
He talked about Marine 3 and 4,
and Santa's Little Helper.
But he said tonight
is the toughest role he's ever played.
The one of scrappy underdog,
and he even compared himself
to Team USA in the 1980 Olympics
when they won the ice hockey gold medals.
[JBL] [laughs] Look, he's like a modern-day Audie Murphy.
I even heard coach said they,
when ESPN SportsCenter compare
Tom and Gisele to Miz and Maryse.
[Bryon] You believe everything you hear, don't you?
[JBL] I don't think that Tom and Gisele actually match up to miz and Mayse,
but hey, it's a compliment for Tom.
He's won a few Super Bowls.
He's a 6th round pick though.
[Bryon] And truly same category.
[Michael] Miz who of course won the Intercontinental Championship
the night after WrestleMania.
He said since he's become champion,
the intercontinental title
has been the title in WWE,
and there's three superstars in the ring
that want what I have,
gold, glory, and spotlight.
[JBL] Oh, here we go. oh. [laughs]
[Bryon] Helluva kick right from the start.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] And Kevin Owens taken out by the man…
-[Bryon] Huh? -[Michael] We can't stand it.
[JBL] I guess, it's down to three.
[Bryon] Oh, hey, this was--I remember
before Sami Zayn got into this.
[Michael] Watch this.
Oh. What impact.
[Bryon] As I say before
Sami Zayn got into this match,
it was supposed to be triple threat.
[Michael] And now an uppercut by Cesaro,
down goes Miz.
Miz is down-- has been eliminated, well for now.
And it's Cesaro and Sami in the ring.
[Bryon] And we got ourselves a one-on-one match.
[Michael] Remember, Miz doesn't have to be pinned
or submit to lose the championship.
[Bryon] How about this?
The two guys who have never been
Intercontinental champion going at it.
[Michael] Deep armdrag by Sami Zayn.
Another one from Sami.
And quickly into the arm bar.
Remember the injured shoulder
and torned rotator cuff…
of Cesaro cost him six months of action.
But it doesn't seem to be affecting him here.
[JBL] Nobody does that.
What an athlete.
And a tip-off of the end for good measure.
[Bryon] West Coast Cesaro can.
[Bryon] I'll be at my suit
right before I come out here
warm up for commentary.
[JBL] Yeah. I bet you do.
[Michael] And Sami Zayn…
… sends Cesaro flying off
the hurricanrana.
And follows it up with a side
heel kick right to the jaw.
Cover by zayn.
Kick out by Cesaro.
[Bryon] And Cesaro go, "woo."
[Michael] That caught him. That heel kick.
[Bryon] Zayn will tell you himself,
he has a very obsessive personality.
A couple weeks ago when he stood
in that ring and he held that Intercontinental championship,
he told, he knew right then
and there that this is gonna be his night.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] A chance of course for Sami zayn.
Oh, Cesaro. Oh.
Tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.
Cover. Is it enough to win the championship?
And a kick-out at two.
[JBL] And look, you got to understand,
time is of the essence here.
Kevin Owens is out here at
ringside, so as the miz.
Now is the chance for one of these guys
to walk out of here
the Intercontinental champion.
[crowd chatter]
[JBL] And I think it's unfair for
a mathematical standpoint
to put Miz in a fatal 4-way anyway.
[Bryon] Oh. As you would say John,
"wa, wa."
He's not the first champion in
his career the type to defend the title.
Here is Miz from behind.
Sami Zayn shoos him away
momentarily, elbow.
Now Cesaro catches zayn.
And miz looking to take advantage.
[JBL] Byron if you were on life support,
I'd pull the plug and charge my iPhone.
[Michael] Cesaro knocked off the apron.
Miz knocked down out of the ring as well.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] And I don't think they're gonna be safe out there.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Sami Zayn made a career of out this.
[JBL] Yes, he did.
[Michael] Zayn over the top rope taking out Cesaro and Miz.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] And Kevin Owens is
still yet to move out here at ringside
after being blasted with
a helluva kick to start off the match.
[JBL] Well, Sami Zayn is the reason
that Kevin Owens is not
Intercontinental champion right now.
He suplexed him over that ladder at WrestleMania,
then climbs to the top
and was gloating up there like a big dummy
and Miz took advantage.
[Bryon] I can't imagine how Kevin Owens
would react if Sami Zayn
won the Intercontinental championship tonight.
[Michael] Here's the cover
and a kick-out.
[Crowd chatter]
[Michael] Miz begging for mercy.
[JBL] Miz wants a timeout.
[Michael] I think he's begging for mercy,
and Sami driven into the--
bottom turnbuckle.
Miz I believe suckered him in.
[JBL] Exactly what he did.
All you guys are,
"oh, look at him begging for mercy."
He suckered you guys in too.
[Crowd chatter]
[JBL] It's the greatness of the Miz.
[Michael] Oh, man.
Now, Miz…
… really into himself.
[Bryon] That's an understatement.
[Michael] Oh, man.
Sami Zayn caught Miz again.
[JBL] Oh, and Owens sees the replay.
He's not gonna be very happy about this
because he's not even in the match.
[crowd chatter]
-[Bryon] Oh. -[Michael] Oh, no.
[Bryon] Where did Cesaro come from?
[JBL] Uh-oh.
[Michael] Oh, look at this, and now,
Kevin Owens is back involved.
And Kevin Owens took out Cesaro,
takes out Sami Zayn,
now goes after the champion,
Kevin Owens now picking his spot.
Shoulder first.
Bad shoulder into the steel post.
Owens.
[JBL] I guess Owens is gonna like the replay of this.
-[Michael] Yeah. Going at the man… -[JBL] Hey, Sami…
-[Michael] …he considers… -[JBL] …cheap shot him now.
It's my title.
[Bryon] Owens just realized
his opportunity almost slipped away.
[Michael] He hit that panic button.
[Bryon] Tell him the boot caught Sami…
-[Michael] Wow. -[JBL] Oh, man.
[JBL] [laughs]
[Michael] Little payback to Sami.
Oh. Little boot in the back.
[Bryon] Might be a fit Finlay
when he used to kick Franz Schuman
at the hot pods in Vienna.
You think you can do that to me?
[Bryon] Schumann who has said they're
destined to fight each other
forever.
[crowd chatter]
[Michael] Kevin Owens who used to be
best friends with Sami Zayn,
broke into the industry together
over a decade ago,
and now just bitter enemies.
Sami Zayn eliminated
Kevin Owens from the royal rumble match.
The reason Kevin Owens isn't
Intercontinental champion today
is because of Sami Zayn in the ladder match at WrestleMania.
Here's Kevin Owens, cover on zayn.
Is it enough for the title?
And a kick out.
Miz blasted off the apron
and bounced his chin off the barricade.
Watch this, 270 pounds.
And Sami driven into Cesaro.
[Bryon] Sami is aiding as a battering ram.
It's my title.
So close.
[Bryon] How bad,
not only does Kevin Owens want to win
the Intercontinental Championship,
how much would he love to beat Sami Zayn to do it?
[JBL] I'm sure that's…
Man.
[Michael] One with the elbow and then--
oh, look at Sami.
[JBL] I don't think that's possible here.
[Michael] Sami going up for the top rope.
-[Michael] Oh. Sami Zayn. -[Bryon] Ouch.
[JBL] Man, he landed hard.
And now Kevin Owens…
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] … just look at the look of disdain
on the face, in the eyes of Owens.
[Michael] Kevin looking to go on top.
Miz, the champion, back in the mix.
It will turn about, it's fair play here.
[crowd chatter]
[Michael] Miz look like he was setting up
for a superplex and Kevin Owens,
try to fight out of it,
does with a headbutt.
Sami Zayn back on his feet now.
Sami Zayn is on top.
[Bryon] Who knows? He may not have the same luck.
[Michael] Owens blocked.
Shots to the ribs,
and a headbutt to Zayn who's knocked off the top rope…
And now, Miz back on the attack.
Kevin Owens can't get a breather.
[JBL] Kevin, get off that turnbuckle.
[Bryon] Easier said than done.
It's like a revolving door punches.
[Michael] And now, maybe Miz and Zayn
working together to deliver the superplex.
[Bryon] Uh-oh.
[Michael] Cesaro is in the mix now.
This is not gonna be good.
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] Cesaro,
looking to pin the champion.
Miz kicked out.
Now, looking to pin Sami Zayn.
Sami Zayn kicks out,
and Kevin Owens wisely rolled out of the ring.
[Michael] Now, what an opportunity here
for Cesaro after this.
[JBL] Oh, three of these guys.
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chatter]
[Michael] Now, Cesaro turns his attention to zayn.
[Bryon] The fatal 4-way is just all about
being at the right place
at the right time.
[JBL] And a very limited window of
opportunity no matter who you are.
[Michael] Here's the power of Cesaro,
but look at Sami
and bounce himself,
deliver the knees to the side of the head.
Oh, look at the blue thunder bomb.
Miz with a kick to the face.
Now miz looking to take advantage…
-[Micahel] …of Sami Zayn's. -[JBL] That's what I mean.
[Michael] And a kick-out at two.
Miz cover on Sami
and a kick-out by Zayn.
[Ccrowd chatter]
[Michael] What a matchup,
a competitive one, all four of these men.
[Bryon] What a--what a stressful matchup.
I mean, no matter who you are,
I mean, you constantly have to worry about
two other guys in this match coming after you.
[JBL] Oh no, It's three other guys.
Prestigious Intercontinental Championship.
[Michael] Elbow to the nose of Miz.
Oh, Sami does not wanna be in this position.
Now, Cesaro from behind.
[Bryon] Oh, no, no, no, no.
[Michael] Like a belly-to-back
with an exploder, right?
[JBL] You're right. [laughs] Yes.
[Michael] All four men are down.
Who is gonna be able to take advantage?
[Bryon] Ooh.
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] We're seeing things here
we've never seen before
in this fatal 4-way.
[Michael] And the WWE fans,
they love it.
You can hear the chants.
This is awesome.
[JBL] It's all about the prestige,
all about the honor of becoming
Intercontinental Champion.
Who's gonna do it?
Who's gonna be the champion?
[Michael] Cesaro trying to figure out
what to do. And--uh-oh.
[Bryon] I think we have a clue.
[Michael] Upper--uppercut train time.
[JBL] All aboard.
[Michael] Going from corner to corner,
and post to post.
[JBL] [laughs]
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Cesaro may go all night.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] And there's a pinfall knocking down the champ.
[JBL] And there could be one
thing left to do.
[Michael] Think we're gonna go with swinging?
[Bryon] Oh, yeah.
Come on.
[JBL] Kevin Owens not gonna allow it to happen.
[Michael] German suplex to Cesaro.
You can't catch a break in this match.
[JBL] Oh, you can't.
[Michael] Kevin Owens with a running
clothesline and there's the cannonball.
And a cannonball to Miz.
[JBL] A cannonball express.
[Michael] Sami Zayn is the target.
[Bryon] And it's gonna feel good.
[JBL] And Sami Zayn taking that as well.
It's my title.
[Michael] He keeps screaming,
"it's my title."
A little bit of power bomb.
Sami landed on his feet.
-[Bryon] Oh. -[JBL] Oh, my god.
[JBL] Uppercut.
[Bryon] Good grief.
[Michael] Miz from behind with the skull-crushing finale.
Miz to retain the championship.
-[Bryon] Oh, no. -[JBL] Oh, Cesaro at two.
[Bryon] Oh, miz already had him.
Miz already had Cesaro beat.
[Michael] Miz can't believe Cesaro
kicked out of the skull-crushing finale.
[crowd chatter]
[Michael] What a match.
Watch this uppercut and the impact.
[Bryon] Talking about a bad landing.
[Michael] And watch Miz, face first.
Do you know how many men
who's finished off with that move?
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] He hooked the leg.
Miz did everything right.
Cesaro just found a way to kick out of it
and the championship is still alive.
[crowd chatter]
[JBL] Miz is upset that Cesaro
kicked out of the skull-crushing finale.
[Bryon] Ooh.
[JBL] Yeah, I was gonna say I don't know if it's wise to slap Cesaro.
[Michael] Cesaro, uppercut off the corkscrew
as he launched himself on the second rope.
[Bryon] Oh, look at the look on the face of Cesaro.
[Michael] I think Miz woke something up with that slap.
[JBL] I don't think Miz is gonna like
what's coming next.
Maryse, get your man out of there.
Uh-oh.
-[Michael] Cesaro… -[Bryon] Oh, look at this.
[JBL] Oh, come on. You want me to see George Clooney?
[Bryon] Here we go.
[crowd cheering] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven…
[JBL] It's enough, Cesaro.
Put him down. You're gonna hurt him.
[Bryon] Keep going.
[crowd chatter]
[Bryon] Oh, my god.
[Michael] And now looking for the sharpshooter
to put Miz away.
[JBL] We might have a new champion.
[Michael] Sharpshooter in the center of the ring.
Is Miz gonna tap out?
Is Cesaro gonna win his first Intercontinental Championship?
[JBL] Miz is smart enough to stay on his elbows.
[Michael] It don't matter, the rope won't force a break
or a person does not cause a break in a fatal 4-way match.
[Maryse] Get up, get up [shouts]
[crowd cheering]
[Bryon] You wanna help out, Maryse?
[Michael] Look at-- Miz is tapping, Miz is tapping.
[Bryon] The official busy with Maryse.
Cesaro thinks he has won.
Miz clearly tapped out.
[Michael] Kevin Owens from behind.
[JBL] Cesaro at two.
[Michael] And now, Kevin Owens set out of the ring.
[JBL] Oh, watch Miz.
[Michael] Miz has got Cesaro
wrapped up again, went for the full Nelson.
Looking for the skull-crushing finale.
Cesaro, he's got Miz again, looking for his swing.
[Bryon] Miz hanging on for dear life.
[Michael] Oh, look at Kevin Owens.
Kevin Owens, top rope,
270 pounds had just crashed miz
coming off the top rope.
Now going for the gotch neutralizer,
planting Owens.
Cesaro for the win…
-[Michael] cover, hook to the leg… -[JBL] We have a new champion.
[Michael] Sami Zayn saving the matchup for everybody.
[Bryon] Man.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] This is unbelievable.
[JBL] Yes, it is.
[Michael] All four of these men leaving everything out there.
What an incredible match.
[Bryon] So many close calls,
so many big opportunities
for each one of these men in this matchup
to become champion.
[crowd cheering]
[JBL] I saw Pat Patterson, the first Intercontinental Champion, backstage.
He's got to be loving this.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Our former intercontinental champions here,
John Hughes, Booker T as well in the panel.
Backslide by Sami Zayn,
shoulders down, Cesaro.
Sami Zayn…
[JBL] Oh, wow.
[Michael] For the win, for the championship,
kick-out by Cesaro.
Sami cannot believe it.
[referee] It was two. He kicks out.
[Bryon] He's been a lot of those moments in this match.
[JBL] This is just amazing.
Sami Zayn…
-[JBL] adjustable… -[Bryon] Ooh.
[JBL] …body control in midair.
That's amazing.
You know, it's more amazing if
Sami Zayn pulled that off and
the fact that Cesaro kicked out.
[Michael] We had a feeling that
the animosity these four men have
for each other and the athletic ability they possess,
that this was gonna be one of these classic matches
and it hasn't disappointed.
[Bryon] Oh, look at Zayn.
[JBL] Yeah, four great athletes.
-[JBL] They know-- -[Michael] Uppercut.
[Michael] Did you hear that?
[JBL] Man.
[Michael] Sami stunned.
[JBL] That was a car wreck.
[Michael] No, it wasn't.
Cesaro sent into the corner.
[Bryon] Sami Zayn tried hitting Cesaro
with that helluva kick.
I think he's gonna try one more time.
[Michael] And Kevin Owens waiting--oh,
and a superkick by Owens
intercepting zayn.
Pop-up power bomb.
[JBL] There he is.
[Michael] Cover for the championship
and miz breaking things off.
[JBL] Oh, gosh.
[Bryon] And Miz driven into the barricade.
[Michael] And now Maryse, the bad mouth on Owens.
And it distracts him while Miz did the skull-crushing finale.
Miz looking to take advantage of Cesaro
taken off by the power bomb, and Cesaro at two.
[Bryon] This is amazing.
[Michael] We thought Sami was
gonna get it here with the helluva kick,
but he was intercepted by Owens.
[JBL] Oh, Sami got it there all right.
[Michael] The pop-up power bomb
to Cesaro before Miz saved his title.
The distraction by Maryse outside of the ring…
-[JBL] Hey, listen. -[Michael] …allowed Miz to deliver
the skull-crushing finale to Owens,
which has Owens out of the mix.
[JBL] Listen to this crowd,
15,000 plus are all on their feet.
They're rumbling…
… cheering for the Intercontinental championship.
[Bryon] Hey, you are seeing the best of four of these men
have to offer.
[Michael] These men are spec.
It's time to dig down the extra
innings for the Intercontinental title.
[JBL] Well, several times
they're gonna have the Intercontinental Champion,
if someone had been there to break up the pinfall.
[Michael] Well, that's what fatal 4-way
is all about, John.
[JBL] That is exactly right, Michael.
You got to pick your spot.
You got to be a little bit lucky,
but you always got to be close.
You have to be involved in the finish to win.
[Michael] It takes a perfect storm of sorts
in order to win this matchup.
Everything has to work out
at the right time.
Miz sent over the top rope.
Sami Zayn with the helluva kick.
Zayn with the helluva kick
to win the championship
and now, it's Kevin Owens
costing his former friend,
his bitter enemy the title.
[Bryon] Well, that just incensed Sami Zayn.
[Michael] Sami Zayn picked his moment
delivering the helluva kick.
Now, he's taking out Kevin Owens.
Meanwhile, guys, in the ring,
Miz with the cover in the ring.
Miz has the cover in the ring.
Miz has stolen. [bell ringing]
[Michael] Miz has stolen.
Miz will retain the title.
[JBL] Stolen?
[Lilian Garcia] Here is your winner,
and still the Intercontinental Champion,
The Miz.
[Michael] Miz stole the victory.
Sami Zayn did the damage to Cesaro.
[JBL] Stole? You got to be kidding me.
Three incredible competitors
putting up the match of their life
and Miz "the a-lister"
walks out as champion.
One of the greatest
championship performances of all time.
[Michael] From all four of these men.
You can't take anything away
from anyone in this match.
They've given everything they had
and what, ladies and gentlemen,
at this juncture of 2016,
is a match of the year candidate.
[JBL] It's Miz's greatest role of the tonight.
It's Miz's greatest performance.
[Bryon] At right place, right time
for the miz and how about the frustration for that man.
Sami Zayn's obsession with Kevin Owens
would cost him in this matchup.
[JBL] Oh, come on.
It's academy award-winning moment.
[Michael] Well, I want you to watch what happened here.
Sami Zayn came in the spot,
deliver the helluva kick.
He had Cesaro get the rights
before his former friend, his enemy,
Kevin Owens drags Sami Zayn out of the ring.
And this is what you were pointing out, Byron.
The fact that Sami Zayn got so
incensed to Kevin Owens,
he went after Kevin Owens,
which allowed Miz,
unannounced to everyone,
to be able to crawl into the cover.
Watch this, crawling, pulling himself
to take advantage of a fallen Cesaro to…
…retain the championship.
[Bryon] We'll give credit where credit is due.
[JBL] Where will the credits due?
We got savage "the macho man"
WrestleMania 3, Davey Boy and
Bret scrambling 1992
and now, The Miz
walking with the immortal
and the winner goes those both.
Well done, champ.
That is an a-lister.
[Michael] And, ladies and gentlemen
you know, before in every pay-per-view,
we have our kick-off show
and our kick-off panel,
which is hosted by our colleague,
Renee Young.
[Renee Young] Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome the extreme rules
kick-off panel.
We've got "the savior of misbehavior"
Corey Graves.
WWE hall of famer Booker T,
WWE hall of famer Jerry "The King" Lawler.
He cannot hear a thing I'm saying,
but it is wild in here and this has been an unreal night.
What we just witnessed was absolutely magic.
That fatal 4-way for the Intercontinental Championship,
that's the kind of thing that
people watching at home get inspired.
They say, "Someday, I wanna do that."
That was unbelievable.
There wasn't a person in this arena
that wasn't on their feet,
and hats off to The Miz.
A lot of people doubted him, but he did it.
Congratulations, Miz.
[Renee Young] King, what did you like about tonight so far?
Well, I love that the Mexican mosquito
finally got swatted.
Rusev, Rusev, hey, and listen,
you know, before, in the pre-show,
we had a little segment called "Ask Rusev"
I got one question now that he's the champion,
that I wanna ask Rusev.
[Renee Young] What's that?
What dating website did he use to meet Lana?
[Renee Young] [laughs]
that can maybe be a dotcom exclusive.
Book, what are you thinking about tonight?
Oh, man, me being a tag team aficionado,
it have to be the New Day
because they went out there
and stopped the Vaudevillains at the gate.
We all wondered if it was the vaudevillian's time,
well, not tonight.
Extreme rules…
-[Renee Young] Well… -[King] …to New Day's time, baby.
…you know, it's earlier tonight
that we had the Dudley Boyz
come out to keep things extreme,
but not without being confronted by
a seven-foot version
of what we call the new era here in WWE.
[Michael] And indeed a new era in WWE, Byron.
Big Cass went right down to the ring,
and went face-to-face with both Dudleys.
[Bryon] Yeah, Big Cass stepping up in
the play trying to make a statement,
and, oh, we thought you might look, and regret it.
[Michael] But Big Cass, John,
showed some guts here.
Fighting back and it's the nine-time tag team champions.
[JBL] Yeah, I think with some at least
said this new era, a little miscommunication
by the Dudleys and that's all Cass needed.
[Michael] And Big Cass with the east river crossing.
Making his presence step,
the new era has arrived.
[crowd cheering]
Goes also earlier tonight on
the extreme rules kickoff show
that we had a no disqualification match.
We had "The Showoff" Dolph Ziggler
meet "The Lone Wolf" Baron Corbin
one-on-one where anything goes.
[Michael] Yeah, Byron you were at ringside
with this matchup,
and then no disqualification stipulation
really came into play.
[Bryon] Yeah, the proverbial rubber mask
between Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler.
Dolph, very impassioned
during this matchup.
First it would be a deep six
from Baron Corbin.
[Michael] But when Dolph Ziggler kicked out of that,
Baron Corbin became incensed.
[Bryon] Yeah, you're gonna see
exactly what we're referring to here
right there.
[Michael] A dastardly deed by Baron Corbin,
the low blow to Dolph Ziggler
completely legal though
in a no-disqualification match.
[JBL] There's no disqualification,
but it was dastardly, I agree.
[Bryon] Yeah, and the end of days to
cap things off,
and earn a victory for the "Lone Wolf"
Baron Corbin.
[Michael] That was all of course part
of the extreme rules kickoff show
which happens before every pay-per-view
on WWE Network, WWE.com,
and a number of other platforms
across social media.
Wow, it has been quite the night,
and I just can't get over that fatal 4-way match
for the Intercontinental Championship.
Yeah, that was awesome, what an incredible 4-way match.
A sick, ridiculous competitive, and awesome.
Well, coming up next ladies and gentlemen,
it is a first ever in WWE.
[Bryon] Yeah, talking about digging
into the depths of the imagination
of the lunatic fringe.
Chris Jericho,
for the first time ever
to step inside a match created by Dean Ambrose…
…the asylum match.
[JBL] A match that could that could only happen
on extreme rules pay-per-view.
[Bryon] And it was a match driven by
Chris Jericho's narcissism
and jealousy.
[music]
[Chris Jericho] Tonight is the biggest
highlight reel of all time.
I have as my guest
the biggest star in WWE history.
He is the future hall of famer,
my guest is me.
[Dean Ambrose] Hey, idiot.
What the hell are you doing?
This is my show.
Oh, you didn't get the memo?
The highlight reel with Chris Jericho
has been cancelled.
Is my tie on straight?
[Chris Jericho] And will be replaced by
The Ambrose asylum,
signed Shane McMahon. What the hell is this?
[Michael] Look at Ambrose--
Ladies, and gentlemen,
I am your host Dean Ambrose.
This is Mitch.
Welcome to the Ambrose asylum.
[Michael] Stephanie asked for this forum.
I am honored to be here in this set.
It's…so you.
Thank you by the way.
Sometimes things just need to change.
The Ambrose asylum,
I am going to officially cancel it.
[crowd cheering]
[music]
[Michael] Bad blood continues.
I guess this is a weird
twisted vindication for Jericho.
[music]
[Chris Jericho] It is my era,
I'm gonna give you the gift of Jericho,
drink it in, Dean.
[music]
[JBL] Wait, wait a minute.
[Bryon] I think someone is attacking Jericho.
[Dean Ambrose] You put me in the hospital, Chris.
[Michael] Chris Jericho looks like he's seeing a ghost.
And I felt something up here just snapped.
That's $15, 000.
[Dean Ambrose] Just a little bit.
What did you do?
Chris Jericho tried to take away
away all that I have,
so I talked to Shane McMahon,
and Shane said
I could get any kind of match I want
at extreme rules.
So welcome to the first-ever
asylum match.
The inmate is truly running the asylum.
I'm not scared of you Ambrose
but I am scared for you.
In extreme rules,
I'm gonna show what a lunatic does.
When you enter my world,
I promise you, and believe me,
you will never ever be the same
again.
[music]
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] And ladies and gentlemen,
that is what it's all about
for the first time ever
an asylum match in WWE.
Now that cage will surround
the ring like a normal steel cage,
the problem is
as you see the potted plant there
and well other accessories, I guess
will be able to use as weapons, John.
[JBL] Yeah, anything you can get up there,
you can use a straightjacket, a mop,
Perry Saturn's smiling somewhere.
[Bryon] We saw Nunchucks up there as well,
[Michael] With that straightjacket.
Potted plant, a fire extinguisher,
a 2x4 with barbed wire on it.
All those can be used in this matchup,
you have to climb the cage though
to get those weapons.
And here is a very important point in this match.
Unlike a normal steel cage match,
you can only win via pinfall or submission.
You cannot win by escape,
so it does you no good to climb out of the cage,
and plus the door is gonna be locked tonight guys
once this match starts.
[music]
[bell ringing]
[Lilian Garcia] The following
is the asylum match
where the only way to win is by pinfall or submission.
Introducing first from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
weighing in a 227 pounds,
Chris Jericho.
[JBL] Chris Jericho told us that he's the lunatic
and that he has no remorse,
and that he's gonna put Dean Ambrose
through mental language, physical pain,
lacerations, and contusions here tonight.
[John] Jericho has been in more elimination chambers
than anyone else.
You talk about the incredible Last Man Standing Match.
He had Triple H, the Ladder Match with HBK,
all of the incredible matches, and extreme matches
that Chris Jericho's had including Hell in a Cell.
No one's been in more different matches.
Chris has never been in this,
but he is at home where it is extreme.
[Byron] But you can see that look on the face of Jericho,
still trying to digest exactly what he is stepping into.
[John] Byron, you walk into a steel cage and that door closes,
you're not gonna walk out the same way you're coming in.
That trepidation isn't fear,
that trepidation is one of intelligence.
[Byron] John, as you mentioned,
and to reiterate because it's important,
Chris Jericho has been in every match created in WWE
with the exception of this brand new one.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Jericho's been in a steel cage,
but he's being at least a little intimidated
looking at Dean's weapons
and the fact that Dean Ambrose could use one.
[crowd chattering]
[music plays]
[crowd cheering]
[presenter] And his opponent from Cincinnati, Ohio,
weighing in at 225 pounds,
Dean Ambrose.
[John] Dean Ambrose, the lunatic fringe, welcome to his Asylum.
Ambrose said a couple of days ago to Chris Jericho: "you're entering a world
where you will scream, cry, and beg for mercy."
[Byron] Let me ask you, John,
as you look at the sell-out crowd here tonight at the rocking Newark,
settling in for the first ever Asylum Match.
Who do you think that this match better fits,
Chris Jericho or Dean Ambrose?
You see the official not only locking
but chaining this door shut.
[John] In a normal match of any type of extreme,
I would favor Chris Jericho because of his experience.
But the fact that Dean Ambrose comes out here
with absolutely no game plan.
Today would have been Brian Pillman's 54th birthday.
But everyone knows exactly who reminds Dean Ambrose of: a Loose Cannon.
A weapon to this guy, are you kidding me?
[bell ringing]
[Byron] So here we go, #AmbroseAsylum
to talk about Dean versus Chris inside the Asylum Match.
[crowd cheering]
[John] You see the change in demeanor.
Jericho came in here digesting this whole atmosphere.
Dean Ambrose came in here smiling.
Come on, Jericho, I want you, let's go.
[Byron] Chris Jericho is wearing high boots, knee pads around the jeans
and Ambrose with the right hand with his taped fists.
As much as you wanna climb the cage to grab one of those weapons,
they also have to get a pinfall or submission in the ring
and not get carried away trying to grab them.
Chris Jericho wasting little time.
-[John] Yes. -[Byron] Listen.
[John] Jericho calls for the door to be opened, but no escape here.
Door will remain locked until this match is over.
[grunting]
[John] Just out of habit, Chris Jericho went for the door.
[Byron] Ambrose with a clothesline
or maybe Jericho just didn't want anything to do with this match
or Dean Ambrose.
[John] I was in the Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match
with Big Show one time and I got to the top
and realized that was the dumbest thing ever.
[Byron] Elbow from Jericho. Is that when you were sent through the ring?
[John] Jericho's going up.
[Byron] Jericho got to climb to the top of the cage here, or the Asylum,
as Chris Jericho is gonna try to prevent him
from grabbing one of the weapons in this match.
[John] Is he going after Mitch or that son of Mitch?
-[Byron] It could be Mitch. -[John] Or I am Groot.
[Byron] Look at this. Takedown on Jericho and Ambrose with the right hands,
We don't know how long Ambrose spent just concocting this idea
for the Asylum Match,
developing this idea for the weapons available at his disposal.
[John] I would bet about four seconds.
[Byron] He's got a kendo stick, a mop and a bucket, and a potted plant.
[John] That took a of planning, Byron.
[Byron] Quick thinker.
[Josh] Jimmy Hoffa is buried in New Jersey. I wish you were too.
[Byron] The things you say sometimes.
[John] Jericho driven into the Asylum.
[Byron] It's something else.
[John] Great comeback, Byron.
[Byron] I always do.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Ambrose is thinking.
I need a lighter.
[Byron] Dean Ambrose now: "Which one will I choose?"
With Chris Jericho down and at it for running into the cage.
[John] He's got a 2x4 covered in barbed wire
next to a mop and a bucket.
[Byron] It looks like he's going for the mop and bucket, John.
[John] Or he's going for the leather strap.
[Byron] Halfway to the strap. Jericho heading up the cage,
looking for the mop and the bucket again.
He's almost there. Dean Ambrose trying to run interference.
Jericho catches him on the elbow. A right hand.
Now Jericho trying to reach the mop first.
[crowd cheering]
[John] He was friends with Perry Saturn.
[Byron] Perry would be proud.
[John] He'd be pleased. Ooh!
Ooh, man!
[Byron] He got him in the ear.
He just poked Jericho in the ear with a mop.
[John] Never thought I'd hear that in this sports telecast.
[Byron] First time for everything.
[John] First time.
[Byron] Look at the mopped-up Jericho here in this match.
[John] That was awful. I second that.
-[grunts] -[John] Ooh!
[audience] Ooh!
[Byron] Dean had a smile on his face, he was smirking.
He enjoys this.
[John] This is Ambrose's playground, this is his idea.
[Byron] Where has that mop been?
It could be cleaning the floors earlier,
could be in Dean's old job where he beat up his boss or who knows.
[John] Unique side Russian leg sweep
and now mopping away at Jericho.
[Byron] Come on!
[John] Who knows what that mop smells like.
You shouldn't do that to a rock star,
you don't do that to Bon Jovi.
[Byron] Why don't you tell him that?
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Smells like dirty mop and hot water.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Chris in the corner,
catches Ambrose with a boot to the face.
And now Jericho drop kick.
Missile drop kick allows Chris to go for the pinfall and a kick out.
[unintelligible]
[Byron] Jericho's embarrassed.
[Jericho] You want a mop? You want a mop?
Here's your mop.
Ooh.
You wanna go for that, Ambrose?
You know what I'm going for?
[crowd cheering]
Ooh.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Jericho's eyeing that…
Straitjacket?
[John] No, the 2x4 with the barbed wire on the end of it.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] The one presented by Mick Foley?
Jericho gets this, the match is over.
[John] And now Dean Ambrose…
Big blows to the kidneys.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Ambrose straddling the second rope…
The suplex brings Jericho down, lands on the back of his head.
[crowd chattering]
[John] With back suplex like that, normally is the finish to a match.
These guys are just getting started.
[Byron] Plenty of weapons at their disposal.
[Byron] Look.
[John] That back suplex.
[crowd chattering]
Now both men on opposite sides of the Asylum…
Climbing up to grab a weapon.
Jericho going for the 2x4 with the barbed wire on it
and guys, Dean Ambrose is grabbing some nunchucks.
[Byron] What?
Jericho got what he wanted.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Ambrose with nunchucks in hand.
[Byron] Nunchucks against a barbed wire 2x4.
[John] A bad situation for Ambrose.
[Byron] Ambrose is a little outgunned here.
[Jericho] See what I got?
What are you gonna do with those toothpicks? You see this?
You see this, you idiot?
What are you gonna do?
[crowd chattering]
No.
Ooh.
[Byron] John, I think Dean knows how to use those things.
[John] What's most scary,
that Ambrose has them or he knows how to use them?
Ambrose's turned into a psycho Bruce Lee.
[Byron] A nunchuck to Jericho
and Ambrose unloading on Jericho.
[audience] Ooh.
[grunts]
[Byron] Ooh.
[John] Nunchucks, like a police officer has, will break a bone.
[grunting]
[John] Ambrose is having a good old time in there.
[Byron] Where did Ambrose pick up nunchucks skills?
[John] Who would've thought Dean Ambrose knew how to use nunchucks?
Look at Chris Jericho, top rope, Jericho climbing to the top of the cage.
There's no escape here. Jericho cannot escape,
but he's trying to get out of…
He's had enough with the nunchucks and Dean Ambrose
and Jericho now hanging on the top of the cage.
Ambrose trying to keep him in the Asylum.
[Byron] They're above us. It's a long way down.
[John] Ambrose is trying to pull Jericho back into the Asylum,
and now Jericho senses perhaps the upper hand.
And now Jericho… Kendo stick.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Ooh!
[Byron] Now Jericho with a smile breaking out on his face.
[John] Jericho knows how to use that.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Jericho very proud of himself.
[Byron] Is he calling it the gift of Jericho?
[John] What a great gift.
[Byron] He wants the world to drink it in.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Dean Ambrose suffering in the center of the ring
and Chris Jericho feels like he is in complete control now,
the first ever Asylum match.
[Jericho] Come on, Ambrose. Come on.
[John] Ooh.
And down goes Ambrose again.
[crowd chattering]
[John] You see the confidence of Chris Jericho
strapped around that ring
knowing that he has Dean Ambrose right where he wants him.
[Byron] Don't use nunchucks, Chris. You're gonna hurt yourself.
Ooh!
[John] Ooh.
[grunts]
[Byron] Chris Jericho right now…
[John] Cover, forearm right in the face and forces Jericho to kick out.
[Byron] In complete control.
[Byron] Well, the first Cage Match was in 1937.
I think they had this in mind
when they first came up with the idea.
[John] Count Rossi and Jack Bloomfield by the way. Atlanta, Georgia.
[Byron] Chris Jericho now headed to the top of the Asylum again.
[John] Leather strap to use.
[Byron] You know what those are.
[John] Savio Vega beat me to death with that. That's something very similar.
I know exactly what that is and it hurts.
[Jericho] Come on, whipping boy.
[Byron] Dean Ambrose is about to find out what that feels like.
These have been…
These whipping matches over the years
[crowd cheering]
[Jericho] You like that?
[crowd cheering]
[Jericho] You don't like that?
[crowd cheering]
[John] Ooh.
[Jericho] Come on, whipping boy.
Come on, whipping boy.
[John] Savio Vega and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
had a Caribbean Strap Match. The light went out in the pay-per-view.
[male voice] Come on, Jericho!
[Byron] His opponent's lights went out.
[John] The lights in the arena, Byron.
[Byron] As well.
[John] The lights of Dean Ambrose may go out.
But it was the lights of the Arena, the pay-per-view left the air.
[audience] Ooh!
[Byron] My first night here.
[John] What a coincidence.
Jericho sent across the ring,
and now Dean Ambrose looking to take over.
Jericho at the upper hand momentarily,
but the look of Dean Ambrose's face,
"The Lunatic Fringe."
He is whacked-out.
No doubt about that.
[Michael] And no doubt
Jericho's gonna get a little receipt.
[Byron] That fair skin of Jericho
is about to get welts all over it.
[John] Hold your breath, Chris. This is gonna hurt.
[screaming]
[John] That hurts a lot.
[screaming]
[John] Right in the face.
And Ambrose with the right hands.
[crowd cheering]
These two men cannot stand each other.
[screaming]
[John] Now Ambrose launched over the cage.
[Jericho] Open the door.
It stays locked, Chris.
[John] Jericho at an instinct goes to the door.
Open it.
-It stays locked, Chris. -You idiot.
You're gonna get it.
[crowd chattering]
[John] There's no escape, Chris. It's pinfall or submission.
[Byron] Jericho's had enough punishment.
Ambrose's not gonna let him get out. He's not gonna get far.
Ambrose scaling the cage as well.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] He keeps coming at him.
He did not go away.
[John] Ooh.
That was smart.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Dean Ambrose is glancing up, guys, at the fire extinguisher.
[John] Well, there's not much left if you want a new weapon.
[Byron] There's a straitjacket, a bucket and a plant.
[crowd chattering]
[John] There's a potted plant right here with us on commentary.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Ambrose, fire extinguisher in hand.
[John] Chris Jericho, your night is about to get worse.
[Byron] I don't think Chris has any idea where he is.
He's just climbing any part of the cage he can.
Now he realizes there wasn't a weapon on that part of the cage,
stumbles back into the ring.
[John] You're right. He has no idea. Dean Ambrose has got a fire extinguisher,
whatever Dean is gonna do with it.
Is he gonna hit him with it?
[Byron] Chris going for a straitjacket.
[John] Seventy pounds, I think.
[Byron] Straitjacket came down as to Jericho.
[John] Interesting how you would use a straitjacket in this match.
[Byron] We had a mop earlier.
What a great move by Jericho
using a straitjacket to blind Ambrose,
enzuigiri, cover, hook to the leg…
Ambrose! Two, a near fall.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Great thinking by Jericho.
[Byron] And creativity brings offense in that case.
[John] Or desperation does.
[Byron] Chris has certainly been as many extreme moments as anybody.
And again.
[John] Ambrose suffering as he runs into the cage.
There's Jericho with a dropkick
driving Dean right back against the steel bar
keeping the cage together.
[crowd chattering]
[crowd cheering]
[John] Jericho really cannot stand Dean Ambrose.
[unintelligible]
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Chris Jericho has done this one other time to Dean Ambrose,
put him in a straitjacket, and he's gonna try again.
If he gets the straitjacket on, this is over.
[John] Jericho can do whatever he wants.
Dean Ambrose is gonna be at the mercy of Chris Jericho.
[Byron] Ambrose trying to fight out of this.
Come on, come on.
[screaming]
[crowd cheering]
[John] If he gets those back straps locked,
unless Ambrose is Harry Houdini, he's not getting out.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] They're not locked in and Dean Ambrose back to his feet
and now Ambrose fighting his way out of the straitjacket.
Hurry up, get it off.
[John] Look at Ambrose go.
Chops and rights.
[Byron] Chop punch, chop punch.
Jericho down and you feel like Ambrose is building some momentum here.
Jericho down again.
[crowd cheering]
[grunting]
[John] Went for the running bulldog,
Jericho able to counter momentarily, what a clothesline.
Ambrose for the victory,
hooks the leg on Jericho, kicks out at two.
[Byron] How spent to both these men have to be at this point in the match-up.
[crowd chattering]
[grunting]
[Byron] Knee right to the spine, is it enough? No!
Kick out again by Ambrose.
[crowd cheering]
[John] A few weeks ago, when Jericho hit Ambrose
with that potted plant, he thought he was done,
that Dean was gonna be on the shelf for an extended period.
[Byron] Dean Ambrose keeps coming at you.
Hard to put Ambrose away. There's the running bulldog.
[John] He is the energizer dummy.
Like Terry Funk.
He doesn't have the sense to quit.
[Byron] Jericho is out.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Dean Ambrose is looking up, but there's only one weapon,
if you wanna count the potted plant.
[John] There's a bucket on the other side but other than that,
all the weapons have been brought into this match-up and used
as Jericho's knocked off the top rope.
And again, Ambrose asking for Jericho to get up.
[crowd chattering]
[John] This is dangerous. Ambrose is thinking.
[crowd cheering]
-[John] I hope he's not thinking-- -[Byron] He is.
[John] I hope he wasn't thinking that.
Dean Ambrose, going back up to the top of the cage.
Dean Ambrose is on top of the cage.
[Byron] Are you sure you wanna do this, Dean?
[John] Chris Jericho has no clue where Dean Ambrose is.
[Byron] No, no, no.
[audience] Ooh!
[Byron] Ooh!
[John] Ooh! Elbow from the top of the cage
from Ambrose to Jericho.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Using his own body as a weapon.
And Ambrose hit it flush.
That's got to be it.
Chris Jericho able to get the shoulder up somehow.
Ambrose had just enough energy
to drape that arm over Chris Jericho and still not enough.
[John] Look at this.
[crowd cheering]
[John] He was falling out of the sky.
[crowd cheering]
[John] That's not normal to do something like that.
[Byron] That's not having any concern for your own well-being.
[John] If he doesn't have concern for his own well-being,
he certainly doesn't for Chris Jericho's.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Dean… I guess he might be targeting that bucket.
That mop bucket.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Where did he get a plastic…
[Byron] Why ask why with Dean Ambrose?
[John] Maybe he's gonna put it on top of Jericho's head.
[crowd chattering]
[John] What is he doing?
What is… What is it now?
[crowd cheering]
[John] There's a black bag.
I don't know what that means.
No, no, no.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] My God.
[John] No, no.
-[Byron] Are they what I think? -[John] You better believe it.
They're thumbtacks!
[John] We haven't seen this since Mankind Foley left the WWE.
[Byron] I'm gonna say shades of Foley inside Hell in a Cell.
Chris Jericho realizes what happens.
[John] Get out, Chris.
[Byron] Dean Ambrose…
[John] For the sake of Fozzy, get out!
[Byron] Ambrose taking this match to a new barbarian…
No! He doesn't wanna be up there.
Not with those exposed thumbtacks in the ring.
[crowd cheering]
My God, this is…
[Byron] Finally, Jericho rolls Ambrose through,
he may have escaped this one here and Ambrose kicks out.
[John] That would have been bad and nasty.
No, no, no.
[Byron] No, no.
Again, Jericho, averting disaster.
Trying to bring disaster to Dean Ambrose.
Ambrose, going-- Ooh!
[John] This is gonna hurt a lot. Thank goodness, Chris.
[Byron] Jericho rolls him through again.
Looking for the walls, trying to roll Ambrose over on his belly.
[John] Look at the thumbtacks in Ambrose's shoes.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Those will be in somebody's body.
[Byron] Ambrose bounced off the cage.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Chris Jericho…
[John] No!
[Byron] Lionsault, countered by Ambrose.
[John] God, look at all those thumbtacks littering in the ring.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Dean, I think he's trying to…
Dean Ambrose is looking for dirty deeds?
He's trying with all those thumbtacks.
[Byron] God, Dean Ambrose looking to take out Jericho.
Counters again.
[Byron] Jericho rolls through.
He's looking for walls of Jericho and trying to get Ambrose to tap out.
[Byron] Make him submit. Get out of there, Jericho.
[John] Is Ambrose gonna tap out to the walls of Jericho?
He's got this locked in good.
He's sitting on his back. Dean Ambrose with nowhere to go.
[Byron] Ropes don't break anything.
[John] Nowhere to go or break the hold.
[Byron] Ambrose has got to tap.
[John] Look at those thumbtacks in the soles of Dean Ambrose.
[Byron] Jericho is sit completely out of this.
[John] And Jericho can sit there as long as he wants now.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Ambrose is trying to reverse the pressure here.
Somehow counter this thing.
[John] Ropes won't force a break
but could give Dean some leverage.
[Jericho] Come on, ref!
[John] Or get Dean that, the Kendo stick.
[Byron] Jericho has no clue.
Ooh! Now he does.
Ambrose using the kendo stick to break the walls of Jericho.
[John] He broke that Kendo stick over Chris.
[John] How much damage can one man inflict upon another?
That's what we're finding out.
[Byron] Boot right to the face.
Ambrose still with that split Kendo stick in hand.
[John] Where's that lunatic going?
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] He's gonna use the non-split end.
[John] Fire extinguisher! Fire extinguisher to the eyes of Ambrose!
The eyes of Ambrose! Codebreaker!
Jericho is gonna survive this.
Hooks the leg on Dean Ambrose…
Ambrose kicked out!
Blinded by the fire extinguisher, a codebreaker and Ambrose still survived.
[Byron] Still alive for Dean Ambrose in this match.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Jericho can't believe it.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] What will Chris Jericho do now? He's done everything that he's…
[John] Except to use that.
[Byron] There you go.
[Byron] Right to the mid-section.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] 2x4 with barbed wire wrapped around the end.
[Jericho] You wanna get up?
[crowd cheering]
[Jericho] You wanna get up?
Come on, Ambrose.
[audience] Ooh.
[Byron] Listen to Dean groaning and moaning.
[Jericho] Come on, Ambrose.
You wanna be crazy?
Do you wanna be crazy? Get up.
Get up, Ambrose.
Get up.
Come on.
Come on, Mr. Crazy.
Come on, Mr. Crazy. Get up, get up.
[John] Another codebreaker.
Look at this! Boy.
[audience] Ooh!
[crowd cheering]
[John] No!
Thumbtacks all over Jericho.
Referee, get him out of there.
Get him out!
[screaming]
[crowd cheering]
[John] Jericho's screaming in pain.
[Byron] The nine-time intercontinental champion.
Help the man out.
[John] He's got thumbtacks stuck in his arms and back.
Ooh, dirty deeds!
[Byron] Dirty deeds.
Face first into those thumbtacks.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Cover!
Ambrose wins the first ever Asylum match.
[bell ringing]
[music plays]
[presenter] Here is your winner,
Dean Ambrose.
[John] What a battle.
What a fight.
[Byron] Chris Jericho has been punctured with dozens and dozens of thumbtacks.
[John] They're still in him.
[Byron] This is what changed everything right here. Look at this.
Ooh!
[John] All those thumbtacks.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Punctured like a pin cushion.
[screaming]
[John] Almost like Jericho went into shock.
[John] Even more shock after that face first into those tacks.
[crowd cheering]
[music plays]
[John] Can we get some medical attention for Chris Jericho?
He's our first undisputed champion covered in thumbtacks by this lunatic.
[Byron] We may need them for Dean Ambrose, too.
[Byron] A shocking match-up tonight,
Won by Dean Ambrose, the Asylum match.
Look at Jericho.
[John] Don't you just stare, bozo referee. Pull them out!
[Byron] Finally, our doctor has made his way into the ring, but…
It's disturbing.
[John] Ambrose created this match and I guess he survived it.
[screaming]
[Byron] My God.
[John] Pull them out!
[Byron] It's gotta hurt to yank them out.
[John] Give him a sedative.
[music plays]
[Byron] He's a rock star like Bruce Springsteen
with thumbtacks all in him.
[crowd chattering]
-I'm "Stone Cold" Steve. -It doesn't matter.
Theme song.
[music plays]
Surprise!
Hey, hey.
[loud fall]
Can I just be really honest with you? That shirt
does make you look really creepy.
[woman] Three…
But I never had this done, ever.
Two, one.
Ow!
-No, no. Let's get… -Ow!
My gosh, you're bleeding.
[man] Obviously, my adrenaline is sky-high.
I was just out there going: "My God."
I wanted to soak up all that energy. I am getting goosebumps thinking about it.
-[Triple H] For you. -[Mr. McMahon] Lilies?
Lilies are for funerals. Were you trying to tell me I'm gonna die?
I'm never gonna die. What have you heard?
I think my water just broke.
My God, my God!
Let's get you to the bathroom.
[man] The spirit of competition,
you can feel the electricity in the building.
[man 2] The opportunity of a lifetime, the WWE Cruiserweight classic.
Noelle is 21 years old and she still likes me.
She still thinks I'm cool.
Things would be better if you had sweatpants
that didn't have holes in them.
This conversation is over.
[man] The night one man will fulfill his destiny to get that ladder,
get it under that briefcase and climb up the Money in the Bank.
[crowd cheering]
[laughing]
[Michael] Guys, Noelle Foley.
The entire Foley family here at ringside.
Holy Foley, the reality series
begins this fall on the WWE network.
I also wanna point out something that I'm really looking forward to,
and it starts this July on the WWE network.
Thirty-two of the top Cruiserweights in the entire world
had to qualify to get here.
The Cruiserweight classic begins in July.
We are going to crown the top cruiserweight in the entire world
only on the WWE network.
Again, I hope that the medical personnel
can get those thumbtacks out of Jericho
as we get set for our women's championship match.
[John] It's a submission match.
Charlotte must defend against Natalya
but keep in mind this could be the difference maker
because "The Nature Boy", Ric Flair,
is banned from ringside.
It is the figure-eight versus the sharpshooter.
We wanna take you back to the last championship match
between these two at Payback with a controversial ending.
[man] What the… Look at this.
Charlotte with a sharpshooter.
[bell ringing]
[man] Wait a minute!
What is going on?
Natalya never tapped.
Charlotte is the women's champion
because of the shenanigans that went down at Payback.
Referee Charles Robinson, will you please come out here?
Charles Robinson, the referee last night was a long-time friend of the Flair's.
The decision is final, correct?
Yes, it is.
[crowd cheering]
[music plays]
With the Harts and the Flairs,
the Harts are the best there is, the best there was,
and the best there ever will be.
[male voice] No.
No.
[crowd cheering]
[man] Natalya, the sharpshooter to Ric Flair
and Charlotte looking to save her daddy.
Listen, Charlotte, you have got to prove to Natalya once and for all
that the figure-eight is way better than the sharpshooter.
At Extreme Rules, it's gonna be you versus Natalya
in a submission match.
[crowd cheering]
And Ric, I mean, there just one other thing.
I ask that you'd be banned at ringside.
[audience] Ooh!
The sharpshooter reminds me of my family.
When I think of some of uncle Bret Hart's greatest battles,
I think of the sharpshooter. My uncle passed that move down to me.
I've been able to be successful because of the sharpshooter.
Anything a Hart can do, a Flair can do better.
[Charlotte] How do you think my dad became the two-time hall of famer,
the sixteen-time world heavyweight champion?
Because he beat everyone with the figure-four.
Now, I'm beating everyone with the figure-eight.
[Natalya] I would be women's champion
if it wasn't for Ric Flair.
[man] Charlotte was tapping
but The Nature Boy called the official out.
[Charlotte] It's hard not to have my coach cheering for me
as I'm tapping Nattie out
because he's my biggest fan.
Mr. Flair, if you come down this Sunday to this ring,
Charlotte will forfeit the WWE women's championship.
[crowd cheering]
[Charlotte] Dad!
[man] Dad isn't there to help. and he won't on Sunday.
[Natalya] The sound of Charlotte tapping will be music to my ears
and I will leave Extreme Rules as new WWE women's champion.
[Michael] There you see Charlotte and her dad, Ric Flair.
Ric Flair was banned from ringside tonight by Stephanie and Shane McMahon.
He can't even walk out of the arena
or Charlotte will be forced to forfeit her women's championship.
[music plays]
[John] Natalya truly feels like this match is her platform, her playing field.
She has an extensive submission background from Hart Dungeon.
She's been training with the top names
in mixed martial arts, Josh Barnett and Shayna Baszle
because she doesn't want any room for error here tonight.
[Michael] Tonight, WWE Extreme Rules
is presented by Teenage-mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the shadows
in theaters June 3rd in real D and 3D.
Natalya with the opportunity tonight, no shenanigans from Ric Flair.
It will truly be one-on-one between Natalya and Charlotte.
[music plays]
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Ladies and gentlemen, Charlotte makes history tonight.
She becomes the first woman in WWE history
to have a match in 11 consecutive pay-per-views.
If you count two networks special,
fourteen straight for Charlotte,
who now has been a combined 245 days as champion
when you figure in the old Divas title and now the women's title.
[Byron] Charlotte's accomplishments aside,
She's out of her comfort zone tonight, no doubt.
She's used to having her father, The Nature Boy, at ringside.
Well, she calls it a coach. For what we know,
in more than one occasion, Ric has been the deciding factors.
Now the question is,
Charlotte truly stand on her own two feet here tonight?
[Josh] Byron, I understand the point, you're right.
Charlotte's come to rely on her father, Ric Flair,
but I wanna keep in mind that Charlotte did win the championship,
then Divas title back in September Night of Champions
when she beat Nikki Bella alone.
Her dad, Ric Flair, not involved.
[bell ringing]
[presenter] This is a submission match.
It is for the WWE Women's championship.
[crowd cheering]
Introducing first, the challenger.
From Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
Natalya.
[crowd cheering]
And her opponent,
from the Queen City,
she is the WWE women's champion,
Charlotte.
[crowd chattering]
[John] She believes that she is the best ever.
Just listen to her talk about herself.
[Michael] Charlotte versus Natalya in a submission match,
the only way to win, again, is submission.
It's the figure-eight of Charlotte against the sharpshooter of Natalya.
John, what's the key to this match-up for the champion, Charlotte?
[John] Athleticism.
It's the one thing she has over Natalya.
Natalya obviously has the toughest teachers.
The only woman trained in the Hart Dungeon.
[bell ringing]
Charlotte needs to use
that incredible athleticism that has made her champion.
[Michael] A lot of pressure on Natalya tonight.
The fact that Ric Flair is not at ringside.
About being able to beat Charlotte without Ric.
The fact that Natalya
thinks so much about her uncle Bret Hart as well,
perhaps one of the greatest, if not the greatest match of all time,
was a submission match between Bret Hart and Stone Cold at Wrestlemania 13.
[John] Natalya goes right after Charlotte.
Headlock takedown on the champion.
Again a headlock takedown by Natalya.
[Michael] Nothing like beating a person at their own game.
To beat a Hart in a submission match…
That's a prize.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] We got to also consider how personal this is for Natalya.
We talked a lot about the fact that when Charlotte first came here to WWE,
Natalya was here to welcome her in with open arms,
served as a mentor.
Look at this.
[grunting]
You wanna tap? Where's your dad now?
Where's your dad now?
[John] Charlotte able to counter. Great move. Now, Natalya in trouble.
[grunting]
What do you say, Nattie?
No, no.
Ask her.
-No. -Come on, Natalya.
-Ask her. -No!
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Natalya, refusing to tap as Charlotte continues to pressure.
[crowd chattering]
[Michael] Snapmare takedown.
Charlotte lands on her feet, now in the corner.
Wanna mess with me?
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Charlotte, just wildy…
Ooh. Man.
Natalya has got Charlotte of her game in the early going.
Ooh, right to the face.
Natalya said she's got more mental clarity than at any other point in her carrier.
Remember, no pinfalls in this match,
submission only.
[John] About to go surfing. Ooh.
Surfboard by Natalya with Charlotte.
Charlotte… Is she gonna tap or say "I quit" here?
[grunting]
[Byron] Incredible force strength of Charlotte.
[Michael] Charlotte, able to roll through,
but has the damage been done? Natalya, with a right and another one.
[audience] Ooh!
[John] On the apron. Natalya tried to knock her off
but got caught by a forearm, right to the face.
There's that big discus clothesline,
knocking Charlotte down.
[Michael] Charlotte has sense to roll out.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Smart.
[Michael] But Natalya has enough sense not to let her get far.
[John] Ooh, what a chop.
[audience] Ooh!
[John] Whatever Natalya said to Charlotte woke her up.
I'm the champ.
[John] Ooh!
[audience] Ooh!
[male voice] Let's go!
[audience] Ooh!
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Charlotte gloating up with a number of chops to Natalya.
Ooh.
Right into the steel post,
shoulder first and now Natalya in pursuit.
[Byron] Ooh, man.
[John] Ooh, the shots by Natalya.
[Michael] Fierce attack by Natalya.
Remember, no disqualification here.
Submission, the only thing that matters.
A big boot by Charlotte to the face.
These two know each other so well,
have had so many battles over the past couple of years.
[John] Watch this boot again.
[Byron] One thing needs to be mentioned. With that shoulder hurting in Charlotte,
it's simple to say but it doesn't have to be the figure-eight
versus the sharpshooter.
[Michael] It is just a submission. Charlotte goes for the figure-eight.
Natalya's able to roll her up.
An armbar!
[grunting]
And to your point, John, an injured shoulder into the post,
Natalya works on that arm.
[John] Great counter by Natalya Hart.
Charlotte trying to keep those fingers locked.
[Byron] Natalya, as soon as she saw an opportunity,
she drove that shoulder on that steel post.
[John] You can't break this by getting into a pinfall predicament.
Pinfalls don't matter.
[grunting]
Charlotte trying to break it,
Natalya with her legs around the neck of Charlotte,
but there's the power of the women's champion.
[John] That's one way to break it.
Natalya is hurt.
So is Charlotte.
[Michael] Valuable recovery time for Charlotte.
[John] Natalya hit hard on that sit out power bomb by Charlotte
and a knockout would be tantamount to a submission
if a person cannot recover and cannot continue.
The only thing with that left shoulder that's bothering Charlotte.
[Michael] It looks okay, but once you bridge to figure-eight,
it could take out your finishing move,
your sweet spot that you've won the championship with.
Charlotte weakening up the legs of Natalya.
[grunting]
[John] Ooh!
Listen to Natalya.
No.
-Come on. -No.
No.
-Check. -No!
[John] Whether this is a submission to make Nattie tap or not,
this obviously weakens that leg.
[Michael] And sets her up for the figure-eight down the road.
Natalya trying to stay, trying to fight through.
The official is asking her if she's gonna tap or give up
Again.
No.
Come on, Nattie.
[crowd cheering]
No.
[grunting]
[John] Barely make it to the bottom rope and…
[Michael] You got to have the submission in the ring.
[grunting]
[John] Charlotte…
with a woo.
Suplex right into the ropes.
Again, legs crashed into the ropes,
the focal point of Charlotte.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] It wasn't that long ago,
that Natalya had a broken ankle.
[John] That figure-four is what made championships,
first used by "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers.
[crowd chattering]
Charlotte heading up to the top rope.
This could be fatal for Natalya.
[Michael] Ooh, a moonsault!
But no pinfall.
[grunting]
[John] Half crab.
Tap.
No!
-Tap! -No.
No, no.
[John] Nattie screaming, the half crab locked in by Charlotte.
Nattie trying to make it back to a vertical base,
force Charlotte, outbalance like she did there.
Just pure-- German suplex!
[Michael] Launched, released her.
[screaming]
[crowd cheering]
Now looking for the sharpshooter.
[crowd cheering]
This could be Natalya's moment.
Stepping through into the sharpshooter.
-[Michael] Cinched in! -[John] Locked in!
Is Charlotte gonna tap out?
Is Charlotte gonna tap?
[crowd cheering]
[John] Can Natalya become the women's champion?
It's been five years since Natalya has been a champion here at WWE.
[Michael] Charlotte making it to the rope
and again, the submission has to take place in the ring.
[John] Nattie's to break the hold.
The official is…
She doesn't have to break the hold if she does it before five.
That's what happened.
She dragged Charlotte to the middle.
The women's champion in trouble.
Is she gonna tap out now to the sharpshooter by Natalya?
[crowd cheering]
What the…
[music plays]
I got it.
No, no, this… Well, Natalya…
This can't be.
Natalya thinking she won because of Ric Flair's music.
If Flair comes down here,
Charlotte has to forfeit the win.
[Byron] Wait a minute.
God, who's that?
Dana Brooke!
[Michael] Dana Brooke. What is she doing?
[John] As The Nature Boy.
Dana Brooke arrived on the scene a couple of weeks ago.
[Byron] Nattie better go back to that sharpshooter.
[John] Look at this.
Natalya countering but Dana Brooke up on the apron.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Nat, if you want to win, you better ignore Dana Brooke.
[Michael] How can she ignore Brooke? She's…
[John] From behind, Charlotte blasting Natalya.
What the hell is Dana Brooke doing out here?
The attack from behind,
Charlotte into the figure-four, and gonna bridge to the figure-eight.
[Michael] There it is.
[John] Natalya trying to hang on. Try to hang in there.
[Michael] Come on, Natalya, fight it.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Natalya trying to reach to the bottom rope,
trying to somehow break the figure-eight by Charlotte.
She's bridged high. Pressure on Natalya. She's gonna tap.
[bell ringing]
[music plays]
Here is your winner and still the WWE women's champion…
Charlotte!
[Michael] Here comes the proud papa, the coach, The Nature Boy.
It's a setup. All a setup.
A high five for Dana Brooke.
[John] Well, way to go, captain obvious,
despite of what the whole world has seen.
[Michael] So much for standing on your own two feet.
Getting the job done by yourself, Charlotte.
Get out!
[John] This is ridiculous.
[crowd chattering]
[Byron] Nobody remembers how you won, people just remember the winner.
[Michael] John, I think Byron was right.
This was obviously a setup.
[John] You're right. What do you think?
Be real proud, Charlotte, real proud of yourself.
You earned that one, didn't you?
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] It's gonna be a party tonight.
[John] If you're wondering how Charlotte was gonna survive tonight,
Dana Brooke was the answer.
[Michael] We thought daddy was the secret weapon.
Dana Brooke is the other.
Charlotte's reign as the women's champion continues.
[John] Well done, Charlotte.
[Michael] Well done.
[John] The champion.
[crowd cheering]
[narrator] Tonight on an all-new camp WWE.
Stephanie.
[narrator] Love is in the air.
Take me out as you take Stephanie. I'll know if you're right for her.
[narrator] But what's in Mark Henry?
I'm constipated.
And it's all because of your lava cake.
[Triple H] Charm the pants off Vince so I can take the pants off Stephanie.
I'll skin up my ass.
No! I think my water just broke.
[male voice] Swans are…
[female voice] We're almost there. Just push. Just push.
[narrator] Camp WWE, an adult animated comedy.
Available only on demand and only on WWE network.
New episode available on demand tonight,
immediately following WWE Extreme Rules.
It has been quite a night in Extreme Rules,
but ladies and gentlemen, coming up next,
the battle for the WWE world heavyweight championship.
[John] A rivalry that has been combustible, volatile,
and it will be contested under extreme rules
as Roman Reigns defends the WWE world heavyweight championship
against AJ Styles.
[Michael] The question is,
will The Club ensure AJ Styles becomes champion?
[music stops]
[AJ Styles] People think my friendship with Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows
is some kind of master plan
so that I can become the WWE world heavyweight champion.
[Roman] Last week, they attacked my cousins.
This week, they attack me.
And you don't have anything to do with this?
[AJ Styles] As Gallows and Anderson, I'll tell you the same I told them.
it's about me tonight.
[AJ Styles] You're gonna see me having the match of my life all by myself.
[man] AJ Styles set Roman Reigns up.
Superman punch.
Look who's here.
And now Anderson and Gallows coming right after Roman Reigns.
Boot of doom.
Ooh! Here are The Usos.
Coming out here to even things up.
[man 2] I don't know if he even realizes what happened.
[man 1] Phenomenal forearm. Roman Reigns ducks underneath. Spear.
[crowd cheering]
[man 1] Roman Reigns retains the WWE world title.
[music plays]
[Gallows] You were this close to becoming WWE world heavyweight champion.
And being this close makes me want it even more.
There's no way that Roman leaves Extreme Rules as the champion.
[crowd chattering]
[man 1] Anderson with a steel chair, attacking Reigns from behind.
AJ, if you're gonna beat the guy, you're gonna have to go extreme.
[man 1] Come on, Roman is helpless.
-Hit him. -What are you doing?
Use the chair. Hit him.
Use the chair. Use it.
I'm gonna be champion my way. On my own.
[tense music plays]
[man 1] From behind, The Usos.
Went right after Styles.
Now Styles has had enough.
And he tees off with The Usos with the steel chair.
[man 2] Roman just saw him hit his Samoan family.
[man 1] Superman punch to Styles.
[Roman] This is the big fight now. This is Extreme Rules.
You know what that means?
If I want to take a steel chair and beat you,
I will.
If I wanna put you through a barricade,
I will.
If I wanna put you to the announce table,
I will.
[AJ Styles] I had the chance to obliterate Roman Reigns with a steel chair,
but I didn't. I took the high road.
And we saw what road Roman took.
So if given the chance, the opportunity, I will not hesitate
to take out Roman Reigns.
[man 1] And from behind, Luke Gallows.
AJ Styles for the moment of truth.
[man 2] He's gonna follow through with that promise.
[man 1] Reigns caught him with a right.
[Roman] You can't beat me one-on-one.
So I know The Club's gonna be out there.
That means The Usos will be right there, too.
All three of you are gonna figure out the hard way
that The Bloodline is stronger than The Club.
[AJ Styles] I will not hesitate to take out Roman Reigns.
[man 1] AJ Styles unloading.
[music plays]
[man 1] Styles clashes to the chair.
[AJ Styles] I'll do anything it takes to beat the world heavyweight champion.
[crowd cheering]
[music plays]
[explosions burst]
[Michael] Here's the number one contender
for the WWE world heavyweight championship.
A.J. Styles told me in an interview on wwe.com last week
that he will do whatever he needs to do to win the title tonight.
You could say the honeymoon period for AJ Styles here in WWE is over.
This is a new realm tonight.
[John] It'll be AJ Styles or Roman Reigns
will win the WWE world heavyweight championship.
Next time, we come your way on pay-per-view in here on WWE network
in four weeks from tonight at Money in the Bank
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The night we will crown a Money in the Bank winner.
[Michael] This could be the culmination of an incredible career for AJ Styles
if he walks out here WWE world heavyweight champion.
[John] Five months since bursting on the scene in the Royal Rumble match.
[crowd cheering]
[music plays]
[crowd cheering]
[John] As Roman Reigns said last week,
this is the big fight now.
[Michael] Yes, it is.
And this place has just erupted.
[John] An exclusive interview with Roman Reigns
earlier today live on Facebook live,
Reigns said he's gonna do whatever it takes.
He says AJ is a good competitor.
He's pushed Roman Reigns. "But that won't matter tonight
when I leave the WWE world heavyweight champion."
[Michael] That demeanor on Roman Reigns right now says that he is poised
and ready to inflict as much bodily harm as possible
onto AJ Styles.
This match-up will be contested under Extreme Rules.
Anything goes.
No countouts, no disqualifications.
You win via pinfall or submission.
[John] You can use a kitchen sink if you can find it.
[Michael] Is this not a great big fight feel?
Does Extreme Rules favor the champion or the challenger, in your mind, John?
[John] We have seen what Roman Reigns is willing to go through.
What he went through with Brock Lesnar
is about as close to death as it could possibly happen.
And at the end of it,
it was a toss-up when Seth Rollins cashed in Money in the Bank.
I think it has to favor the champ.
On the other side, AJ Styles knows he may not get another chance.
This could be it.
[bell ringing]
[presenter] The following is an Extreme Rules match
and it is for the WWE world heavyweight championship.
Now in this match, there are no disqualifications, no countouts,
anything goes.
The only way to win is by pinfall or submission.
Introducing first, the challenger.
From Gainesville, Georgia,
weighing in at 218 pounds,
"The Phenomenal", AJ Styles.
[crowd cheering]
His opponent, from Pensacola, Florida,
weighing in at 265 pounds,
he is the WWE world heavyweight champion,
Roman Reigns.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Starts illicit responses.
Whether you hate him, whether you love him,
everyone has an opinion on Roman Reigns.
[Michael] I'm not gonna lie, guys. I got serious goosebumps.
[John] That's what it's all about.
The most prestigious championship in the history of sports entertainment,
the WWE world heavyweight title.
Roman Reigns has held it on a few different occasions.
AJ Styles has never had the opportunity.
Will tonight be the night for AJ Styles?
Extreme rules, anything goes.
It's a big fight feel at the rock.
[bell ringing]
[Michael] It's on!
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Styles and Roman Reigns, John, know each other well.
[John] You better believe it.
[Michael] Reigns with his power driving Styles into the corner.
Styles with his quickness able to move out of the way.
[John] Styles knows this. He has won a lot of championships all over the world
but his career could very well be defined by this one match tonight
against Roman Reigns.
[Michael] Roman said as much. You have to win the championship.
An elbow driving Styles back to the ropes,
caught him on the bridge of the nose.
Or perhaps in the mouth.
[John] Well, perhaps it hurt.
[crowd cheering]
Styles is gonna take Roman Reigns off his feet.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Big right hand to Reigns.
[Michael] AJ Styles, John, will he be able to use
this vocal crowd to his advantage?
[John] Roman Reigns feeds off of it as well.
Roman Reigns feeds off being booed and jeered.
I think Roman Reigns just likes the passion
that he gets into in a huge arena filled with fans
who wanna see a world championship.
[Michael] AJ using his quickness
and unloading with a number of right hands and kicks to the ribs.
Caught that time by Reigns and then just shoved to the mat.
[Byron] You don't wanna turn this
into a pure out-there fight with Roman Reigns.
[Michael] Roman Reigns' style.
Smash-mouth in your face.
AJ Styles needs to fly…
AJ's head whipping back and forth.
[John] AJ Styles needs to innovate.
But he doesn't want a match-up
and throw hands with Roman Reigns.
[Michael] Reigns missed with a right.
AJ with the rights as well and he's doing pretty well, John.
[crowd cheering]
[John] He does well in spurts.
That knee! Man!
Man!
What a collision.
That knee forced AJ to roll out of the ring to regroup.
[John] This is impact.
[audience] Ooh!
[Byron] Roman Reigns launching himself at AJ Styles.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Nearly 16,000
here in Newark tonight.
Look what AJ has got. Styles, steel chair.
[Michael] Easy for the…
Styles was going to.
[John] Used it for the first time Monday on Raw, so he's capable.
[Michael] First time Roman hit him with a chair,
he felt like his soul got knocked out of his body.
[John] That's AJ's fault.
[Michael] Reigns will use a steel chair. Make no bones about that.
[John] Believe it.
Roman Reigns knows what it takes to walk out champion,
and he will do whatever he has to do.
[Michael] And Reigns misses as Styles…
What a disaster there.
Styles trying to drag Reigns out of the ring
and he's kicked into the barricade.
[crowd chattering]
Roman Reigns is dangerous when he doesn't have a weapon.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Ooh! That time, Styles…
An abrasion caught Reigns when he hit those steel steps hard.
[Michael] It might have been the opening Styles needed.
That slight distraction allows Styles to take control here.
[crowd cheering]
Our German announce friends to get out of harm's way here
as Roman Reigns is bounced off the table.
[John] We might need to!
[audience] Ooh!
Roman Reigns sent AJ Styles
through our announce table a couple of times. Styles…
[crowd clapping]
Come on, Roman.
-[John] Look out. -[Michael] Ooh!
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] It is brought down quickly.
[John] AJ Styles cleaning up our announce table here.
Roman Reigns driven out into the WWE Universe.
[Michael] Now we have a seen a transformation in AJ Styles.
He realized that he's got to change his philosophy to beat Roman Reigns.
[crowd cheering]
[John] I don't think he has changed his philosophy.
He just didn't have any inhibitions about a fair fight,
because there's no such thing as a fair fight.
There's a fight you win, a fight you lose.
[Michael] Under extreme rules, this fight goes anywhere in the arena.
They can beat each other in the arena, the locker rooms, the parking lot,
but they got to get back to the ring for the pinfall or submission to take place.
[crowd chattering]
[Michael] Where are they going?
[John] I think this all-out brawl favor… Well, at least they favored Roman,
but AJ used that chair to the gut.
[crowd cheering]
No hesitation to do whatever you got to do if you're AJ Styles.
[crowd cheering]
[John] That's over the kickoff panel.
That's the set for the kickoff panel. Roman Reigns bounced off that glass table.
Ooh!
Booker and King got out there fast.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Now Styles…
[crowd cheering]
[unintelligible]
[Byron] Roman trying to collect himself a little bit.
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Crowd's very vocal--
[John] AJ Styles!
A desperation kick stunning Reigns.
[Michael] Reigns' eyes almost rolled to the back of his head after that kick.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Styles came up. Did he hit him with a forearm there?
[Michael] Looks like it. It was a phenomenal forearm off the table.
[grunting]
[John] This is the contrast of Styles.
As you see the strength of Roman Reigns, you see the innovation of AJ Styles.
[Michael] This is what AJ Styles must do if he wants to walk out of here champion.
Pull out on all the stops, dig down deep, do everything you can.
Anything you need to do.
Be quick, be fast, be all over the place.
[Michael] Another look at that innovation, that phenomenal forearm.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Roman Reigns with a headbutt and they're coming back this way.
Now they're over by the timekeeper's area
as they approach ringside yet again, Styles and Reigns.
Roman Reigns bounced off the…
[crowd chattering]
Now back in here in front of the Spanish announce table.
Roman Reigns bounced face-first off the steel post.
What's Styles doing?
Styles is taking off the protective padding
from the steel barricades that surround the ringside area
and bouncing Reigns off the top of it.
[Byron] Whatever I got to do to be champion.
No, no! Now he's taking away the protective floor padding here!
[crowd cheering]
[John] You can see the exposed concrete floor.
[Byron] Nothing but concrete underneath.
[John] Devious intentions in mind.
[Michael] Oh, no.
[John] AJ Styles, if he hits…
That's the Styles clash.
[Byron] This is what a championship means.
[John] Reigns able to fight out of it.
[crowd chattering]
[Michael] If you questioned whether AJ Styles had a mean streak,
it was answered tonight. We've seen it.
[John] Absolutely no hesitation by AJ Styles.
[Michael] John, it's about the WWE world heavyweight title.
[John] Believe it as Styles knows he may not get another shot.
[Michael] We're superstars in this business.
John, there's nothing more important than the championship.
[John] The only thing that's important.
Styles knows his career could be defined by what he does tonight,
this one match.
[Michael] It changes your entire life,
winning the WWE world title.
That's what they're fighting for out here.
Roman Reigns with AJ Styles up top,
AJ Styles trying to fight out of this predicament.
[John] By the German announce table now!
Styles lands on the top of it,
now right hands completely unloading on Reigns, the champion.
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chattering]
[John] What the hell is Styles thinking about
on top of the German announcer table?
[Michael] No idea. Is he gonna… He set up Reigns for the Styles clash.
[John] Believe it. Setting up Reigns for the Styles clash.
Tried it on the concrete floor. Roman Reigns countering on time.
Follows it up with the right hand, Styles falls off out of the barricade.
Now just falls down like a heap
into the WWE Universe.
[crowd chattering]
[John] Roman Reigns, that could have been his championship
if Styles connected with the clash there.
And now AJ Styles…
Oh, my God.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Styles with a back body drop
launched into our announce table that exploded before our very eyes.
[crowd cheering]
[John] AJ Styles writhing in pain.
The champion Reigns may have saved his title.
[audience] Ooh!
[crowd cheering]
[Byron] Look at the height.
[John] Yes.
[Michael] Some nasty landing for Styles.
Unbelievable.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Roman Reigns now gonna try to get Styles back into the ring
to retain his championship tonight.
Roman's moment. Cover now, hook to the leg on Styles,
two-count kickout.
[crowd chattering]
Ringside's a mess.
AJ Styles is a mess
but somehow able to desperately kick out.
[Michael] No limits. Every resource at your disposal.
Watch this again.
[audience] Ooh!
Absolutely incredible height there as you mentioned before, Byron.
Styles was launched.
And now Roman Reigns…
[Byron] Look at how easily Roman just manhandles AJ Styles.
[John] Styles… Ooh!
He's got it off for the win.
Ooh! He got him, he got him!
No, it's a two-count.
[Byron] I thought it was three! Two and a half.
[John] Going for the razor's edge into a sit out power bomb.
[Michael] The impact from that sit out power bomb.
[John] The impact from that after that body drop through the table.
[Michael] Again, watch this.
As John mentioned, the razor's edge into a sit out power bomb here.
I want you to watch the impact.
AJ Styles almost driven through the ring by Reigns.
[Byron] That's a man who just got back-body-dropped onto our table.
[John] When a man knows that this is his one shot
and it might be his only shot left for the WWE championship,
it takes a lot to beat him.
[Michael] Roman Reigns locking and loading.
Styles…
[audience] Ooh!
[Michael] Talk about a desperate move. Roman Reigns is hurt.
AJ Styles with a shoulder tackle
and Roman Reigns, his knee buckled. Roman Reigns' knee hurt.
[Byron] Now talk about great wherewithal from AJ Styles.
[John] That takes out the Superman punch, that takes out the spear,
that takes out all of Reigns' strength.
[Michael] John, that may take out Reigns.
[John] Believe it.
[crowd cheering]
[grunting]
[Byron] Somehow, it disabled that explosive style
Reigns has been so successful with.
[John] Styles with a knee right to the side of the head
and now Styles with that suplex
driving him into the corner.
[Michael] Just like a knockout.
At an injury like this, you can't continue.
This title changes hand.
[John] This is where this match-up turned.
AJ Styles with a shoulder tackle
out of desperation to the midsection.
Again, working on the injured knee, driving it into the corner.
[Michael] Roman Reigns, guys, is having a hard time standing.
[Michael] Takes out his drive-by and so much of Roman Reigns' offense.
Almost all of it.
[John] Now, AJ Styles on the attack, the running knee.
[Michael] You can't base to throw a punch.
[John] That takes out everything when Roman Reigns' knee gives out on him.
[Michael] Absolutely critical moment, but Roman Reigns…
[John] Able to catch AJ Styles.
[audience] Ooh!
[John] My God!
[crowd cheering]
[John] My goodness!
[crowd cheering]
[John] Throws him through this table!
And the table collapses again.
[crowd cheering]
[John] How the hell is Reigns standing?
[Michael] How the hell is AJ Styles conscious?
[John] Did you hear the impact
when AJ Styles was slung into the ring apron?
[Byron] Edge of the table.
And then he was slung into the barricade,
and then driven through the Spanish announce table.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Watch this.
[Michael] Listen, listen. Just listen. Right there.
That was AJ Styles' skull
driven into the ring apron,
and then the barricade, and then this.
[crowd cheering]
Driven through another table.
He hits the edge of the table before it breaks.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Reigns on a bad knee.
AJ Styles, I don't even know how he is functioning.
[Michael] There can't be anything left in AJ Styles.
[John] You wanna win a championship? AJ Styles better find something left.
[Michael] Look at Roman Reigns.
Roman reigns is waiting for his moment, waiting for a spot.
[John] AJ Styles up to his feet.
Roman Reigns is calling for it.
No. No. Watch out.
[audience] Ooh!
[John] My god, Styles able to move out of the way
and Reigns drove himself through the barricade.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Pure instinct, I think, from Styles.
AJ Styles somehow was able to get out of the way in this.
Ooh! Saved himself.
[Byron] Saved himself but what can he do with it?
[John] He's got to get Roman back in the ring.
-[John] He's got to… -[Byron] Easier said than done.
[Michael] Styles can barely stand. Roman Reigns' dead weight.
Roman's got a bad knee and he's just got knocked himself out.
[crowd cheering]
[John] I don't even know how AJ Styles is still functioning.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Got to be just instinct at this point.
[John] Talk about getting your bell rung.
[crowd cheering]
[John] With Roman Reigns on the ring, AJ Styles on the apron.
This could be his moment. Styles is setting himself up.
[Michael] Styles can hit him?
[John] AJ Styles, top rope.
Ooh! And a Superman punch.
[audience] Ooh!
[John] I think Styles is going for the phenomenal forearm
and Reigns caught him with the Superman punch.
AJ fell hard off top rope, hitting the apron, down to the floor.
[Byron] Crashed and burned.
[Josh] An opportunity.
Referee Mike Chioda just came down here to check on AJ Styles.
His eyes rolled back on his head as Chioda was checking on him.
I don't think Styles has a clue where he's at.
[Michael] He had enough sense or enough instinct
to tell Mike Chioda he wanted to continue.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Roman limping around on a bad leg.
AJ Styles just trying somehow to get back to his feet.
[crowd chattering]
Styles can't even balance-- Spear!
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] That's got to be it, but Roman can't pin him out here.
[crowd cheering]
My God. AJ Styles nearly driven through that floor
by that wicked spear by Reigns.
[John] Guys, watch this and watch the impact.
AJ Styles has only had his bell rung.
[Byron] If AJ can't continue the match, Roman wins.
I don't know how AJ Styles could continue.
He's crashed and burned through everything we had out here.
He just got cut almost in half by that spear.
He's tough. AJ Styles is showing how tough he really is.
[Byron] That was tougher than your body can take it sometimes.
Come on now. Whoa, whoa! We knew this was happening.
[Michael] Anderson and Gallows, The Club.
Buddies with AJ Styles.
[John] Anything goes, guys.
And I get it, I get that. It's all legal.
[Michael] There are no disqualifications.
[John] My goodness. Look.
Boot of doom connecting.
They came here to help AJ Styles get the championship.
They just did it.
The body.
Reigns got up. What the hell?
Reigns got the shoulder up.
[Michael] AJ Styles said he'd take advantage of the situation
if it happened.
[John] But Gallows and Anderson aren't done.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] Referee can do nothing. He's powerless.
Here come The Usos.
[John] Nobody knew The Usos to be around. They certainly are. Superkick.
[Michael] Jimmy and Jey…
[John] Superkick in stereo.
[Michael] Jimmy and Jey take out Styles.
And now it's The Usos.
It's about the bloodline.
[John] It certainly is. The splash.
The Samoan family. It's about protecting the championship.
Roman Reigns trying to crawl for the cover.
Reigns crawling into the cover…
[Michael] The Usos got the last laugh.
Whoa! Did he get him? How?
Two and a half! Get AJ.
[John] You got to be kidding me.
[Michael] How is Styles in this match?
[John] You've gotta be kidding.
[Michael] AJ Styles is in it. Reigns is in it.
Anderson and Gallows and The Usos
continue their fight outside the ring.
Anderson back to the ring.
Superman punch right on the chin.
Superman punch.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Roman Reigns' leg's hurt.
Does he have enough left to keep landing on it?
Roman Reign needs something big here.
[Michael] Roman's temporarily equalized the playing field.
[John] His family's helped him. It's now down to two.
[Michael] Went for the spear. AJ countered.
Styles going for the Styles clash.
[audience] Ooh!
[John] AJ! He's got him locked in.
[Michael] The Styles clash. New champion!
The culmination of an incredible career. Roman trying to…
[John] Reigns is in it. Reigns is in it.
[Michael] No doubt about it.
[crowd cheering]
[John] This is unreal.
An unreal effort.
[Michael] What a match.
[John] All the championships that AJ Styles has won, he was positive.
He had just won the big one.
[Michael] Two unbelievable warriors
battling for the WWE world heavyweight title.
[Michael] Watch this!
Styles placed the steel chair… He did this Monday night.
[John] Styles is like a pit bull.
He wants to get his teeth stuck on you, he's not going anywhere.
[Michael] Styles clash onto the steel chair,
Roman Reigns looking to block.
Roman Reigns with his power. AJ Styles landing hard.
[crowd cheering]
AJ Syles landing hard.
[John] Hit the hip on that chair exactly as he did on the announce table.
That has got to start taking the wear and tear on AJ Styles.
Roman Reigns… He runs into the Pelé kick.
AJ Styles now, going for it again.
Looking for the Styles clash.
[crowd cheering]
[John] For the championship.
Styles clash on the chair.
AJ Styles.
The Usos saving the match.
[Michael] Family!
[Josh] Here's the cover! Maybe not.
[Michael] Close enough.
[crowd cheering]
Usos gave him just enough for his cousin to keep that championship alive.
[Michael] Wheels are turning in the head of AJ Styles: "What do I have to do?"
[John] He's done everything, hasn't he? I don't know what else he has.
Usos did just enough, got just enough distraction
to allow Roman Reigns to kick out.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Styles with the chair. He's gonna wear out Roman Reigns.
Steel chair to The Usos.
AJ Styles has got completely crazy now with the steel chair.
[Michael] They've got him real crazy.
This is how bad Styles wants it.
[John] AJ Styles has finally snapped.
That chair's bent in half.
[crowd cheering]
[John] AJ Styles taking off the protective padding.
[Michael] And I think we know why.
[John] He is calling for it.
Come on!
[Michael] Looking for the phenomenal elbow, forearm
to put Roman Reigns away.
Elbow exposed.
[John] An exclamation point.
[Michael] Oh, my God!
[John] Spear, got him midair. He's split in half. Got him midair.
Roman Reigns retains the title.
[bell ringing]
-[crowd cheering] -[music plays]
[presenter] Here is your winner
and still the WWE world heavyweight champion,
Roman Reigns.
[Michael] What a match, what an effort. Roman Reigns is still the champ.
[Byron] Absolutely incredible.
[Michael] As you said, Styles just snapped here,
taking out The Usos.
[John] He said he won't hesitate. He did not hesitate.
[crowd cheering]
Everything he flung and he broke to win the championship,
try to put an exclamation point on one hell of a career.
[Michael] AJ Styles was calling for the phenomenal forearm,
but Roman Reigns spearing Styles out on midair.
[John] This is how close it was.
[crowd cheering]
[bell ringing]
[Michael] What a match. What an effort.
[John] He's not a bad guy. He's not a good guy.
He is just the guy.
And lord, did he ever prove it tonight.
Roman Reigns, that was amazing.
[Michael] Two men who pushed each other…
[John] That's what it's all about. Absolutely pushed each other.
That's what--
-[Michael] My God, my God! -[John] What?
It's Seth Rollins! A pedigree.
Seth Rollins is back. Seth Rollins is here.
A pedigree to the champion.
[crowd cheering]
[John] Seth Rollins, a former WWE world heavyweight champion.
And remember, he never lost the title.
He was forced to vacate it due to injury last year.
[crowd cheering]
[Michael] When you thought you've seen it all.
[John] Seth Rollins returns with a vengeance.
The wrath of Rollins at Extreme Rules.
[crowd cheering]
Subtitles: Lucia Elizalde & Lucia Laccabue e.