Arena: Target Center
City: Minneapolis, MN
The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes opens the show. Cody starts by talking about Brock Lesnar and how they shook hands after SummerSlam. He said he talked to his mother about being shocked and his mother said, “Dummy, Brock Lesnar just acknowledged you”. Now Cody feels he can beat the best in the world, and this brings Seth “Freakin” Rollins to the ring.
Seth says if you feel like you can beat anyone in the world, why don’t we put that theory to the test. Before Cody could answer, The Judgment Day interrupts. Damian says they don’t run Monday Night Raw, The Judgemnt Day does. And Damian controls the championship scene and then tells Cody, Dominik isn’t done with him yet.
As Dominik goes to speak and the crowd boos, Finn Balor sneaks in and attacks Rollins. Priest and Dominik attack Cody. Sami Zayn comes out to help and they send the Judgment Day running from the ring. The Judgment Day regroup at ringside as Cody says I got a solution to all this there are 3 of you and can take on the three of us tonight.
In the back Ricochet is talking to Adam Pearce and there is nothing he can do about Saturday, but he is talking about tonight. Tommaso Ciampa, Matt Riddle and Chad Gable come in and Adam Pearce says he wants to make a fatal four way and the winner gets a chance at the Intercontinental Championship.
Ricochet VS. Chad Gable VS. Tomasso Ciampa VS. Matt Riddle
A ton of high spots in this match, in the end it was Gable with the win with his chaos theory to Ciampa.
Winner: Chad Gable
After the match Gable got his son and put him on his shoulder and ran around the ring with him.
Sami Zayn is in the back talking to Cody Rhodes and Seth walks in and says I see talking strategy behind my back and Zayn flipped out and told Seth his friend Kevin Owens is on the shelf because of The Judgment Day and now they have the chance three of the best to stand side by side and get the Tudgment Day. Zayn asks if they’re cool now and Cody says yeah we are and walks away and Seth says yeah we are cool and walks away and Sami stands there and says that doesn’t feel cool.
The Miz was waiting for a photo shoot and he was told he had to wait because L.A. Knight was getting his photo shoot done. The Miz irritated by this said the guy wins one battle royal and I have to wait…. Adam Pearce is going to hear about this.
Shinsuke Nakamura VS. Bronson Reed
After multiple powerbombs, Reed misses with the Tsunami and Nakamura hits two Kinshasa Kicks to get the win.
Winner: Shinsuke Nakamura
In the back the trainer tells Adam Pearce that Raquel Rodriguez is not quite ready to go yet.
Ludwig Kaiser comes in Maxxine Dupri’s locker room and tells her he had his eye on her for a few weeks now. He runs with men, and she is running around with a big, disgusting freak and Maxxine slaps him in the face and Otis comes in and challenges him to a match tonight. Kaiser said he would see Otis out there and he will see Maxine as well.
Becky Lynch is out to the ring and talked about her rematch with Trish Stratus next week. Zoey Stark comes out and Becky tells her Trish is dragging her down. Shayna Baszler comes out and Becky tells her she looks rough and Shayna says you should see how Ronda Rousey looks today but you won’t because I beat her and ran her out of WWE. Shayna then asked Zoey who was the baddest, and Shayna and Zoey exchanged words and Becky says now would be a great night for the two of you to fight this out. Adam Pearce comes out and makes the match official.
Finn Balor is talking with JD McDonagh and Priest comes in and tells JD to get lost this is Judgment Day business and Finn tells Priest there is nothing you can’t talk about in front of JD I have known him for over 20 years. Priest then asked Finn what is up with not coming out with The Judgment Day and then attacking Rollins without them knowing. Finn said I just made my own decision and things started getting heated when JD said you know what…I believe that briefcase has really come between you two and told Priest maybe he needs to get rid of it.
Shayna Baszler VS. Zoey Stark
A good fight with Shayna hitting the baddest slam on Stark to get the win.
Winner: Shayna Baszler
Byron Saxton interviews Shinsuke Nakamura and says he is tired of people getting in his way and tonight he won and from now on he carves his own way and then a noise is heard, and it was JD McDonagh attacking Sami Zayn.
Otis VS. Ludwig Kaiser
While Vinci had the referee distracted Gunther came in and helped Kaiser and Kaiser was able to get the pin.
Winner: Ludwig Kaiser
After the match, Imperium continued to beat on Otis until Chad Gable came in and ran them off.
Jackie Redmond tried to interview Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins and when she asked if Sami was going to be ready to go, they both tried to answer at the same time and Cody told Seth to handle the interview and he would see him out there. Shinsuke Nakamura came in and told Seth if he needed help, he would be his partner and Seth told Shinsuke he has had respect for him for a long time so let’s ride baby! Shinsuke stood there and smiled.
The Miz is out for MizTv, and he says he was taught respect and met the wrestlers in the locker room and L.A. Knight did not shake his hand. Knight comes out. Knight said he thought they had a great introduction at the battle royal at SummerSlam and then he said let me introduce myself with everybody saying L.A. Knight. He then tried to shake Miz’s hand and Miz refused then blamed him for stealing his spotlight. Knight says he does not have a problem with him, and he does not want to make this personal. Miz then went on a rant about being a two-time grand slam champion and asked Knight what he has been doing for the past 20 years and Knight said he has been doing everything he could from the outside looking in while this company was betting on all the wrong horses like him.
The Miz told Knight he isn’t on his level and Knight told him to prove him wrong. Miz went to pick up his jacket and Knight started laughing and Miz attacked Knight and went for the Skull Crushing Finale and Knight reversed it to hit his BFT.
A video package of the Viking Raiders is shown.
The Viking Raiders VS. Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston (The New Day)
Kofi hit Trouble in Paradise on Ivar then flew over the top taking out Erik on the outside, Woods flew across the ring off the top rope with the elbow and got the win.
Winners: The New Day
Byron Saxton interviews Becky Lynch and Shayna Baszler came in and said since she never needs her help and since she got rid of Ronda, she has a bunch of scores to settle and she will be coming for the Man sooner or later. Becky said she was looking forward to it.
Jackie Redmond caught up with the New Day and they said they feel great being back and they want to be the New WWE World Tag Team Champions.
They announce Sonya Deville is out indefinitely with a torn ACL and everyone wishes her well.
The Judgment Day VS. Seth “Freakin” Rollins & Shinsuke Nakamura & The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes
While the Judgement Day was coming to the ring, Raquel Rodriguez comes out and attacks Rhea Ripley. Cody went for Cross Rhodes on Balor but Priest hits him in the back with the briefcase as the referee is distracted.
Rhea finally gets off the apron and Priest hands Finn the briefcase. Priest gets attacked by Sami Zayn and as Finn begins to run with the briefcase, Rollins rolls in the ring and superkicks the briefcase into Finn’s face causing the briefcase to go flying. Rollins then shoves the briefcase the rest of the way out of the ring and Cody goes for Cross Rhodes again. This time getting the win.
Winners: The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes, Shinsuke Nakamura & Seth “Freakin” Rollins
After the match, The Judgment Day stand in the aisle and Cody, Shinsuke, Seth and Sami in the ring and celebrate the win when Cody and Seth start arguing. Then Sami raised both their hands and Shinsuke also grabbed Cody’s arm and raised it. Then Seth shoved Sami’s arm down and shook Cody’s hand, Seth and Cody then climb the corner ropes to celebrate their win, Sami is on a third corner and Shinsuke is standing in the fourth corner.
As Cody and Sami are still on their ropes, Seth gets down and immediately gets hit with a Kinshasa from Nakamura. Nakamura then slides out of the ring and walks out which leaves Cody and Sami yelling at him and then checking on Seth. Nakamura just continued to walk to the back without turning around.
