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  • UFC 192: Why Jon Jones attending could help spark more buys

    Submitted by Ben Miller

    Jon Jones is free from the clutches of “The Man” which has thrown a monkey wrench into UFC booking, or so says conventional wisdom. The theory is that the Daniel Cormier vs. Alexander Gustafsson fight at UFC 192 no longer will draw as a championship fight because fans don’t believe in the championship.

    Jones was the dominant champion in Cormier & Gustafsson’s weight class (having previously beaten both men in championship fights, even) until he was stripped of the belt for reasons that had nothing to do with fighting.  Since Jones can now officially return whenever he likes, the UFC 192 main event is meaningless, at least according to conventional wisdom.

    The reality is that Jones’s return to the UFC’s good graces is not a problem for UFC 192’s business prospects Saturday. Actually, it could even help.

    UFC 192 was a business problem before Jones ever copped a plea. As of this writing, tickets are still readily available, but that is just the problem with the live gate. As Paul Fontaine pointed out three months ago on this site, UFC pay-per-view business is heavily dependent on stars and grudge matches. Both Gustafsson and Cormier aren’t stars and this isn’t a grudge match. And while the size of Cormier and Gustafsson works to their advantage, it wouldn’t have been enough to make UFC 192 a big success even if Jones were behind bars.

    Essentially, the weak ticket sales illustrates that what the public had already decided was the same as many MMA observers, including myself, felt: Jon Jones is the real UFC light heavyweight champion, and promoting any other two fighters in a light heavyweight championship fight is a turnoff.

    The real uncertainty is not whether Jones’s re-introduction to UFC will hurt UFC 192 business. The real uncertainty it whether Jon Jones being back can help UFC 192 business.

    A long successful pro wrestling angle has been to have a third party at ringside while two feuding wrestlers have a match.  My favorite example — and an example that mirror’s UFC’s light heavyweight situation to a degree — was at WWF: In Your House in December 1996. “Sycho” Sid Vicious (yet another example of Vince McMahon thinking that his audience is dumb, assuming that fans might pronounce Psycho, “puh-sai-ko”) had recently won the WWF World title from Shawn Michaels by cheating (Sid hit Michaels with a video camera after a ref bump at Survivor Series ’96), and now Sid was to face Bret Hart at the following pay-per-view (In Your House: It’s Time because original booking plans were for Vader to win the title, not Sid).

    What on paper was a bland match between Sid and Bret was spiced up significantly by having Michaels at ringside to commentate.  In relation to UFC 192, Cormier is Sid, the unworthy champion. Gustafsson is Bret, the man pursuing a championship while really wanting to a rematch against someone else (Bret was gone from WWF television for most of 1996 after losing the title to Shawn at WrestleMania) and Jones is Michaels, the champion who lost his title under nefarious circumstances (and, coincidentally, the guy who I think is the greatest of all time at his sport/business).  

    The circumstances are right for Jones to attend UFC 192 Saturday night, sit at cageside, and spark some interest in an otherwise lagging pay-per-view.

    There are obvious differences between a wrestling angle where a third party sits ringside and a UFC fight where a third party sits cageside.  In wrestling, fans expect the ringside wrestler to interfere in the match somehow, while in UFC that would be frowned upon.  (Though, that’s not entirely impossible. Who can possibly forget Chuck Liddell’s cageside antics during the first Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin fight in Anaheim [which, believe it or not, had in-building heat rivaling Steve Austin at his peak & Cain Velasquez’s UFC heavyweight title win over Brock Lesnar]?)  

    Still, UFC could — with some precise PR magic by their PR wizard Dave Sholler and others — spike UFC 192 business by convincing UFC marks that business will pick up with Jones at cageside tonight. Obviously, UFC can’t state explicitly that Jones interfere in the match or fight the winner of DC vs. Gus that night, but UFC can imply that fireworks might go off.

    If UFC is going to run their business like pro wrestling or boxing instead of a structured sport — and all signs point to them continuing in that direction indefinitely — then they might as well go all the way.  Sure, rewarding Jon Jones’s bad behavior by upping his profile and making him the centerpiece of a pay-per-view he’s not even fighting at sends the wrong message.

    But UFC has crossed that bridge, chopped the bridge up into tiny little pieces, ground up those pieces, and smoked them in Keith Richards’s peace pipe. Sending the wrong message no longer matters, but popping a buyrate for this woebegone UFC 192 main event does.

  • WWE NXT Nashville, TN, house show results (10/2): Finn Balor vs Tyler Breeze

    Submitted by Adam Kirby

    Enzo Amore and Big Cass with Carmella over Chad Gable and Jason Jordan with the rocket launcher. Enzo got in virtually zero offense. Lots of creative ways to prevent Enzo from tagging Cass. Standard hot tag comeback from Cass before pinning Gable.

    Elias Sampson comes out with guitar to sing a song for Nashville about how much it sucks.

    Bull Dempsey over Elias Sampson via diving seated senton. Long heat segment on Bull that bored the crowd.

    WWE NXT Women’s Champion Bayley over Alexa Bliss and Emma after Bayley hits her suplex on Emma and Bliss. Typical heels team up on babyface triple threat until Emma and Bliss turn on eachother. Emma gains control with Bayley on the outside, locks in the Emma Lock on Bliss after a modified Super Dragon style Curbstomp, but Bayley breaks it up and suplexes Emma, who rolls out of the ring, and then hits it on Bliss for the pin.

    Samoa Joe over Baron Corbin after Corbin falls into the Coquina Clutch. Fourth match in a row with an extremely long wait for the face to quickly comeback and win. So far this has been a fun but mostly nothing show, as expected. 

    Apollo Crews over Tye Dillinger. Nothing match. Same pattern as every other one on the show so far. Non-stop babyface in peril spots have officially bored the life out of me. Crowd is still into it, but have come down since the first half of the show for sure.

    Eva Marie over Carmella via botch. Drake threw the x immediately after the pin with ringside doctor immediately attending to Carmella. Eva kicked Carmella in the head and it happened so quick I thought I missed how it happened. Drake kept patting the back of his head while looking towards the back. Carmella got up looking okay but shaken.

    WWE NXT Tag Team Champions Vaudevillians over the Mechanics after a long and competitive match. Other than the last match which had to break the pattern due to unfortunate circumstances, this is the only real match of the night to feature any real sense of back and forth action. Vaudevillians won with their finish.

    WWE NXT Champion Finn Balór over Tyler Breeze. Match of the night. Had a different feel, and Balór carries himself differently than anyone else on the show. A clear and obvious choice for champion and face of the brand. Tons of back and forth offense from both sides. Tyler Breeze did the RVD leg scissors rollup into a single leg Crab in one of the most over moves of the night. A bunch of great near falls, Finn crotch chopping the crowd to riotous applause, and at no point felt like it dragged. Great match, but maybe just in relation to the rest of the show.

    Overall a fun show that suffered from feeling too familiar at points. While more fun than the WWE house show I went to a couple weeks ago in Jonesboro, I can’t say it was necessarily better. 

  • NJPW/Revolution Pro live results: AJ Styles, Nakamura, Kyle O’Reilly, Kushida

    Submitted by Jan Buxton

    This was a joint show with NJPW and RevPro from York Hall in London, England.

    – Sha Samuels and James Castle b Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima
    – Martin Kirby b ACH
    – Shinsuke Nakamura b Big Damo
    – Hiroshi Tanahashi and Jushin Liger b Gedo and Kazuchika Okada
    – Kyle O’Reilly b Kushida
    – Tetsuya Naito b Mark Haskins
    – RPW Cruiserweight Chapion Josh Bodom b Jimmy Havoc to retain
    – RPW Champion AJ Styles b Will Ospreay and Marty Scurll to retain

    Notes:

    This was a very good show, so enjoyable. Nothing bad, lots of good matches. Both Nakamura-Damo and O’Reilly-Kushida started slowly but ended up really good by the end. The Tanahashi/Liger/Okada/Gedo tag was fun and quite the sight to see on British soil, and we got more Tanahashi vs Okada than I had expected going in which was nice. Mark Haskins (on a bit of a roll at the moment) really brought it against Naito I felt, and the main event was very good, especiall Marty Scurll who was quite great tonight, to me at least.

  • New Japan Destruction in Kobe feedback

    Thumbs up

    Best match: Nakamura vs. Goto

    Another good show. I thought the tag title match came off too rehearsed or choreographed and not like two teams in a fight.

    I knew Nakamura won the match when I watched but it was still very good. Had I not known the outcome, many of Goto’s near falls would have been very convincing.

    The show did a very good job of setting up matches for the near future which is great when you don’t have weekly TV to set up big shows.

    Mike Hiscoe

    Below are my thoughts on the Kobe show from this weekend

    -Overall I give the show a thumbs up

    -Best Match: Goto vs Nakamura

    -Worst Match: Juice Robinson, Capt. New Japan, and Nakanishi vs Nagata, Tiger Mask, and Liger

    -Kudos to New Japan for setting up feuds for their King of Pro Wrestling Show during Destruction in Kobe. Although the thought of another Ishii/Makabe match is down right infuriating.

    Luis Gonzalez

    Slight thumbs up

    Best Match: Nakamura/Goto

    Worst Match: Nagata/Liger/Tiger vs Nakanishi/CNJ/Robinson

    1) Shohei vs Finlay: Fun opener, not as strong as the young lions have been recently but when you look back at previous young lions from the past decade there is really no reason to complain. (**1/2)

    2) Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask vs Manabu Nakanishi, Captain New Japan & Juice Robinson: This was just a match. (**)

    3) CHAOS B Team vs Great Bash Heel, Mascara Dorada & Ryusuke Taguchi: There was some good stuff here, mostly involving the juniors, but I am not interested in Makabe vs Ishii IV, particularly considering Makabe has already beat him 3 TIMES. (**1/2)

    4) TenKoji & Matt Sydal vs Bullet Club: I actually really enjoyed this, mainly because if you’d told me four years ago that Evan Bourne would be teaming with Hiroyoshi Tenzan to face Luke Gallows and Kenny Omega in a New Japan ring I’d question your sanity. Nonetheless, there was some good stuff here and the finishing stretch with the juniors was great. (***1/4)

    5) Tetsuya Naito vs Katsuyori Shibata: You put these guys together and it will never be bad, but especially with the awesome build-up and high expectations from their G1 match, this fell a little short. Also, can we be finished with these low blows? Such a waste of a finish every single time. (***1/2)

    6) CHAOS vs Bullet Club: Whenever AJ and Okada were in, this was incredible. They turned it up to a level nobody expected, and really made me interested in their 10/12 match. The other stuff was fine but this match’s job was to sell me on the King Of Pro Wrestling match and it absolutely succeeded. (***1/4)

    7) IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: reDRagon (c) vs Time Splitters: I thought this was a hell of a match, and was my match of the night to this point, but the crowd just didn’t get into it. It’s sad to see, because these four guys are incredible talents and this match would have gotten over so big in the US. More straight tag team matches for this junior title, please. (***3/4)

    8) IWGP Heavyweight Championship Wrestle Kingdom 9 In Tokyo Dome 1/4/2016 Certificate Gimmick: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Bad Luck Fale: This was the perfect spectacle match. Tanahashi was phenomenal here, and Fale held up his end of the bargain and was the fierce giant he needed to be. While certainly not any sort of match-of-the-year contender, I’m sure this surprised a lot of people and certainly exceeded my expectations. (****)

    9) IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs Shinsuke Nakamura: This was exactly what you would have expected and maybe a little bit better. That’s not a bad thing when these two guys are in my top 10 workers for this year, but we’ve seen this match before many times. Nonetheless, the finishing stuff was great, Goto adding arm submissions to his arsenal was absolutely fantastic, and the final minute or two delivered in a big way so I can’t hate on this match at all. (****1/4)

    Overall a really good show but very similar to everything over the last 6 months. I’m sensing that New Japan’s main event scene is as strong as ever but the same matchups keep getting repeated, which can only go on for so long. The undercards simply have TOO MANY AMERICANS. So far this year New Japan has debuted: Jay White, David Finlay, Juice Robinson, Beretta, Matt Sydal, Kenny Omega, Michael Elgin and Cody Hall, with The Briscoes & Jay Lethal rumoured to be coming. The crowd doesn’t really care about these meaningless introductions 90% of the time, and what’s more concerning is that not a single Japanese wrestler has debuted this year. Just something to think about.

    Brian Jackson

    Thumbs up. Best match Goto vs. Nakamura 

    Yohei Komatsu and Sho Tanaka vs. Jay White and David Finlay

    I actually like these tag match quite a bit with the younger guys… they’re always really good. I can’t wait to see what Komastsu and Tanaka look like in couple of years.

    IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: reDragon vs. Time Splitters

    This match was really good but the crowd would have way more into it if was an American crowd. 

    IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hirooki Goto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

    Really good match, but basically the same one we have seen all year. 

    John Juett

  • WWE Raw 9/28 Superstars matches, notes

    Submitted by Brandon Howard

    – Cesaro beat Heath Slater 

    – Lucha Dragons beat the Ascension

    Notes:

    – John Cena came across tonight as a star above the level of everyone else. I was very impressed by Cena during this weekend/Monday. Most others got good reactions too. The crowd was pretty hot through most of the show, even popping for Kane.

    – It was remarkable that Rollins and Ambrose got good pops when they appeared on the screen for the first time for their skits. Then Reigns was panned to after Ambrose and the reaction for Reigns was the strongest of the three.

    – Crowd died for the middle of Reigns vs Wyatt but liked the plunder after the count out a lot.

  • WWE 9/28 Syracuse, NY, house show results: John Cena vs. Seth Rollins

    Submitted anonymously

    – WWE Tag Team Champions New Day beat Primetime Players & Dudleys. After the match, New Day tried to put one of the Dudleys through a table, but instead Xavier ended up taking the 3D through the table.

    – Curtis Axel & Damien Sandow beat Los Matadores in a quick match. The Matadores worked as heels (I don’t remember if they made a turn on television). Torito came out to help Axel & Sandow, which led to the finish. 

    – Chris Jericho beat Luke Harper in a good match. Jericho was super over. 

    – Ryback beat WWE I-C Champion Kevin Owens by DQ (eye rake). Ryback got a good crowd reaction. He laid out Owens after the match. 

    – WWE Divas Champion Charlotte & Becky Lynch beat the Bellas (with Fox at ringside). Bellas got the heat on Becky, then Charlotte made the comeback and won with the Figure 8. Not much to the match.

    – Big Show beat Cesaro clean with a chokeslam. Better than expected. 

    – WWE U.S. Champion John Cena beat WWE Champion Seth Rollins with the AA in a good, long match. Both worked really hard. 

  • WWE 9/27 Erie, PA, house show results: Roman Reigns & Dean Ambrose vs. Wyatts

    Submitted by Shooterchris

    – Neville beat Stardust in 9:30 with the Red Arrow.

    – Jack Swagger made the Miz tap out to the ankle lock in 9 minutes

    – Lucha Dragons over the Ascension in 7:45.  Kids were into the Dragons.  Kalisto’s mask actually came off when he did a splash onto the Ascension but luckily he landed face down and was able to put the mask back on within a few seconds. 

    – Adam Rose came out with somewhat of a new gimmick.  He wore black dress pants and blue dress shirt with white glasses.  He told all the fans they are looser and should leave.  This went on for about 3 minutes until Jimmy Uso superkicked Rose to start and end the match in 5 seconds.

    – Street fight: Randy Orton beat Sheamus in 20 minutes with the RKO. Good psychology by Orton leading to the RKO

    – Natalia beat Naomi in 5:30

    – Dolph Ziggler over Rusev in 17 minutes. Rusev showed real good intensity and Ziggler is always good.

    – Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose beat Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman. Good crowd reaction throughout the match.  Strowman looked real green but he is new.  The other 3 looked great.

    Notes:

    – 20 minutes before the show started, they had the fans vote on what match they want to see on the monitor above the ring.  The choices were all from past Summerslams.  The choices were Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels, Undertaker vs Mick Foley or Undertaker vs Edge.  Undertaker vs Edge won.

    – Attendance was way down from the last show here.  One side of ringside seats was only about 10% full.  Overall floor seats were only about 30 percent full.  Seems like the price of those tickets went way up since the last show here.  Overall, I’m estimating the crowd at only 2,500. 

    By Jared Lampman

    Here is a quick run down of the live event in Erie tonight.

    Arrived at the end of the first match which had Neville going over Stardust. What I saw of it was awesome. Really had the crowd going.

    Swagger over The Miz in what was easily the laziest match of the night. My wife has never been to a live event and rarely watches the product but she even commented on how slow they were and how little they appeared to be trying. 

    Lucha Dragons get the win against The Ascension. Match was entertaining and got the crowd rolling after the Miz/Swagger snooze fest. 

    Jimmy Uso goes over Adam Rose with a super kick after Rose antagonizes the crowd. I guess Rose was trying out a new gimmick which I had not  seen. He was wearing a collared shirt tucked in to slacks with thick rimmed glasses. His promo probably lasted 5 minutes at the very least. Nothing remarkable. Seems like he is on his way out the door and they are just throwing him out there to fill time. As soon as he finished talking Uso delivered the kick and it was over in less than 10 seconds.

    Last bout before intermission was Orton and Sheamus in a street fight. Match went about 15 minutes I am guessing with Orton going over with an RKO. Good hard fight that was pretty physical. Sheamus got thrown through a table leaning against the ring post which got a nice pop.

    Ziggler over Rusev in a nice hard fought bout. Ziggler nails the Zig-Zag shortly after Summer Rae smacks him with her shoe and she is sent back to the locker room. No flirting  between the two.

    Second to last match is Natty and Naomi with Natty getting the sub via sharp shooter. My wife is really into the Divas since we began watching Total Divas together. She enjoyed the match but was sad it was the only divas bout on the card.

    Main Event was Dean and Roman vs. Bray and Braun. Crowd popped big for Ambrose and Reigns. Only saw half the match before leaving. We took my 10 month old and he had about had it so we got while the getting was good.

  • ROH 9/26 Lockport, NY, house show results: Jay Lethal vs. Stevie Richards, Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole vs. ACH vs. Moose

    Submitted by J.C. Gethicker

    Tonight’s ROH show in Lockport,NY could have been a giant mess. The Briscoes pulled out due to a funeral they needed to attend, Nick Jackson cancelled his entire weekend of shows because his wife went into labor early. Unforeseen circumstances show how much character and heart a person OR a company has. Despite the losses of talent, ROH made it work, and delivered a pretty good show tonight.

    Veda Scott vs. Sumie Sukai

    This started off pretty slow and sloppy. It’s obvious that this roster needs more depth in the Women’s division. They picked it up at the end and made it somewhat entertaining.

    ANX vs. House Of Truth

    Decent match but nothing too special. Funny stuff from the crowd calling J Diesel Mini-Tista! ANX gets the win and continues up the tag ranks.

    Caprice Coleman vs. Pepper Parks 

    Great promo by Coleman before this match started. He took the reins as the de facto heel here as Parks is from Buffalo. One of the best promos I’ve ever heard him cut actually. OK match. Coleman gets the win when Parks tries to use a chain to cheat, steals it, and uses it on him. Nice Let’s Go Buffalo chants in the match as well by the crowd.

    Roderick Strong vs Watanabe

    Great, hard-hitting match as you might suspect. They really beat each other up. Roddy gets the win with a Sic Kick. One of Watanabe’s better ROH outings.

    Matt Jackson vs. Matt Taven

    Adam Cole cuts promo saying he has some unfinished business after Matt Jackson interfered in his match the night before. He calls out Jackson, says he has a match later with Matt Taven, and refers to him as One Buck. Of course, the crowd latched onto this and we had the One Buck chant tonight! Matt Jackson came from in from behind and Super Kicked Cole. Taven then hit the ring and attacked Jackson, promptly starting their match. Even as a single, Matt was super over and had good, entertaining match with Taven. Matt had some hilarious spots using the crotch chop. Particularly when he did a crotch-chop and suck-it between a count to 10 in the corner with punches. 1… suck it! 2… suck it! 3… suck it! And so on. Cole being at ringside really added a good dimension to this match. Matt Jackson finally won with a superkick and had a good singles showing. 

    Cheeseburger & Will Ferrara vs Brutal Bob Evans & GN Hughes

    This was good comedy match with Cheeseburger some over as a white-meat babyface in The Nickel City. Looks like Cheeseburger & Ferrara may be a regular team. Nice new double team finisher that won them the match.

    Chris Daniels vs. Hanson

    First off, I just love the evolution of The Addiction gimmick with Kaz becoming The Rock N Roll Rebel and Daniels becoming The Ring General. Great promo before this match with The Addiction saying they never got pinned for The World Tag Titles of The World. So as far as they are concerning they are still the champions. War Machine interrupts and wants a match. Daniels then says Kaz is hurt. Hanson then challenges The Fallen Angel to a singles match. OK match ends in a double DQ. A brawl ensues between the two teams which requires security to come out. Two good points follows with Hanson taking a dive to the outside onto the other three and a slew of security. Also a nasty bump by Daniels, taking a double chokeslam from War Machine through 4 chairs! 

    Proving Ground match: ROH World Champion/TV Champion Lethal vs. Stevie Richards

    Stevie Richards is still in damn good shape and had a pretty good match with the Champ tonight. Lethal pretty over here in Buffalo as the crowd showed Lethal a lot of respect. It was well deserved, as he put in a good match giving as that classic Horsemen ring psychology. Which he does on most nights, which makes him one of the best in the business. Taeler Hendrix and Truth accompanied Lethal tonight and it added a new wrinkle to the House of Truth. After valiant effort, Lethal retains after Lethal Injection.

    Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole vs. ACH vs. Moose

    Great main event! I like how they didn’t let anything outshine the main event and burn the crowd out beforehand. This was the wild, insane, fun match you come to expect from an ROH main event. Great work from all of them, particularly ACH. Maybe that’s why he went over. ACH with a pinfall win over Moose to win this match. ACH looks to be on the rise and getting in line for an epic program with Jay Lethal once again. ****

  • WWE 9-25 House Show Results Toronto: John Cena vs Seth Rollins

    Xavier Woods and Big E def. PTP when Kofi interfered and hit trouble in Paradise on Titus.

    Braun Strowman def Damien Sandow in a squash. Sandow has new music

    Curtis Axel and El Torito def. Los Matadores. It started as a handicap match as Axel Vs Matadores but then El Torito came out to “Bad To The Bone” and became Axel’s partner.

    Chris Jericho def Luke Harper with the codebreaker.

    Ryback def. Kevin Owens by dq when Owens raked the eyes. Ryback hit shell shock after the match

    Ambrose def. Bray Wyatt. No holds barred match, Harper came out and attacked Ambrose and set up a table, then the Dudley’s put Harper through the table. Strowman came and beat up the Dudley’s and then ryback came out and beat up Strowman with Ambrose. Ambrose hit dirty deeds for the win. Wyatt tripped taking the move so it looked soft

    Charlotte and Becky def. The Bella’s with Alicia fox at ringside.

    Big Show def. Cesaro with a chokeslam. Crowd was chanting for Show to retire, so he took the mic and said “no”.

    Cena def. Rollins to retain US title with an AA off the top. Pretty much the same match as their NOC match except the finish. 

  • ROH 9-25 House Show Results California, PA Briscoes vs Addiction

    By Janmie Peklicz

    Taeler Hendrix pinned Mandy Leon. After the match, B.J. Whitmer came out and insulted both women and introduced Kelly Klein as the newest member of Decade.

    The Addiction (Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels) defeated Will Ferrara and Watanabe. After the match, The Addiction continued the attack until The Briscoes ran out for the save. Main Event announced as Briscoes vs. Addiction later in night.

    ACH pinned Caprice Coleman.

    Adam Cole challenged Kyle O’Reilly to a fight. O’Reilly is in Japan so Cheeseburger came out. Cole pinned Cheeseburger and attacked him after the match until Matt Jackson made the save with a Superkick. Nick Jackson is a no-show due to his wife going in to labor.

    Moose & War Machine defeated House Of Truth (Jay Lethal, Jay Diesel &Donovan Dijak w/Truth Martini and Taeler Hendrix) after Hanson pinned Diesel.

    “Brutal” Bob Evans pins Shaheem Ali.

    The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett w/Maria Kanellis) defeated The All Night Express (Kenny King & Rhett Titus) in a Proving Ground Match after Adam Cole interfered and Bennett pinned Titus after the Hail Mary. After the match, Matt Jackson gave Cole two more Superkicks leading to Cole challenging Jackson to a match.

    Adam Cole pinned Matt Jackson. After the match, Jackson gave Cole one final Superkick.

    Michael Elgin pinned Roderick Strong after an Elgin Bomb.

    The Briscoes defeated The Addiction after Mark Briscoe pinned Christopher Daniels after a Froggy ‘Bow.