WWE Battleground Kickoff Show
The WWE Battleground Kickoff Show begins with Renee Young, Byron Saxton, Booker T and Corey Graves on the panel. We are live inside the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri, the site of tonight’s show.
The panel shoots to Tom Phillips in the social media lounge. Phillips will be joined by Paul Heyman later in the Kickoff Show to answer Twitter questions from the WWE Universe.
We go back to the panel. The four members of the panel begin breaking down the matches on tonight’s pay-per-view, starting by talking about the cancellation of the I-C title match.
Crown On The Line
– R-Truth vs. King Barrett
The Kickoff Show panel kicks things down to ringside, where Michael Cole and the gang join us on commentary. Our Kickoff Show match is up next.
R-Truth’s music hits and out he comes. Out next after him is his opponent for tonight, King Barrett. One-on-one action kicks off tonight’s event in St. Louis..
The two exchange offense back-and-forth until finally Barrett settles in with control of the contest. Near the end of the match, Truth hits his Scissors Kick for a close near fall. Seconds later, however, Barrett hits a Winds of Change for a close nearfall. He then blasts Truth with the Bull Hammer Elbow for the 1-2-3.
Winner: King Barrett
More Kickoff Show
After the Barrett-Truth match, we head back to the panel and Renee Young, Byron Saxton, Booker T and Corey Graves break down some more of tonight’s matches and air some more video packages hyping up the matches.
WWE Battleground 2015
The 2015 WWE Battleground pay-per-view kicks off with the usual bad-ass video package highlighting tonight’s top few matches.
From there we shoot live into the Scottrade Center in St. Louis where fireworks explode, we see a shot of a packed house, and the announcers welcome us to the 2015 edition of WWE Battleground.