Dean Ambrose, John Cena & The Authority Open Up RAW
The post-Night Of Champions edition of WWE RAW, which emanates from Memphis, Tennessee this week opens up with Dean Ambrose’s theme music playing. Ambrose makes his way to the ring in street clothes.
Ambrose hops on the mic and begins by saying, “I’m not dead!” He says he’s far from it. He brings up the cinder block incident and how The Authority ganged up on him and he showed the clips of Seth Rollins hitting him with the Curb Stomp on the cinder blocks several week’s ago on RAW.
He goes on to say he’s going to hold a grudge and he ain’t leaving the ring until they come out. He throws the mic, jumps out of the ring and grabs a chair. He comes back in the ring, opens up the chair and sits down on it and simply waits.
Instead of who he was wanting, out comes John Cena. Ambrose throws the chair out of the ring and says he’s got to be honest, he’s annoyed that John Cena is standing in the ring with him right now. He tells Cena not to give him a reason not to like him and warns him that he’s flying a little close to the fire right now.
Cena says he can relate to Ambrose. He talks about how he should be the WWE World Heavyweight Champion right now. Cena talks about how he’s also pissed at Seth Rollins. He says he’s cashing in. Cena says no one is going to stop him from getting his hands on Seth Rollins.
Ambrose puts his hand on Cena’s shoulder and said he warned him. He doesn’t like to have to say it twice. He told Cena not to get in his way. Cena takes his shirt off like he’s preparing to fight. Ambrose does the same.
Before they can get it on, however, Triple H’s “King of Kings” plays and out he walks with the entire Authority group, consisting of Stephanie McMahon, Kane, Randy Orton and Seth Rollins.
The Authority remains at the top of the stage and HHH tells them to relax. He says they both want to fight Rollins tonight but no one is fighting Rollins tonight. He says those two, however, will be fighting. HHH goes to explain what they will be doing tonight, but Cena interrupts him, drops the mic and just charges at them. Ambrose does the same.
Cena and Ambrose take out all of The Authority except Rollins. Rollins runs away through the crowd and briefly, Ambrose gets his hands on him. Rollins breaks free and Ambrose chases him to the back.
Still in the ring and on the ramp are the rest of The Authority. The announcers at ringside talk about what just happened as The Authority leaves.
Backstage we see Ambrose and Rollins battling. Cena enters the picture. Rollins breaks free again and runs out through the parking garage. He knocks someone over and jumps in whoever that person’s car was. Ambrose jumps into the trunk that was open, but Rollins drives off. Ambrose falls down. He and Cena look at each other. Ambrose smirks and we head to commercial.
Backstage: The Authority Argues Among Themselves
We return from commercial and we see Orton complaining to Kane. Triple H and Stephanie walk in. HHH tells Kane he’s going one-on-one with Ambrose tonight and that Orton is going one-on-one with Cena. Kane asks why they have to. Stephanie pretty much tells them why. Kane leaves. Orton makes a remark about how he’s tired of them starting fires that they have to put out. Now he walks off.
WWE Intercontinental Championship
The Miz (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler
The Miz’s theme hits and out he walks with Damien Mizdow. Both dressed alike. Sandow has a replica I-C title to go with Miz’s real I-C title. Michael Cole informs us on commentary that this will be an immediate rematch for the I-C title from last night’s Night Of Champions pay-per-view.
From there, Dolph Ziggler’s music hits and out he walks by himself. The announcers are already ignoring the action as they talk about how Florida Georgia Line was out at commentary last night during the pay-per-view. They go back to explain how Miz cheated to defeat Ziggler to win the title last night.
The bell rings and Justin Roberts does the formal introductions since this is a title match. Sandow does Miz’s introductory poses with him as Roberts finishes up his thing, the bell rings and the match begins.
Early on Ziggler is having his way with the I-C champ as the fans in Memphis break out into a loud “let’s go Ziggler” chant. It isn’t long before Miz takes control of the offense, which just results in the fans rallying behind Dolph even more with louder “Ziggler! Ziggler!” chants. It does no good, however, as Miz remains in control of the action.
Miz goes to get Ziggler in the figure-four leg lock, however Ziggler shoves him off with his foot and Miz ends up ramming himself shoulder-first into the ring post from inside the ring. This allows Ziggler to fire up on offense. Miz tries to roll away from him at one point, leading to a very noticable botched spot. Regardless, they recover and Miz hangs Ziggler throat-first over the top rope. Ziggler crashes out to the floor as we head to a mid-match commercial.
We return from commercial and we see The Miz firmly in control of the offense until he comes off the top rope and is met on the way down by a huge drop kick from Ziggler. We see some replays of that because it looked awesome and now the crowd is alive and cheering on Ziggler once again.
Ziggler is firing up on offense now and in typical Dolph Ziggler fashion, is flying and all over the place with high-intensity offense. Ziggler goes to the top tope and this time he’s caught on the way down by the legs by Miz, who in one quick motion locks him up in the figure four leg lock. Ziggler is stuck in the hold now and is screaming in pain. Eventually, Ziggler makes it to the ropes to break the hold. He rolls out of the ring to recover a bit as the fans chant “let’s go Ziggler.”
Miz goes to dive feet-first through the ropes onto Ziggler on the floor but Ziggler side-steps him and then clotheslines him down to the mat outside the ring hard. Back in the ring, it’s a mere seconds later and Miz hits the Skull Crushing Fniale. He immediately covers Ziggler but Ziggler somehow manages to kick out at two. The fans break out into “let’s go Ziggler” chants louder than they have all night after that one. Ziggler hits the FameAsser out of nowhere and he immediately covers Miz but now Miz somehow manages to kick out at two. This is turning into a great RAW match.
Ziggler goes for the Zig-Zag out of nowhere, but is distracted by Sandow. Miz rolls him up from behind and grabs the tights, but Ziggler rolls it over and he grabs the tights of Miz. 1-2-3. Ziggler wins and is once again the WWE Intercontinental Champion.
Winner and NEW WWE Intercontinental Champion: Dolph Ziggler
