• Alexa opened the show with Mickie, apparently they're friends now despite the lack of any angle at Elimination Chamber. Bliss bragged about retaining and mocked the other women in the division. Asuka came out to confront Alexa but Nia Jax jumped her. Asuka put the armbar on Nia, so Mickie and Alexa jumped her, but Bayley and Sasha came to the rescue.
  
  
• Asuka, Bayley and Sasha defeated Alexa, Nia and Mickie in a six-woman tag. Bayley abandoned Sasha to the wolves in retaliation for Sasha screwing her over at Elimination Chamber, but continued to help Asuka who eventually submitted Mickie James.
  
  
• John Cena did an in-ring promo and admitted he had lost every opportunity he had for a Wrestlemania match. He declared he wanted the Undertaker which got a really big reaction, then claimed he'd been told this was impossible which left him no choice but to go to Smackdown tomorrow and attempt to get his Wrestlemania match that way.
  
  
• Bray Wyatt beat up both Rhyno and Heath Slater before the bell could be rung. He got a mic and declared Matt Hardy would have to face him again, because he was coming for him.
  
  
• The Miz cut an in-ring promo about the lack of solid Wrestlemania plans for him and the Intercontinental Title at Wrestlemania. Angle had told him his opponent tonight could determine his Mania opponent. Out came Seth Rollins.
  
  
• Seth defeated The Miz in a non-title match, hitting an amazing frog splash across the diagonal length of the ring. During his post-match celebration, Finn Balor came out and a pissed off Seth left.
  
  
• Finn was set to face Miz who was doing double-duty and was rightfully pissed about it. The Miztourage jumped Finn but got attacked by the Good Brothers, so Kurt kicked all four out and warned Miz any interference would result in his spot at Wrestlemania disappearing. Finn defeated The Miz.
  
  
• Reigns did an in-ring promo in which he declared that Brock Lesnar hadn't shown up because he was unprofessional and didn't care about WWE or the fans, but Reigns lives and breathed it and he was going to take the title from Brock at Mania. The delivery was good, the content wasn't, and the fans mostly booed Reigns the whole way through.
  
  
• The Bar retained their Tag Team titles in a 2-out-of-3 falls match against Titus Worldwide. They got the first fall in a few seconds, and then the second fall after roughly 10 minutes, then did a promo about how they had beaten everybody there was and now who was there to face at Wrestlemania?
  
  
• Jarrius "JJ" Robertson will be the recipient of this year's Warrior Award.
  
  
• Elias did a performance in the ring but was cut off by Braun Strowman. They had a quick match that ended by DQ when Elias used a fire extinguisher on Braun. He tried to beat up the blinded Braun afterwards but got caught and had to run away. Braun followed him bellowing backstage, passing a limo that was just pulling up with presumably HHH and Stephanie inside.
  
  
• Asuka and Nia Jax will have a rematch next week.
  
  
• HHH and Stephanie came to the ring and explained that Angle had double pnueumonia and had been hallucinating things when he claimed at Elimination Chamber that they were talking poo poo about Ronda Rousey backstage. They called out Kurt to make an apology but Rousey came out instead. Kurt rushed out and stopped her from killing everybody, explaining he needed this job and so he was going to admit that they were right and he had been wrong about what they said.
  
  
• HHH and Steph tried to leave but Ronda said there was still the matter of Stephanie slapping her, so SHE wanted an apology from Steph or she would rip her arm out of her socket. The crowd chanted,"RIP IT OUT!" and Stephanie initially growled then immediately chickened out and apologized profusely. As they prepared to leave, HHH suddenly threw a terrible looking punch at Kurt Angle and laid him out, and he and Steph headed up the ramp as Ronda checked on Kurt.
  

• John Cena came out to open the show, but with a Bludgeon Brother nameplate. He announced only Shinsuke Nakamura had a guaranteed spot at Wrestlemania on the Smackdown roster, and he wanted to get in on the Fastlane main event for a shot at AJ's title, and thus the other half of Nakamura's Wrestlemania title match.
  
  
• Shane McMahon came out first to talk about Cena's request, then Bryan came out to declare that he believed in Smackdown as the land of opportunity, so he was going to give Cena a chance. If he could beat AJ Styles in the main event of Smackdown tonight, he would be added to the multi-man title match at Fastlane.
  
  
• According to a sign in the crowd, Corbin doesn't wash his hands.
  
  
• Sami Zayn was facing Baron Corbin in a match, with Kevin Owens on commentary. Backstage, Shane and Bryan argued about the fact Owens was on commentary, with Bryan reminding Shane that regardless of whether you liked Owens or not, he was excellent on commentary (he is!).
  
  
• Corbin defeated Sami Zayn, after Sami was distracted when Ziggler came out of nowhere to superkick Owens on commentary. Postmatch, Ziggler jumped Corbin and hit him with the Zig-Zag. After a few moments of silence, they played the record scratch to interrupt nothing, then played Ziggler's theme.
  
  
• Shane ate popcorn happily backstage and claimed that Bryan's "boys" had got what was coming to them by being attacked from behind and losing by distraction. Bryan ignored this and asked if he could just go home to see his wife and kid instead of wasting his time on Smackdown, and Shane happily agreed.
  
  
• Backstage, Sami was furious while Owens continued to sell the superkick. They ran into Shane still eating popcorn, and he decided to joke that they should follow Bryan so they wouldn't be late for dinner at his house. Sami was furious, and pretty justifiably so.
  
  
• Ruby Riott defeated Naomi, so now Charlotte has defeated both of Ruby's friends and Ruby has defeated both of Charlotte's.
  
  
• Josh Duhamel (currently accused of buying PEDs from the same guy who claims Roman Reigns also bought them) appeared in a Fashion Files segment with Breezango and The New Day where he tried and failed to explain to everybody that he only plays a Police Detective on television, he isn't actually one.
  
  
• The New Day came out to talk about how great their matches against the Usos had been, and how they wanted them at Fastlane for another shot at the titles to take them to Wrestlemania. The Usos came out and did a hell of a promo about how they'd been sidelined from Wrestlemania every year they'd been in WWE but no more. The New Day came back with an equally great promo about how they had earned every shot they got and they were going to do the same at Fastlane. This was real good from both sides and the crowd was into it. Then the Bludgeon Brothers showed up.
  
  
• The Usos and the New Day momentarily faced down the Bludgeon Brothers, then left the ring and headed up the ramp. There was a small,"WHY YOU SCARED?" chant.
  
  
• An "Earlier Today" video was shown where Aiden English and Rusev complained to Shane McMahon that they weren't getting their due and Rusev in particular wasn't being used. Shane agreed and gave English a match against Shinsuke Nakamura.
  
  
• Ziggler cut what sounded like a heel promo, complete with those loving text graphics, saying if Cena made it into the multi-man match he would beat him just like all the rest.
  
  
• Bobby Roode was interviewed backstage where he said defending his US Title against Randy Orton was an honor. Orton showed up and said Roode was just another guy he had to run through to get what he wanted.
  
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Aiden English. As he left the ring, John Cena came out and the two had a brief staredown.
  
  
• Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were shown backstage watching Cena fight AJ, clearly agitated at the idea of another wrestler being added to THEIR match.
  
  
• Cena defeated AJ Styles in a very good match with some neat psychology that mostly went uncommented on by the commentary team. AJ had the match won with Cena looking like he was going to be counted-out, but AJ waved off the count only for Cena to put him through the table and then try to get the count-out win. AJ had Cena in the Calf-Crusher and he looked like he might tap only to see the Wrestlemania sign and use it for the motivation to power out, AA AJ and get the pin.
  
  
• Kevin and Sami rushed to the ring to beat up Cena, only for Baron Corbin to also join in on the fight. Ziggler showed up too and attacked AJ while Cena stood back and watched, then Cena AAed Ziggler to end the show.
  

Somebody fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Feb 28, 2018

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