• A contract signing between Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax was announced to be happening tonight.
  
• Kurt Angle opened the show but was cut off by Stephanie McMahon, who claimed she could manage her emotions and do what was "Best for Business", so she would oversee the contract signing tonight. Roman Reigns came out to boos and they attempted to further the "Roman is being held down by THE MAN" storyline. Kevin Owens came out and mocked Reigns but also thanked him for taking out Jinder Mahal and thus allowing Owens to backdoor his way into the MITB Ladder match. Owens got too familiar with Stephanie who punished him by putting him into a match against Reigns.
  
• Roman Reigns defeated Kevin Owens by DQ after Jinder Mahal jumped him at ringside. Owens, Mahal and Sunil Singh put the boots to Roman until Seth Rollins raced to the ring to chase them off. Kurt Angle ordered an impromptu tag team match.
  
• Roman and Seth defeated Jinder Mahal and Kevin Owens, with Rollins scoring the pinfall on Owens after missing his first Curb Stomp but hitting the second. After the match, Jinder attacked both Seth and Roman with a chair. The crowd cheered as Roman and Rollins were helped to their feet by referees, but the moment Roman's music hit the crowd started booing again.
  
• Roman Reigns vs Jinder Mahal is now officially a match at Money in the Bank.
  
• In what shocked absolutely nobody except for Vince McMahon, the Sami Zayn/Bobby Lashley "sisters" segment completely bombed. The "sisters" were three men in drag who made up stories about Lashley, then helped Zayn tried to beat up Lashley when he came out to the ring. Lashley fought them all off and the commentators alluded to how awful the segment was, which again came as a surprise to nobody except for Vince McMahon.
  
  

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• Alexa Bliss was interviewed by Renee Young, and claimed that Ember Moon beating her in a tag match after Wrestlemania was only because she had the element of surprise, and now Bliss was prepared for her.
  
• Alexa Bliss was not prepared for Ember Moon, who pinned her despite the attempted help of Mickie James.
  
• BRAUN and Finn Balor met with Stephanie (in Angle's office) to ask for a rematch against Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. Stephanie said they weren't really a team, that BRAUN cost them the match last week and therefore it should be BRAUN vs Balor. BRAUN crushed an apple in his hand and told a horrified Balor he loved competition.
  
• Baron Corbin defeated No Way Jose in a singles match.
  
• Chad Gable met with Kurt Angle, who was hanging out in a hallway after Stephanie took his office. Angle told Gable he'd intended him to replace Jinder Mahal last week in the threeway but "Management" had forced Kevin Owens on him. Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre showed up to mock both of them for being losers, and Gable got in Ziggler's face.
  
• The B Team defeated Breezango again in another quick match, and celebrated wildly with the commentators (but not Coachman) then rode one of their chairs down the ring ramp.
  
• Stephanie dominated the contract signing between Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax, reminding Ronda she had never had a singles match yet and her first would be a title shot against a woman far larger than herself. She then switched to mocking Nia Jax for taking so long to defeat Alexa Bliss and saying she was lazy for taking so long in her career to win the title. Jax and Ronda signed and shook hands, with Ronda telling Nia she would take her title AND her arm.
  
• Dolph Ziggler defeated Chad Gable in a quick match that was mostly technical before Ziggler headbutted Gable and hit him with a superkick. Postmatch, McIntyre hit Gable with the Claymore Kick.
  
• Nattie won a fatal fourway against Sarah Logan, Liv Morgan and Dana Brooke, despite inteference by Ruby Riott. Logan and Morgan teased fighting each other at one point but then laughed it off.
  
• Elias claimed credit for WWE's stock trading at an all-time high. He sang a song about how much everybody loved him, then assured them the feeling was not mutual.
  
• Elias defeated Bobby Roode in a singles match, after Elias managed to crotch him on the turnbuckle when Roode was setting up for a top rope spot. Afterwards, BRAUN appeared out of nowhere and ran through Elias to get to the ring for his own match.
  
• Next week, Seth Rollins will defend his Intercontinental Title against Jinder Mahal.
  
• BRAUN Strowman defeated Finn Balor in the main event. BRAUN dominated the first half of the match but then Balor had a hell of a comeback and things went back and forth with Balor countering BRAUN's signature moves (including the shoulder charge outside the ring) and almost being set-up for the double stomp before BRAUN recovered in time and was able to finally put him down. It was a cool match but I wish Balor had won.
  
• Postmatch BRAUN hauled up Balor as if he was going to beat on him some more, then put him in the corner and went and posed in the middle of the ring.
  

• Miz opened Smackdown with MizTV, teasing a Miz vs Daniel Bryan announcement that turned out to be a debut date for his new reality tv series with Maryse. He introduced New Day and did his best to sow dissension by getting one of them to take the one MITB spot the three had earned. They continued to back each other up though, challenged him to a fight and threw pancakes at him when he refused.
  
• Miz ran away and bumped into Paige backstage who forced him to go back out and live up to his claims that he could beat any one of them any day of the week.
  
• Miz defeated BIG E after a lengthy match when The Bar rushed to the ring and attacked the rest of New Day and distracted BIG E allowing Miz to hit the Skull Crushing Finale and get the pin.
  
• Big Cass has been selling a leg injury since the beating Daniel Bryan gave him last week. Daniel Bryan was interviewed about his match with Jeff Hardy, in which the winner will get Big Cass' shot against Samoa Joe for a spot in the MITB Ladder match.
  
• Aiden English sang an entrance for Lana, before the IIconics came out and offered their own duet calling Lana a loser.
  
• Lana defeated Billie Kay to qualify for the Money in the Bank ladder match, in a shock quick victory that had the crowd roaring,"LANA DAY!" in appreciation.
  
• Zelina Vega spoke for Andrade "Cien" Almas in a backstage promo, saying his opponent last week wasn't worthy of him and he was going to continue to dominate this week.
  
• Almas obliterated a jobber in short order.
  
• Carmella was interviewed backstage (initially wearing an Asuka mask) and insisted that she was not afraid of Asuka, because Charlotte Flair beat Asuka at Wrestlemania but Carmella has beaten Charlotte twice and that makes her twice as good as Asuka!
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura and AJ Styles met in the ring for an announcement of the stipulation for their PPV match. Shinsuke taunted AJ and suggested it might be a pillow fight, and an agitated AJ complained that they hadn't gotten the Shinsuke Nakamura they wanted on Smackdown, and the truth was no matter what the stipulation was, Shinsuke couldn't beat him when it counted. Shinsuke tried to cheapshot AJ and they ended up fighting out of the ring, into the crowd and back to ringside where Shinsuke was able to take out AJ with a chair. He dropped him onto an announce table and hit him with the Kinshasa, then counted to 10 as they crowd loudly booed him. Getting onto the announce table, he grabbed a mic and announced the stipulation would be a Last Man Standing match.
  
• The Good Brothers and The Usos were in the ring and went back and forth as to why they deserved the number one contender's spot against the Bludgeon Brothers.
  
• The Good Brothers defeated The Usos in a fast paced and physical match that was a lot of fun to watch. They now get a shot at the Bludgeon Brothers on the MITB PPV.
  
• Naomi defeated Sonya Deville in a rather dull match (the crowd was really into Naomi's entrance though), meaning Deville has now lost two shots at qualifying for MITB.
  
• An extremely pumped up Jeff Hardy was interviewed backstage by Renee about his match with Daniel Bryan tonight.
  
• Samoa Joe came out to ringside to do guest commentary while watching Jeff Hardy vs Daniel Bryan.
  
• Daniel Bryan submitted Jeff Hardy to win a match against Samoa Joe next week. The match was exciting and well-paced with a cool ending. Immediately afterwards, Joe got on the mic, shut down the celebration and reminded Bryan that all he has won is the chance to get murdered by Joe next week.
  
• Joe was interviewed backstage and told Renee that next week, he was putting Daniel Bryan to sleep. Yes. Yes. Yes.
  

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 23, 2018