• The show opened with a Memorial Day tribute to the armed forces.
  
• BRAUN came to the ring and explained that winning the MITB Ladder match will make him Mr. Monster in the Bank, and that Brock Lesnar will "get these hands".
  
• Finn Balor showed up (some people booed!) and said it took everything BRAUN had to beat him last week, but at MITB he would be facing Finn AND all the other competitors. Finn intended to get back the Universal Title he never lost, and slapped BRAUN for calling him impressive "for a little guy", so BRAUN tossed him out of the ring.
  
• Finn Balor defeated BRAUN by DQ, in a match where he looked like he might win clean until Kevin Owens, who was out for guest commentary, rushed the ring to attack him. BRAUN flung a ladder impressively far at Owens as he ran up the ramp, and Kurt Angle prevented Owens from taking Memorial Day off because, after all, he's Canadian.
  
• Sasha Banks did a promo about winning the Gauntlet Match tonight for a spot in the MITB ladder match.
  
• Elias spent a long time stalling in the ring, refusing to sing for the particularly disgusting and ugly crowd. Finally Seth Rollins showed up for his Intercontinental Title match against Jinder Mahal, and after Rollins threw his stool out of the ring, Elias left.
  
• Seth Rollins lost to Jinder Mahal, but retained his IC Title due to losing by DQ. After Sunil Singh was ejected from ringside, he returned and distracted Rollins who took a chair shot from Jinder but managed to survive long enough to put a beating on Sunil and then take the chair to Jinder himself and get DQed. Afterwards, Elias assaulted Rollins with his guitar and left him laying, but Rollins refused help from the officials and walked out under his own power.
  
• Nia Jax, now acting the heel, destroyed a local jobber in front of Ronda Rousey. She played up her superior size and power, allowing the jobber to put her into an armbar before powering easily out. When Ronda finally confronted her, Nia laughed off her patented mean look and said it didn't scare her, it just made her laugh.
  
• Dana Brooke had done some Steiner Math to figure out the formula to win the Gauntlet match tonight.
  
• The Deleters of Worlds defeated The Ascension in a tag match. Backstage, Kurt Angle was impressed but The B Team was not, and demanded a tag title shot. Kurt declined, saying they needed to get through the rest of the tag division first. The B Team, not quite grasping that Kurt could hear them talking, decided that what he really meant was that they needed to invite the tag division to a Memorial Day BBQ.
  
• The Riott Squad did a promo about getting into MITB by one of them winning the Gauntlet Match tonight.
  
• Kevin Owens defeated Bobby Roode in a singles match, but immediately afterwards BRAUN came out to confront him. Owens ran but got cut off by Roode, and BRAUN got him into the ring and shoulder charged through him. Roode celebrated as BRAUN destroyed Owens, and then in what came as a surprise to nobody but Bobby Roode, BRAUN destroyed him too.
  
• Sami Zayn apologized for last week's astonishingly awful segment, admitted those men weren't REALLY Bobby Lashley's sisters, but claimed he was right that Bobby Lashley was a bully. Lashley came out, gave thanks to ARE TROOPS and then told Sami to man up and shake his hand and then they could settle this in the ring at MITB like men. Sami did so, then talked trash, and Lashley cranked up the pressure on his handshake to cause Sami great pain.
  
• Mickie James did a promo about winning the Gauntlet Match tonight.
  
• Drew McIntyre destroyed Chad Gable in a singles match.
  
• The B Team held their Memorial Day BBQ with the Tag Division, and after handing over the food they quietly mentioned they were going to face the Deleters of Worlds for their Tag Titles and tried to leave. This eventually kicked off a food fight, as of course it must, though Rhyno was too busy eating to take part. The B Team returned and put Rhyno through a table. Michael Cole noted this was one of the saddest things he'd ever seen.
  
• The B Team ran backstage to complain to Kurt Angle and demand a Raw Tag Team Title match. Kurt announced that next week would be a tag team battle royal with the winners getting a title shot against the Deleters of Worlds. Curtis Axel hugged Kurt, getting food all over his suit.
  
• Bayley came out to open the Gauntlet match and was interviewed in-ring about the odds being against her. Liv Morgan was her opponent, but Bayley destroyed her with a single Bayley-to-Belly and got the immediate win. Sarah Logan was out next and fared a little better, actually taking it to Bayley a little bit only to get rolled up and pinned. Liv and Sarah teamed up to assault Bayley and knock her out just in time for Ruby Riott to come out.
  
• Ruby defeated Bayley, Dana Brooke and then Mickie James to get down to herself vs Sasha Banks for a spot in the MITB match.
  
• Sasha defeated Ruby Riott by submission to qualify for the MITB Ladder match. She powerbombed Ruby and put her into the Banks Statement, then broke it herself to stop Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan jumping her, then put Ruby back into the Banks Statement to get the win.
  

• Samoa Joe opened the show by storming down to the ring, setting up a ladder and retrieving the MITB briefcase. He then cut a loving AMAZING promo about destroying Daniel Bryan's hopes and dreams.
  
• Daniel Bryan showed up and warned him that if he mentioned his wife and daughter again, he would break Joe's leg. He didn't want to wait, he wanted to fight RIGHT NOW.
  
• Joe was loving down to go LET'S DO THIS gently caress YE.... Big Cass showed up. He said Paige had told him he and Samoa Joe would be wrestling for the MITB spot once he was cleared... and he was cleared now. He attacked Joe with his crutch, took some kicks from Bryan before whipping him into the ladder, then took out Joe with the MITB briefcase.
  
• We were promised Samoa Joe vs Daniel Bryan
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura walked backstage dropping pieces of paper numbered 1-9, when he got to 10 he tore it up.
  
• Paige met with Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville who complained about Asuka getting shots, so she offered Mandy Rose a chance to take her on. Renee showed up to ask about WE WERE PROMISED SAMOA JOE VS DANIEL BRYAN and she explained Cass had lied, but he was cleared and she admired the passion shown, so she was changing the main event of Daniel Bryan vs Samoa Joe vs Big Cass.
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Tye Dillinger, in a match where Tye put up a surprisingly good fight thanks to Nakamura being obsessed with putting him down for a 10 count, and "The Perfect 10" having a little fun with that. Finally Shinsuke got serious and laid him out with the Kinshasa. After the match he hit him with another one to the back of the neck and finally got the 10 count he'd been after.
  
• AJ Styles was interviewed backstage and said Shinsuke had chosen a match that benefited himself as a striker, but AJ was used to coming in the underdog and proving himself the better man.
  
• Lana came out with Aiden English and Rusev (who was livestreaming it) for her dance-off, followed by Naomi who came out with the Usos. Both seemed to appreciate the other and they ended up dancing together until Lana hit a neckbreaker on Naomi. A fight broke out with Naomi and the Usos coming out on top.
  
• A blindfolded Miz was practising knocked pancakes out of the air, thrown at him by The Bar in preparation for their 6 man tag against The New Day.
  
• The New Day defeated The Miz and The Bar in an excited, fast-paced and lengthy match that the crowd got REALLY into. After the match, New Day continued to play up that we still don't know which of them will be competing in the MITB ladder match.
  
• The Good Brothers were interviewed backstage, where they showed off Karl Anderson's abs and insisted they'd gone out drinking with the Usos and buried the hatchet, and now were ready for the Bludgeon Brothers. The Bludgeon Brothers interupted via a nearby television screen to warn them to be prepared.
  
• Sonya Deville jumped Asuka from behind as she was coming to the ring for her match with Mandy Rose. Carmella was on guest commentary and was delighted by this, but less so when Asuka was still able to recover and defeat Rose by submission. Carmella and Asuka faced off after the match and Carmella continued to put on a brave face.
  
• Becky and Charlotte spoke backstage about both of them needing to win the MITB ladder match, and they couldn't let their friendship get in the way. Paige showed up to encourage their "competitive spirit".
  
• Sin Cara embraced a confused Andrade "Cien" Almas backstage, only to be cut off by Zelina Vega who told him the man he thought he knew was now Andrade, who was the future of WWE unlike Sin Cara.
  
• Samoa Joe defeated Daniel Bryan and Big Cass to qualify for the MITB ladder match. It was a good match, with Cass largely being sidelined early and then Daniel Bryan slowly gaining the upperhand on both Joe and Cass before concentrating fully on Cass and absolutely obliterating him only for Joe to rush in and get Bryan in the Coquina Clutch. Bryan passed out and Joe was declared the winner.
  
• Postmatch, as Bryan recovered, Big Cass laid him out with the Big Boot and posed over him to end the show.
  

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:01 on May 30, 2018