• Renee Young was on commentary
  
• BRAUN! opened the show with Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre to run down the crowd and insist he was going to dismantle Roman Reigns at Hell in a Cell and become the Universal Champion. Drew McIntyre declared they were the new Kings of the Jungle in WWE, and Ziggler said they would be the most dominant faction in WWE history.
  
• The Shield showed up and started brawling with BRAUN! Drew and Dolph. Baron Corbin sent the entire roster out to break them up and the whole thing descended into (enjoyable) chaos as they all just refused to stop fighting and it spilled out up the rampway to the back.
  
• The Shield were arrested backstage and driven away as the roster had to be restrained from beating the poo poo out of each other and Corbin desperately tried to maintain order.
  
• The Bella Twins returned for the first time in three years to have a match against The Riott Squad. They eventually defeated them.
  

• Aphrodite posted:

  https://i.imgur.com/aQax89b.gifv
  https://i.imgur.com/Wnrczam.gifv
  

• Baron Corbin was on the phone backstage discussing The Shield when Finn Balor approached him to demand a rematch, without tricks or games, where they just faced each other prepared to find out who the better man truly was. Corbin agreed, saying they would face off in the main event.
  
• Bobby Roode and Chad Gable are now a tag team, with Gable's reasoning being that Roode always seems to get attention and he wants a part of that.
  
• Gable and Roode defeated The Ascension, with Roode being incredibly excited to see how loving good Chad Gable is.
  
• Elias came out to do a concert lamenting being slapped by Trish Stratus last week, and poking fun at Columbus' local sports mascot. His concert was broken up by Alexa Bliss, Alicia Fox and Mickie James, with Alexa talking up that she came from Columbus before turning on them and mocking the city.
  
• Ronda came out to be in Nattie's corner during a match against Alexa Bliss. Alexa was able to submit Nattie, then tried to jump Ronda from behind when she checked on her. Ronda got the drop on her, fought off Alicia Fox who tried to aid her but then got her knee taken out by Bliss and tossed into the stairs. Ronda was still able to fight her off but was left hurting.
  
• Baron Corbin was lambasting a stagehand backstage when BRAUN! Drew and Dolph showed up to demand a tag title shot for Drew and Dolph. Corbin reminded them that The Revival were supposed to get the next title shots, but Drew and Dolph noted that maybe the Revival might suddenly find themselves unable to compete and walked away. BRAUN! warned Corbin to find him some competition.
  
• Dolph and Drew took out The Revival backstage as they were being interviewed.
  
• Dolph and Drew defeated (eventually) The B Team to become the new Tag Team Champions. The B Team were able to hold their own against them for quite some time.
  
• The Authors of Pain were walking backstage... with DRAKE MAVERICK!?!
  
  

  Abroham Lincoln posted:

  
  
  MY BEAUTIFUL SON
  

  
  
• Drake Maverick announced that in addition to being 205 Live General Manager, he is now managing the Authors of Pain. They destroyed a couple of jobbers.
  
• Nattie was backstage with Ronda, complaining about feeling numb and not herself. The Bellas pulled Ronda aside to congratulate her on her success and thank her for inspiring them to return to WWE, and offered their assistance if she ever needed it.
  
• Shawn Michaels returned to talk up HHH/Taker in Australia, making the prediction that HHH would win because he has more left in the tank than Taker. Undertaker made a surprise return and the two went back and forth doing an incredible build for a potential Undertaker/HBK match... before ending with the confirmation it would be Taker/HHH in Australia and not the far more interesting and compelling potential match they spent the entire time talking about.
  
• Baron Corbin told Finn Balor that he'd been so busy doing paperwork that he hadn't been able to prepare for his match. As a result, he was dropping out of the main event, but Balor would still get that top spot: against BRAUN!
  
• It was "reported" that The Shield have been charged with inciting a riot and will appear before a judge.
  
• Sasha and Bayley defeated Dana Brooke and Ember Moon, with Dana insisting she had this to her Titus Worldwide buddies then promptly getting pinned. She was furious and stormed out on both of them afterwards.
  
• Bobby Lashley left Baron Corbin's office having been given a performance review, and instructed to attend a meditation session with Jinder Mahal in the ring tonight.
  
• Lashley was having fun lowkey mocking Jinder's meditation efforts when Kevin Owens returned and beat the poo poo out of him.
  
• Triple H will respond to the Taker/HBK confrontation next week. Perhaps to admit that HBK/Taker in Australia would be way cooler.
  
• Finn Balor faced BRAUN! in the main event, which lead to some interesting commentary calls.
  

• Abroham Lincoln posted:

  "he's too big, too thicc" -- michael cole 2018
  

• Finn put up a good fight but, of course, got beaten by BRAUN! who hooked the leg but made a point of a nonchalant cover.
  
• The crowd just kind of quietly murmured amongst themselves as Ziggler and Drew helped BRAUN! put more of a beating on Finn and prepared to drop him onto the steel steps when a siren sounded.
  
• The Shield returned in the police van they were taken away in (but they were reported as appearing before a judge?) and started heading to the ring to fight when half the roster (the heels) charged down and jumped them from behind, lead by a furious looking Kevin Owens.
  
• BRAUN! smashed Roman with the stairs, Ambrose was beaten up on the announce table, and Seth was tossed off the ramp into the police van and then had his face smashed into the doors.
  
• BRAUN! Drew and Dolph got back into the ring while the heel roster circled around the laid out bodies of The Shield. The crowd kind of booed but mostly just sat on their hands through most of this.
  

• Renee Young opened the show to interview Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella, and they recapped the angle last week where Miz and Maryse joined Andrade "Cien" Almas and Zelina in jumping them from behind and putting a beating on them. Miz and Maryse were shown to have been in the ring earlier in the day to "call out" Daniel and Brie. Bryan and Brie returned the favor, calling them out, but were informed that Miz and Maryse had already left and were currently dining at a local restaurant.
  
• Almas and Zelina came out, with Almas saying he enjoyed beating up Bryan so much he wanted to do it again. The two proceeded to have (surprise, surprise) a hell of a match, with Bryan eventually beating Almas. Afterwards Bryan and Brie decided they were hungry too and were going to go to the same restaurant as Miz and Maryse.
  
• Tom Phillips interviewed Charlotte (mixed reaction) and Becky (huge pop, chants) in separate rooms about their upcoming Hell in a Cell match.
  
• Naomi defeated Peyton Royce, effectively negating their recent matches. Afterwards Billie and Peyton double-teamed Naomi and were saved by Asuka, who we're all happy to learn is alive.
  
• A video package about Orton and Jeff Hardy at Hell in a Cell played up all the crazy poo poo that Jeff does to himself, and that this will be his first Hell in a Cell match.
  
• Miz and Maryse showed up in Paige's office, saying they decided not to eat at the restaurant because it was in Detroit. They feigned surprise to learn Bryan and Brie werent there anymore.
  
• R-Truth was looking for Carmella and mistook Maryse for her. He was shocked to learn Miz had married Carmella. Miz reminded him that they were once a team, but that was the last time that Truth was relevant.
  
• Samoa Joe came to the ring for an interview, noting that he had threatened to go to AJ's home last week, but that had just been to force AJ to go home to wait for him, which meant for once he was actually being a family man. AJ showed up however and the two had a big brawl with AJ hitting a crossbody on Joe AND the referees trying to break them up.
  
• Tye Dillinger helped Truth find Carmella, where Truth asked "Maryse" to have his corner since Miz was going to have his wife "Carmella" in his corner.
  
• Rusev Day defeated The Usos and Sanity to get a match against The Bar next week, with the winner of that match to face The New Day for the titles at Hell in a Cell.
  
• Miz and Maryse came to the ring and called out Bryan and Brie, calling them cowards and claiming that Bryan was not content just to destroy his own brain and body, but also Brie's too.
  
• R-Truth (with Carmella) vs. The Miz (with Maryse) ended when Bryan and Brie rushed the ring to attach Miz and Maryse. Almas and Zelina showed up to turn the tables, but Miz and Maryse bailed and Bryan and Brie were able to put Almas and Zelina into dual Yes Locks.
  

• Blaise330 posted:

  https://i.imgur.com/xj3YsKd.mp4
  

• Miz finally got up the courage to rush the ring but bailed again when Bryan and Brie were waiting for them.
  

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Sep 5, 2018

STING 64 fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Sep 4, 2018