Wrestle Kingdom #297

LOCATION: Lake Buena Vista, Florida
ARENA: Walt Disney's Wrestle Kingdom @ the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
TV: ESPN (also airing live on the WatchESPN app)
ANNOUNCERS: Mauro Renallo & Jonathan Coachman
CORRESPONDENT: Britt McHenry
RING ANNOUNCER: JoJo


We are live in 'The Wrestle Kingdom', Disney's 10,000 seat arena built on the ESPN Wide World of Sports campus .... and the fans are ROCKING!  

Tonights show is being brought to you with limited commercial interruption .... It is also streaming live on the ESPN and WatchESPN app ....  


AT THE ANNOUNCE DESK - MAURO RENALLO & THE COACH

Show begins with the usual ESPN opening .... Coach and Mauro set up the show and talk about how Champs vs All Stars IV is coming soon .... tonight we have the BIG title match with Sami Zayn's defending against Bobby Roode ....


Roman Reigns and the Usos come out .... Reigns basically wants to kill Seth Rollins and says he shouldn't have come back .... he says AJ and Rollins are trying to be like the Shield but there is no 'Shield' without Roman Reigns .... Seth Rollins come out in the crowd and vows to sabotage any attempts by Reigns to 'take over' Wrestle Kingdom .... Rollins challenges Reigns to a steel cage match next week and Reigns accepts!  


Promo airs to push Champs vs All Stars IV .... Dana White talks about the show and says the teams have not been determined yet but we are going to determine them in the ring ....



Toni Storm def. Shayna Baszler in a 'Heart of Shimmer' tournament 1st round match ---- Storm is the hot New Zealand star that is well traveled, Baszler is a former mixed martial artist and UFC fighter .... Storm wins with a backstabber followed by a top rope leg drop



Bobby Roode promo in the locker room .... Roode calls Sami Zayn a joke and wants it to be no countout and no DQ so Zayn can't try to get himself disqualified or counted out on purpose ....


Bea Priestly def. Jayme Jameson in a 'Heart of Shimmer' tournament 1st round match ---- Priestly forces Jameson to tap out to a dragon sleeper in a hard-hitting match ....





Sami Zayn promo .... he agrees to Roodes terms to make it an anything goes match because he is going to take out some frustration on Roode


Ethan Carter III and Jack Swagger battle to a 15 minute draw (EC3 retains the Evolve title) ---- The match ends with Swagger having EC3 locked in the ankle lock .... After the match is over, Swagger wants 5 more minutes .... EC3 says 'no' and limps away, but Brian Cage comes out to the ring and lays EC3 out with the Weapon X .... Cage picks up the Evolve title and holds it up in Swaggers face, then drops the belt on EC3's chest and walks off ....


Eric Young cuts a promo from an unknown location .... behind him are the other 3 people that were with him last week, all of them wearing masks .... Young says the world thinks he's crazy but he's not .... In fact, he may be the last sane person in the world .... it's the world that's crazy, and it's up to them to bring Sanity to the world .... he vows to bring it the Wrestle Kingdom ....


In Dana White's office, The Revival and American Alpha are there and they watch that promo on the monitor .... Sanity attacked BOTH teams last week .... Revival says they deserve their rematch against IT FACTOR for the tag titles more than American Alpha does .... White says they are gonna settle it in the ring, and next week it will be It Factor vs American Alpha vs The Revival .... winner gets the tag titles, first team eliminated gets left out of Champs vs All Stars


(US Women's champion) Ivelisse Velez def. Santana ---- hard-fought match that sees Ivelisse win with the stump-puller armbar ....

Interim US women's champ Charlotte comes out after the match and cuts a promo on Ivelisse .... she doesn't even care about Ivelisse because she is insignificant .... Charlotte says she is the Queen and there is only room for one Champion .... Lions do not lose sleep over the opinions of sheep .... Ivelisse basically says she's going to kick Charlottes head off .... Charlotte will respect her or she will fear her because she's the baddest bitch in the building .... these two will face each other at Champs vs All Stars IV to determine who the true champion is


Nia Jax promo .... she isn't here to play games .... she doesn't do photo shoots or reality shows .... she is the reality check for the entire women's division and Shimmer as a whole ....


Bobby Roode def. Sami Zayn to win the Wrestle Kingdom title ---- These two battle all over the arena .... Zayn is more aggressive than usual here, beating Roode with a chair .... the 'anything goes' stipulation comes into play here, as the end of the match sees 2 ref bumps .... Zayn has Roode pinned BOTH times .... Roode hits a low blow and then KO's Zayn with the Wrestle Kingdom title belt .... Zayn kicks out at 2!!!!  Zayn hits a blue thunder bomb out of nowhere, but Roode moves out of the way of the helluva kick and Zayn crotches himself on the top rope .... Roode drills Zayn with the Glorious DDT and gets the 3 count ....