Wrestle Kingdom #301

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 Walt Disney Worlds 'Wrestle Kingdom', a 10,000 seat arena built on the ESPN Wide World of Sports campus .... and the fans are ROCKING!

---- We get the standard ESPN opening .... this show is being brought to you by the world-wide leader in sports, ESPN, and the world-wide leader in entertainment, The Walt Disney Co. ....

---- As always, tonight's show is being brought to you with limited commercial interruption .... It is also streaming live on the ESPN and WatchESPN app ....  


IN THE BACK ----

Dean Ambrose arrives at the building and is approached by new interviewer Molly Qerim .... She asks Ambrose about his attack on Roman Reigns last week and Ambrose says Reigns will never win the WK title as long as he's here to stop him .... Reigns broke Ambrose's jaw, but Ambrose is going to break Reigns' spirit .... he's going to make it his mission to 'ruin' him .... The Usos come out of nowhere and attack Ambrose in the parking deck, but Seth Rollins comes to the rescue and they have a huge brawl ....

After a few minutes of brawling in the back, Rollins, Ambrose and the Usos fight all the way inside the arena and into the ring .... The ring crew is setting up for Miz TV and the this takes up the first 10-15 of the show is nothing but a wild brawl between these 4 men .... they finally get them separated .... during the chaos Dana White comes out and tries to put an end to it by booking the 4 men in the main event tonight ....


AT THE ANNOUNCE DESK ----  

Mauro and Coach are shown at the announce desk .... they pimp out tonight's show, saying that the participants for the Wrestle Kingdom Roulette match will be drawn randomly .... plus Charlotte faces ODB in a non-title match and American Alpha defend the WK tag team titles against former champions It Factor ....


MIZ TV kicks off the show w/ guest Eli Drake ----

Miz shows highlights of Drake returning last week to save Brian Cage, but then turning on Cage .... Drake: 'Let me talk to ya!' .... he says he was shipped off to England because he said the wrong thing to the wrong executive .... so he went across the pond and proved that he was the best on this microphone and in this ring, and people started to stand up and notice and that includes Dana White .... so White broke out the Disney check book and wrote a lot of zeroes on it to get him back where he belongs .... people come and go in this company but Eli Drake is 'forever' .... and that's not an insult, THAT is just a fact of life!

This brings out Evolve champion Brian Cage but Drake bails out as soon as he hits the ring .... Cage is fuming, and Miz is the only one left in the ring so he suffers Cages wrath and he gets laid out while Eli Drake watches afraid for his life ....


IN THE BACK ----

Eric Young cuts a promo and promises to destroy the Revival for what they did to Nikki Cross last week ....
 

(champion) 'The Machine' Brian Cage -vs- The Miz ---- Evolve title match

Eli Drake comes out to try to get involved .... but actually distracts the Miz instead .... Cage doesn't see this, and finishes Miz off with the Weapon X ....

Drake hits the ring and attacks Cage as soon as the pin is made, and he drills him with Blunt Force Trauma .... Cage tries to get to his feet slowly but Drake KO's him with the Evolve title .... Drake holds up the Evolve title and then  leaves with the belt on his shoulder ....


*VIGNETTE* ---- a vignette airs for Kassius Ohno .... this isn't the first time he's been in a ring for this company .... you know the face, but you may not know the name .... He's Kassius Ohno, and he ain't nothing to mess with .... the scouting report on him says he 'concusses with his kicks and KO's with his elbows', but he takes real pleasure in knocking people unconscious .... anyone can catch a quick submission or cradle someone up for a 1,2,3 but it takes real power to knock someone out .... and next week you will see that power first-hand ....


The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) -vs- Sanity (Alexander Wolfe & Killian Dane) w/ Eric Young ....

Alexander Wolfe takes the fall after the Shatter Machine from Dash & Dawson .... after the match, Eric Young and Killian Dane beat the shit out of Wolfe and leave him laying ....


ANNOUNCEMENT ----

Next week the main event will be No. 1 contender AJ Styles facing UWF TV champion Kazuchika Okada for the title .... they show clips of the last 2 years 'War of the Worlds' shows where AJ and Okada have clashed .... right now the score is 1-1 .... AJ Styles says that he has the homefield advantage next week because this is the house that AJ Styles built .... next week AJ becomes the first man to win both the World TV title and world Junior title ....


(Women's United States Champion) Charlotte w/ Nia Jax -vs- ODB ---- non-title match ....

ODB looks good in her return, with her brawling throwing Charlotte off her game .... the action spills outside, where ODB avoids Nia Jax's attempt at interference and makes it back in the ring before the 10 count to win the match in somewhat of a surprise ....

Charlotte looks shocked that she lost, even if it's just by countout .... Nia Jax hits the ring and attacks ODB .... Charlotte directs traffic as Jax lays ODB out with a fallaway slam into a Samoan drop .... Charlotte takes the mic and cuts a promo saying ODB is beneath her and she wants to talk about someone else and that's Bayley .... she says there is only room in Shimmer for one true champion and she is challenging Bayley to a title vs title match at Shimmer #2 ....


IN THE BACK - Dana White stands nearby a tumbler with a bunch of ping pong balls in it .... Molly Qerim turns the tumbler and White draws the names that will compete in the Wrestle Kingdom Roulette match next week .... While Molly draws the names out of the tumbler, White explains the concept of the match .... They draw the first 8 names, and they are Seth Rollins, Matt Taven, Brian Cage, The Miz, Eli Drake, Christopher Daniels, Killian Dane, and Kassius Ohno .... more will be announced next week ....


(Champions) American Alpha (Chad Gable & Jason Jordan) -vs- It Factor (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) w/ Maria Kanellis ---- Wrestle Kingdom tag team title match ....

American Alpha follows up their win last week with a victory here over the former tag team champions .... Gable pins Bennett after the Grand Amplitude to retain the titles ....


Wrestle Kingdom Roulette vignette .... we get some comments from some of the people in the match, like Christopher Daniels who will make his in-ring return next week along with several others .... Eric Young says he is going to unleash the 'monster' of Sanity, Killian Dane, on everyone next week ....  


Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins -vs- The Usos (Jimmy & Jey) ....

Rollins takes himself and Jimmy Uso out of the match with a super-plex through the announce table .... meanwhile, Ambrose puts an end to this WAR by pinning Jey after the Dirty Deeds ....

Ambrose is attacked by Reigns following the match, and Rollins is still down from the table spot and can't help .... Ambrose puts up a little fight but he's just been through a war and Reigns dominates .... Reigns hits a spear on Ambrose, then handcuffs both his arms to the ropes and stretches him out ala Tommy Dreamer/ Raven .... Reigns gets a chair but Ambrose spits in his face and dares him to hit him!  Reigns breaks the chair over Ambrose's head ....



Reigns stands over the unconscious and now bloody Ambrose as the show ends ....