Wrestle Kingdom #303

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: Molly Qerim
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 ....


As the show begins, Dana White is in the ring along with the winners of last weeks Wrestle Kingdom Roulette .... each one has their case that they won last week and it's time to reveal the contents ....

CHRISTOPHER DANIELS - Tag Team title shot .... Daniels seems content, if not slightly disappointed with his case selection ....

MATT TAVEN - pink slip .... Taven is crushed when he gets the pink slip .... he slowly leaves the ring broken-hearted ....

THE MIZ - Evolve title .... when Miz's case is opened and reveals the Evolve title, Rollins starts celebrating because he knows ....

SETH ROLLINS - Wrestle Kingdom title match


Rollins celebration is interrupted by the debut of Jinder Mahal .... Mahal cuts a promo about the arrival of the modern day maharaja and what it means for the future of Wrestle Kingdom .... Mahal speaks in Punjabi to 'his people' watching in India, saying that the reveal of these cases pales in comparison to what his impact in Wrestle Kingdom will be ....


Jinder Mahal -vs- Braxton Sutter ---- singles match

Mahal gets the submission win with the camel clutch ....


IN THE BACK ----

Dean Ambrose says tonight isn't going to be a match, it's going to be a fight .... he promises to not rest until he destroys Reigns ....


Back in the arena, Brian Cage's terminator theme hits and the fans pop, but Eli Drake comes out instead .... Drake starts clapping the terminator theme and so do the fans and then he says 'shut up dummies .... let me talk to ya' .... this guy is the ultimate dick .... he says that he is the impact player in the Kingdom .... he talks about last week and Jay Lethal showing up to be Cages partner .... he says Lethal just rode his coat tails and followed him over from jolly ole England .... well now E ... LI ... DRAKE is out of purgatory .... Cage and Lethal may have won the battle last week, but Eli Drake won the war because he's got the Evolve title .... and that's not an insult, THAT is just a fact of life!

This brings out Jay Lethal .... He says that Drake can carry that belt around with him everywhere he goes but he can't call himself a champion .... we have ourselves an impromptu match ....


Eli Drake -vs- Jay Lethal ---- singles match

This match ends in a no contest after about 8 minutes when Brian Cage comes out and attacks Drake ....

Lethal takes exception to Cages involvement and has words with him, which allows Drake to get a cheap low blow on Cage and escape again with the title .... Cage takes a mic and challenges Drake to a match next week and says he will put the title on the line ....


PROMO ----

We get a promo for Shimmer Vol. 2 .... the show will take place June 21 from the Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida .... Matches already signed for the show are:

US title vs Shimmer title: Bayley vs. Charlotte

Non-title match: UWF world champion Awesome Kong vs. Nia Jax

Sasha Banks vs. Rosemary in a no-disqualification match

Molly Holly defends the RWA Isis title ....



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Brand new UWF Television champion AJ Styles comes out to a heroes welcome and the chants go on and on 'A-J-STYLES!' and 'YOU DESERVE IT!' .... AJ cuts a promo about how when you're phenomenal you can make history .... and he made it right here in the house that AJ Style built ....

AJ is interrupted by the entrance of 'Miracle' Mike Bennett and Maria, and they talk trash to AJ .... Bennett says he's 'free at last' after his partner Matt Taven got fired earlier tonight .... Now it's his time to shine .... Maria asks if AJ believes in miracles .... because it was a miracle that he beat Okada and it's going to take a miracle for him to not be the shortest reigning TV Champion ever .... AJ says that no one can touch him in this ring, not even someone called the Miracle .... if he wants to give it his best shot, AJ can think of nothing better than putting that title on the line right here in front of his hometown fans ....


IN THE BACK ----

Wrestle Kingdom champion Bobby Roode comments on his altercation with Moose last week .... He says no one puts their hands on him like that .... he's the man here!  He stopped Moose from getting the last case because he doesn't deserve a place in 'Bobby Roodes Kingdom'!


Baron Corbin -vs- Rich Swann ---- singles match

Swann gets a little bit of offense in, but this is mostly Corbin .... he finishes Swann off with the End of Days ....

Corbin continues the attack after the match, seeking to send a message to the rest of the locker room .... Out of the back comes Moose to make the save for his former partner!  Moose rips his shirt off and dares Corbin to fight him but Corbin thinks twice about it and just leaves the ring ....

Moose takes the mic and says it's time to change the game in Wrestle Kingdom .... He heard what Bobby Roode said, but if he thought last week was bad, just wait until he gets his hands on him and takes his title .... He talked to Dana White, and next week it's gonna be him and Roode going one on one ....


IN THE BACK ----

Mickie James interview .... she says Charlotte thinks she owns the world of women's wrestling but she's wrong .... she has held that US women's title before, on multiple occasions .... and she didn't do it with 'flair', she did it with class .... Mickie makes it known she's coming for Charlotte ....


(champion) AJ Styles -vs- 'Miracle' Mike Bennett w/ Maria ---- UWF Television title match

Excellent back and forth match with Bennett looking really good against the new TV champ .... it's not enough though as AJ is simply on another level right now .... AJ wins the match is roughly 13 minutes after the Styles Clash ....


IN THE BACK ----

The Miz cuts a promo about having the Evolve title shot case .... he feels like he isn't being treated like the A List star that he deserves to be .... no one takes him seriously .... but very soon everyone is going to have no choice but to take him seriously and everyone will have to stand up and in one voice cry out that the Miz .... is .... awesome!!!


(champion) Charlotte w/ Nia Jax -vs- ODB ---- United States women's title match

ODB tries to turn this into a brawl, but Charlotte tries to keep it fairly technical .... Nia Jax is a presence at ringside, but she doesn't get involved .... Charlotte focuses the attack heavily on the knee, which comes into play later on when ODB cannot lift her for the tko .... Charlotte slips out and clips the knee, then hits the natural selection to finish ODB off ....

Charlotte and Nia Jax continue their attack on ODB after the match, but Mickie James runs down with a chair to make the save!  Mickie smashes Nia over the back with the chair, but this really just pisses Nia off .... ODB gets another chair and stands back to back with Mickie but this doesn't phase Nia, who wants to go back in the ring .... Charlotte stops her and they decide to live to fight another day ....


IN THE BACK ----

We get comments from Seth Rollins, who won the WK title shot case .... He says this thing between Reigns and Ambrose has to be settled between those two, and he will always have Ambrose's back .... but now that he has this case that guarantees him a title shot whenever he wants, it is time for him to focus on becoming the 2nd man in history to become a 3 time Wrestle Kingdom champion ....


It is announced that next week American Alpha will defend the tag titles against The Revival ....


Main Event: Roman Reigns -vs- Dean Ambrose

HUGE brawl to start .... the ref really lets things go for most of this match .... Reigns catches Ambrose with a Samoan drop on the floor and takes over, but Ambrose makes his babyface comeback .... we get a ref bump in the middle of it and Ambrose brings a chair in the ring to get revenge on Reigns from the chairshot from a few weeks ago but it backfires .... Reigns hits a low blow, then uses the chair to smash Ambrose instead!  Spear by Reigns, but the ref is slow to recover .... KICK OUT!!!!  Reigns finishes Ambrose with a 2nd spear moments later to get the pinfall ....


Reigns takes the chair and is going to attack Ambrose afterwards, but this time Ambrose low blows Reigns!  They continue to fight into the crowd, and Ambrose finally gets his hands on a chair and murders Reigns with a chairshot!  Ambrose produces some duct tape and ties Reigns to a table, then he climbs up into the stands in the upper deck of the arena!  AMBROSE DIVES OFF THE BALCONY AND DRIVES REIGNS THROUGH THE TABLE!  HOLY SHIT!!!!




EMT's quickly come out and check on both men, and they BOTH have to leave on stretchers as the show ends ....