Backstage: Charlotte & Becky Lynch
Backstage, Becky chased down Charlotte and accused her of cheating. Charlotte said she lured her into letting her guard down. She said this isn’t NXT, it’s the big leagues. She said she taught her a valuable lesson because she cares about her. Charlotte said it was tough love and she wants Lynch to see the bigger picture. They pinky swore. After Charlotte left, Paige approached Lynch and said sorry about the match, “at least your friendship wasn’t affected, right?”.
Adam Rose Segment
The broadcast team spoke about how it was opportunistic of Paige to be there to stir the pot, then shifted into promoting Adam Rose’s new segment The Rosebush that they compared to the Hollywood Minute…
Adam Rose wore glasses and spoke about Rusev and Lana. He said Rusev doesn’t wear the pants in the relationship, but he might wear the bra. A photoshopped bra appeared on the Rusev picture. Rose also spoke about Tyler Breeze and Dolph Ziggler feud.
Backstage: Stardust & Titus O’Neil
Backstage, Stardust cut a promo on his set. Titus O’Neil popped up wearing a Christmas hat and tried to get Stardust to sing with him. Titus ended up telling Stardust to get in the Christmas spirit and then did his stupid fraternity bark.
Handicap Match
– Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose & The Usos vs. Sheamus, Rusev, Alberto Del Rio, King Barrett, Kofi Kingston, Big E. & Xavier Woods
The heels isolated one of the Uso Brothers. The broadcast team referred to The League of Nations and New Day, so they are not all one faction. One of the Uso Brothers sold a knee injury at ringside heading into the break.
Woods played the trombone briefly. Reigns checked in and got the better of New Day. He chased Sheamus briefly, then stopped and kicked New Day as they were lying over the ropes. Del Rio ran Reigns into the ring steps. A short time later, Big E put Reigns in the abdominal stretch. Reigns escaped, but he took a swing at one of the New Day members and then was put down again by E. Del Rio checked in and applied the chin lock. Jey Uso was down at ringside and Jimmy was gone, so it was basically Reigns and Ambrose against seven heels.
[Overrun] Ambrose took a hot tag and worked over Sheamus with his signature offense. Ambrose went to the ropes and had to fight off Woods. Ambrose dove onto several opponents at ringside. Ambrose dumped Sheamus to the floor and then performed a suicide dive on him. Ambrose performed his flying elbow and went for a cover that Rusev broke up. One of the Uso Brothers returned to be kicked by Rusev. Reigns started Superman punching and then did a running leap move onto E at ringside and clutched his knee. In the ring, Sheamus performed a Brogue Kick on Ambrose and pinned him. Afterward, Reigns fought the heels, but he was outnumbered. The heels hoisted Sheamus onto the shoulders. Cole said that is the state of WWE right now.
Winners: Sheamus, Rusev, Alberto Del Rio, King Barrett, Kofi Kingston, Big E. & Xavier Woods
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