In-Ring Segment
Randy Orton made his way to the ring in street clothes, to address what happened at last week’s pay-per-view. The Viper said in case anybody has been living under a rock for 17 years, his name is Randy Orton and he’s a 13-time world champion. He talks about his father Cowboy Bob Orton being in the very first main event of WrestleMania, and how his grandfather would slap him in the face for losing the WWE Championship to a guy like Jinder Mahal. Orton says Jinder believes he’s earned the fans respect, but he’s earned nothing but an old fashioned Orton family American-style ass kicking. He talks about the Gagne family and Harley Race as men who went out and got things done, and said he was going to become a 14-time champion at Money in the Bank. Jinder Mahal appears on the Titantron with the Bollywood Boys and cuts a promo about being the WWE Champion and the modern day Maharaja. The same stuff as usual. Randy Orton poses on the ropes to end the segment, and that’s that.
AJ Styles vs. Dolph Ziggler
Ziggler took a cheap shot to start things off, then threw Styles hard into the ring post as they go to the final commercial of the night. When they came back the Showoff had things under control with a side headlock, but AJ dumped him to the ground with a back suplex. They went back and forth with Styles throwing right hands and elbows in the corner, then hit a sit-down facebuster for a count of two. Ziggler tries to steal it with a roll-up and his hands on the ropes, but AJ kicked out and connected with a Ushigoroshi for another nearfall. He looked to put things away with the Styles Clash, but Ziggler fought out of it and got into the ropes. AJ caught him with a hard elbow coming back in and threw him into the bottom turnbuckle with a snap suplex.
They fought for position up the turnbuckles, Styles looking for the Super Clash, but Dolph countered into a huge DDT from the second rope! After slowly getting back to their feet, they went back and forth with both looking for their signature moves and each countering every single time. Styles rolled into the Calf Crusher out of nowhere, and Ziggler almost tapped out but clawed at his opponent’s eyes to force a break. AJ picked himself up by the ropes but got caught with the ZigZag! 1…2…AJ kicks out. Dolph tried for a superkick but Styles ducked under it. Styles tried for the Phenomenal Forearm, but Ziggler threw himself at the ropes to crotch him. Ziggler got him with the superkick! 1…2…3. Winner: Dolph Ziggler
