Our WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event results for tonight include AJ Styles clashing with Shinsuke Nakamura, Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY defending the Women’s Tag Team Championships against The Judgment Day’s Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez, Cody Rhodes battling Jacob Fatu, and a fatal four-way match to determine the number one contender for the Undisputed WWE Championship featuring Trick Williams, Randy Orton, Sami Zayn, and Damien Priest! Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Card:
- Undisputed WWE Championship Number One Contender’s Match: Randy Orton vs. Trick Williams vs. Damian Priest vs. Sami Zayn
- Women’s Tag Team Championship Match: RHIYO (Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY) (c) vs. The Judgment Day (Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez)
- Cody Rhodes vs. Jacob Fatu
- AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Results:
The show kicks off with Stephanie McMahon introducing the show. Stephanie hits the crowd with a classic “Are you ready?” in French.
Cody Rhodes vs. Jacob Fatu
Fatu attacks Rhodes during his entrance. During the brawl, the referee is knocked over. More referees run down to ringside. Security hits the ring to separate both men. Fatu superkicks a few security officers. Rhodes tries a dive and gets stopped by an elbow from Fatu. Fatu hits a double-jump senton to the floor, taking out all the security. Fatu walks away. Rhodes attacks Fatu from behind. Rhodes sends Fatu flying over the commentary desk. The fight spills into the crowd. Rhodes sets up a piledriver. Fatu back body drops Rhodes on the concrete.
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Rhodes and Fatu fight into the concessions area. Fatu puts a security guard through a table with a uranage. Fatu and Rhodes fight back into the arena. Rhodes and Fatu end up fighting on a platform. Rhodes tosses a security guard off the platform onto the rest of the security. A wild Drew McIntyre appears and tosses Fatu off the platform through a table. McIntyre low blows Rhodes and powerbombs him off the platform through a table! McIntyre is the only one left standing.
No Contest
Grade: A
This was great. Normally, this would have led to both men being separated, and that would have been the end of it. This extended brawl was refreshing. Fatu is all gas, no brakes. Rhodes is an intitled former champion who feels he has the moral high ground. This was cinema. We need more non-standard interactions on WWE TV to break up the sameness of all WWE programming. Also, since this wasn’t a match, they can still do that later. Everything about this was just right.
Women’s Tag Team Championship Match: RHIYO (Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY) (c) vs. The Judgment Day (Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez)
SKY floors Perez with a dropkick. Morgan stuns SKY on the top rope while the referee is distracted. Perez and Morgan take turns working over SKY. SKY eventually manages to tag in Ripley. Ripley clears the ring. Perez unloads on Ripley. Ripley destroys Perez with a boot to the mug. Perez sends Ripley flying off the top with a rana. Ripley gets to her feet and eats a diving lungblower from Morgan. Perez takes out SKY with a dive. Morgan pins Ripley. Ripley kicks at two. Ripley hits Riptide. SKY lands the Over the Moonsault.
Raquel Rodriguez rolls from under the ring and trips Ripley onto the referee, breaking the count. Rodriguez beats down SKY and Ripley. Stephanie Vaquer runs to the ringside and takes out Rodriguez. Back in the ring, Perez pins SKY. SKY kicks out at 2.9. Morgan screams for Perez to tag her in. Perez crawls and tags in Morgan. As SKY is laying on the ropes, Morgan hits Oblivion, but Ripley gets a blind tag. Ripley lands a running knee, followed by Riptide for the win.
Winners and STILL Women’s Tag Team Champions, RHIYO!
Grade: B
Best women’s tag match so far this year. These four women are phenomenal. Edge of your seat stuff here.
AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Nakamura and Styles trade submission attempts and take downs. Styles goes for a leapfrog, but Nakamura counters with a straight kick to Styles’ chest. Nakamua tells Styles to come on. Styles avoids a flurry from Nakamura. Dropkick by Styles. Styles works over Nakamura. Nakamura avoids a charging Styles. Headkick by Nakamura. Nakamura drapes Styles on the top rope. Running knee by Nakamura. Good vibrations by Nakamura. Styles fires back with a sliding forearm. Ushigorshi by Styles. Nakamura kicks out. Styles gets hung up in the ropes. Nakamura blasts Styles with a sliding German suplex.
Styles gets to his feet and eats a diving knee strike from Nakamura. Nakamura misses the Kinshasa. Calf Crusher by Styles. Nakamura managed to crawl to the ropes. Styles dragon screws Nakamura using the ropes. Styles locks Nakamura in the Calf Crusher. Nakamura refuses to tap out. Styles tells Nakamura to tap. Nakamura struggles to get to the ropes. Styles tries to roll Nakamura over, but Nakamura counters with a cross-arm breaker. Nakamura transitions into a triangle. Styles almost reverses it into the Styles Clash.
The Finish
Nakamura runs into a knee strike to the jaw from Styles. Both men are down. Nakamura and Styles trade strikes. Styles lands a Pelé kick. Nakamura bounces off the ropes and lands a Kinshasa! Both men are down again. Nakamura calls for another Kinshasa. As Nakamura tries to go in for the kill, his knee gives out. Styles hits a Kinshasa of his own! Nakamura somehow gets his hand on the bottom rope to break the pin. Styles sets up his flying forearm. Nakamura plucks Styles off the ropes mid-springboard and hits Landslide. Kick out by Styles. Styles blocks an inverted exploder and lands another Pelé kick.
Styles demands Nakamura meet him in the middle. Both men trade vicious strikes. Nakamura and Styles are both exhausted, but still throwing haymakers. Flying armbar by Nakamura. Styles escapes. Styles block a Kinshasa. Nakamura rolls through on a Styles Clash and hits another Kinshasa. Nakamura misses a kick and gets hung up in the ropes. Another dragon screw using the ropes from Styles sends Nakamura to the mat, writhing in pain. Phenomenal Forearm by Styles. Styles immediately picks Nakamura up and hits a Styles Clash for good measure for the win.
Winner- AJ Styles
After the match, Styles and Nakamura fist bump.
Grade: A
Hell of a match. Styles and Nakamura played the hits tonight, and there is a reason they are called hits. The match Styles and Nakamura had tonight is the match they were supposed to have at WrestleMania. Still not clear on why that Mania match fell short, but this made up for it in spades. Nakamura and Styles beat each other like they stole something tonight.
Undisputed WWE Championship Number One Contender’s Match: Randy Orton vs. Trick Williams vs. Damian Priest vs. Sami Zayn
Williams rolls out of the ring as soon as the bell rings. He’ll do this on his time, apparently. Orton tries to surprise Priest with an RKO. Priest avoids it. Williams pulls Zayn out of the ring and lays in a few punches. Orton attacks from behind. Priest dives off the steps onto everyone. Priest beats down Zayn, much to the Montreal crowd’s chagrin. Orton pokes Priest in the eye and sends him out of the ring. Orton beats down Zayn. Williams boots Orton out of the ring and continues his assault on Zayn. Everyone lands a big move.
Orton ends up in the corner. Zayn sets up the Helluva Kick. Williams cuts him off with a leg lariat. Williams drops Priest on the barricade with a Book End. Zayn counters a suplex from Orton with a suplex on the commentary desk. Zayn drops Priest with a Helluva Kick. Williams pulls the referee out of the ring. Orton suplexes each of his opponents on the commentary desk repeatedly. Orton counters a Helluva Kick with an RKO! Williams pushes Orton out of the ring and tries to steal the pin. Priest breaks up Williams’ pin. Priest knocks Williams off the apron with a kick. As soon as Priest turns around, Zayn nearly decapitates him with the Helluva Kick! Zayn pins Priest!
Winner and NEW Number One Contender, Sami Zayn!
A wild Drew McIntyre spawns back into the ring and tries a sneak attack on Zayn. Zayn avoids McIntyre and tosses him out of the ring.
Grade: B
he only note this writer has here is that this one went too long. Weirdly, this would have been better served by getting to the finish sooner, since they went with an “out of nowhere” finish. Shave off five minutes, and you’ll have a tight, classic fatal four-way match. Also, this is your weekly reminder that Trick Williams is going to main event a WrestleMania.
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Review:
This was one of the best SNMEs since the show returned. Tons of great all-around action, with AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura taking match of the night honors. The show kicked off with one of the best non-match matches of all time, and Trick Williams main-evented a SNME. There isn’t much more a fan could ask for here. If this is what WWE programming is going to be moving forward, sign this writer up. What did you all think of the show? Let us know in the comments below!
Rating: B+
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