– Lana approaches WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion Naomi backstage, and demands that she be given a rematch for the title. Naomi calls her “thirsty” and says she beat her fair and square at Money in the Bank, but because she is a fighting champion she’ll give her yet another pointless chance at her title next week on Smackdown.
– They ran a pre-recorded interview with Randy Orton, talking about his loss to Jinder Mahal at Money in the Bank. He says that he may have made a mistake, but he saw the Singh brothers but their hands on his father, and he reacted to it. But now because of that he’s ready to do everything and anything he has to in order to get his hands on them, and win back the WWE Championship. He gives the champion a warning, and says that things between them are far, far from over.
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Dolph Ziggler
They start things off with a good back and forth exchange, grappling on the mat and trading holds. Ziggler tries to take a cheap shot but Nakamura avoids it and fires up, taking him to the corner and hitting the Good Vibrations. Ziggler steps out of the way avoiding a splash in the corner, then plants the Artist into the second turnbuckle and hits him with a dropkick. From there the Showoff slows things down with rest holds as they cut to commercial.
After the break Ziggler is still in control, but Nakamura fights back out of a hold and hits a huge kick out of nowhere to take both guys down. Dolph is back up and just slams his opponent’s head into the mat, then spends too much time mocking him and gets caught with a stiff knee to the gut. Shinsuke follows up with a series of dropkicks and his signature one-legged running dropkick. He puts Ziggler on the top rope and gives him the running high knee for two. It’s Nakamura who slows things down now, keeping his opponent on the mat and firing off with short knees to the head, before trying to choke him out with a front headlock. He hits a facebuster and sets up for the Kinshasa but misses, and Ziggler hits him with the Fameasser for a nearfall.
(cont.)
