The show kicked off with the number one contender match for the World Heavyweight title between Randy Orton and Wade Barrett. The winner would face John Cena at Summer Slam for his belt.
The match kicked off and both Orton and Barrett looked impressive against each other. The match was going great in Barrett’s favor, but he miss-timed his Bullhammer attempt and Orton took control of the match. Eventually, Orton was able to land the RKO and go for the cover. But somehow Barrett kicked out. Orton got in the face of the referee and argued that he should have gotten the three count. Barrett worked his way up to his feet and went for another Bullhammer but missed again. Orton got him with another RKO and this time earned the three count to move on and face Cena at Summer Slam.
After the match, Cena came out and stood at top of the stage. He went on to tell Orton that he is just a speed bump on his road to the Hall of Fame as the greatest champion of all time. “I will do to you on Sunday like I did to the Phenom, the Undertaker, who by the way, will be out of action for some time the commissioner told me. Apparently I almost retired him last week, and Roose is concerned I may have cost him a Money in the Bank winner. Randy, I will leave you broken, lying in a pool of your own blood. Because I am the best there has ever been. The champ… is… here!”
Next up was Brodus Clay taking on one of Roose’s men, Kofi Kingston. Kingston gave Clay a good fight, but the Funkasaurus was in great rhythm as he has been focused the entire month on getting his vengeance against the commissioner who had been screwing with him. Clay landed his patented splash, knocking the wind out of Kofi and earning the 1-2-3.
The third match of the night was a cruiserweight batte between Christian and Sin Cara. Christian had been deemed one of the favorites to win the cruiserweight battle royal at Summer Slam, and he continued to look like one against Sin Cara. Despite wrestling in Sin Cara’s dim lighting, Christian dimmed Sin Cara’s lights with the Killswitch, earning the win heading into Summer Slam.
Continuing with the cruiserweight theme, X-Pac came out to the ring before his match. Once again he was carrying the scale he brought down last week in an attempt to get Rob Van Dam disqualified from the battle royal. X-Pac grabbed the mic and went into another rant about RVD’s weight. “I know last week RVD just got away with not being outed as a cheater when he got lucky and beat me. But I have further proof that RVD is over the 225-pound weight limit. Roll the tapes…”
A video popped up on the boards of security footage of the cafeteria backstage. It showed RVD with a huge plate of food in front of him as he was eating. “Look at him! There is no way he can be under 225 pounds when he eats like The Big Show. I showed this tape to our commissioner and he agreed that all six competitors at the battle royal will have an official weigh in on that very stage this Sunday! And when it’s time for RVD to step on the scale, it will show that he is too fat to wrestle at Summer Slam.”
X-Pac stayed in the ring as he was set to take on Justin Gabriel in singles competitions. Gabriel and Pac feuded before when Gabriel held the US Title. Gabriel continued to look impressive against X-Pac, but he made a major mistake during their match that cost him the momentum. Attempting his 450 Splash on Pac, he was surprised when he made contact with X-Pac’s extended knees. The blow knocked the wind out of Gabriel as X-Pac kicked back up. After landing an X-Factor, X-Pac earned the win.
In the final crusierweight singles action of the night, Rey Mysterio was set to take on Rob Van Dam. RVD controlled most of the match against the smaller Mysterio, and was set to put him away with the Fivestar Frog Splash. But as RVD was perched on the top ropes, X-Pac’s music hit and he came out to the stage, again carrying the scale. RVD came down from the top ropes and began to yell at X-Pac from the ring. The distraction enabled Mysterio to roll up RVD for the win.
RVD quickly rolled out of the ring after losing and made a beeline straight for X-Pac. As the two began trading punches, the rest of neXt Generation came out and beat up on RVD. With Road Dogg and Billy Gunn holding RVD’s arms, X-Pac grabbed the scale and drove it into the gut of RVD. The three left him on the stage holding his ribs and fighting for air.
Last match of the night saw Alberto Del Rio take on Cena. Del Rio went to Roose earlier in the night and asked for a match with Cena. He was upset that Cena cost him a chance at wrestling the Undertaker last week and wanted his main event match. Roose granted him the opportunity to wrestle Cena, but Del Rio didn’t get everything he originally wanted.
He and Cena had a great match going when out of nowhere, Orton’s music hit and he came down to the ring. As Orton stood outside the ring distracting Cena, the champion tried to fend off Del Rio. With Cena up against the ropes, Del Rio took a run at him and Cena flipped him over the ropes. But Orton was standing right there and Del Rio accidentally took him out. As Del Rio and Orton laid on the ground, Cena sat in the ring.
But as Del Rio finally climbed to his feet to get into the ring, Orton pulled him back out and clocked him to prompt the bell. Orton then slid into the ring and he and Cena battled as the referees tried to restrain them as the show went off the air.
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