We start off with Stephanie McMahon driving into the set of RAW with Triple H to meet with Constable Baron Corbin. Triple H pats the Corbin on the chest and wishes him luck. Stephanie starts questioning Baron Corbin’s decision-making skills. She tells him that he needs to take care of business, otherwise Kurt Angle would be back sooner than expected.
The Shield make their way to the ring. Seth talks on the mic and the crowd cheers, Roman says a line and the crowd starts booing. At one point, Seth and Roman lifted their title belts and half the crowd cheered while the other half booed. Seth calls out Baron Corbin, who makes his way out from backstage. Corbin tells the Shield that him and his teammates (still undecided at this point) will take down the Shield. Corbin said that no one backstage liked the Shield, especially these guys. Braun’s entrance music plays and Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler, Drew McIntyre walk out.
The three heels start addressing Dean Ambrose directly. They try to persuade him that he doesn’t need the Shield. They tell him that Roman and Seth don’t appreciate him. They start telling stories about how Dean sacrifices himself for the other two men. After Roman calls the heels out, they start to rush the ring, but Baron Corbin stops them. Baron tells the heels that Drew and Dolph need to defend their championship belts tonight, and that Corbin himself, along with his unnamed team, will deal with the Shield later.
Bailey makes her way out and is shortly after followed by Finn Balor. They are one of the teams in the mix match challenge. They’ll be facing team “Mahalicia” which contains Jinder Mahal and Alicia Fox. The match starts with Jinder beating on Finn. Finn takes out Jinder by jumping over the ring ropes and landing on Jinder’s head. Meanwhile outside the ring, Sunil Singh and Alicia Fox are “having words” as Renee put it.
Finn is about to land a big hit on Jinder Mahal but Singh grabs Finn and diverts him from landing the pin on Jinder. Jinder gets the upper hand thanks to the distraction, lands a big hit. He tries to pin Jinder, but Bailey grabs his leg and pulls him down. Alisha gets mad at Bailey and goes after her, but Bailey knocks her out. Samil Singh then decides to get in Bailey’s face, but Bailey does a Bailey to Belly to him. Jinder is distracted by all of this so Finn surprises him and lands the pin. Jinder takes his rage out on Singh and Alicia Fox joins him in the taunting. The crowd joins together in chanting “You Suck” to Jinder and Alicia as they finish up and make their way back to the back.
Natalya makes her way to the ring along with the Bella twins. They are up against the Riott Squad. First in the ring is Nikki Bella and Liv Morgan. Brie gets tagged in and the sisters pull a twin magic move against Liv. Liv crawls into her corner and Ruby Riott tags in. She gets Brie into a headlock. All of the girls end up in the ring and pull off what is one of the coolest moves I’ve seen done. The Bella twins and Natalya successfully do a triple suplex against the Riott Squad. Natalya gets some ring time later in the match and does a bit of cleanup against the Riott Squad. Natalya gets Logan in a Sharpshooter, and Logan almost taps out, but Ruby had tagged herself in, does a Riott Kick to Natalya and lands the pin.
Triple H and Stephanie are in the middle of the ring to talk about Pediatric Cancer Awareness month. They talk about how they’ve raised over Two and a half million dollars for Connor’s Cure. They show a video for Hyundai Hope on Wheels. a Hyundai car going around and visiting current WWE superstars and the superstars of tomorrow, collecting handprints from the group. Hope on Wheels national Youth ambassadors, Carter and Elizabeth, make their way to the ring and hug Stephanie and Triple H. The kids are given their own title belts and the crowd chants “You Deserve It!” to them. A Hyundai representative, who walked out with Carter and Elizabeth, tells Stephanie and Triple H that Hyundai will be donating two hundred thousand dollars to Connors Cure.
They show Dean Ambrose backstage. He’s approached by Dolph Ziggler who continues to try to convince him that Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns doesn’t care about him.
Chad Gable enters the ring with Bobby Roode. Chad Gable will be facing Konnor from the Ascension. Konnor seems to have control of the match from the beginning. Chad seems to be turning it around and attempts to pin Konnor with a German Suplex. Konnor regains control and pins Chad Gable.
They show Stephanie and Triple H backstage. Charlie approaches and asks Triple H about the Undertaker’s comments from last week. “If the Undertaker is worried about a suit, then he’s already lost… and about him taking my soul, I sold that a long time ago.”
Dolph makes his way to the ring with Drew McIntyre. They will be defending their Tag Team titles against the Revival. The match starts out with Dolph against Dash Wilder. Dolph gets beat up a bit and tags Drew into the match. Drew cleans things up a bit and gets everything back under control. Once everything was back under control, Dolph tagged himself back in.
The Revival start focusing on Dolph’s arms. Dolph and Dash end up outside of the ring. Dash rushed Dolph and lands, shoulder first, into the stairs. McIntyre gets tagged in. Scott Dawson gets tagged in and lands a powerbomb on Ziggler. He attempts the pin on Ziggler but there’s a kickout at 2. There are a few pin attempts from the Revival to Dolph Ziggler, but none of them land. Drew McIntyre gets tagged in and kicks Dawson right in the face. Ziggler gets tagged in and performs a Claymore kick with Drew McIntyre onto Dash Wilder. Ziggler lands the pin.
Ladies and gentlemen, Elias. He throws some shade on Denver, CO. He introduces Kevin Owens to the ring. Kevin Owens sits in the ring, talking about the Super Showdown. He then introduces Lio Rush to his show. Kevin and Elias ask Lio to join him up on stage but Lio states that he’s too smart for that. Kevin and Elias joke with Lio and pull a booster seat out from behind the desk that Kevin is sitting at. They both joke about having Lio’s seat ready for him.
Being the good sport that he is, Lio laughs and calls Bobby Lashley out to join him. Elias and Bobby start the match with Kevin and Lio ringside. Being a native to Colorado, the crowd was chanting loudly for Bobby Lashley. Lashley attempts a pin, but Elias kicks out at two. Elias lands a number of kicks on Bobby. He drags Bobby to the corner of the ring and places Bobby in a way so each of his legs were on both sides of the turnbuckle. He slams one of Bobby’s legs into the corner of the turnbuckle until the ref forces Elias to get back into the ring. Elias starts focusing on Bobby’s leg, using it as a weak spot. A few pins are attempted by Elias to Bobby, but Bobby kicked out each time.
Elias continues to target Bobby’s leg with Kevin shouting at him from ringside. Bobby lands a reverse DDT on Elias, and the two end up standing, punching each other back and forth. Bobby tackles Elias and both men end up outside of the ring. Kevin ends up chasing Lio around the outside of the ring, and he runs over Bobby Lashley in the process. The referee counted that as interference between Kevin Owens and Bobby Lashley. After the match is over, Kevin continues to chase Lio. Kevin and Elias corner Lio and chase him into the ring. Bobby grabs Elias out of the ring, but Kevin has picked up Lio and positioned himself to do a suplex. Luckily, Bobby grabs Lio in time and knocks Kevin out of the ring.
Backstage, Seth approaches Drew McIntyre. Seth starts telling Drew that Dolph Ziggler is using him instead and that Dolph has been riding Drew’s coat tails this whole time.
Nia Jax heads out for her match with Ember Moon standing at her ringside. Alicia Fox comes out again tonight (in a different outfit than before). Alicia walks out with Alexa Bliss and Mickie James. Nia is standing in the middle of the ring and Alicia was running around her. Nia lands a few body slams on Alicia. Alexa Bliss and Mickie James pull Alicia Fox out of the ring before Nia Jax can land another hit. Ember moon lands a hit on the girls for interfering. Alicia gets Nia in a headlock, but Nia stands up with Alicia on her back and slams her into the turnbuckle. Alicia attempts to pin Nia and Nia basically throws Alicia off of her. Nia catches Alicia Fox and slams her down and pins her.
Drew McIntyre approaches Dean Ambrose backstage and talks about what Seth said to him earlier in the night. He starts getting into the mind of Dean Ambrose by saying things like “I mean, it’s not like he’s ever stabbed you in the back before.”
The Shield make their way back to the ring for the second time tonight. They’ll be participating in a six-person tag team match. Baron Corbin walks out first and announces that this is the first official Shield match in over a year. Baron Corbin announces that his tag team partners for this match will be the Authors of Pain. After all six men were in the ring, Braun Stroman’s music starts to play.
Braun Strowman walks out with Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre, each of them are holding chairs. The three men open the chairs and sit so they can view the match. Dean Ambrose starts against Baron Corbin. Rezar ends up in the ring with Roman Reigns, who punches him in the face. Rezar lifts Roman and slams him into the turnbuckle. Rezar continuously shouts gibberish. Roman Reigns starts to lift Ray but fails in doing so. All men end up in the ring punching each other.
The Shield remain in the ring while the Authors of Pain and Baron Corbin are out of the ring. Meanwhile, Braun, Dolph, and Drew stand up and fold their chairs and began making their way to the ring. This was a fruitful distraction as the Authors of Pain along with Baron Corbin were able to land a surprise attack on the Shield. After the commercial break, we see Roman and Baron in the ring. Both teams tag out, which leaves Seth and Akam. Rezar tags in and slams down Seth. Akam attempts a pin, but Seth kicks out.
Baron Corbin tags in and starts punching a laid-out Seth Rollins. Baron Corbin then punches Roman Reigns from ringside and attempted to strike Dean, but the ref got in the middle of them. The Authors of Pain and Roman with Dean have been fighting outside of the ring, meanwhile, Baron attempted a pin on Seth. Rezar tags in, but Seth knocks him out if the ring. Akam tags in and attacks Seth but gets knocked out. Baron tags in and Seth tries to tag out, but Baron pulls him away from his corner. Seth succeeds the tag on Dean Ambrose, who starts wailing on the available men.
Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns are currently knocked out. Dean Ambrose jumps off the turnbuckle and hits Corbin. He attempts the pin on Corbin, but the Authors of Pain jump in to save him. The AOP start attacking Dean, but Roman jumps in to help. Seth also ended up entering the ring to help. Roman tags in and becomes the legal man. He punches Corbin in the face, knocks him down and lands the pin on Baron Corbin.
Meanwhile, Dean is kneeling outside of the ring after the match. He’s equidistant between the Shield and Braun/Dolph/Seth. There’s a looming question if Dean will betray the Shield or if he will stay loyal to his brothers. Dean goes back into the ring does the Shield fist with Seth and Roman, and the crowd screams and applauds.
