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On Sunday, March 6, 2021WWE Commentary Team: Mauro Ranallo, Tony Schiavone and Corey Graves
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WWE Backstage Reporter: Mean Gene Okerlund
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PRE-SHOW BONUS MATCH: “BIG STEVIE COOL” STEVIE RICHARDS vs. “RAVISHING” RICK RUDE : Rick Rude got to the ring and demanded his music be cut. Then, he said that two people tonight were going to have very different nights. Little Stevie Drool was going to turn in early after he gets a Rude Awakening in this very ring, and Stevie’s wife was going be up very late as she gets a Carnal Awakening in Rude’s all over Rude’s deluxe executive suite. Richards didn’t take kindly to Rude’s comments and came out attacking him furiously, but Rude was more than up to the task of fighting back, and he put away Richards with a Rude Awakening. (5:35)
Winner by Pinfall: “Ravishing” Rick Rude
FATAL FOURWAY MATCH: PETE DUNNE vs. RANDY SAVAGE vs. SAMOA JOE vs. SHAWN MICHAELS : Randy Savage went for a running bionic elbow on Shawn Michaels. HBK saw him coming, ducked it and ran to the ropes, then returned to take the Macho Man down with a flying forearm. He then did a kip-up and started to tune up the band. Michaels was suddenly planted into the mat with an attack from behind by Pete Dunne, who gave him a reverse STO and then slapped on a crossface submission. Dunne had Michaels in the hold for a solid fifteen seconds before Samoa Joe pulled the Bruiserweight off HBK and put him in a Coquina Clutch with body scissors. There was no way for Dunne to escape. He wouldn’t give up, but seemed to lose consciousness. The referee lifted his hand up to check when the Macho Man suddenly flew in and landed on Dunne with his patented diving elbow drop. Savage then started to kick Joe in the head, preventing the Samoan Submission Machine from scoring a submission win. He picked up Joe and gave him alternating jabs to the head and body until he had him backed into the corner. Savage backed out of the corner and gave him a running high knee strike, then started punching him as the fans counted, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, before Dunne grabbed Savage in a waistlock and gave him a high-angle bridging German suplex. 1…2… kick out. When Dunne got up, Michaels grabbed him from behind and gave him a Teardrop suplex. 1…2… Joe broke it up with a running senton. Joe covered him. 1…2… kick out. Joe picked up Michaels and gave him an inverted atomic drop, followed by a lariat and covered him again, and again Michaels kicked out at the count of two. Joe picked up Michaels and put him on the top turnbuckle. He was positioning him for the Muscle Buster, but Savage ran over and shoulderblocked Joe from behind, sending him into the turnbuckle and causing Michaels to fall off the turnbuckle, hit the apron and go down to the floor. Savage brought Joe out of the corner and gave him a piledriver. Before he could go for the pin, Dunne gave him a step-up enzuigiri. Dunne then executed the X-plex on Savage and pinned him. 1…2… kick out! Dunne picked up Savage and had him positioned for the Bitter End, but when he went for the move, Savage was able to counter it with a DDT. Instead of pinning, he saw Joe getting up at the ropes and ran over, clotheslining him over to the floor. Then, he ran to the turnbuckle, climbed it and hit the diving elbow drop on Dunne. He covered him and hooked the leg. 1…2…3! (23:01)
Winner by Pinfall: “Macho Man” Randy Savage
JORDYNNE GRACE vs. NYLA ROSE : Nyla Rose executed a diving leg drop off the turnbuckle to the back of Jordynne Grace’s neck as she was drapped over the ropes and pinned her, but Grace kicked out. Rose complained to the referee about a slow count before going to pick up Grace. She set up for a powerbomb. Grace countered with a back body drop, which Rose in turn countered with a sunset flip. Grace flipped through and hit a punt kick. She made the cover and got a 2-count. Grace ran to the ropes and returned with a discus clothesline attempt. Rose ducked it and gave Grace a spinebuster followed by a senton bomb. Instead of going for the pin, Rose picked up Grace and gave her a Beast Bomb. 1…2…3! (8:15)
Winner by Pinfall: Nyla Rose
RICKY STEAMBOAT vs. KEITH LEE : After hitting a pair of diving chops to Keith Lee, Ricky Steamboat went back up to the top rope and went for a diving crossbody. However, Lee caught him, then hoisted him onto his shoulders and attempted the Big Band Catastrophe. Steamboat used his athleticism to flip out and somersault roll away, then ran over and dropkicked Lee through the ropes. Lee landed on the ring apron and got up to his feet. Steamboat went over and dropkicked his knee, sending Lee off the apron. Next, He went the slingshot plancha, but Lee caught Steamboat and slammed him into the barricade with a fall away slam. Lee picked up Steamboat and tossed him into the ring and pinned him for a 2-count. Lee picked him and gave him a Spirit Bomb. 1…2… kick out! Lee scooped up Steamboat and gave him a bodyslam, then he went to the corner to execute a double springboard moonsault, but Steamboat rolled out of the way. They both got up and Steamboat ducked a clothesline, then hit the ropes and landed a flying forearm. He followed it up with a tornado DDT and made the pin. 1…2… Lee kicked out. Steamboat climbed the turnbuckle and attempted a diving hurricanrana, but Lee blocked it and countered into a buckle bomb. Lee ran to the ropes and attempted a Pounce, but Steamboat did a Matrix evasion, then pulled Lee down into a crucifix pin. 1…2…3! (15:50)
Winner by Pinfall: Ricky Steamboat
UWA UNIVERSAL TAG TEAM TITLESHOT TOURNAMENT FINALS: HARLEM HEAT vs. HARDY BOYZ : Matt and Jeff Hardy executed Poetry in Motion on Stevie Ray. Matt took him out of the corner and gave him a Twist of Fate, then tagged Jeff back into the ring. He climbed the turnbuckle and executed the swanton dive. Jeff made the cover, but Booker T broke it up just in time to beat a three-count. Matt came back into the ring and brawled with Booker. He went for an Irish whip, but Booker T reversed it and took Matt off his feet with a jumping roundhouse. Jeff came at Booker and he ducked his attack before giving him the Book End. Booker went back to the apron to await the tag. Stevie Ray and Jeff Hardy both slowly crawled to their corners. Jeff made the tag first and Matt got to Stevie Ray before he could tag out. He whipped Stevie Ray into the ropes and telegraphed the back body drop. Stevie Ray countered it with the Slapjack! He made the cover. Jeff dove in to break it up. Booker T came in and threw Jeff out of the ring and followed him out. They brawled. Jeff whipped Booker into the barricade. He charged at him and Booker gave him a back body drop into the audience. Booker got back to the ring apron to make the tag, and together, he and hisbrother executed the Towering Inferno! 1…2…3! (15:28)
Winners by Pinfall: Harlem Heat
RAW WOMAN’S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: BIANCA BELAIR {c} vs. TONI STORM : Toni Storm executed a tri-fecta of suplexes (a butterfly, northern lighs, and German) and went for the cover. Belair kicked out. Storm whipped her into the corner and ran in with a hip attack. She put Belair on the top rope and climbed up to try for a superplex. Belair blocked and shoved Storm to the mat. She then hit her with a missile dropkick. Belair got up and blocked an oncoming attack before landing multiple right hands. She whipped Storm to the ropes and gave her a spinebuster. She made the cover. Storm kicked out at two. Belair lifted her up high in the air and gave her a gorilla press slam and a standing moonsault. Another pin, another kick out at two. Belair picked up Storm and lifted her onto her shoulders. Storm elbowed her way free and hit Belair on the chin with a superkick. She pulled her in for a Storm Zero, but Belair unhooked her arms and swept Storm’s legs before getting an inverted jackknife cover for two. Belair tried to clothesline Storm, but she ducked. Storm went for a superkick, but Belair blocked it and leveled her with a clothesline. Belair then picked Storm off the mat with a deadlift bridging German suplex. 1…2… kick out! Belair did a matrix evasion to avoid a lariat attempt, then gave Storm a codebreaker before lifting her off the mat and giving her the Kiss od Death. 1…2…3! (12:22)
Winner by Pinfall: Bianca Belair
RAW INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: EDDIE GUERRERO {c} vs. PAC : Eddie Guerrero fired off the Three Amigos on PAC and went for the cover. After PAC kicked out, Guerrero decided to go to the top rope. He leapt off the turnbuckle, going to a frog splash. PAC countered it with a kip-up cutter. He turned Guerrero over and made the pin. 1…2… kick out! PAC picked up Guerrero and spiked him into the mat with a poisonrana. He went to the top rope and leapt off, going for the Black Arrow, but Guerrero got his knees up to block. Once both men were back to their feet, Guerrero pulled PAC into a small package. PAC kicked out and got Guerrero in a backslide. Guerrero kicked out and went for a hurricanrana, but PAC countered with a powerbomb that he immediately transitioned into a Boston crab. Guerrero refused to tap out, and after some effort, made it to the ropes. PAC gave Guerrero some shoot kicks, finishing with a spin kick. He went for a whip, but Guerrero reversed it and gave PAC a tilt-a-whirl gutbuster. He followed it up with a bridging German suplex. 1…2… kick out! Guerrero picked up PAC and lifted him up for a brainbuster, but PAC blocked contact with the mat by handspringing out. He hit a superkick and followed it up with a handspring tornado DDT. 1…2… kick out! Next, PAC went for the Brutalizer. With the Latino Heat’s arms both locked up, he had to use his legs to turn around enough to get a toe on the bottom rope to force a break. Guerrero went out to the ring apron. PAC tried bringing him in with a vertical suplex, but Guerrero countered with a brainbuster on the ring apron! Guerrero picked PAC up off the ground and rolled him into the ring. He gave him a slingshot senton bomb and made the pin. 1…2… PAC got a foot on the bottom rope. Guerrero took him into the corner and put the boots to him, then lifted him up for a Black Tiger Bomb. PAC slipped free and executed a standing hurricanrana, then a dragon suplex. PAC went to the apron and attempted a springboard 450-splash, but Guerrero moved out of the way. When PAC got up, Guerrero lifted him up and executed a Gory Bomb. He quickly went to the top rope and landed the frog splash. 1…2…3! (18:54)
Winner by Pinfall: Eddie Guerrero
WAR GAMES: THE MATCH BEYOND: BULLET CLUB (featuring AJ STYLES, FINN BALOR, KARL ANDERSON and DOC GALLOWS) vs. THE HEENAN FAMILY (featuring TRIPLE H, ADAM COLE, DAX HARWOOD and CASH WHEELER) : The Heenan Family won the coin toss and elected to enter the cage first. Adam Cole started the match for the Heenan Family and Bullet Club captain AJ Styles entered first for his team. Five minutes later, Dax Harwood joined the match. Five minutes after that, Karl Anderson entered the ring. Then, it was Cash Wheeler and Finn Balor for each other’s sides. The final member of the Heenan Family to join the Match Beyond was RAW World Champion Triple H. Thirty minutes after the battle started, Doc Gallows entered the ring and the match was declared officially under way.
When Gallows came in, he dropped Adam Cole with a big boot and punished Cash Wheeler with throat thrusts. Dax Harwood gave Finn Balor a superplex, but when he got up, Gallows clotheslined him. Then he and his partner Karl Anderson gave Harwood a boot of doom. Wheeler chopblocked Gallows, but Anderson gave him a Double-A spinebuster. He and Gallows set up Wheeler for the Magic Killer, but Adam Cole gave Anderson a superkick and Wheeler pulled Gallows into a small package pin that got a 2-count. Gallows got up and dropped them both with clotheslines before being chopblocked again, this time by Triple H, who kept damaging Gallows’ leg until putting him in a figure four leglock. Gallows couldn’t escape it as Triple H held the bottom rope for added leverage. The only thing that saved Gallows was Balor coming off the top rope with a Coup de Grâce on Triple H.
Balor picked up Triple H and sent him into the side of the steel cage. He gave him a few shotgun dropkicks in a row as he was stuck between the ropes and the cage. Cole gave Balor a superkick and then an ushigoroshi and pinned him for a 2-count. Cole sent Balor into the corner and lifted him onto the top turnbuckle. Cole went up to try for a superplex, but Balor blocked the attempt and knocked Cole to the mat with a headbutt. Balor went for a Coup de Grâce, but Cole rolled out of the way. Balor did a somersault, ducked a superkick and gave Cole a snap dragon suplex. Balor was stalked Cole, but Wheeler and Harwood both grabbed him from behind and sent him over the top rope, head first into the side of the cage. Before they could do anything more, Wheeler was knocked down with a Phenomenal Forearm from AJ Styles. Harwood tried to get him with a clothesline, but Styles ducked it and gave him a Pele kick. Styles got up and gave Harwood the Phenomenal Blitz. He grabbed him and set up for a Styles Clash, but then Adam Cole gave him a running snap neckbreaker to save Harwood.
Cole went onto the second rope and gave Styles a Panama Sunrise. He made the cover. 1…2… Balor made the save! Balor picked up Cole and gave him a 1916 DDT and pinned him. 1…2…Triple H made the save. He gave Balor a knee to the face and then a Pedigree. Before he could pin him, Gallows dropped him with a running big boot. Triple H got up at the ropes and Gallows clotheslined him over. Harwood and Gallows brawled. Wheeler and Anderson joined in. Meanwhile, at the side of the cage, Triple H pulled a wire cutting tool out from his tights and started to cut a hole in the cage. Inside one of the two rings, FTR executed the Shatter Machine on Anderson. Moments later, they gave Gallows a Mindbreaker spike piledriver. Wheeler pinned Gallows, but Styles broke it up with a springboard 450-splash. Harwood took the fight to Styles, but he gave him an ushigoroshi and then the Styles Clash! 1…2… Wheeler made the save. Wheeler picked up Styles and went for a vertical suplex, but he landed on his feet behind him. When Wheeler turned around, Styles took him down to the mat and locked on the Calf Crusher!
With a small hole cut into the side of the ring, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan reach under the ring apron and pulled out a sledgehammer. He passed it through the hole to Triple H. When he got up he saw Balor getting up and rammed it in Balor’s face to knock him out. Back in the other ring, Wheeler appeared on the verge of tapping out when Triple H came in and struck Styles in the ribs with his sledgehammer. Triple H gave him another shot for good measure, before picking him up and giving him the Pedigree. 1…2…3! (13:10 from the time the last man entered, or 43:10 from the time the first two men entered)
Winners by Pinfall: The Heenan Family