Match: Chris Jericho (with Kevin Owens) vs. Roman Reigns for the United States Championship
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Kevin Owens is hyping up his best friend Chris Jericho backstage for his upcoming US title match. Chris Jericho mentioned how the US title was the only one he has never had. Kevin Owens promised to help Jericho capture the US title and to rechristen it as the ‘Canadian title’ and the two made their entrance to the ring.
Roman Reigns came out next as we cut to commercials.
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Back from the commercials, Chris Jericho was introduced first as Kevin Owens cheered him on. Roman Reigns was introduced and announced as the champion next.
The match kicked off with Chris Jericho throwing his scarf on the face of Roman Reigns before hitting him with a flurry of strikes. Roman Reigns returned the offence but seemed to be hurting his elbow. Jericho eventually got the upper hand and got into a slapping match with Roman Reigns before hitting him with a dropkick.
Jericho then made it to the top rope but before he could do anything, Roman Reigns followed him there and attempted to reverse it. Chris Jericho eventually did manage to throw him back to the ring and landed a cross-body. Nearfall on Roman Reigns.
Roman Reigns, after kicking out of the nearfall, launched Chris Jericho outside. He continued to beat Jericho down on the barricades, throwing him all around the ringside. Jericho was then thrown back to the ring. It was at this point that with Kevin Owens drove Roman Reigns’ head into the steel post as the referee was distracted by Jericho.
We cut to commercials.
Back from the commercials, Chris Jericho was shown beating Roman Reigns down on the ringside, he eventually brought Roman back inside and continues to beat him down with knees and punches. He landed a sidewalk slam and put Roman into a hold.
Roman Reigns powered out and began to get his own footing back into the match, landing a series of big clotheslines followed by a dropkick. After Jericho tried to outsmart Roman Reigns by launching himself off the top ropes towards an unsuspecting Roman, he got caught by a punch instead.
Roman Reigns then landed a driveby on the ringside, before getting a nearfall on Jericho. Chris Jericho almost managed to lock in the Walls of Jericho but Roman powered out of it.
After another bunch of attempts at pinning Roman Reigns and one at the Codebreaker, Chris Jericho finally locked in the Walls of Jericho but Roman Reigns powered out, beating Chris Jericho down in the process. Roman Reigns subsequently landed a sit-out powerbomb and pinned Chris Jericho for a nearfall as Jericho kicked out.
After powering up for the spear, Roman Reigns punched Kevin Owens instead. He subsequently connected the Superman punch on Chris Jericho, followed by a spear. Kevin Owens interrupted the pin and beat down Roman Reigns. It was at this point that the referee ended the match with a DQ victory for Roman Reigns.
Seth Rollins came out and beat up both Rollins and Jericho, launching himself into consecutive crossbody slams across the ropes on to a ringside Owens. He then had Jericho almost locked in a pedigree but Kevin Owens saved his best friend by pulling him out as the two left together.
There was a staredown between Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns which saw “Shield” chants breaking out in the crowd. The show ended here, potentially setting up a tag team match between The Shield brothers and JeriKO next week.
Result: Roman Reigns defeated Chris Jericho by Disqualification
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