Segment 1: John Cena hits the ring to open the show, bringing near-unanimous boos and the ever-popular “John Cena sucks” singalong jam. Before he speaks, we get a recap of Cena's and Rusev's shenanigans from RAW.

Anyway... Cena has a mic as we cut from the recap, and he recaps RAW more as well, which I won't recap. I'll say this: he's a good promoter, certainly not on Paul Heyman levels or anything, but he knows how to speak well. He concludes by issuing his open challenge, starting right now... and it's Cesaro, Tyson Kidd, and Natalya who pop out.

The guys have mics and say they're not here to challenge for the US Title, even though, as tag champions, they “are the greatest champions in WWE today.” They proceed with some cheap heat by insulting London, a callback to Monday as they deny Cena's claim that London deserves a WrestleMania. They almost lose the heat by pointing out that no one in the arena wants to see Cena anymore—which some fans agree with, so their boos are lessened—but Cena gets the fans back by saying they should all beat the crap out of each right now to see who the “greatest champion” really is.

The heels think about it, but then Daniel Bryan pop out to lead the crowd in booing the heels... and jokey-booing Cena too by asking if any of them are the greatest champions in WWE. DB then asks if he is... the most handsome man in WWE. 50/50 on that, so he lightly shrugs off the mixed reaction. But he does provide a challenge so we can see for sure who the “greatest champions in WWE” really are, and he challenges with the obvious tag match.

They chat about it, and Natalya says “You're on” to Cena, but not on a mic. Kidd pulls her back (literally), then repeats “You're on” on the mic. DB's music plays us out as the heels leave in peace.

Segment 2 [Singles Match]: Bray Wyatt defeats R-Truth by pin. Punchy-kicky to start with Truth getting the first sequence of offense. Truth does his weird little pelvic dance after the flurry, but Bray interrupts it with his crab stand/walk, which freaks Truth out. Bray then clotheslines Truth's head off, then teases the first start of Sister Abigail. Truth fights out of it, but eats a running shoulder charge. Bray hits the Sister Abigail for real, and that's that. Ninety seconds, tops. Hell, Bray's entrance may have lasted longer than the match.

Segment 3: Cole had an interview with Roman Reigns during the week to address Big Show chokeslamming him onto the stage's prop car on Monday. We only see one snippet of the interview; specifically, Reigns essentially saying that it would take a lot of beating before Reigns wouldn't get back up to fight him back.

Pre-Segment 4: The Miz is in the ring to say that Damien Mizdow so totally got lucky on Monday. Miz made Mizdow's life, career, even his “glorified girlfriend” Summer Rae. Just as he made each and every one of us, which I'm pretty sure implies he banged all our moms. Jerk.

Anyway, Bad News Barrett pops out, and the hometown hero gets a nice pop. He says that the fans aren't here to see a Hollywood movie star; they're here to see someone from the UK! Yay! ...who will beat Daniel Bryan at Extreme Rules! Boo! And he'll totally start that off by beating Miz now! Yay!

Segment 4 [Singles Match]: Bad News Barrett squashes The Miz by pin. Miz took his glasses off, then ate a Bullhammer Elbow. Two matches so far tonight, probably less than two minutes combined.

And yes, I just broke OO Bylaw #1 after breaking OO Bylaw #2. Next thing you know, I'm going to call Randy Orton a genius on the mic as I extol the virtues of chinlocks and bearhugs.

Segment 5: RAW Rebound. Invoking Bylaw #2.

Segment 6: Renee Young interviews Damien Mizdow standing with Summer Rae in the back. The interview doesn't get far when Miz shows up, dismisses Renee, and then demands a rematch from Mizdow. Oh, and Miz wants him to stop calling himself “Mizdow,” using Mizdow's name and entrance, and to go back to just being “Sandow.”

Summer points out that Damien is a better Miz than Miz, which Miz takes offense to and declares himself the originator of himself. Note that he says all this in an irritated, understated voice; no flying off the handle like a Cena promo or anything. It's unusual, and a nice change of pace, from the over-animated screaming matches WWE wrestlers usually have.

Anyway, Mizdow decides to mock Miz's actions just to be a jerk, then offers a challenge at Summer's whispered suggestion: they have a rematch on Monday, and whoever wins keeps the whole Miz brand. Miz gives a non-answer, irritated since the Miz brand is so totally super-valuable. Summer goes for a second-grade line of insult as she questions why Miz would deflect when he's stated that Monday's loss was “a fluke.” It works, since Miz has the mind of a second-grader, and he accepts the match and conditions. Oh, and he calls Summer ugly, so she slaps him... and Mizdow mimes his sell just to add salt in the wound.

Pre-Segment 7: Sheamus's new theme song is on iTunes! I've got myself a new ringtone! ...Unfortunately, it's called “Hellfire,” since whoever names WWE's songs is uncreative.

Of note, the artist of Hellfire is CFO$, the same artist who did the two most recent theme songs for SmackDown, along with a couple other songs I've enjoyed from WWE over the years that took me forever to find.

Anyway, Neville makes his entrance after Sheamus, and Sheamus grabs a mic to talk shit to him. His opening insults is Neville's short height, then the fact that Neville is from England and he's from Ireland, and of course, all English suck. Nice way to get cheap heat in London, and the match is on.

Segment 7 [Singles Match]: Neville defeats Sheamus by disqualification. Minor flurries to start, with Sheamus winning with punchy-kicky offense. Sheamus wins the first two minor flurries, but Neville scores some kicks after dodging a clothesline. Neville follows up with headscissors to send Sheamus out of the ring, then follows up with a suicide dive over the ropes. He flings Sheamus back in the ring, but before he can hit the Red Arrow, Sheamus bails from the ring. Neville goes to follow, but just eats a tilt-a-whirl side slam. Neville is down, and Sheamus catches his breath, so we go to ads.

Back, and Sheamus has a chinlock on him in the center of the ring. Sheamus relinquishes it to his slams and backbreakers from there, along with another chinlock. Neville momentarily fights out of it, but Sheamus nails him with a stiff elbow. Neville retreats to the corner, and Sheamus charges, but Neville slips it. Sheamus crushes his shoulder into the post and falls out of the ring, giving Neville a breath.

Sheamus pulls himself back into the ring, but Neville has slightly recovered. Several kicks keep Sheamus contained, and Neville hits a standing moonsault to pin. Only two.

Sheamus backs up to a corner, but Neville takes a moment to follow; Sheamus hits a kick to his shin. Neville goes to the apron, and Sheamus teases the 10 of Clubs, but Neville fights out of it and dodges a running kick. Sheamus wounds his knee in the process, so Neville flies off the top rope with a missile dropkick. Pin, only two.

However, Neville smells blood and hits a stiff roundhouse kick, then repositions Sheamus near the corner. Neville, demonstrating ring psychology, knows he doesn't have time to set up the full Red Arrow, so he instead does a modified one off the second rope just so he can hit it quicker. Lesser impact though, and though he tries a pin from there, he only gets two.

So now Neville repositions Sheamus and then goes to the top rope for the true Red Arrow. He balances himself and poses, but Sheamus is too fast and knocks him off the rope, crotching him on the turnbuckle connector thingy. Michael Cole, demonstrating he's a fucking awesome play-by-play man when he's a face at best or a neutral at worst, explains all of this to the audience, that it was this reason Neville didn't try the full Red Arrow in the first place, and that he simply underestimated the impact of the modified one. Cole has brought his A-game, and it's making this match, which is already really good, even better to relay the story of the whole situation. This includes the fact that Neville was targetting Sheamus's “Brogue Kick leg” earlier, as a learned response of Neville eating the Brogue Kick on Monday. I am absolutely digging this.

Neville is too wounded to move, so Sheamus pulls him off and puts him on his shoulders. Sheamus can't decide whether to go for White Noise or the Rolling Senton, but it doesn't matter: Neville fights back and reverses the grip into a sunset flip. Only a two count. Both guys to their feet, and Neville goes for an enziguri. It's not hit clean (which Cole also points out, because he's in another announcing gear at this point), and mostly just makes Sheamus stumble to the ropes, but Neville follows up with a solid enziguri. Neville follows up again by clotheslining Sheamus over the top rope.

Neville goes to follow, but whatever he wanted to do Sheamus counters by lifting him up and slamming him with a forward suplex onto the announce table. ...And the bell rings? Since when the fuck is that a DQ?

Post-Segment 7: The stupid finish aside, Sheamus isn't done. He hauls Neville back into the ring, carrying him to the apron, then dumping him over the ropes and into the canvas. Sheamus holds onto the ropes and drops a half-dozen knees to Neville's face before Dolph Ziggler hits the ring to make the save. Sheamus doesn't bother fighting back and just bails.

As Sheamus reaches the stage, Dolph grabs a mic and says that the English don't like Sheamus either, referring to Sheamus's pre-match promo. I was just going to ignore that since it was kind of stupid, but Dolph continues on that no one likes Sheamus, because he's a bully, and no one likes bullies. And the only thing to counter a bully to stand up to him. So Dolph is standing up to him right now.

Sheamus decides to hell with this, and invites Dolph to “Kiss me arse.” He turns to leave, and Dolph calls him lame for that nonsense. Sheamus turns back and says no, he meant it literally: at Extreme Rules, he challenges Dolph to a Kiss My Ass—I mean, “Kiss me arse”—match. Ugh, I thought we were past this after the Attitude Era. Jesus.

Well, Dolph makes it okay by replying that he doesn't care what kind of match it is, so he's down for it. But he's going to “grind, bend, and twist” Sheamus so that after the match, Sheamus will be kissing his own arse. Heh, that's a good spin on it.

The guys glare at each other, and we're out. I still hate the ending of the match though; if Sheamus was going to not give a shit about a DQ, why not just bash him in the face with the stairs or something? Dropping him on the announce table was an incredibly stupid and illogical ending, since I'm fairly certain that's never resulted in a DQ, ever. [Ed. Note: it has. Never at PPVs/big matches, but for weekly TV shows, it's always been an option, depending on what story they're trying to tell, since it is about stories, and not about decisive finishes, usually. Every now and again, they'll even end a match if a guy gets rammed into the barricade or ring steps, if the idea is that a heel is just going too far (albeit even less frequently than if the announce desk is used).]

Pre-Segment 8: The New Day continue their slide into being heels during their entrance as Big E says “This ain't the USA but it'll do.” Heh.

Segment 8 [Tag Match]: The New Day (w/ Xavier Woods) defeats Los Matadores (w/ El Torito) by pin. E with the early offense thanks to his power, though some quick tags keep Fernando contained. It doesn't last long, as Fernando hits a dropkick when Kofi tries a top rope something, blasting him out of the air. A tag to Diego and some hyper offense keep Kofi contained, and a pin attempt is only broken up by E. Pier Four Brawl, Fernando (still illegal) eats a Trouble in Paradise after dispatching E from the ring. Diego tries a flash pin, but can't hold it.

The guys reset, and Kofi nails Diego with a kick in the corner. El Torito hops on the apron to cheer on his team, but Xavier Woods runs over to pull him off. Torito reverses it into a theatrical arm drag, which no one cares about.

In the ring, Diego tries a Backstabber, but Kofi blocks it by holding onto Big E's hand; E's strength stops Kofi from being pulled down. It also constitutes a tag, so E comes in and hits the combination Big Ending/Facebuster combo with Kofi. Pin, three, done. It was also a short match, but at least the action was fast and furious, so it was fun to watch, but pretty pointless.

Segment 9: RRRRRROOOSSSAAA!!! She's sad because Fandango has broken up with her. I still maintain that I'm right here to dance with her all night. She only needs to give me a call or e-mail!

She's in the back, by the way, as Fandango tells her to get over him. She's sad, and then all the Rose Buds go running by for some reason. Adam Rose trails behind, then encourages her to give me a call and allow PyroFalkon to buy her a cheeseburger. Well, Rose actually says that she “will find someone who will see her as she truly is,” but we all know he was talking about me seeing her for who she is, don't we?

Segment 10: Big Show hits the stage dressed to compete, but not actually doing so. He opens by saying that English people suck, so you know we're so totally going for subtly here. He puts himself over, including saying “no one can stop me, even Roman Reigns,” basically then cutting Reigns's promo for him to put him over. Then Show recaps what he did to Reigns on Monday, and then we have to see it too, because we're idiots, I guess.

A lot of blathering later, he concludes that he's going to face Reigns in a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules.

Segment 11 [Triple Threat Match]: Cameron defeats Natalya by pin and outlasts Alicia Fox. Alicia and Natalya go right after Cameron, smack her a few times, and toss her out of the ring. Flash pin to Natalya gets two, she tries a Sharpshooter, Alicia slips it, Cameron slides in and tries a flash pin on Natalya, Alicia breaks it up and dispatches Cameron, goes on the offense but whiffs a kick, Natalya hits her signature “run up the back then kick her in the face” move, tries a pin, Cameron pulls Natalya out of the ring and shoves her into the barricade, then screams at her. Thus concludes what is likely my longest single sentence I've ever written for the site, because holy shit, the entire sequence lasted about thirty seconds. Insanely fast pace... and the crowd didn't care, which pissed me off more than a little.

Anyway, Cameron screamed at Natalya, then slide in the ring to address Alicia. Alicia had her scouted though and delivered several strikes, including a big boot. Cameron kicked out of the pin attempt, and dodged Alicia's charging big boot. Cameron took Alicia down, then went to the top rope for something. Natalya interfered, and though Cameron kicked her away, Alicia was able to control Cameron on the top rope. Alicia teased a superplex, but then Natalya arrived to powerbomb Alicia at the same time. This finally woke the crowd up; about freaking time, although they didn't seem to care after the impact.

Each woman exchanged pin fall attempts from there, all failures. Natalya then hit a stiff cross body out of nowhere to Alicia, tossing her out of the ring, so she could focus on Cameron. That got nowhere as Cameron hit a flash pin attempt, but only two. Natalya wanted a double underhook face crusher from there, but Cameron reversed it into a pin by somehow flipping through Natalya's legs. They reversed pin attempts on each other for a moment, then broke free.

Natalya then caught Cameron in the Sharpshooter, but Cameron clawed toward the ropes. Natalya stopped that from happening, but Alicia slid in to try her Scissor Kick. Natalya saw her coming and dodged it, then applied the Sharpshooter to her. Cameron broke it up, and while Natalya was dealing with her, Alicia came in and hit a big boot to Natalya. Natalya and Alicia exchanged blows, ending with Alicia hitting her Scissor Kick finisher to Natalya. Before she could make the pin, Cameron slid in the ring and flung Alicia through the ropes, then made the pin herself. This time, Natalya couldn't answer the count.

Wow, solid match! The women didn't bother with first gear, and just went full throttle from bell to bell. Fuck the crowd; it's a should-watch match.

Segment 12 [Singles Match]: Fandango defeats Adam Rose by flash pin. Minor exchange to start, which gets more cheers than the whole of the last match, further irritating me. Fandango gets the better of it by tossing Rose out of the ring and following up with a vaulting press. Fandango threw Rose back in the ring, but then Rosa Mendes hit the ring to scream at Fandango. The distraction allowed Rose to nail him with a baseball slide, then tossed him in the ring.

Rosa then popped up on the apron for no apparent reason, and Rose distracted himself by speaking to her. This gave Fandango a chance to recover and hit him with a flash pin. Fandango then danced on the announce tables as Rosa cried.

Ugh. What the hell is going on with this whole gimmick, exactly? Guess it's too soon to know for sure.

Segment 13: Bray Wyatt gives us a to-camera promo as he says that self-dedication can only go so far, because eventually you'll be “all alone, owning nothing but your own regret.” Jesus, that's one of those lines that felt like it was spoken to me personally. Let's move on.

Bray might be talking to someone in particular, saying that “my friend,” and “you need to be more careful,” because the “reaper walks in the daylight.” He laughs, then advises us to run.

Jerry Lawler states that he wonders who exactly Bray was addressing, which me he was certainly addressing someone in particular. We won't be finding out who this week.

Segment 14 [Tag Match]: Daniel Bryan and John Cena defeat Cesaro and Tyson Kidd, in a non-title Champions vs. Champions match, via pinfall. Cena wins the first exchange over Kidd, who then tags out. Cena wins the initial exchange with Cesaro, which concludes with an arm wrench, but when Cena offers a tag to DB, Cesaro takes that split-second of distraction to pull Cena back and keep him controlled. A couple fast tags in the heels' corner keep Cena contained. Cena breaks out of Kidd's weaker headlock, but Kidd follows up with a spinning kick. Kidd then whiffs again when he tries a leg drop to Cena near the apron.

Cena starts to crawl toward his corner, but again Kidd makes a tag, and again Cesaro stops him. We get the post camera view of Cena trying for the tag; apparently the post cameras have been upgraded to better equipment, because they're showing the action in proper HD, because these are the things I notice. Anyway, Cena can't make the tag, but he does kick Cesaro literally out of the ring.

Cena makes his angry face as he crawls toward DB; Cesaro slides in and just knees DB off the apron, then pretty much throws Cena across the ring. Pin, only two.

Back to their feet, Cesaro goes for a headlock, but Cena breaks it with a belly to back suplex. When Cesaro charges him, Cena slips it, and Cesaro goes shoulder-first into the post. Kidd tries to run interference, and Cena dispatches him. Just before the tag, Kidd pulls DB off the apron. Cena slips an attack by Cesaro and applies the STF for a nanosecond before Kidd breaks that up too.

Cesaro then tags out, and Cena tries an FU to Kidd, but Kidd lands clean on his feet and counters with a stiff kick to his head. Kidd then tries to knock DB off the apron as his partner did, but DB won't fall for that crap twice, so he boots Kidd, who spins away into Cena's arms to get back body dropped.

Cena finally makes the hot tag to an explosive crowd as DB goes house of fire on pretty much everything that moves. DB eventually delivers some Yes Kicks to Kidd in the corner, then hits him with a Frankensteiner off the top rope. Pin, but only two.

No big deal for DB, who waits for Kidd to get on his knees before delivering some Yes Kicks. Cesaro tries to interfere, but gets kicked in the gut. DB kicks them both with Yes Kicks. Kidd tries a desperation flash pin, which doesn't work, then signals for the running knee. Natalya then pops up on the apron to distract DB. Kidd goes for a charge, but DB slips it, and Kidd... well, holy shit, he pretty much nails Natalya with a full-speed running forearm. Damn, no punch was pulled on that contact.

Natalya flies off the apron, and Cesaro catches her. She's basically unhurt, only selling minor discomfort as she and Cesaro look on at the match. DB took advantage of Kidd's miss, quickly taking him down to apply the Yes Lock. Cesaro pretty much dumps Natalya on the floor, then slides in the ring to break it up. But Cena is there to FU him into the canvas, and Kidd can't get out on his own, so he taps. Natalya looks on at DB angrily as he and Cena celebrate with their respective titles.

Final Thoughts: And so ends the show with a crowd-pleasing moment. It was a fun episode beyond the first hour; pretty much everything before the Neville/Sheamus match was useless, but starting from that point, the show got good. I still think the crowd undersold the divas' match, which may not be a classic, but is certainly a should-watch. Cameron is certainly coming into her own; she may have taken a while to get here (whether that was just the way she was booked or if she just didn't yet have the experience she needed), but she was able to hang with Natalya, and that is not a compliment I give lightly. I already miss AJ, but as Rick said, with WWE's supposed new focus on the women and with Paige and Natalya leading the way, I think the women's division just might be getting good again finally.

Other than that, I've said all I've wanted to say for this week. You should definitely check out this episode.

Episode Grade: B