It’s time to get EXTREME as @WWE presents #ExtremeRules streaming LIVE on the award-winning @WWENetwork! pic.twitter.com/p4G2yG8gTT
— WWE (@WWE) June 5, 2017
WWE Intercontinental Championship Match
Dean Ambrose Can Lose Title Via Disqualification
(C) Dean Ambrose Vs. The Miz
The bell rings, they lock up, and Ambrose applies a waistlock. Miz gets out, but Ambrose takes him down with a headlock takedown. Miz quickly fights up and whips him off, but Ambrose shoulder blocks him down. They lock hands, but Ambrose kicks him and wrenches the arm into a hammerlock. Miz twists out, but Ambrose quickly comes back with him. The commentators wish Harley Race well on his recently broken legs. Miz shoves Ambrose, and Ambrose punches him back to the corner. The referee backs him up, and Ambrose obliges. Miz slaps him in the face, so Ambrose wildly punches him to the corner again. The referee backs him up and warns that he could be disqualified, which would cost him the match.
Ambrose chops away at him and takes him down with a spinning back elbow before clotheslining him over the top rope. Ambrose gets a head of steam and wipes him out with a suicide dive. Ambrose shoves him into the barricade and looks conflicted like he wants to do more. Miz shoves him, but Ambrose gets away. Ambrose gets in the ring to break the count. Ambrose grabs a chair, but he doesn’t act. Miz then takes him down on the floor with a big boot. Maryse distracts the referee, and Miz picks up the chair. Ambrose kicks him and grabs the chair, but the referee stops him. Ambrose gets him in the ring and pulls the hair. Miz goes to the apron and pulls him onto it to give him a DDT. Miz rolls him into the ring and picks up a two count.
Miz digs his knee into his back before ripping at the face and applying a chin lock. Ambrose fights up and punches out. They trade punches with Ambrose coming out on top. Miz punches him back and counters a Lunatic Lariat before hitting the Reality Check for a near fall. Miz chokes him on the ropes before splashing him against it. Miz rips at the face before applying a neck vice. Ambrose fights out, but he has a whip reversed. Miz turns him inside out with a knee to the midsection before hitting a running knee to the face for a near fall. Miz continues ripping at his face before going for a surfboard stretch. Ambrose fights out, but Miz takes him down by the hair.
.@mikethemiz is definitely scheming right now… @TheDeanAmbrose #ExtremeRules pic.twitter.com/YC011xKyq2
— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) June 5, 2017
Miz punches away at Dean before starting the Daniel Bryan dropkicks in the corner. Miz then hits his patented clothesline. Miz goes to the top rope, but Ambrose kicks him and goes for Dirty Deeds. Miz counters into a Skull Crushing Finale attempt, but Ambrose gets away. Miz goes to the top rope, but Ambrose knocks him to the floor. Ambrose goes to the top rope and hits a flying elbow to the floor to take Miz down!
Ambrose gets him in the ring and hits a trio of running elbows. Miz reverses a whip, but Ambrose clotheslines him down. Ambrose follows up with a fisherman’s suplex for a near fall. Ambrose hits a running forearm and tries for a bulldog, but Miz shoves him off. Ambrose comes back with a roll-up for a two count. Ambrose quickly follows up with a swinging neckbreaker for another near fall. Dueling chants for both guys fire up. Ambrose goes to the top rope and leaps over a charging Miz. Ambrose tweaks his knee upon landing and is limping. Miz quickly goes to work on the knee. Miz charges, but Ambrose counters into a sunset flip. Miz rolls out of that and applies the Figure Four Leglock to the hurt knee. Ambrose screams in pain, but he eventually gets to the bottom rope. Ambrose counters a Figure Four attempt into an inside cradle for a two count.
A FLYING #Lunatic takes down The #ALister, but can @TheDeanAmbrose get @mikethemiz IN the ring?! #ExtremeRules pic.twitter.com/I7wU1OFXjv
— WWE (@WWE) June 5, 2017
Miz drops Ambrose onto the apron, but Ambrose elbows him back. Ambrose goes to the top rope, but Miz crotches him up there. Miz tries for a superplex, but Ambrose blocks it and head-butts him. Ambrose goes for a powerbomb, but Miz pulls the turnbuckle pad off. Ambrose goes to slam his head into the exposed turnbuckle, but he stops to not be disqualified. Miz takes advantage of the confusion to hit Bryan’s Busaiku Knee Kick for a near fall. Miz starts kicking the chest with yes Kicks, or It Kicks as Corey aptly said they should be called, but Ambrose counters into a Figure Four Leglock. Miz screams in pain while Ambrose cinches it in. Miz eventually makes his way to the bottom rope. Miz tries for a Skull Crushing Finale, but Ambrose counters into a roll-up. Both men are hobbling. Miz punches him, but Ambrose takes him down with a Lunatic Lariat.
Maryse gets on the apron to distract the referee. Ambrose goes for Dirty Deeds, but he gets pushed off almost into Maryse. Miz charges and almost hits his wife. Miz screams at Maryse to slap him, and she does in full sight of the referee. The referee thinks about disqualifying Ambrose, but he knows what Maryse is up to and ejects her. Maryse comes back, and Miz shoves Ambrose into the referee. John Cone, the referee, thinks Ambrose did that on purpose, but Ambrose insists he was pushed into him. Miz takes advantage of this distraction to hit the Skull Crushing Finale to become a 7-time WWE Intercontinental Champion!
Winner and New Intercontinental Champion: The Miz
Maryse returns to ringside after the match to celebrate with the new Intercontinental Champion.
The #ItCouple‘s master plan = SUCCESS! @mikethemiz is officially a 7-time #ICChampion! @MaryseMizanin #ExtremeRules pic.twitter.com/Ufp1lpnrir
— WWE (@WWE) June 5, 2017
We get a promo for the SmackDown-exclusive PPV Money In The Bank, which will feature two matches of the same name. We see Charly Caruso backstage and she introduces Bayley. Charly asks Bayley what she has to say about everyone thinking she can’t get extreme. Bayley says Alexa talks a lot, she proved that last week with the terrible segment on Raw. Bayley says she’s been watching Tommy Dreamer, Sandman and Steve Blackman, learning how to swing that Kendo Stick. She also watched Wonder Woman and she couldn’t help but feel empowered and inspired and it reminded her why she came to WWE. She didn’t come to hurt people but she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get payback and regain the Women’s Championship.
