The panel spoke and and hyped that Payback on April 30 would be part of a 30-day free offer for new subscribers who ordered today. They set up a WWE Network video package. The video focused on the classics, all the pay-per-views and NXT specials, Edge & Christian show, Bring It To The Table, a WWE 24 documentary on Goldberg, Ride Along, and more…
They reset the show for the USA Network broadcast team. Renee Young, Booker T, Jerry Lawler, and Shawn Michaels spoke briefly and then they went to Big Show making his entrance. The ring was already filled up with wrestlers and the Dre Trophy was already at ringside. The broadcast team was Michael Cole, JBL, and Byron Saxton. JBL asked Saxton if he lost a bet and had to wear the suit. Fair question. Braun Strowman also received a televised entrance. Rob Gronkowski was shown sitting at ringside…
Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Strowman immediately eliminated one of the Shining Stars. Kalisto and Simon Gotch were gone seconds later. The rapid fire eliminations continued. Strowman and Show squared off. Sami Zayn attacked Strowman. The wrestlers all fought on opposite sides. Strowman broke through his side and dumped Big Show over the top rope to eliminate him. A group of wrestlers eliminated Strowman. “It’s anybody’s game,” one of the broadcast team members said.
Cole spoke about Killian Dain and noted that he’s from the Sanity promotion. Luke Harper stood out as an unadvertised participant. R-Truth was eliminated. Ziggler eliminated Rhyno. Aiden English was eliminated. Cole noted that a number of people were eliminated during the commercial break, so it looks like they stuck with the match on the network feed, but USA Network viewers didn’t see the eliminations.
American Alpha eliminated a couple of guys, but they were both eliminated a short time later. Tian Bing eliminated Tyler Breeze and Fandango. The broadcast team put him over. He was eliminated moments later by a Dolph Ziggler superkick. Mojo Rawley eliminated Bo Dallas. Apollo Crews and Ziggler were eliminated. Titus O’Neil eliminated Luke Harper with a kick.
The final five was Zayn, O’Neil, Jinder Mahal, Dain, and Mojo. Zayn eliminated Titus. Dain eliminated Zayn to boos. Rawley and Mojo traded blows. Mojo performed a running shoulder block that knocked Dain down. Jinder threw Rawley through the ropes and then worked him over at ringside in front of Gronk, so you had to know where this was going.
Jinder got in the face of Gronk. He took Gronk’s cup, drank from it, and then threw water on him. Jinder returned to the ring. Gronk climbed over the barricade. Security ran over and stopped him, then they backed off. Gronk removed his Mojo t-shirt and entered the ring. Gronk got down on all fours and performed a running shoulder block on Jinder to a nice pop. Gronk left and then Mojo eliminated Dain, and eventually Jinder to win the match. Gronk entered the ring and celebrated with Mojo by slapping his chest repeatedly…
Mojo Rawley won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in 14:15
