Monday Night Raw – February 15, 2016: Is There A Fast Lane Away From Sunday?
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Night Raw
Date: February 15, 2016
Location: Honda Center, Anaheim, California
Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield, Byron Saxton
Intercontinental Title: Dean Ambrose vs. Kevin Owens vs. Stardust vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Dolph Ziggler
Dean is defending of course and this is one fall to a finish. They really need to change the title here but good grief could these challengers (save for Owens) be any bigger set of losers? No tags here to make sure this is as insane as possible. Ambrose gets double teamed by Stardust and Breeze to start as JBL thinks Roman should come out to get rid of Ambrose on Sunday. Not the worst idea actually.
Dean sends Breeze to the floor and elbows Stardust in the face, only to have Owens run in to take Ambrose down. The champ slugs Owens in the corner as the other three guys have disappeared. Owens is sent to the floor, allowing Ziggler to spinwheel kick Ambrose down for two. We get an air guitar before the big jumping elbow gets two on Dean.
Time for the parade of secondary finishers until Owens powerbombs Breeze onto the floor to take out Ziggler and Stardust. The Pop Up Powerbomb is countered by an Ambrose hurricanrana before Dean dives on the other three outside. Back in and a swinging neckbreaker sets up the top rope standing elbow for two on Kevin. We take a break and come back with Dean bulldogging Stardust as the other three are on the floor. Dolph gets back in and pulls Ambrose off the top with a super X-Factor, only to have Stardust kick him in the face.
Post break Ambrose promises to win on Sunday no matter what.
Mark Henry vs. Big E.
We look back at the Wyatts destroying people over the last few weeks.
The Miz vs. AJ Styles
Summer Rae vs. Paige
Total Divas match of the week. Summer throws her around to start and chokes on the ropes and then in the corner. Paige fights up and hits a running knee in the corner for her comeback. The PTO is loaded up but Summer reverses into a rollup for the pin at 3:31.
In a perfect world, Reigns wins and goes home to his wife and daughter to say that daddy did it. However, Brock Lesnar is standing in his way. The other challenge in his way is Dean Ambrose, which is why this Sunday, Reigns has to choose between his daughter and his best friend. There are those who choose friends but they wind up in divorce court. There are others who stand in the middle of the ring after winning the main event of Wrestlemania but they wind up alone in the back with no friends congratulating him. This Sunday, Brock stands in his way as his enemy but so does Dean Ambrose.
Reigns chuckles at what Heyman just said but at the end of the day, Heyman knows that Reigns can beat his boy. Roman promises to win on Sunday and Heyman leaves, only to have the Dudleyz jump Reigns from behind. Cue Ambrose to make the save and likely give us a main event. The Dudleyz are dispatched and Dean tries Dirty Deeds on Reigns but gets shoved away. Dean points at the sign and they smile at each other.
Another video on the Wyatts dominating people.
Zack Ryder vs. Heath Slater
Video on Kevin Owens, who is officially defending the title against Ziggler on Sunday.
Lucha Dragons/Neville vs. League of Nations
Booker T. video for Black History Month.
We see a video from earlier today of Naomi and Tamina attacking Becky Lynch.
Naomi vs. Becky Lynch
Post match the beatdown is on until Sasha Banks comes out for the save.
Third Wyatts video.
Reigns/Ambrose vs. Dudley Boyz on Smackdown.
Big Show vs. Braun Strowman
Post match the beating is on until Ryback and Kane come out for the save to end the show.
Kevin Owens b. Stardust, Dean Ambrose, Tyler Breeze and Dolph Ziggler – Pop Up Powerbomb to Breeze
Big E. b. Mark Henry – Henry fell out of the Big Ending
AJ Styles b. The Miz – Calf Crusher
Summer Rae b. Paige – Rollup
Heath Slater b. Zack Ryder – Implant DDT
League of Nations b. Neville/Lucha Dragons – Top rope double stomp to Cara
Becky Lynch b. Naomi – Disarm-Her
Big Show b. Braun Strowman via DQ when the Wyatt Family interfered
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