WWE Payback Results

Fatal 4 Way For WWE World Heavyweight Championship: Randy Orton v. Roman Reigns v. Dean Ambrose v. Seth Rollins

This match was the one I was waiting for all night, and it delivered all the way, until the end. The match starts with Randy Orton getting dispatched fairly easily, with Kane doing the Authority’s mercenary work from the outside. Kane attacked pretty much every contender in this match, which begs the question, why not just add him to the match anyway? The match spills outside, where the absolute coolest moment of the night happened. As Randy Orton and Dean Ambrose battled on the outside, Roman Reigns showed up and eventually he and Dean Ambrose were attacking Orton together, and then Seth Rollins joined the mix. The three former members of The Shield all pounced on Orton and ended up hitting the Triple Powerbomb through the announcer’s table. Seth Rollins sells a celebration, but Ambrose and Reigns attack him instead, and get ready to set up a double powerbomb through the Spanish announce table. Kane shows up again, and tries to get rid of Ambrose and Reigns but he ends up overpowered, and catches a double powerbomb onto the Spanish announce table. The first time, the table didn’t break, so Ambrose and Reigns hoisted Kane a second time and this time successfully powerbombed him through the table. Reigns and Ambrose roll into the ring and start throwing bombs at each other. Reigns gains the advantage and hits Dean Ambrose with a nasty powerbomb for a two-count. He then hit a spear but Rollins broke up the pin, and at this point Kane gets back into the ring and dispatches of both Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns. Orton gets back in and tries to hit Rollins with the rope hung DDT, but J&J Security broke it up, and ended up catching 2 RKO’s for their trouble. After another (successful) attempt at the rope hung DDT, Randy sets up Seth for the RKO but ends up getting Kane instead, Seth Rollins using the distraction hits Orton with The Pedigree (I Know Right?!?!?!?) for the win.

Winner Seth Rollins

Overall, Payback wasn’t a bad PPV by any stretch, but definitely could’ve used some work. I’m really curious what we’ll see from the Elimination Chamber PPV coming up in two weeks. With the Intercontinental Title and the Tag Team Titles being contested in the structure, it’ll be interesting to see where WWE goes next.