Bo Dallas vs. Neville
After a quick check-in with the Kickoff Show panel, Bo Dallas’ music plays and out he comes. Dallas cuts a promo on his way to the ring. He talks about how he tried to be nice to Neville and once Neville denied him, he left Dallas no choice but to force him to “Bo-Lieve.”
With that said, Neville’s music hits and out he comes. “The Man That Gravity Forgot” makes his way to the ring as the announcers try to tell the story of the match, as this one, much like the Divas match, didn’t get a big video highlight package.
The bell sounds and the fans in Corpus Christi immediately breaks out into “NXT! NXT!” chants. The announcers put over how this is a big night for NXT considering this match and what Kevin Owens just did to John Cena in the previous match.
Meanwhile, in the ring, Dallas is struggling with Neville, who is in control of the action in the early going. Neville flips across the ring and knocks Dallas down with a kick. Dallas tries rolling out to the floor while Neville is on the top rope, so Neville simply changes gears and hits a big impromptu moonsault onto Dallas on the floor.
Back in the ring, Neville controls Dallas on the mat with a headlock as replays of his moonsault are shown. As Neville continues to punish Dallas, Dallas drops to his knees and begs off, telling Neville that he’s doing this “for him.” Neville doesn’t buy it, so he continues the beatdown.
As Neville continues to control the action, Dallas finally cuts him short and takes over the offense in the match. Dallas tries to control Neville, but it doesn’t take long before Neville is back to dominating the action.
Finally, the finish comes when Dallas goes for the running Bo-Dog, only for Neville to counter, knock him down and go to the top rope. Neville hits the Red Arrow and scores the pinfall victory.
Winner: Neville
Backstage: Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns & Triple H
Backstage we see Dean Ambrose taping up his wrists talking to Roman Reigns. We can’t hear what they’re saying until Triple H walks up. HHH mentions that he heard Reigns say he wants to be in Ambrose’s corner tonight. Triple H informs Reigns that he doesn’t have the authority to insert himself into a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match.
“The Game” goes on to explain to Reigns that Kane will be out there in an official capacity, however if Reigns gets involved, Ambrose will be immediately disqualified. HHH wishes them good luck and before he leaves, says he has a good feeling about this.
WWE Intercontinental Championship
(Elimination Chamber Match)
– Mark Henry vs. Sheamus vs. R-Truth vs. Ryback vs. King Barrett vs. Dolph Ziggler
After the quick backstage segment, we see the Elimination Chamber slowly being lowered over the ring. We then see the last person to hold the Intercontinental Championship — Daniel Bryan — sitting at ringside.
From there, we shoot to a video package that shows Bryan giving up the I-C title so that the person who wins it tonight can be a fighting champion.
Next, the ring announcer does the formal introductions and rules explanation for our next match, which will be the Intercontinental Championship Elimination Chamber match.
Mark Henry’s music hits and out he comes. Henry is the replacement in this match for the injured Rusev, who prior to getting injured, was scheduled for this slot in the bout. Henry gets locked into his pod.
Out next is Sheamus. Sheamus makes his way to the ring and gets locked into his pod. After Sheamus, R-Truth’s music hits and out he comes, without rapping, to pretty much no reaction from the Texas fans. Finally, the last person to be locked into a pod — Ryback — makes his way out.
And finally, the final two participants who will be starting the actual match itself out, make their way to the ring. First out is “King” Bad News Barrett. After he makes his way out, Dolph Ziggler’s music hits and out he comes.
The bell sounds and our six-man Elimination Chamber match for the vacant WWE Intercontinental Championship — with Barrett and Ziggler kicking things off — is officially underway. After this one is all said and done, Daniel Bryan, the previous I-C champ, is supposedly going to crown the new champ with the belt.
Early on, Ziggler and Barrett roll around on the mat in amateur wrestling fashion. It isn’t long, however, before King Barrett, the bigger of the two men, is controlling the action inside the ring.
Barrett dominates Ziggler all the way until the clock ticks down, the buzzer sounds and out comes the next participant in the match — R-Truth.
The fans boo when the next participant is announced, almost like “Booo — really? R-Truth?!” Anyways, as soon as Truth exits his pod, Barrett stops stomping and beating the crap out of him with ease.
Truth finally starts fighting back and getting some offense in, all-the-while Ziggler, who was dominated by Barrett for several minutes in the early goings of this match, is still outside of the ring selling.
Barrett finally turns the tides on Truth, only for Ziggler to re-enter the picture and attempt — unsuccessfully — to roll him up from behind. Barrett blasts Ziggler with a huge boot to the face and tries to pin him, however Ziggler manages to kick out at two as well.
King Barrett puts Ziggler through Mark Henry’s pod. Because Henry’s pod was smashed open, Henry was free to come out and enter the match, so he does. Henry goes to work on Barrett, slamming him and beating him all over the ring.
Just seconds later, because someone was about to be let loose anyway, the clock ticks down to zero and it’s time to let someone else out. I guess Henry is just legal in this match, as the announcers are selling the fact that this is a no disqualification match.
Anyways, once the clock reached zero, Ryback was the next person to be let out. Ryback immediately goes to work on Henry. After beating Henry down, Ryback starts beating on any-and-everyone in sight. The only person left locked in a pod is Sheamus.
As the action continues and Barrett takes a beatdown from Henry, Truth hits his finisher on him and pins him. 1-2-3. Truth eliminates King Barrett.
Now Henry, Truth, Ryback and Ziggler are circling each other and are unsure what to do. Finally, they close in on each other. Henry and Truth go to one corner while Ryback and Ziggler go to the other.
The clock counts down to zero and finally, Sheamus is let loose from his pod. Unfortunately, the referee has trouble unlocking and opening Sheamus’ door. The guys in the ring take turns doing quick pointless roll-ups, one after the other, while the refs try and get Sheamus’ door open.
This might be part of the plan of the match, but it is coming off as total confusion and cover-up-city. Either way, the attention is off of Sheamus now, who is still locked in his cage. Ryback hits Truth with his Shellshock finisher and pins him. 1-2-3. Truth is eliminated.
Ryback goes to work on Ziggler now as Henry sells in the corner of the ring. Why someone doesn’t just throw someone into Sheamus’ pod to smash it open the same way Henry entered the match is beyond me. It would obviously lead one to believe that the Sheamus thing is part of the match, although it’s being explained awfully — almost not at all — on commentary, so it just comes off as an issue that they’re working on in the background.
Finally, the camera focuses on Sheamus, so it looks like we’re going to get to the storyline point of all of this. And there we have it. Sheamus picks the lock with his Celtic Cross.
Sheamus finally enters the ring now and asks the fans — off mic — loudly, if we are entertained. He then goes to work, stomping all the guys, all of whom are down in and outside the ring.
Henry goes for a big slam on Sheamus and a pin, however Sheamus kicks out. Sheamus hits Henry with a Brogue Kick and pins him. 1-2-3. Henry is eliminated. The fans were dead silent, and have been dead silent, for everything since the Sheamus pod confusion. The announcers are trying to back-track and explain it, however the damage is done. That spot, if it was a spot, really took a lot of momentum out of this match.
Anyways, back to the action — Sheamus is having his way with Ziggler in the ring. Ryback is still legal, but he is selling on the outside of the ring. Ziggler tries to fire up on offense, but Sheamus easily continues to control him.
The crowd is completely and totally dead right now. A pocket of fans break out into a “Let’s Go Ziggler” chant which is somewhat spreading around the arena, but it immediately dies down. I’m not sure how it sounds live, but this crowd sounds completely dead on television.
Ryback is back in the action now in the ring, only to walk right into a superkick from Ziggler. Ziggler hits a FameAsser on Sheamus but Sheamus seconds later hits his finisher on Ziggler. 1-2-3. Ziggler is eliminated. That was a weird setup to an elimination as well. There’s something really “off” about this match and the crowd is reflecting that.
With just Sheamus and Ryback remaining in the match, the fans try to start up a “Feed Me More” chant, but it too quickly dies down. The announcers point out that both Sheamus and Ryback have never been Intercontinental Champion before. Both guys battle back-and-forth for a minute or two, with each guy trying to hit their finisher. The end saw Ryback hit Sheamus with his finisher for the 1-2-3. We have a new I-C champ.
After the match, Ryback’s music plays and he celebrates. The Chamber lifts back up to the ceiling and Daniel Bryan, the previous I-C champ, makes his way into the ring. Bryan presents Ryback with the I-C title.
Winner and NEW WWE Intercontinental Champion: Ryback
WWE World Heavyweight Championship
– Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dean Ambrose
After the final of our two Elimination Chamber matches tonight, the video package for our WWE World Heavyweight Championship main event match of the evening airs.
First out is the challenger for tonight, Dean Ambrose. Out next is his former Shield teammate and opponent for tonight, the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.
The bell sounds and here we go. Early on, Ambrose is like a mad man and is all over “The Future of WWE.” Ambrose is hitting Rollins with every move in the playbook.
Finally, Rollins takes over control of the match and slows the pace down. Rollins controls Ambrose for several minutes, with some distraction and interference help.
In the end, Ambrose was on the top rope and Rollins pulled the referee in front of him. Ambrose ended up taking them both out with the flying elbow smash.
The match would continue, only for Rollins to roll right into a Dirty Deeds from Ambrose. Ambrose covers Rollins and a second referee runs into the ring. 1-2-3. Ambrose wins.
WWE lets Ambrose do the big celebration, ala Daniel Bryan last year. Several minutes later, the referee pulls Lilian Garcia aside and explains to her that because Rollins pulled the ref in front of him, Ambrose wins — but by disqualification, so Rollins is still the champion.
After the match, Rollins is in the aisle celebrating, so Roman Reigns’ music hits and out he comes. Reigns helps Ambrose clean house of Rollins and J&J Security, along with everyone else in sight.
Eventually, Ambrose gets on the mic and announces that he won and because he’s got the title, he’s keeping it. His music plays again as he and Reigns exit through the crowd. WWE Elimination Chamber 2015 goes off the air on that note.
Winner via Disqualification: Dean Ambrose
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