Payback will have to wait for Sasha Banks, Bayley and Mickie James against the trio of Paige, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville, as the scheduled Six-Woman Tag Team Match was undone before it even began thanks to an attack from the team that is now formally calling itself Absolution.
Bayley and James were dispatched in the locker room before the bell even rang, mainly because Paige and her lieutenants wanted to make an overture to The Boss to join their ranks. Insisting that they had pledged allegiance to Paige for trailblazing the Women’s Evolution before the likes of Charlotte Flair, Asuka or Alexa Bliss, Absolution give Banks the opportunity to join them rather than suffer the same fate as Bayley and Mickie. (Alexa Bliss, who had planned on scouting the Six-Woman Match from commentary, made herself scarce in a hurry.)
Rather than join the trio, The Boss instead opted to throw hands with Paige, and Absolution quickly swarmed the former Raw Women’s Champion before feeding her into an emphatic Ram-Paige from the self-proclaimed “Matriarch.”