After The Undisputed ERA interrupted their title match last week, The New Day turn to Heavy Machinery for reinforcements in an attempt for payback leading into the Triple Threat Match of Tag Team Champions at Survivor Series.
Sami Zayn’s big mouth usually only leads to disgust for the WWE Universe… but not this time.
The Critic of Critics was waxing poetic about how Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with a newly designed Intercontinental Title) was going to prevail in his Triple Threat Match against United States Champion AJ Styles and NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong this Sunday at Survivor Series, but he was soon interrupted by Strong and all of The Undisputed ERA.
Nakamura & Zayn quickly stood down against NXT Champion Adam Cole and company, but the NXT standouts were soon interrupted by SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day, who wanted to fight. Kofi Kingston & Big E didn’t come alone, as Heavy Machinery backed them up to take on Cole, Strong and NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish.
Nakamura & Zayn kept a watchful eye from the entrance ramp as the two squads went to battle. New Day and Heavy Machinery struggled to stay on the same page, leading to Strong connecting with a picture-perfect knee to Tucker amidst a melee to score an absolutely Undisputed victory ahead of the group’s major weekend. Strong didn’t stop there and instead confronted WWE’s Rockstar after the contest. During the staredown, AJ Styles pounced on both competitors to ignite another melee and provide a full-on preview of what was coming to the WWE Universe.
The brawl was just getting started when Zayn put a cease to the madness by taking a steel chair to Strong and Styles so that he and Shinsuke could get out of dodge, at least until Sunday.