WWE Backlash 2018 results: Roman Reigns proved he was still The Big Dog in a brutal showdown against Samoa Joe
The action was intense from start to finish in the co-branded WWE Backlash pay-per-view, as Roman Reigns endured an absolute mauling to conquer longtime adversary Samoa Joe, and the No Disqualification Match between WWE Champion AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura was so brutal that no clear winner could be determined.
NEWARK, N.J. — Once again, Ruby Riott proved it pays to have friends at your side, while her opponent learned the hard way that going it alone against the leader of The Riott Squad is an uphill battle.
This time, the unlucky recipient of this lesson was Bayley, who, to her credit, realized that she’d be facing a numbers disadvantage
NEWARK, N.J. — The Miz’s quest to claim his ninth Intercontinental Championship ended at WWE Backlash when Raw’s Seth Rollins defeated The A-Lister to retain the title, thus sending Miz back to SmackDown LIVE without his signature prize.
That’s a bitter pill to swallow for Miz, who has essentially hitched his identity to the
NEWARK, N.J. — Ever since losing the Raw Women’s Championship to Nia Jax, Alexa Bliss has gone to great lengths to reframe her fractured friendship with The Irresistible Force as a kind of hostage situation where she was at the mercy of an overbearing bully she was too afraid to stand up to.
Unfortunately for The Goddess, she may have
NEWARK, N.J. — The Jeff Hardy comeback tour rolls on, as The Charismatic Enigma dispatched Randy Orton to retain his United States Title at WWE Backlash, capping a rivalry that has been tenser than anticipated, even though Hardy and Orton have only been on each other’s radars for a short period of time.
Ever since Hardy supplanted
NEWARK, N.J. — Elias is as mysterious a man has ever stepped foot in the ring, but he has made one thing very clear: He hates being upstaged. Imagine how he feels after WWE Backlash.
After some potentially misrepresenting comments about his friendship with Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen, Elias found his performance cut off by not one, but
NEWARK, N.J. — Toppling the odds is, was, and always will be Daniel Bryan’s bread and butter, but Big Cass is not about to be swept aside. Even though The “Yes!” Man proved he can still shock the world when he defeated Cass at WWE Backlash to earn his first singles pay-per-view victory of his in-ring return, the seven-foot Queens native
NEWARK, N.J. — Give Carmella an opportunity, and she will capitalize.
Not only did The Princess of Staten Island play her Money in the Bank cash-in perfectly to dethrone Charlotte Flair as SmackDown Women’s Champion by pouncing after an attack from the IIconics, she retained the title at WWE Backlash much in the same way she won it:
NEWARK, N.J. — The hope was surely that a No Disqualification stipulation would allow AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura to finally settle their rivalry. But against all odds, the battle over The Phenomenal One’s WWE Championship ended in a dead heat when both Superstars found themselves down on the mat and unable to answer the referee’s
NEWARK, N.J. — There’s a certain type of Superstar who would gladly feed their friend to Braun Strowman in order to avoid battling him themselves. As it turns out, Sami Zayn is just such an individual, and it led to him and Kevin Owens losing to Strowman & Bobby Lashley at WWE Backlash.
Ironically, Owens & Zayn came into the match realizing
NEWARK, N.J. — The last few weeks have been rough for Roman Reigns. A pair of losses to Universal Champion Brock Lesnar sent The Big Dog home empty-handed from both WrestleMania and the Greatest Royal Rumble event, but after WWE Backlash, there may finally be some light at the end of the tunnel for the embattled, three-time WWE Champion. Reigns
