WWE Extreme Rules 2018 results: Ziggler outlasts Rollins in Iron Man sudden death overtime
At Extreme Rules 2018, the action was intense from start to finish. When the smoke cleared, The B-Team and Shinsuke Nakamura had captured championship gold, Braun Strowman had thrown Kevin Owens off a steel cage, Bobby Lashley overcame Roman Reigns in a brutal battle for respect, WWE Champion AJ Styles reigned supreme over Rusev, and Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler outlasted Seth Rollins in sudden death of a 30-Minute WWE Iron Man Match.
PITTSBURGH — Two wins, no problem for Andrade “Cien” Almas, who repeated against Sin Cara at WWE Extreme Rules Kickoff despite a blistering effort by Almas’ onetime mentor — and thanks in no small part to his business manager Zelina Vega.
Both Superstars came out swinging in the opening minutes of their rematch (literally
WWE Network played host to a very different kind of Table for 3 at WWE Extreme Rules Kickoff, where SAnitY defeated The New Day in a ferocious Tables Match that marks the biggest victory yet for the ascendant hellraisers of SmackDown LIVE.
New Day were understandably confident heading into the match; SAnitY’s early win-loss record
The clock struck midnight at WWE Extreme Rules, though not for the tag team you might expect. Curtis Axel & Bo Dallas’ miracle run to the Raw Tag Team Championship ended in a stunning victory over “Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt, completing a remarkable reversal of fortune for a team that had been winless before rebranding as The B-Team
As Stephanie McMahon’s personally-appointed Constable of Raw, Baron Corbin may make the rules, but Finn Bálor laid down the law at WWE Extreme Rules, adding another wrinkle into a brief but scathing rivalry that had taken the classic big-man-vs.-little-man rivalry into a highly personal realm over the last couple of weeks.
Given
PITTSBURGH — If the mark of a champion is to keep their title by any means necessary, then Carmella is one of the greatest titleholders in WWE history. The Princess of Staten Island, whose SmackDown Women’s Championship reign has been marked by the outlandish fashions she’s won and kept it, once again retained the title against Asuka
Jeff Hardy’s United States Title reign ended in shocking fashion at WWE Extreme Rules, as The Charismatic Enigma suffered a demoralizing, near-immediate U.S. Title loss to Shinsuke Nakamura before another foe made his presence known after the bout.
The opening bell hadn’t even rung before The King of Strong Style made his move on
Kevin Owens got what he wanted: He got away from Braun Strowman. The former Universal Champion defeated The Monster Among Men in a Steel Cage Match via escape, though “defeated” and “escape” deserve some seriously prominent air quotes around them: Owens only got out of the cage after the titanic Money in the Bank contract holder threw
PITTSBURGH — When Daniel Bryan and Kane are on the same page as Team Hell No, they’re tough to beat. So, to stop the reunited fan favorites’ bid for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, The Bludgeon Brothers split them apart.
Prior to the title bout, Harper & Rowan took Kane out with a vicious backstage assault that saw the two
PITTSBURGH — Roman Reigns claims that he runs Raw, and the line for the Universal Title forms behind him. Given that Universal Champion Brock Lesnar received an ultimatum from Kurt Angle to either appear on Raw, come to an agreement on when he would next defend his championship or be stripped of the title, the title picture may not be so cut
PITTSBURGH — Nia Jax across the ring with Natalya in her corner. Ronda Rousey in the audience. No rule or restriction that prevented any of them from getting involved. And yet, Alexa Bliss still retained her Raw Women’s Title after a wild Extreme Rules Match title defense that narrowly saw her escape a frantic scramble involving multiple
PITTSBURGH — After the events of WWE Extreme Rules, two things are beyond dispute. The first, that Rusev is truly, indisputably worthy of his own holiday. And the second, that it’ll take an extraordinary effort to snap AJ Styles’ run as WWE Champion, which extended to its 251st day after The Phenomenal One outlasted Team Blue’s most
PITTSBURGH — WWE Extreme Rules went as old school as it could in its main event, with Dolph Ziggler defending the Intercontinental Championship against Seth Rollins in a 30-Minute WWE Iron Man Match that was decided at a score of 5-4 after the marathon contest stretched into overtime. True to form, both Superstars delivered on their
