Samoa Joe chokes out Paul Heyman on WWE RAW

The sellout crowd at Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena greeted Bayley with a surprising mix of cheers and boos. All that needs to change at Extreme Rules. He defeated Finn Balor, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt to pull this off, earning an opportunity to face Brock Lesnar for the title at Great Balls of Fire.

Dean Ambrose and The Miz led off the show in their Intercontinental title match. Throughout all the confusion Miz hit Ambrose with a Skull-crushing Finale to become a 7-time Intercontinental Champion.

Sure enough, he was out to the ring to kick off the second hour of the show. On the other hand, Wyatt, after shifting to RAW has not had any real storyline to work with, so Wyatt vs Lesnar at Great Balls of Fire pay-per-view might work.Over the past few months, Austin Aries has been chasing the Cruiserweight Championship. Should be interesting to see Lesnar’s response next week. The end of the match saw Cesaro and Sheamus escaping the cage first so they are the new WWE Tag-Team Champions.

Is The Miz winning the Intercontinental Championship consolation for not getting the WWE Title?

Kalisto and Crews are two of the most athletically gifted Superstars on the roster, and their story with the Titus Brand had done enough to give the match a sense of goal and direction. Nobody cares about this storyline. With Balor’s Demon gimmick going up against Wyatt’s cult-leader persona, the supernatural aura in this angle would make for incredible videos, promos and moments. It was later announced that Dean Ambrose would face The Miz at WWE Extreme Rules. After Maryse was ejected from ringside for trying to DQ Ambrose, The Miz sent the champ into the distracted referee. I loved the selling from Ambrose and the strategy from Miz. What happened next? Take a wild guess.

Also, Big Cass should be revealed as the mystery attacker of Enzo Amore after a series of attacks for the past couple of weeks. This week? It was Big Cass himself who was laid out, leaving the loudmouth in need of a partner for his match against Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. Joe said he doesn’t sit behind a gilded curtain and try to tell the world he’s a good person that does good things, that he seeks justice & righteousness.

Before her match, Bayley buried Alexa Bliss’s This Is Your Life segment to Generic Backstage Interviewer No. 4.

When you’re in a fatal fiveway, your odds of success are pretty much only a mere 20%. The victor of this match would get a chance to square off against the beast Brock Lesnar himself at Great Balls of Fire next month.

Joe retorted by pulling Heyman in close and telling him to deliver a message a message to Lesnar … then locking in the Coquina Clutch until Paul passed out.