Sean Raw Sapp (7/24): Emma Squashed, Shield 0.66, Jason Jordan, HOSS BATTLE!

Opening Segment

• Kurt Angle looks jovial, and sells it so well.
• Braun, then Samoa Joe are in the ring and have to shoehorn in Great Balls of Fire references. Dammit. 
• Roman Reigns' shirt looks like one a mom would pick out for her ten year old kid. 
• Great promo from Roman Reigns.
• All three men are getting title shots, but Joe isn't happy and all hell breaks loose!
• Kurt Angle is at the ramp waving security and wrestlers into the ring like he's a third base coach and it was great.
• Not surprisingly, Braun kills many of them.
• Later, Cole says we get a "partial Shield reunion of sorts."

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No DQ Match
Elias Samson defeated Finn Balor
4.75/10

• Finn Balor interrupts Elias Samson's song. Original.
• We get the limb targeting by Samson, and Balor is wearing K-tape to sell it. 
• Samson hits a sweet snapmare-style shoulderbreaker.
• The camera zooms on Balor's stomps are ridiculous.
• Bray Wyatt shows up and hits Sister Abigail. YAWN.

Backstage crappenings

• Emma wants her chance, and threatens to date Jason Jordan. Angle books her against Nia Jax.
• Alexa Bliss cuts a good promo about Bayley and Sasha stealing each other's thunder. 
• Titus O'Neil says he got Tozawa's match canceled because Tozawa's shoulder is a liability. This is good. Neville comes out and trolls Tozawa. Tozawa beats him up, but the Neville appearance made no sense. Daivari comes out to attack both men. 
• We get a terrible written Sasha Banks-Bayley backstage promo.
• Jason Jordan cuts a promo void of any charisma. To the contrary, I really liked the Ambrose/Rollins interaction.
• Miz is backstage talking about how Seth Rollins is just like Hollywood -- trying to reboot a once successful franchise. 

Big Cass defeated Enzo Amore

• Enzo is still over with the crown big time. He told Big Show before the match he didn't have a plan, he just wanted to fight.  
• There are few in wrestling who sell an ass beating better than Enzo.
• He gets his ass kicked, by the way.
• Big Show comes to make the save, but gets beaten up too. Cass is a star based on the Youtube metrics.
• Cass had threatened to snap Enzo's neck, which Cole heard as "slap." HILARIOUS.

Nia Jax defeated Emma

• Poor Emma.
• She gets literally squashed with a somersault senton, and a running SHOVE.
• Corey Graves calls Nia the hybrid athlete, but I'm not sure what the hell he means.

Top Contender Match
Bayley defeated Sasha Banks
6.25/10

• A couple of slick spots early, where Bayley is knocked off the top rope. Later she does a rope hung cutter.
• There's a hockey brawl that ends in Bayley getting slammed into the turnbuckle.
• A sick knee exchange! This is good stuff.
• Bayley wins by reversing a frog splash pin, which doesn't make a lot of sense. 
• I liked the match, but I don't know how reversing a pin with a floatover after you hook the leg post frog splash makes sense.
• Those 13 minutes flew by.

Jason Jordan defeated Curt Hawkins

• Jordan is going to have to be a bit meaner, he was softballing a little.
• That softballing wasn't when he hit an overhead suplex or his finish -- a belly to back neckbreaker. 

The Revival defeated The Good Brothers
4.5/10

• How are the "Good Brothers" not the official name for Gallows and Anderson? It is on this feature.
• Anderson and Gallows act like babyfaces, putting over the town. Then they work out of the heel corner. 
• This is good, solid tag team work.
• Anderson gets air with a jumping calf kick. Great stuff.
• Been a while since Gallows did a babyface hot tag, eh?
• The Hardy Boyz come out and distract both teams, leading to a SICK Shatter Machine on Anderson.

The Shield 0.66 defeated The Miztourage
5.25/10

• The most notable thing about this early is that Cesaro & Sheamus are watching. But why? A couple of jobbers and two guys who supposedly didn't wanna team? Well ok. 
• There was nothing special about this until about 11 PM EST when the paint by numbers shit ended.
• Bo Dallas got Enzo'd.
• Seth Rollins had the damndest sell of a short DDT ever.
• Shield fellas win. This was there, but the celebration afterwards was the best. Ambrose left Rollins hanging on a fist pound.