WWE Clash in Italy is all set to get started today (Sunday, May 31) from the Inalpi Arena in Turin, Piedmont, Italy at 2:00 pm ET, live on ESPN Unlimited in the United States and on Netflix elsewhere. You should also be able to watch this on pay-per-view (PPV) if your cable provider is carrying the event. The first hour of the show will be live on ESPN as well!
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WWE Clash in Italy QUICK RESULTS
WWE Men’s World Championship Tribal Combat match
Jacob Fatu vs. Roman Reigns (c)
WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship match
Sol Ruca def. Becky Lynch (c)
Brock Lesnar def. Oba Femi
WWE Women’s Championship match
Rhea Ripley (c) def. Jade Cargill
WWE Undisputed Men’s Championship match
Cody Rhodes (c) def. GUNTHER
WWE Clash in Italy LIVE BLOG & MATCH COVERAGE
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The show opens with Michael Cole welcoming us to the show and explaining for those of you who don’t own a shelf of historical atlases and who can’t hand-draw a rough map of Italy before, during, and after the Napoleonic Wars exactly where Turin is.
The usual montage of talent arriving at the arena follows, including Brock Lesnar repping Megadeth by way of his t-shirt, which would be disappointing to me if it weren’t for the fact that, as a Megadeth superfan, I have to live with it being Dave Mustaine’s show in the first place.
(I love Dave and got to talk to him on the phone once– I won a contest on the official Megadeth message board before some of you were born–, but he’s the most contrarian contrarian to ever disagree with what he thinks is the mainstream opinion at the current time.)
(Yeah I’m feeling a little chatty today, what of it?)
An intro video for the show follows.
GUNTHER makes his entrance for our opening match.
Commentary introduces themselves and, because this show is in Italy, the Italian commentary team at the desk beside them.
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes makes his entrance and we get things going.
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes (c) vs. GUNTHER (WWE Undisputed Men’s Championship)
Wristlock, arm wringer, GUNTHER slips out and backs Rhodes into the corner as “Let’s go GUNTHER!” chants ring out. Break forced, now the “Cody, Cody Rhodes!” singing chant offers a counterpoint, Test of Strength, the Ring General putting Cody on his knees with ease. Rhodes fights to his feet and GUNTHER rams him into the corner and breaks dirty with a chop!
Referee Dan Engler admonishes him, and the Ring General just wades in with another chop! Whip across, Rhodes slides under, drop down slap, springboard… GUNTHER DROPS HIM OUT OF MIDAIR WITH A CHOP! Another chop, a cover for two, Gojira Clutch attempted, Cody slings him off with a snapmare so the challenger just boots him back to Dream Street!
GUNTHER with a wristlock, Rhodes punching away and the Ring General pulls him in with a shoulder block to drop him! Right hands, off the ropes with an elbow, up and over, Cody follows that with a snap scoop powerslam and he’s fired up! Bionic Elbow, underhooks, Pedigree connects… NO DEAL!
Huge dropkick from the Ring General, huge lift on the Tenryu Powerbomb but Rhodes kicks out! Diving splash, Cody gets the knees up, Beautiful Disaster connects, Cross Rhodes follows… SO CLOSE! Back and forth, GUNTHER gets the Gojira Clutch locked in! Falling back to the mat, he eschews the bodyscissors in favor of rolling over and putting his weight on Cody’s back!
Back to his knees, stepping over to sit on his back, Rhodes stands up, GUNTHER hanging in there, a senton breaks the hold momentarily but the Ring General goes right back to the Gojira Clutch in the middle of the ring! Cody flagging, failing, fading, his arm waving, Engler keeping a close look at him, Rhodes gets his eyes open and gasps only for GUNTHER to roll him back around and grind his face into the mat… CODY GETS A FOOT ON THE ROPES TO FORCE THE BREAK!
Back at it, trading vicious overhand chops, a lariat from GUNTHER and Cody gives one right back! Another lariat from the champ, both men staggering, Rhodes off the ropes and the Ring General turns him inside out with a lariat! Cody Cutter attempted, GUNTHER ducks under, Cody gets a sleeper, denied… CODY CUTTER CONNECTS!
Another lariat from the champ, the Ring General staggered, Cross Rhodes lands true, Cody adjusts his cover mid-pin… AND IT’S OVER!
Cody Rhodes wins by pinfall with Cross Rhodes, retaining the WWE Undisputed Men’s Championship.
Post-match, GUNTHER is upset and confused about the cover and commentary goes over the footage and discovers that the Ring General had his foot under the ropes at the beginning of the count and Cody’s adjustment was to pull his foot away from the plane of the ropes!
GUNTHER argues with Dan Engler for a bit before spitting on the floor and storming out.
We see Montez Ford and the Judgment Day in the crowd.
Rhea Ripley and Jade Cargill are shown walking backstage in split screen.
Jade Cargill makes her entrance ahead of our next match.
Rhea Ripley makes her entrance to get things going.
Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley (c) (WWE Women’s Championship)
Collar and elbow, Cargill breaks loose, big knee lift and an uppercut! Front kick, single knee facebreaker from Ripley, Jade ducks a lariat and slams her! Doing push-ups in front of the champ earns the challenger a slap to the face and a low-bridge to the floor! Wrecking ball dropkick connects, Cargill counters the cannonball senton and turns it into a right hand!
Slamming Rhea face-first into the apron, Cargill follows it with a modified Alarm Clock knee off the apron! Soaking in the boos of the crowd, Jade breaks the count, back out to smash Ripley’s face into the apron, fallaway slam on the floor and a kip-up! Throwing Rhea back inside, she fights back with chops from the mat, Cargill counters with stomps!
Drawing the champion up as Turin chants “Let’s go Mami!,” Jade chokes her in the ropes and throws her into the corner and puts boots to her! Whiplashing her off the ropes, Cargill does some more push-ups to show off, straight suplex into a lateral press, cover for two! Upkicks from Ripley as she fights back in, chops into the corner, whip reversed, Jade clobbers her with an elbow in the corner!
Challenger getting in referee Danilo Anfibio’s face, another straight suplex nearfall, reverse chinlock applied! Ripley fights out and rolls away from a follow-up elbow drop, sidestep a charge and Jade goes hard into the ringpost! Short-arm lariats from Rhea, a German suplex, Cargill rolls to the floor and Ripley dives on her!
Back inside, headed up top, missile dropkick for a nearfall! Thinking about a powerbomb, Jade counters with a back body drop, Rhea sends her sprawling and both women are down and out! Back and forth, headbutt from the champion, pumphandle, Cargill counters with an elbow, Ripley with an enzuigiri, hossing her up… RAZOR’S EDGE IS A BIT LOW BUT IT’S TRUE AND A SHINING WIZARD GETS THE NEARFALL!
Electric chair, Jade tries to dump her to the floor but Rhea hangs in there despite her injured back going right into the apron, lands on her feet, electric chair facebuster into the apron! Back inside, pumphandle, float over, block Jaded, back to the pumphandle, this time Cargill floats over and snaps off a DDT and both women are down and out again!
Jade manages a late cover and Rhea kicks out! Duck a lariat, Blue Thunder Driver connects… RIPLEY KICKS OUT! Cargill up top, Rhea meets her with chops, climbs up with her, and smashes her face into the ringpost! BACK SUPERPLEX CONNECTS BUT JADE WON’T STAY DOWN! Ripley getting frustrated, crawling to the ropes, B-FAB and Michin are here!
Cargill cuts her off with a pump kick, Jaded countered with a roll-through, stomp to the midsection, pumphandle, it’s poorly executed but B-FAB manages to put her foot on the ropes! Rhea stalks after Jade’s seconds on the floor… AND CHARLOTTE FLAIR IS HERE TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS! Ripley back inside, pump kick connects again, Jaded… THIS TIME CHARLOTTE PUTS RHEA’S FOOT ON THE ROPES IN A SIGNIFICANTLY MORE TIMELY FASHION!
Ripley cuts Cargill off with a headbutt, pumphandle…
Rhea Ripley wins by pinfall with Riptide, retaining the WWE Women’s Championship.
We see several Italian celebrities in the front row.
Brock Lesnar makes his entrance, accompanied by Paul Heyman, ahead of our next match.
Oba Femi then makes his entrance to get us going.
Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi
Lesnar right out the gates with an F-5 but he doesn’t cover Femi! Another F-5 and then a third! A fourth F-5 and finally the cover… OBA FEMI WILL NOT STAY DOWN! Heyman calls for the Kimura and Brock obliges by putting Oba in the Kimura Lock! Oba posting up on a fist, fighting hard, agony on his face but he manages to get to his knees and to his feet… COUNTER POWERBOMB!
Femi breaks free, holding his arm close to his chest as he pulls himself up the ropes, Lesnar goes right back to the hold but Oba scrambles to ram him into the corner again and again until he breaks free! Calling for it, goozle applied, Brock floats over, fireman’s carry… ANOTHER F-5 AND ANOTHER KICKOUT!
The Beast getting frustrated, Femi manages the chokeslam this time but Lesnar won’t stay down! Off the ropes, Cactus Clothesline and Oba manages to land on his feet! The Ruler pulls the cover off the announce desk and clears it! Whip reversed and Brock puts him arm-first into the post! Kimura Lock on the floor, Oba counters by ramming him into the post!
Goozle, Lesnar floats over… F-5 THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE DESK! Brock happy to take the countout, referee Chad Patton counting, Femi stands stock straight at seven and gets in the ring before nine! The Beast stunned, corner charging uppercuts from the Bringer of War, huge tossing slam! Popping Brock up, he jumps out of the Fall From Grace! Another F-5… IT’S OVER!
Brock Lesnar wins by pinfall with the F-5.
Post-match, Brock yells at ringside that “one plus one is two” and Oba is “done, bitch.”
The Vision, Giulia, and local hero Santino Marella are shown in the crowd.
Commentary puts over the AAA show last night and Corey Graves apologizes to Michael Cole for having been wrong about Chad Gable not being El Grande Americano Original.
A hype reel recapping the feud between El Grande Americano Original and El Grande Americano Nuevo follows.
Sol Ruca makes her entrance ahead of our next match.
And of course, Becky Lynch makes her entrance to get things going.
Becky Lynch (c) vs. Sol Ruca (WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship)
Lynch attempts a cheap shot out the gates but Ruca ducks her and drops her with a lariat! Becky bails to the apron scared, back inside, revolution back suplex facebuster from Sol, right hands in the corner, surfboard stomp into the turnbuckles! Snapmare, kick, standing moonsault, Lynch kicks out!
Arm wringer in on the champion, wrenching her arm, whip evaded, up and over, Becky shadows her and sends her to the floor with a lariat! Lynch nails her with a baseball slide, Ruca sidesteps her dive, back body drop countered to a handstand, Sol manages to get her feet in the ropes and skins the cat, making Becky punch the post! As Lynch recoils in pain, Ruca hits an Orihara Moonsault!
Back inside, Becky turns it around, drawing her up, jawing at her, haymaker connects, Sol stands her ground and they trade punches! Lynch sends her to the floor and lands a diving punch off the apron! Back inside, diving leg drop… SOL KICKS OUT! Becky gets in referee Jessika Carr’s face after, accusing her of a slow count!
Lynch with uppercuts, Ruca eventually starts trading back, rolling solebutt from the champ, off the ropes, Sol kicks her leg, elbow and an uppercut, off the ropes, corkscrew uppercut, German suplex out of the corner! Missile dropkick connects, Ruca kips up, lines her up, Knee Trembler… SO CLOSE!
Sol Snatcher attempted… ARMBAR COUNTERS! Sol keeping her hands clasped, fighting back, she bridges out of it and locks an STF in! Becky tearing at her grip, she manages to break it and floats over to the Dis-Arm-Her! Ruca counters that into a schoolboy for two, O’Connor roll, Carr slow to the count because she had to bail to avoid getting hit and the competitors trade nearfalls!
Inverted DDT from Lynch gets another nearfall and then immediately gets into it with referee Jessika Carr! Manhandle slam countered, dropkick sends Becky into the corner, back body drop to the apron, right hands over the ropes, Lynch smashes her face into the post! Becky climbs up top, pulls her up with her, Sol cuts her off with a headbutt, avalanche X-Factor… LYNCH KICKS OUT!
Becky positions Carr for interference, gets the better of Ruca out of the corner and she handstands out of a DDT and drops the champion with a superkick and both women are down and out! Sol kips up, fired up, off the ropes… SPACE FLYING TIGER DROP! Back inside, springboard 450 attempted, nobody home, Ruca lands on her feet and gets caught by the Manhandle Slam… NOT ENOUGH!
Becky charges in, seemingly thinking Sol Snatcher, Ruca ducks her and hits her with her own Manhandle Slam… ONLY A NEARFALL! Lynch gets her up, Sol rolls through, up on the second to evade a Manhandle Slam…
Sol Ruca wins by pinfall with Sol Snatcher, becoming the new WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion.
We see Je’Von Evans, IYO SKY, “All Ego” Ethan Page, and Lyra Valkyria in the crowd.
“Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu is shown taping his fingers backstage.
The pre-show panel recaps the show and hypes up our main event.
“Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu makes his entrance first ahead of our main event.
And of course, Roman Reigns makes his entrance to get things going.
“Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu vs. Roman Reigns (c) (WWE Men’s World Championship Tribal Combat Match)