WWE RAW Results
September 26th, 2016
Report By Lovell Porter for Wrestlezone.com
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United States Title Match: Roman Reigns (c) vs Rusev w/Lana
Rusev locks in a front chancery. Rusev muscles Reigns to the mat. Reigns tries to fight out of it, but Rusev rolls him on the mat into a pinning combination. Reigns kicks out, but Rusev maintains the hold. Reigns reverses it into a hammerlock. Rusev stands up and forces Reigns into the ropes. Reigns floors Rusev with a shoulder block. Rusev puts Reigns in a head scissors, but Reigns surprisingly kips out of it. Rusev kicks Reigns in the back and follows that up with a suplex. Rusev punishes Reigns back with multiple elbow smashes. Reigns responds with a hard thrust to Rusev’s throat. Reigns lands multiple clotheslines in the corner. Reigns attempts his schoolboy powerbomb, but his back gives out. Rusev sends Reigns tumbling to the outside with a fall away slam.
After a short break, Rusev is pummeling Reigns with rights and lefts. Rusev puts Reigns in a modified bearhug. Reigns manages to hit a few rights and lefts of his own. Reigns hits the ropes, but runs right into a dropkick by Rusev. Rusev hits two gut wrench suplexes for a near fall.
Rusev crushes Reigns with a body block on the ropes for another near fall. Rusev whips Reigns into the corner, but Reigns explodes out of the corner with a clothesline. Reigns floors Rusev with another running clothesline. Reigns follows that with a clothesline in the corner and a big boot. Reigns calls for the Superman punch, but Rusev catches him in midair. Both Rusev and Reigns tumble over the top rope to the outside.
(cont.)
