As he is wont to do, Seth Rollins enjoys a nice, long singalong in a single spotlight in the ring. Shinsuke Nakamura gets a pretty dope comic book style prelude to his ring walk. The Great Muta is on hand in the crowd too.
Shin seems to be in Seth’s head a bit at the beginning of the match, but the two men wrestle to a standoff. Rollins beats his challenger back to the corner and stomps away, then hits a jumping forearm shot before following with a suicide dive to the floor.
Rollins thinks Pedigree but is back dropped as a counter. Shinsuke nails him in the lower back with forearms and kicks, then chokes him with a boot.
Making a brief rally, Rollins hits a slingshot senton, then dives out to the floor to hit him for the second time. “Why don’t you talk some more?” Rollins says as he smashes Nakamura into the announce table. The champ has ideas of a big move off the barricade, but Nakamura throws him back first off the announce table, covering back in the ring for a one count.
Some knee shots in the corner set up another cover for Shinsuke, forcing Rollins to kick out at two. His assault continues both in and out of the ring, with Seth needing to dig down to keep kicking out.
Nakamura’s enzuigiri is a rare move that isn’t to the back, but Rollins is able to hit a hurricanrana off the top rope to finally get a respite. Seth attacks with a series of strikes, then hits a Sling Blade. A Frog Splash is next, but Nakamura kicks out at two.
A clothesline gets Rollins another near fall, but Shin avoids the Stomp and goes back on the offensive. A suplex has the champ looking good, as well as a sliding snap suplex, but Rollins fires right back with a superkick.
Grabbing wrist control, Rollins hammers some forearms, but Shinsuke rolls into an armbar. He switches to a triangle, but Rollins rises into a sitout powerbomb for a near fall.
Rollins hits an enzuigiri that leaves both men down. But Nakamura leaps from the turnbuckles with a landslide and looks for more. Rollins collapses to the his back, however, and smacks the challenger before eating some kicks.
Shinsuke kicks the champ under the ropes, but Rollins rallies after a series of standing switches and connects on a Pedigree. He goes for the Stomp but is cut off, and he hits the Stomp out of a scramble. He drags himself on top of Nakamura and covers, and it’s barely enough to get the three.