Seth Rollins is the first to make his ring walk, and he stops and has a short staredown with Cody Rhodes on the ramp. Damian Priest gets a pre-match interview and proves how anxious he is to get going, attacking Rollins and Shinsuke Nakamura the second the bell rings.
Priest is eventually sent to the floor, leaving Shinsuke and Rollins to look each other right in the eyes. The King of Strong Style wins their brief encounter, then drops a leg on the back of Priest’s neck on the apron.
After commercials, the action has moved back to the ring, where Rollins is bossing Nakamura before diving off the top rope for a cross body that takes down both his foes. His suicide dive takes out Priest, then another one nails Nakamura on the opposite side of the ring.
Rollins wants more but catches a Priest right hand to the face; Nakamura comes right at Priest, who is selling left leg damage from his Backlash match as he fights.
Nakamura hits a flying knee from the corner on Priest, who is covered but kicks out at two. Rollins tries to roll up Nakamura and gets two, and there’s some nice action with all three men that leads to a Priest Flatliner on Rollins for another near fall.
Now all three men are down as the fans cheer to try to get them back in action. No one can get the upper hand as they battle again, but Nakamura gets Rollins in a sleeper that lasts only until a discus lariat lays him out.
Rollins heads to the top rope but gets crotched by Priest. Damian tries for the Razor’s Edge, but it’s countered by a Stomp that almost gets Seth the victory until Shinsuke breaks up the pin.
Shinsuke and Rollins yell at each other, then progress to throwing hands. Nakamura finally emerges with an inverted exploder suplex, and he wants a Kinshasa but gets run over by Priest instead.
Nakamura battles to avoid the South of Heaven, and the fans come to life as they see him lock on a kneebar. Alas, Rollins comes out of nowhere to attack Shinsuke, and a Pedigree seals the deal as he advances to the Raw semifinal.