Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman start the show, and Lesnar immediately calls out Seth Rollins. Rollins has ten seconds, and he doesn't show up...but Triple H does. He wants Brock Lesnar to calm down and also wants to put the whole thing with last week's contract signing behind them. Lesnar asks Triple H if he's here to fix this or if he's here to fight. Stephanie McMahon, Kane and Big Show try to de-escalate this, but Seth Rollins appears on the TitanTron and tells Lesnar to wait for his shot at him at Royal Rumble. Heyman tells Rollins to "let the adults speak" and says Lesnar will still be champ after Sunday night. John Cena shows up and says the plot to get rid of him as well as the recent guilt-tripping concerning the firings of Dolph Ziggler, Ryback and Erick Rowan won't work, then calls HHH and Stephanie "the world's biggest ash-holes." Stephanie tries to guilt-trip Cena again, saying he's not the Cena he used to be, and Seth Rollins says that nobody wants to see Cena win. Cena says we'll see about that, and that if he wins the title on Sunday, then Ziggler, Ryback and Rowan get their jobs back. Triple H decides to make a match tonight, and if he wins it, they're re-hired. If he loses, they're still fired and he's no longer in the title match at Royal Rumble. Triple H then decides to hold a WWE App vote to see if people want him to risk his title opportunity this Sunday to get them re-hired.
Bray Wyatt defeated Daniel Bryan, thanks to an interference by Kane. After the match, Kane attacks D-Bry.
Triple H takes a phone call before Kevin Nash and Scott Hall walk in, and they reminisce about old times and Nash asks him to run around with them tonight. Shawn Michaels walks in and says he should actually get on the Legends Panel tonight, then Damien X-Pac-dow comes in and does a bunch of crotch chops. The real X-Pac walks in and has a little fun with it, and they mime each other until The Miz says Sandow is his stunt double, no one else’s. Nash and everyone laugh and he says he can’t believe this is the show HHH runs, and HHH holds his forehead and chuckles along.
Byron Saxton welcomes everyone to the Royal Rumble Legends panel, and panelists Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels enter the ring. HBK and Hulk say John Cena should get to win the three fired Superstars’ jobs back, but Flair says no. They talk about Flair winning the 1992 Royal Rumble and how great it was, then Saxton asks HBK and Hulk about their Rumble wins too. HBK says he thinks Bray Wyatt is the person to win the Rumble this year, then HBK and Hogan exchange some words and resolve it quickly. Hogan says his pick is Daniel Bryan, and Flair says he likes guys that walk on the wild side, and he is picking Dean Ambrose. Big Show walks out and says he knows why they didn’t pick him to win, and he beat Hulk for the World Title his first night in WCW, and that haunts him. He says Flair was the man, but he took Flair out of his top spot, and Flair hates that, so that brings him to HBK. He says HBK slowly faded out of the picture because he would have eaten him alive, then he calls them all washed up has-beens, begging for attention. Show says he is winning the Royal Rumble, then Flair asks if he is done yet and starts chopping him and wooing, and Show knocks him out. Show says this is their fault, then Roman Reigns enters through the crowd and checks on Flair, then Show says he will get hurt. Show says he will knock Reigns out if he doesn’t leave, so Reigns starts teeing off on him before clotheslining him out of the ring.
Renee Young interviews John Cena and reveals the results of the App vote. With an 85% vote of yes, Cena will be having a match later tonight. Cena's reacts,saying that the most important part of WWE is the Universe, and they want to see him fight.
Dean Ambrose defeated Wade Barrett with Dirty Deeds.
We look at the Royal Rumble match, by the numbers.
A New Day (Kofi Kingston & Big E.) defeated Tyson Kidd & Cesaro. After the match, the Rosebuds join A New Day in celebration.
This Thursday on SmackDown: Kane vs. Daniel Bryan in a no disqualification match!
The nWo (Scott Hall, X-Pac, Kevin Nash) come out to the ring. Scott Hall starts it off with having the fans participating in a survey: asking the fans whether they came to see the RAW Reunion or did they come to see the n-W-o. Of course, the latter question was the unanimous answer and he thanks the fans for playing. Big Sexy points out that he and the nWo singlehandedly ushered in the Monday Night Wars and hints that we fans can view this on the WWE Network for $9.99 (a la Triple H). X-Pac hypes up the crowd until The Ascension (Konnor & Viktor) interrupt. They say that they are the tag team that ais going to change the business. JBL does not take this too lightly, and he criticizes The Ascension for coming in from of legends trying to change the business. He also says that he made a phone call to another legend... longtime tag team partner, Ron Simmons! The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James & "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) come out and are disappointed that they weren't invited to this melee. The Ascension get their butts handed to them, ending with JBL hitting his patented "Clothesline From Hell" on Viktor!
The Authority (Stephanie McMahon & Triple H) announce John Cena's opponent(s) for later on tonight. With the annoying (and longest) drumroll, Cena's opponents are not other than Authority members Seth Rollins, Kane and Big Show in a 3-on-1 Handicap Match. The Authority will also be at ringside to watch the destruction of John Cena. A random guys blows "Taps" afterwards... wait what is this?
The Bella Twins (Brie and Nikki Bella) guest on commentary for the next match.
Paige and Natalya defeated Summer Rae and Alicia Fox with the PTO,
The Royal Rumble kick-off match will be The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, Big E) vs. Cesaro, Tyson Kidd and Adam Rose.
Rusev defeated R-Truth with The Accolade.
Rollins runs into Lesnar backstage again. Lesnar hopes Rollins takes Cena out tonight, so he can take Rollins out Sunday.
Jey Uso defeated The Miz.
The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) will take on The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) at Royal Rumble.
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