Midweek wrestling

WWE Main Event

-Commentators:  Josh Mathews & Alex Riley.
-Jimmy & Jey Uso d. Johnny Fandango & Big E Langston(w/ Summer Rae) when Jimmy pinned Langston after the Headshrinker Splash.
-The Big Show d. Damien Sandow with the PUNCH.
-Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel(w/ Paul Heyman) d. Justin Gabriel(non-title) after the corkscrew snapmare driver.

TNA XPlosion(recorded in St. Louis, MO)

-Commentators:  Mike Tenay & Jeremy Borash.
-Eric Young & Joseph Park d. The Bro Mans(Robbie Eckos & Jessie Godderz); Young pinned Jessie after the Macho Elbow as Park hit a splash off the second rope on Robbie E.

WWE NXT

Commentators:  Tom Phillips & S. William Regal.  Ring announcer:  Kendall Skye.

Earlier today:  Tyler Breeze and C.J. Parker both met with Raw General Manager Brad Maddox to petition for a spot in tonight's Tag Team Turmoil match.  Since neither man had a partner(despite Breeze's suggestion to clone him), Maddox said the two of them would be a team.  Presumably NXT G.M. Dusty Rhodes is still on the shelf after getting PUNCHed out by The Big Show...

Tag Team Turmoil:  We start with Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady...BA-DA BOOM!  Realest guys in the room!.  They're hotter than the peppers that Peter Piper picked!  They're like Cottonelle tissue because they're on a ROLL...and the other teams are like Cottonelle because they're S-A-W-F-T!  Team #2 is Parker & Breeze...the partisan crowd seems to like Breeze more than Parker, notably.  Parker gives Amore an airplane spin before dumping him face-first to the mat, then hits a double-knee in the corner...but wastes time jawing with his partner and misses the tag being made.  Cassady immediately grabs Parker in a swinging sitout uranagi and that's all she wrote!

Team #3 is Alexander Rusev & Scott Dawson(introduced by Sylvester Lefort) and these teams have some history.  Big Cass maintains his dominance against Dawson, then takes out Rusev with IT'S THE BIG FOOT...for two.  Enzo tags in and runs right into a Samoan Drop...good one.  Dawson gets the tag and plants Amore with a spinebuster, but Enzo small-packages him out of nowhere for the flash pin!  Rusev dishes out some immediate retribution, leaving Amore & Cassady in bad shape...

Enter The Ascension(Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor) as team number four...Amore & Cassady get an ad break to rest, but things look bleak for them.  Enzo's in no condition to fight and Cassady takes a beating from both opponents...but Cass stops O'Brian with IT'S THE BIG FOOT for a surprise two-count.  Amore tags in and runs into a Flapjack...this just hasn't been his night.  Total Ascension finishes it as Victor pins Enzo for the win.

Bayley Rose vs. Sasha Banks(w/ Summer Rae):  Renee Young joins the broadcast team because...why not?  Bayley breaks in the corner with a high-ten...but Sasha doesn't take that well and slaps her down in short order.  Bayley gets a La Majistral for a quick two-count, but a corner headscissors goes awry and Sasha drops her face-first to the mat.  Bayley rallies, but Sasha walks up the ropes for a flying armdrag...only to miss a Stinger Splash.  Bayley hits a belly-to-belly hug-plex...for two.  Sasha pulls Bayley down from the ropes again, landing her throat-first on the top rope...Sasha ends it with a straitjacket neckbreaker.  Summer enlightens us...Johnny Fandango will be here next week.  They dealt with NXT Women's Champion Paige Knight and also Emma Tayla...but Emma hits the ring to take exception to that.  Summer and Sasha were just leaving.

Aiden English vs. Bull Dempsey:  English is sporting a beret, shades, and scarf this week...yes, he sings his way to the ring once again.  Despite a size and strength disadvantage, English controls most of the bout...bowing legdrop sets up the Take a Bow(turning Side Effect) for the easy win.  Encore~!

Backstage, Renee gets a word with Summer...she challenges Emma to find a partner to face her and Fandango next week.

Sami Zayn vs. El Local:  OLE~!...but who would be more inspired by that in this particular bout?  Phillips notes that Zayn recently made his WWE live event debut in Canada...good for him.  Zayn goes on offense early, but Local hits a nice STO backbreaker to slow him down.  Zayn launches El Big Comeback(so to speak) and gets the pin after a corner boot...he's ready to go for the gold!  Speak of the devil...here's NXT Champion Bo Dallas.  He's happy that Zayn is following the lead of his great mentor...he's cleared to return after Zayn heartlessly injured him at SummerSlam Axxess.  Don't worry, Bo forgives Sami for that.  Next week will be the Bo Dallas Invitational and anyone who can beat the champ will earn a title shot.  Don't Stop Bo-Lieving!  Zayn wants to throw his hat in the ring, but Bo doesn't like being interrupted.  One day, he may have his own Zayniacs...but for now, Zayn isn't welcome to enter the invitational.

Backstage, Maddox meets with Kassius Ohno...Ohno wonders why he's been off TV lately since he's been medically cleared for a while.  Brad tells him that certain people(not himself, of course) keep Ohno on the sidelines for the fun of it.  Ohno keeps pushing to get back into the swing of things and Maddox says he'll face a member of the Wyatt Familiy next week.  That's his shot at revenge after they put him on the shelf in the first place...good luck?

Enter C.O.O. Triple H...he slaps a few hands on the way to the ring, but the fan response is still mixed.  After some name-dropping of NXT guys, he notes that any job openings could easily be filled by the people down here.  HHH brings out the issues with the Rhodes family...because of the tension involved with that situation, he has given Dusty some "time off" because it's Best For Business(tm).  Your interim General Manager:  John Bradshaw Layfield!  The fans really ARE chanting his name this time around, but he shushes the fans in a hurry because this isn't "sing along with The Wrestling God".  He trashes Dusty and his whole family, saying this new role is Best For Business(tm)...EVERYONE gets an evil boss storyline~!

TNA Impact

-Commentators:  Mike Tenay & Taz.
-Eric Young, Joseph Park, & Women's Champion O.D.B. d. The Bro Mans(Robbie Eckos & Jessie Godderz) & Gail Kim; Park hit Godderz with the splash off the second rope, Young hit the Macho Elbow, and O.D.B. got the pin after her own big splash.
-Austin Aries d. Kenny King with the brainbuster; King had challenged Aries because he was upset about Aries sneaking into the X-Division Title situation under the Suicide^H^H^HManik mask.
-Manik d. Chris Sabin(w/ Velvet Sky) to retain the X-Division Title; Sabin faked an injury and hid behind Velvet several times, but Manik reversed a rollup into a modified small package for the win.  Sabin attacked after the match but Aries(who had a brief backstage confrontation with Sabin earlier in the night) ran him off.
-Sting, Samoa Joe, & Brutus Magnus d. Wes Brisco, Garett Bischoff, & Mike Knux; The Extraordinary Gentlemen's Organization(Bobby Roode, Christopher Daniels, & Frankie Kazarian) attacked and injured Magnus during the bout, but Joe still got the win over Wes with the Kokita Clutch.  Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray(w/ Brooke Tessmacher) dumped Wes from the Aces & Eights afterwards, giving him the piledriver and forcing Garett and Knux to relieve him of his biker vest.