IWE Roadblock: End of the Line

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Roadblock: End of The Line is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and IWE Network event produced by IWE for the Raw brand. It will take place on December 18, 2016, at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This will be the second event under the Roadblock chronology, but this will be the first event also on pay-per-view.

Background

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The card will include matches resulting from scripted storylines and have results predetermined by IWE on the Raw and 205 Live brand, one of IWE's two brand divisions. Storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television show Raw and 205 Live.

At Survivor Series in the Survivor Series elimination match, Team Raw lost to Team SmackDown when Roman Reigns was pinned by Bray Wyatt. The following night on Raw, Kevin Owens interrupted Khris Jericho's Highlight Reel. After an argument between the two best friends, they blamed Reigns for Team Raw's loss. Seth Rollins then came out and demanded a title match for the IWE Universal Championship, as he was guaranteed a match for being part of Team Raw. He then got into a confrontation with Owens and Jericho, and Reigns came to his aid. General Manager Mick Foley then scheduled the main event to be Rollins versus Owens for the title in a no disqualification match with both Reigns and Jericho banned from ringside. Jericho, disguised as a masked fan, still interfered, allowing Owens to retain the championship. On the November 28 episode of Raw, Owens was the guest on Jericho's Highlight Reel. They were interrupted by Reigns, who claimed that Owens cannot win a match without Jericho. Owens said that he did not need Jericho to beat Reigns. Reigns then challenged Owens to a match, in which Reigns would receive a championship match at Roadblock if he won. Owens accepted and the match was made official by Foley. Reigns defeated Owens to earn the title shot at Roadblock.

For several weeks, Khris Jericho interfered in Seth Rollins' championship matches against Kevin Owens, costing Rollins the IWE Universal Championship each time. On Jericho's Highlight Reel on the November 21 episode of Raw, in addition to Roman Reigns, Jericho and Owens blamed Rollins for Team Raw's loss at Survivor Series. Rollins then came out and demanded another title match against Owens, as he was guaranteed one for being part of Team Raw. General Manager Mick Foley confirmed Rollins' claim and scheduled Rollins to face Owens in the main event in a no disqualification match with both Reigns and Jericho banned from ringside. Jericho, disguised as a masked fan, interfered, allowing Owens to capitalize and retain the championship. The following week, after Jericho's falling out with Owens earlier that night, he left the arena. As he was leaving, he was attacked by Rollins, who hit a Pedigree on Jericho on top of a car.

On the November 28 episode of Raw, Sasha Banks defeated Charlotte Flair for the Raw Women's Championship in a Falls Count Anywhere match in Charlotte's hometown. After the match, Charlotte's father, Ric Flair, came out and congratulated Sasha. The following week, Charlotte invoked her rematch clause; in response, Sasha suggested a 30-minute Iron Man match at Roadblock, which Charlotte accepted. Later that night, Charlotte invited her father Ric Flair to the ring to publicly apologize for disowning him earlier in the year; the two hugged, but then Charlotte slapped him in the face, claiming that Ric turned his back on her. Sasha came to Ric's aid, but was overpowered by Charlotte.

On the premiere episode of 205 Live on November 29, Rich Swann defeated The Brian Kendrick for the IWE Cruiserweight Championship. He subsequently retained the championship in a rematch the following week where T.J. Perkins was on commentary. After the match, Kendrick attacked Perkins, which resulted in a three-way brawl also involving Swann. On December 12, it was announced that Swann would defend the championship in a triple threat match against Kendrick and Perkins at Roadblock. On that night's Raw, Kendrick defeated Perkins in a singles match. The following night on 205 Live, Perkins defeated Swann by submission.

On the November 21 and November 28 episodes of Raw, Enzo Amore made remarks towards Rusev and Lana. On the December 5 episode, Rusev and Lana got into an argument and Rusev stormed off. Enzo would see this and console Lana. Later that night, Enzo received a text message from Lana, inviting him to her hotel room. Once he got there, the two drunk a glass of champagne and Lana forced Enzo to strip down to his underwear. Lana then called for Rusev and Rusev attacked Enzo before dragging his unconscious body into the hallway.<ref name="Raw12052016"/> The following week, Rusev and Lana would mock Enzo by showing replays of the attack.Big Cass came out and got into a brawl with Rusev before sending Rusev into retreat. A match between Big Cass and Rusev was scheduled for the Roadblock pre-show.

On the November 21 episode of Raw, General Manager Mick Foley put Sami Zayn in a match against Braun Strowman for failing to defeat The Miz at Survivor Series and bringing the Intercontinental Championship to Raw. Foley had to call the match off after Strowman attacked Zayn before the match and Zayn could not continue. The following week, Zayn went off on Foley and demanded a rematch against Strowman, but Foley would not give him the rematch. Zayn and Foley got into a confrontation with Foley telling Zayn he could not beat Strowman before Zayn stormed off.<ref name="Raw11282016"/> On the December 12 episode of Raw, Zayn again asked for a rematch, but was again rejected. Zayn told Foley that he might have to go to SmackDown because his idol and boss does not believe in him. Strowman said after his match against Curtis Axel, Zayn could not last two minutes with him. After defeating Jinder Mahal, Foley told Zayn that he talked with Daniel Bryan and he would be going to SmackDown and be traded for Eva Marie. Zayn said that he was worth more than Eva Marie and again asked for a rematch against Strowman. Foley than told Zayn that he was not going to SmackDown because it was all a plan for Zayn to show Foley that he could beat Strowman. Foley then scheduled Zayn to face Strowman at Roadblock and that the match would have a ten minute time limit.

For several weeks, The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) had been hyping their Raw Tag Team Championship reign as they were soon to break the record for longest reigning tag team champions in IWE history, a feat held by Demolition with IWE's original World Tag Team Championship at 478 days. On the November 21 and November 28 episodes of Raw, they retained their titles in back to back championship matches against Cesaro and Sheamus and then Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, respectively. On the December 5 episode, Cesaro and Sheamus faced Gallows and Anderson to determine the number one contenders for the championship, with New Day at ringside. After a brawl occurred between all three teams, the match went undecided. A triple threat tag team championship match was then scheduled for the following week between the three teams. The New Day retained, tying Demolition's record, however, during their celebration party, Woods accidentally sprayed champagne on Raw Commissioner Kaila Matteson. As punishment, she put New Day in a second tag team championship match against Kevin Owens and Khris Jericho. Mick Foley then made it a triple threat match and added Rollins and Reigns. The New Day retained again, definitively tying Demolition's record, and subsequently breaking it the following day. At IWE Tribute to the Troops on December 14, Cesaro and Sheamus became the number one contenders for Roadblock by winning a Fatal 4-Way tag team match against Gallows and Anderson, The Shining Stars, and The Golden Truth.

Matches

See also

• List of IWE Network events
• List of IWE pay-per-view events

References