IWE Extreme Rules (2017)

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Extreme Rules (2017) 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 June 4, 2017, at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. It will be the ninth event under the Extreme Rules chronology.

Background

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The card will include matches resulting from scripted storylines and have results predetermined by IWE on the Raw brand. Storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows Monday Night Raw and 205 Live, the latter of which is cruiserweight-exclusive.

At Payback, Braun Strowman defeated Roman Reigns. After their match, Strowman continued to attack Reigns with the steel steps. On Raw Talk immediately after, as Reigns was about to be taken to a medical facility, Strowman appeared and attempted to attack Reigns. However, Reigns retaliated by slamming an ambulance door against Strowman's arm multiple times. The next night on Raw, General Manager Kurt Angle addressed the conditions of the two and said that both were injured, but were not finished with each other. The following week, Strowman, in an arm sling, said that after he was finished with Reigns, he wanted Universal Champion Rob Lesnar. Later that night during Strowman's match against Kalisto, Reigns came out and attacked Strowman, targeting his arm with a steel chair. Also at Payback, Seth Rollins defeated Samoa Simpson, giving Simpson his first loss since debuting on the main roster. The following night on Raw, Rollins said that his business with Simpson was done. He then turned his attention to Lesnar, however, Finn Bálor came out and stated that he should be the next person to face Lesnar as Bálor was the inaugural champion and never lost the title. The two then participated in an Intercontinental Championship number one contender's triple threat match, also including The Miz, who won. During the match, Simpson attacked Rollins and Bray Wyatt attacked Bálor.<ref name="Raw05012017"/> On the May 15 episode, due to Strowman's situation, Angle scheduled a Universal Championship #1 contender's extreme rules fatal five-way match for Extreme Rules between Reigns, Rollins, Simpson, Bálor, and Wyatt. Later on Raw, Reigns defeated Bálor and Rollins defeated Wyatt by disqualification after Simpson attacked Rollins.

On the May 1 episode of Raw, Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose interrupted an argument between Seth Rollins and Finn Bálor over who should face Rob Lesnar for the Universal Championship. Ambrose criticized Lesnar for not appearing and wrestling often and claimed the Intercontinental Championship to be the top title of the Raw brand. The Miz then came out and said that he should be the one to face Ambrose for the title. A #1 contender's match was scheduled between Rollins, Bálor, and Miz. During the match, Samoa Joe attacked Rollins, taking Rollins out of the match, and Bray Wyatt attacked Bálor with Sister Abigail, allowing Miz to score the pinfall. On the May 15 episode of Raw, Miz faced Ambrose for the title. At the climax of the match, Miz attempted a low blow on Ambrose, but Ambrose countered and performed a low blow on Miz, who won by disqualification. Later, Ambrose was scheduled to defend his Intercontinental Championship against Miz at Extreme Rules with the stipulation being that if Ambrose is disqualified, he will lose the title.

At Payback,The Hooper Boyz (Josh and Matt Hooper) retained the Raw Tag Team Championship against Cesaro and Sheamus. After the match, Cesaro and Sheamus attacked The Hoopers, turning heel. The next night on Raw, Cesaro and Sheamus explained their reasoning for attacking The Hooper Boyz by calling them a novelty act and criticized the fans for living in the past instead of appreciating the present and claimed that The Hoopers stole their moment at WrestleMania 33. The Hoopers then appeared and ran Cesaro and Sheamus out of the ring. The following week, Cesaro and Sheamus won a number one contender's tag team turmoil match, which included Enzo Amore and Big Cass, Heath Slater and Rhyno, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, and The Golden Truth (Goldust and B-Truth), for another title opportunity. After the final match of the tag team turmoil, Cesaro and Sheamus continued to attack The Golden Truth, but The Hooper Boyz came out for the save and Cesaro and Sheamus retreated The following week, the tag team title match was scheduled for Extreme Rules and Jeff defeated Sheamus. Also in the tag team division, due to losing the tag team turmoil, Goldust turned on R-Truth.

At Payback, Alexa Bliss defeated Bayley to win her first Raw Women's Championship, as well as becoming the first woman to win both the Raw Women's Championship and SmackDown Women's Championship. The following night on Raw, Bliss had a coronation for both accomplishments. The other seven female wrestlers on the Raw roster were also in the ring. She insulted Mickie James, Sasha Banks, and Bayley before a brawl broke out that resulted in an eight woman tag team match where the team of Bliss, Nia Jax, Emma, and Alicia Fox defeated the team of Bayley, Banks, James, and Dana Brooke. The following week, Bliss aligned with Jax and defeated James. After the match, Bliss continued to attack James. Bayley came out for the save and chased Bliss backstage. Jax then attacked James. On the May 15 episode, Bayley confronted Bliss and invoked her championship rematch for Extreme Rules. A brawl ensued and Bliss found a kendo stick under the ring and attacked Bayley with it. Later, their Raw Women's Championship match at Extreme Rules was made a Kendo Stick-on-a-Pole match.

Matches

See also

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

References

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