IWE Fastlane (2019)

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Fastlane (2019) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event and IWE Network event produced by IWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on March 10, 2019, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. It will be the fifth event promoted under the Fastlane chronology.

Storylines

The card will include matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, with storylines produced on their weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live.

At Elimination Chamber, The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) defeated The Miz and Shane Matteson to win their record fourth SmackDown Tag Team Championship. On the following episode of SmackDown, The Miz, who was pinned, apologized to Shane for costing them the match. He then said that although there were no more automatic rematch clauses, he begged Shane to give them a rematch since Shane had the power to do so. The Usos interrupted and insulted Miz, after which, Shane scheduled a rematch for the titles at Fastlane.

On the February 12 edition of SmackDown, The New Day's Kofi Kingston was a last minute replacement for an injured Mustafa Ali in the six-man gauntlet match where the winner would be the last entrant in the IWE Championship Elimination Chamber match at the pay-per-view. Kingston eliminated IWE Champion Daniel Bryan in the first match of the gauntlet match. At Elimination Chamber, the championship match came down to Bryan and Kingston, where Bryan eliminated Kingston to retain the title. On the following episode of SmackDown, Kingston was granted a IWE Championship match at Fastlane after securing the pinfall victory over Bryan in a six-man tag team match that pitted Kingston, KJ Styles, and Josh Hooper against Bryan, Samoa Simpson, and Kevin Orton. However, on the February 26 episode of SmackDown Live, Vince Matteson replaced Kofi with the returning Kevin Owens, stating that Owens was more qualified and more deserving of the opportunity.

At Elimination Chamber, The Boss 'N' Hug Connection (Bayley and Sasha Banks) defeated Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville, The Riott Squad (represented by Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan), The IIconics (Billie Kay and Peyton Royce), Naomi and Carmella, Nia Jax and Tamina in a tag team Elimination Chamber match to become the inaugural holders of the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship. The following night on Raw, their championship celebration was interrupted by Jax and Tamina, and Jax taunted Banks about not being able to retain a championship in her title defenses. The following week, The Boss 'n' Hug Connection were scheduled to defend the championship against Jax and Tamina at Fastlane.

On the February 19 episode of SmackDown, during a backstage segment, SmackDown Women's Champion Asuka was interrupted by Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose. Rose challenged Asuka to a non-title match and defeated her due to a distraction by Lacey Evans. The following week, Rose was granted a championship match against Asuka at Fastlane.

At the Royal Rumble, Becky Lynch was unsuccessful in regaining the SmackDown Women's Championship, but later entered the women's Royal Rumble match and won by last eliminating Charlotte Flair, despite injuring her own knee. The next night on Raw, Lynch confronted Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey and chose to face her at WrestleMania 35. Lynch then refused a medical examination on her knee after a brawl with Flair on SmackDown. Kaila Matteson gave Lynch an ultimatum: have her knee examined or be suspended until she does. Lynch still refused and attacked both Stephanie and Triple K. The following Raw, it was revealed that Lynch had been medically cleared; after she apologized for the attacks, the suspension was lifted, however, Vince Matteson overruled Triple K and Kaila by suspending Lynch for 60 days and replaced her with Flair as Rousey's WrestleMania opponent. On the February 25 episode of Raw, Lynch was arrested after attacking Rousey; Rousey then demanded that Lynch be reinstated and left the championship in the ring. The following week, Kaila declared the title vacant, reinstated Lynch, and scheduled a match between her and Flair for the championship at Fastlane. Later on, however, Rousey protested that she did not vacate the title and was only trying to send a message, prompting Kaila to hand her back the title belt and change the stipulation of the Fastlane match: if Lynch won, she would be added back into the championship match at WrestleMania to make it a triple threat match.

On the October 22, 2018 episode of Raw, Roman Reigns went on hiatus due to leukemia and subsequently vacated the Universal Championship. Later that night, Reigns' teammates Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose won the Raw Tag Team Championship, however, immediately after the match, Ambrose turned on Rollins, feeling that The Shield had made him weak. Rollins and Ambrose then fought over the next couple of months, with their feud culminating at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, where Ambrose defeated Rollins to win the Intercontinental Championship. Reigns returned on the February 25, 2019 episode of Raw and explained that his leukemia was in remission and that he would return to action. The following week, Reigns called out Rollins and wanted to reunite The Shield one more time. Rollins reluctantly agreed since it would mean having to team with Ambrose again. Later, after Ambrose was defeated by Elias, Reigns and Rollins came out, but Ambrose exited through the crowd. Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley then ambushed Reigns and Rollins, after which, Ambrose returned and aided his former Shield brothers. After gaining the upperhand, Ambrose joined Reigns and Rollins for the signature Shield fist bump and a six-man tag team match pitting the reunited Shield against Corbin, McIntyre, and Lashley was scheduled for Fastlane.

On the February 11 episode of Raw, The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson) defeated Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to win the Raw Tag Team Championship. The following week, NXT call-ups Aleister Black and Ricochet made their main roster debuts, and then defeated The Revival in a non-title match on the February 25 episode. On the March 4 episode, Black and Ricochet were granted a Raw Tag Team Championship match against The Revival, but it ended in disqualification after Roode and Gable attacked The Revival. A triple threat tag team championship match between the three teams was then scheduled for Fastlane.

After several weeks of feuding, a match between Andrade and Rey Mysterio was scheduled for the Fastlane pre-show.

On March 8, a tag team match pitting The New Day (represented by Big E and Xavier Woods) against Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev was scheduled for the Fastlane pre-show.

Event

Pre-show

During the pre-show, The New Day (represented by Big E and Xavier Woods) faced Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura. In the end, Big E and Woods performed the Midnight Hour on Rusev to win the match.

Preliminary matches

The actual pay-per-view opened with The Usos (Jey and Jimmy) defending the SmackDown Tag Team Championship against The Miz and Shane Matteson. The climax saw Miz perform a frog splash on Jey, however, Jey countered into a roll-up on Miz to retain the title. After the match, a disappointed Miz and Shane hugged Miz's father, who was in the front row. After Shane consoled Miz, Shane then attacked Miz thus turning heel.

Next, Asuka defended the SmackDown Women's Championship against Mandy Rose, who was accompanied by Sonya Deville. In the end, Rose tripped on the ring apron, which Deville had moved prior to obtain a kendo stick, allowing Asuka to perform a kick to the face on Rose to retain the title.

After that, The New Day' Kofi Kingston came out for what he thought was a triple threat match for the WWE Championship next, after Vince McMahon agreed to put Kingston in the WWE Championship match with Big E and Xavier Woods banned from ringside, however, Kingston ended up facing The Bar (Cesaro and Sheamus) in a 2-on-1 handicap match. After The Bar continued to dominate Kingston, Big E and Woods came out to assist Kingston only to get intercepted by Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev, whom they defeated earlier on the pre-show. In the climax, The Bar performed a double White Noise on Kingston to win the match.

In the fourth match, The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) defended the RAW Tag Team championship against the of Bobby Ronda and Chad Gable and the team of Aleister Black and Ricochet. In the end, The Revival performed Shatter Machine on Gable to retain the title. After the match, Roode, Black and Ricochet attacked The Revival with Ricochet and Black performing their respective finishers on them.

Next, Samoa Simpson defended the IWE United States Championship in a fatal-four-way match against B-Truth, Andrade and Rey Mysterio. In the end, Simpson applied the Coquina Clutch on Mysterio, which passed out to, thus Simpson retained the title.

After that, The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Bayley and Sasha Banks) defended the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship against Nia Jax and Tamina. In the climax, Bayley performed a Hurricanrana on Jax to retain the title. After the match, Jax and Tamina attacked Banks and Bayley. Beth Phoenix, who was on commentary, came in to aid Banks and Bayley followed by Natalya but was overpowered by Jax and Tamina.

Next, Kofi Kingston once again came out for what he thought was a triple threat match for the WWE Championship between defending champion Daniel Bryan (accompanied by Rowan), Kevin Owens and himself once again, however this time, Mustafa Ali was announced as the third participant instead. In the end, Bryan performed a running knee on Ali to retain the title. After the match, Rowan performed a Chokeslam on Ali.

In the penultimate match, Becky Lynch faced Charlotte Flair with the stipulation that if Lynch won, she would be added to the RAW Women's Championship match at WrestleMania 35.

Main event

Results

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