Not content with already booking 14 segments where the old guys got to win, The Kliq were back on their bullsh*t, this time scaring off the rechristened 'OC' group of AJ Styles, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson with a few punches and the mere threat of violence from their ancient-looking cronies. Seth Rollins was permitted to hit the catchphrase, but things couldn't go much worse for him after the SummerSlam conference call/Miz TV one-two punch landed him back in in the same sticky patch he'd clambered out of on Twitter a few short weeks ago.
Whinge all you want that this is "how these shows go", but there was a time where this sort of sh*t was profoundly unaccpetable. Shawn Michaels and Triple H knew this better than most - they ended Raws in 1997 decimating the likes of The Legion Of Doom and Jim Neidhart, rather than being chased, crying from the battlefield.
'The Game' wears his ignorance on his new t-shirt sleeve on shows like this. He needed Mick Foley twice to get him over humps in his career and blatantly refuses to acknowledge it. Unsurprisingly, only the 'Hardcore Legend' gave back on a night where the old guard took and took and took...
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