The announcers are Michael Cole/Wade Barrett/Cory Graves.
(Dark: Twisted Sun Gods (Escobar/Garza/Carillo) d. Blood Warriors International (Ricochet/Alexander/Tozawa)
JD McDonagh d. Tyler Bate
Dark Ride Title: Walter d. Dragunov)
The broadcast begins the way all WWF PPVs have begun for awhile, cold open on the ring, right after Walter has vanquished another opponent - Paul Heyman is about to do his spiel saying the best fighter on the planet can only be found in Dark Ride Wrestling -- except Walter stops him, surprising Heyman, and then Walter takes his Dark Ride title belt, which he has possessed over a year and a half, and lays it on the canvas.
Speculation about what this means - and that will continue when, on the subsequent Wednesday, Dark Ride opens with a shot of the belt in the middle of the ring.
But that's for a later date.
Clip package of past Boston PPVs.
Survivor Series '93
-Savage pulls out the fork, Razor Ramon's face turn, Bret submits Luger
Wrestlemania 14
-Michinoku Driver, Taka pins Aguila, the Outlaws put Jack/Funk in the dumpster, Mike Tyson climbing into the Octagon as the referee between Shamrock and Austin, Owen Hart holding the WWF Title aloft
2003 Royal Rumble
-the final TLC with the Hardys, Dudleys, E/C, crazy high spots, Lesnar destroying Jericho, Benoit's babyface turn on the Horsemen, Angle going nose to nose with HBK
2006 Summer Slam
-Sabu crashing through a wall of glass light tubes, Hulk Hogan posing with a tag belt, Ric Flair defeating Rey to win the WWF Title
2008 Survivor Series
-Randy Orton punting Steve Regal in a parking garage, Edge and the Blood Dragon winning the tag belts, Jericho taking the WWF Title from Punk
2011 Royal Rumble
-Mysterio getting the fall on Danielson, Edge spearing Booker T
2013 Survivor Series
-The Shield (Black/Langston) coming to the ring, Dean Ambrose pinning Kingston to keep the IC belt, Danielson in an extended sequence against Punk
1. ALEXA BLISS/NIKKI CROSS (w/Morgan) d. SHOTZI/KAI
Bliss/Morgan are mean girl heels, Cross is their lackey. Will she ever rise up against them?? Not today, today they go over - the match mainly serves to establish the growing womens tag division. Fair to note their are no womens tag belts. Seems unlikely that remains true for much longer.
2. SOLO SIKOA (w/Priest) d. AUSTIN THEORY
This is a squash. Solo eats Theory alive. Is he the most dangerous member of the tribe?
3. IYO SKY d. ASUKA
Biggest win of Sky's WWF career, the veteran Asuka coming off injury grows increasingly frustrated during the match at Sky's fan friendly athleticism. Sky's a step better and gets the fall - big babyface reaction for her postmatch - and Asuka turns full heel, attacks Sky postmatch, wipes her out. It's Asuka's first heel run in WWF.
4. KEVIN STEEN d. SHEAMUS
Heavy hitting match between two guys seemingly at crossroads; Sheamus out to sea since McIntyre's betrayal, Steen having apparently given up on trying to unite a counterassault to Roman. Steen gets the final blow here - he remains on the ramp to watch both Black and Zayn go to the ring, shaking his head in resignation as he exits.
5. TYLER BLACK d. SAMI ZAYN
Black gets the clean fall in a back and forth matchup - postmatch, McIntyre/Lashley enter with chairs and wipe Black/Zayn out - as Steen promised, he does not return to the ring for a save.
6. BECKY LYNCH d. RHEA RIPLEY (w/Baszler) (DQ)
More tag talk as Lynch/Flair really launched the womens tag division last year, Flair has been on hiatus since Mania but she returns here, Baszler's attempted interference draws a DQ (sometimes the referee has to catch the bad guys shenanigans) and when the Horsewomen attempt a postmatch attack, here we get a babyface save from Flair (her hair has grown out, she now looks like IRL Charlotte). Lynch and Flair clean house and we have a brief intermision. Walter's laying down the title belt at the top of the show is re-aired, more speculation about the meaning therein. We are also told that as a result of McIntyre/Lashley attacking Black/Zayn they are barred from ringside during the main event.
7. IC TITLE: PRINCE DEVITT (w/McDonagh) d. PETE DUNNE (w/Bate)
Top workrate match of the night, they really need to establish the IC belt as the location for high end workrate matches, so thats the type of match they have here - Devitt keeps without incident.
8. WOMENS TITLE: BIANCA BELAIR d. RONDA ROUSEY (w/Heyman/Walter)
After Roman's Superman punch on Rousey, lot of speculation about Rousey's health, here, its important that there isn't a clownish oversell, but also important that Rousey's not quite right, it's a concussion sell, so if Rousey's just a beat off, noted by the anouncers - if Heyman is unsuccessful in communicating with her, that's all good stuff -- Belair takes the belt, which is probably a pretty heavy surprise in the building, as Rousey's only suffered one WWF defeat. Belair becomes the 15th modern WWF Women's Champion. Walter aids a stumbling Rousey postmatch, the anger just radiating off of him, Heyman trying to talk him down.
9. TAG TITLES: HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (MCINTYRE/LASHLEY) d. USOS
The Holy Roman Empire becomes the 116th WWF Tag champ, regaining the belts here - Jimmy/Jey's "why didn't Roman pick us" tension has grown to a fever pitch in the build, this match ends when Jimmy inadvertantly superkicks Jey and Jey gets pinned. The Usos do not leave the ring together - and the following night on RAW, they will lose another match when Jey not so inadvertantly superkicks Jimmy as a receipt - swears at him and exits. And - for the first time ever - the Usos have split.
10. WWF TITLE: ROMAN REIGNS d. AJ STYLES
Reigns is alone - or so it would appear, late in the match, Styles is on the apron, mid ring, about to do his flying elbowsmash - when from under the ring emerges Gable, he hits him in the back of the head - Reigns then spears him through the ropes to the floor - AJ is able to survive that momentarily, but the match momentum never turns after that and eventually he goes down to defeat.
Gable had been excised after losing the tag match to Rousey/Walter which is what led to the Reigns punch of Rousey - that's why no Gable until now, but his interference aids Reigns in this one - and so the show ends, McIntyre and Lashley are now in the ring, it's a 4 man pose, 3 with title belts, Reigns tells Boston to acknowledge him and thats the end of Survivor Series 2022.
In a month, it's the 18th anniversary of the Counterfactual and the build to Rumble '23, there will be a reminder of last year's shared plans to wrap up the Counterfactual in IRL 2025. See you then
