Original Intercontinental Title Plans for WWE No Mercy
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The following matches are excepted to be added to the upcoming August 20th WWE SummerSlam event:
RAW Tag Team Championship
Sheamus & Cesaro (c) vs. Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose
Smackdown Tag Team Championship
New Day vs. Usos
Kevin Owens vs. Shane McMahon
Intercontinental Championship
The Miz vs. Jason Jordan
United States Championship
AJ Styles vs. Chris Jericho
The Hardy Boyz vs. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. The Revival
Finn Balor vs. Bray Wyatt
Big Cass vs. Big Show
Cruiserweight Championship
Neville vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Ariya Daivari
WWE announced that Jason Jordan will appear on the MizTV segment on next week’s episode of RAW. Dave Meltzer indicated on the recent installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE most-likely booked this angle to setup a possible feud between The Miz and Jordan for next month’s SummerSlam event for an Intercontinental Title match.
There was speculation that Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose would be challenging The Miz for the Intercontinental Championship on the card, but those plans appear to be nixed.
We will keep you updated if we hear anything new regarding the Intercontinental Title being defended at SummerSlam.
X-Pac opens today’s show speaking about Shane McMahon’s forced helicopter landing from last week. He says that it didn’t surprise him for a second that Shane came out of that incident uninjured, and it was amazing to see how calm Shane was when he was being interviewed after the fact.
Speaking about last Monday night’s revelation that Jason Jordan is Kurt Angle’s son, X-Pac says for a minute he thought the whole thing might have been a shoot. He says that Angle is known to have had relationships with African American women in the past, and the age gap definitely works out.
X-Pac welcomes Kevin Kiley Jr. (Alex Riley) to the show.
Riley says that he was always a big fan of X-Pac from his time in WWE during the attitude era, and X-Pac always came off as a very real character who had a natural confidence in himself. X-Pac thanks him and says that he was never one to cut a masterful promo, but he was able to make his character work in different ways.
Riley informs that after he parted ways with WWE he immediately wanted to pursue acting. He says that his short stint at broadcasting in NXT was fun, but at the end of the day he wanted to venture out on his own. He was lucky to garner some interest in Hollywood right away and he soon landed a role in the Netflix series GLOW.