Dolph Ziggler & The Miz Bicker Over Some Goofy Ass Photos
When we return from commercial, Dolph Ziggler is in the ring wearing a suit and holding a microphone. Michael Cole plugs his I-C title match against The Miz at the upcoming Night Of Champions pay-per-view. Ziggler talks about celebrities having their stuff hacked and noted that several “sensitive” pictures leaked onto the internet. He says celebrities don’t deserve that, even if they are D-list level celebs. He says, well maybe one D-list celebrity deserved it. He says he’s talking about The Miz. He says he’s got some sensitive pictures of The Miz to show. We see The Miz in his underwear getting a facial and wearing a shower cap. Then we see photos of The Miz waxing his chest. He says this final picture is going to blow those two out of the water. Before he can show it, The Miz’s theme hits.
The Miz walks out, alongside his stunt-double, Damien Mizdow. Miz says Ziggler is violating the sanctity of his home. He says his people with sue Ziggler, his people, everyone in this building and everyone in the world if we try and re-publish those photos. Miz says if Ziggler takes this issue any further, he promises he will never work in this town again. Ziggler says if that’s the case, he might as well get his money’s worth. He shows the final picture, which features Sandow spray-tanning Miz’s naked ass.
Damien Mizdow, Miz’s stunt-double, rushes the ring to defend his man, but he runs into a dropkick from Ziggler. Miz followed, but when Ziggler took out Mizdow, he backed off. Mizdow gets back up, but then eats a Zig-Zag from the I-C champ. Ziggler’s theme hits again to end this god-awful segment. We head to another commercial break.
Natalya & Rosa Mendes vs. AJ Lee & Paige
We return from commercial and we see Natalya and Rosa Mendes already standing in the ring. From there, we hear AJ Lee’s theme song. She comes skipping down to the ring as the announcers remind everyone that she’s part of a triple-threat match at Night Of Champions, also featuring Nikki Bella and Paige, for Paige’s WWE Divas Championship. Speaking of Paige, her theme hits and she makes her way to the ring as she will be AJ’s partner for tonight.
The bell rings and the “CM Punk” chants immediately start up. Natalya and Paige start things off for their respective teams and Natalya jumps off to an early offensive lead in the match.
Natalya tags Rosa in but then Paige takes over the offense. She shows off in front of AJ but then AJ grabs her by the hair and slaps her on the booby, tagging herself into the match. AJ immediately locks Rosa in the Black Widow and Rosa taps out. After the match, AJ and Paige have a crazy-off.
Winners: AJ Lee & Paige
Backstage: The Viper Strikes
Backstage, we see the trainers icing down Chris Jericho’s injured knee from his cage match earlier tonight with Bray Wyatt. From out of nowhere, “The Viper” Randy Orton strikes and attacks Jericho, slamming him all over the place and jacking up his injured knee even more. On that note, we head to a commercial break.
Paul Heyman & John Cena In The Ring With A Microphone — ‘Nuff Said
We’re back and we see Paul Heyman standing in the ring. He talks about advocating for Brock Lesnar, blah blah blah. He says he has a message for John Cena. With that said, John Cena’s theme hits and out he comes.
Cena gets in the ring and tells Heyman if he has a message for him, to say it to his face. Heyman talks about game plans for Night Of Champions and the rematch between Lesnar and Cena.
John Cena chimes in again and says Lesnar beat Undertaker at WrestleMania and six months has gone by and we haven’t heard from him. He says Lesnar beat him and a week later he challenged him to another fight. He tells Heyman his game plan is simple, “never give up.” He tells Heyman to deliver that message to Lesnar for him.
Heyman laughs as Cena goes to walk away. Cena turns back around and stays in the ring. Heyman talks about how the fans say “Cena sucks,” being obnoxious and saying “Cena sucks” over and over and over again, mimmicking how the fans say it. Heyman tries working Cena up and telling him how he should tell the fans to “shut up.”
Paul Heyman continues to talk about how Cena should tell the fans to shut up. Heyman mocks Cena’s old hip-hop character, doing a little freestyle rap directed towards the fans, with a cheap Ravens mention for cheap heat. Heyman begs Cena to lose the wrist bands and the t-shirts. He tells him to forget this whole concept of “Hustle, Loyalty and Respect” and that if he gives in to that hatred inside his soul, he can finally be the one to beat the one behind the one in 21-1. He says if he doesn’t, he can be just another victim of “The Conquerer” Brock Lesnar.
Heyman tells Cena that he believes in him, but his client, Brock Lesnar, feels he just doesn’t have it in him anymore. Cena teases going to the fans and saying “shut up,” but ends up coming back in the ring. Loud, echo’ing, “let’s go Cena” and “Cena sucks” dueling chants break out. And I mean loud ones. Cena looks confused, not sure if he should do what Heyman suggested to the fans saying he sucks or not. He eventually loses his cool and says, “SHUT UP!!! ….Paul Heyman!!!!” with a little tease that he was going to take his advice. He says he ain’t going to turn his back on every person that has believed in him and what he has said over the years.
Cena goes on to explain why he won’t turn his back on his loyal fans just to appease the few who will “pop” for it and then go back on the internet and talk about how he sucks. He tells “Mr. Heyman” that he is an intelligent man but right now he’s talking about something, when talking about John Cena and his character, that he knows absolutely nothing about. He mocks Heyman’s earlier style of repeating himself over and over and over again by saying he is being “John Cena and repeat, being John Cena and repeat, being John Cena and repeat,” etc. etc. etc. He says he doesn’t mind being the guy who has the dad saying “Cena sucks” and then after the show having that dad tell him he doesn’t like him, but he thanks him for being the kind of guy that his kid respects. He says he’s damn proud to buy the guy to be fortunate enough to meet Army people with Purple Hearts, etc. His voice shakes with passion as he talks about some of the cool stuff he gets to experience by being the type of character he is.
This entire segment is Heyman representing everyone who has debated why Cena should turn heel and Cena explaining why he just won’t consider it. This is turning out to be an epic segment, not just because of Paul Heyman and him being awesome on the mic as he always is, but because John Cena is being equally as impressive on the mic. Both guys just hit a grand slam home run, bottom of the ninth in game seven. Really, really good stuff. Really good. Commercial time.