Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins won the WWE Raw tag team championships. This happened two weeks ago on an emotional night where Roman Reigns declared his battle with Leukemia. This forced him to go into an indefinite hiatus. So this title win came for the rest of the Shield duo as a tribute to their brother. But the happy moments did not last long.
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The Lunatic Fringe shocked everyone by turning on his brother right on the spot. Dean Ambrose delivered a vicious beating on Seth Rollins to start a feud. Most of the people named it as the heel-turn of this decade. Last week, the Architect demanded an explanation from his former buddy who decided to stay quiet.
There was no way that Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins were to compete together for the WWE Raw tag team championships. The question remained what’d happen to these prestigious titles on the flagship show. Well, we did receive an answer through the acting general manager of the programming. He sanctioned a two-on-one handicap match for the championship.
Dean Ambrose did not compete in the title match as Seth Rollins had to go solo in this bout. The Authors of Pain turned out to be his opponents. Prior to the match, Seth Rollins called Baron Corbin a scumbag who handed away the Universal Championship to Brock Lesnar. The crowd loudly booed when he also mentioned Dean Ambrose’s name who was present in the building but denied to compete.
Seth Rollins started the match with a waist lock on Akam. Rezar got the tag quickly as the duo gave Rollins a double-team clothesline to take over the match. AOP continued to punish Rollins in this tag team match. They hit him with a sidewalk slam/leg drop combo. Seth Rollins gave a clothesline on Rezar to fight back. He avoided a clothesline hit a suicide dive on Rezar.
Akam got the tag to get a blockbuster from Rollins. Maverick tried to distract the referee when he hit a frog splash on Rezar after a Superkick. Rezar countered it with a powerbomb and hit the tag with Akam. The duo then hit the neckbreaker/sit-out powerbomb combo on Rollins to get the win. They became the new WWE Raw tag team champions.
Dean Ambrose entered the scene walking through the crowd. He taunted a downed Seth Rollins and hit him with a Dirty Deeds. A raucous crowd of WWE Raw showered him with boos before breaking into ‘Burn it down’ chants.