Full WWE Extreme Rules Results: Cena and Swagger Retain Titles

John Cena

WWE Extreme Rules featured three title matches, but only one title change on Sunday in Baltimore, Maryland.

The broadcast opened with the street fight between Triple H and Sheamus. The Game’s music hit, but the former WWE Champion was nowhere to be found.

Broadcasters Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and Matt Striker looked puzzled as a camera cut to the back where Sheamus was assaulting his opponent. Officials and Teddy Long tried to break it up as the Irish wrestler attacked him over and over with a lead pipe. A trainer was called to attend to an unconscious Triple H.

WWE Tag Team Champions Big Show and Miz came out to the ring. Miz joked about the show not starting off as expected and then turned his attention to Brett Hart. He is still looking for Hart to announce ShowMiz as the greatest tag team in WWE history.

Smackdown General Manager Teddy Long came out and put an end to Miz’s tirade. Long put the champs in a match and further stipulated that if the challengers win, they would earn a future shot at their titles. Miz kept jabbering on, putting down the Baltimore Orioles, which led to Long adding additional teams. Eventually Big Show had to shut up his partner.

The winning team will challenge for the titles on Monday Night Raw.

The Miz & Big Show in Gauntlet Match

The first team they faced is R-Truth and John Morrison. Morrison and Truth got disqualified after the Shaman of Sexy refused to break a triangle choke while Show was on the ropes.

MVP and Mark Henry were the next pair to come through the curtain to challenge the champs. Again, the champs were able to persevere.

The Hart Dynasty were the last team through the curtain and defeated the champs in less than ten seconds. Bret Hart and Natalya came out to celebrate post match.

CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio

The battle between Rey Mysterio and cm punk was the second match on WWE Extreme Rules.

As expected, Punk brought the Straight Edge Society of Serena and Luke Gallows with him.

Eventually the mischievous pair were booted from ringside after causing multiple distractions for the ref.

An unknown man came out from under the ring and tossed a chair to punk. While the referee was busy getting rid of the chair, the man attacked Mysterio on the outside of the ring.

Punk seized the opportunity and nailed the GTS on Mysterio to win the match and keep his hair.

Shad Gaspard vs. JTG

Former tag team members Shad Gaspard and JTG squared off in the third contest of the night at the WWE Extreme Rules pay per view.

Both men were sporting new looks, with Gaspard in traditional wrestling attire and a shaved head. JTG had his hair straightened like a 50’s doo wop singer.

The strap match lasted approximately five minutes with the bigger Gaspard getting the majority of the offense.

However, it would be JTG that got the win as he touched the corners right behind Gaspard and would battle for the fourth.

After the match a commercial for KFC was show. I can’t believe WWE is showing regular commercials on pay per view events now.

Todd Grisham informs us that Triple H is severely injured and is unlikely to compete tonight.

WWE World Heavyweight Title Match
Jack Swagger (c) vs. Randy Orton

In one of the main events of the night, WWE World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger defended his title against Randy Orton.

Swagger was the underdog despite coming in as the champ. With the match being contested under Extreme Rules, Orton used the title belt to his advantage at one point and nearly scored the pinfall.

It wouldn’t be long after that point before Orton resorted to other foreign objects, including a trash can. He nailed Swagger with it about as hard as one could. It sounded like a gunshot when the metal made contact to the champion’s skull.

Orton continued to dominate and hit a DDT off the second rope. With the match securely in hand, Orton went for the RKO on a chair, but Swagger was able to counter out of nowhere and put the Viper into the steel, spine first.

Moments later Swagger hit the Gutwrench Powerbomb to retain the title.

After the match Orton hit an RKO on the champ outside the ring.

Triple H vs. Sheamus

The street fight between Sheamus and Triple H that was supposed open the show took place after the World Title Match.

Before Randy Orton and Jack Swagger could make it to the back after their match at WWE Extreme Rules, Sheamus came out to the ring and demanded that the referee raise his hand and declare him the victor over Triple H because The Game could not compete.

The cameras cut to the back where Todd Grisham repeated that Triple H would not be able to compete. However, the door to the training room swung open and the challenger emerged.

The match was on.

The two men brawled back and forth with the younger Sheamus doing the majority of the damage. Eventually he would go back to the same steel pipe that he assaulted Triple H with at the top of the broadcast, but the Game was able to kick out and at which point the table turned.

Triple H had enough and began relentlessly assaulting Sheamus with a kendo stick. However, the Celtic Warrior countered a Pedigree attempt, back dropped Triple H onto the steel ramp and never looked back.

Multiple boots to the face later Sheamus got the win.

Trainers and paramedics tried to take Triple H out of the ring on a stretcher, but he fought them off and refused to leave if it wasn’t under his own power. As they were walking up the ramp, Sheamus came back out and hit him with one more boot to the face. It was then that he would finally be stretchered out.

WWE Women’s Title Match
Michelle McCool (c) vs. Beth Phoenix

Hairspray, nail polish and blush were Beth Phoenix’s tickets to victory and the WWE Women’s Championship at Sunday’s Extreme Rules pay per view.

The Glamazon defeated Michelle McCool in an Extreme Makeover match in Baltimore to rain on Laycool’s parade.

Of course Vickie Guerrero and Layla were at ringside to help their partner win, but they didn’t help. Instead they wound up getting sprayed in the with hair spray.

All parties were crying after the match, but for different reasons. Phoenix was happy to have won while McCool and company were upset by the loss.

Edge vs. Chris Jericho

The match between Chris Jericho and Edge would have gone on last at Sunday’s WWE Extreme Rules pay per view had there been a title on the line. It was easily the best contest of the night.

Edge got a huge response from the Baltimore crowd when his music hit.

The two men went back and forth for five minutes before Jericho slammed Edge off the top rope and immediately applied the Walls of Jericho. With the stipulation of the match being what it was, the ref didn’t break the hold when Edge reached the ropes. The good news for The Rated R Superstars is that he was able to counter by slinging Jericho into the cage, which settled the two men back into a battle routine.

Jericho had the match won at one point and was even walking down the ring steps, but instead got back in the cage to continue his assault. He went after Edge with a steel chair, but missed and got speared as a result.

Jericho kicked out and would hit a Code Breaker on Edge who would also kick out.

Flash forward a few minutes and the two men were battling on top of the cage, with Jericho dangling over the side at one point. When they climbed back inside, Jericho hit a Springboard Code Breaker on Edge, but was still unable to get the pinfall.

It was right around this time that Edge snapped and began really working over Jericho, trying to damage his ankle, just as his was injured last summer.

Then the spear. And this time Jericho was unable to get up.

Edge got the win.

WWE Title Match
John Cena (c) vs. Batista

WWE truly and surprisingly saved the best for last at WWE Extreme Rules with the Last Man Standing Match between John Cena and Batista.

The Animal would wisely work Cena’s legs early in the match. Kicks and chair shots were what the doctor ordered for Cena who sold the beating like a champ… pardon the pun.

It wouldn’t be until the two men got to the outside that Cena was able to get in some offense. However, once back in the ring Batista would continue to lay it on Cena’s legs by strapping on the Figure Four Leg Lock, à la Ric Flair.

Cena would briefly regain the upper hand, only to get nailed with a steel wrench on the outside. Batista threw him back in the ring, but would be laid out with an Attitude Adjustment on a steel chair. He got up up to his feet at the count of nine and sent the ref into the ropes, which crotched Cena who was on the top rope in the corner.

The champ was launched through a table in the corner, but was able to get up at the count of eight. Once on his feet, he was rammed into the steel ring post and then through the WWE barricade which crumbled at the force of Cena.

Once Cena got up at nine, Batista lost it and cleared off the announcers table and threw a monitor at Michael Cole in the process.

He set up the ring steps adjacent to the table and was going to Powerbomb Cena off them, but Cena countered with an Attitude Adjustment instead. The table shattered, but Batista got up at nine.

So, in an effort to put the match away once and for all, Cena set up a table in the ring, In a reversal of what happened moments earlier, it was Batista who reversed the move and put Cena through the table, but the champ got up at the count of nine.

He followed that up with a Batista Bomb. Cena again got up at nine.

Batista brought the steel steps into the ring, but Cena locked on the STF. Batista tapped, but to no avail as it was a Last Man Standing match. He would stay down until the count of nine.

Ever frustrated, Cena retreated to the outside, crotched Batista on the ring post and proceeded to duct tape his legs together so he could not get up.

And that would be how the match finished. Interesting to say the least! I don’t think we’ve ever seen that finish before.

John Cena retains the title in what surprisingly turned out to be the match of the night.

The champ celebrated as Batista floundered to bring the show to a close.