Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton, WWE World Heavyweight Title Steel Cage Match, Randy Orton's RKO is banned, Kane is the gatekeeper: Yeah, Rollins retains. Wouldn't really make a lot of sense for Orton to win and they've set up the out with Kane helping Rollins again.
Roman Reigns vs. The Big Show, Last Man Standing Match: Reigns wins and WWE likes to get creative with the LMS stipulation, so I'm sure Reigns will "outsmart" Show to win, to boot.
John Cena vs. Rusev, United States Championship Russian Chain Match: Cena wins, but I'm not 100% on this. I just wonder how long Cena will hold the title and where Rusev goes from here if he loses.
Daniel Bryan vs. Bad News Barrett, Intercontinental Championship Match: WWE buried the lead on Raw by mentioning in passing that Bryan may not even make it to Extreme Rules given his injury situation. Unless they've turned it into a storyline, I think Barrett walks away as champion here.
Nikki Bella vs. Naomi, Divas Championship Match: Odd heel vs. heel match-up here. I'll say Nikki returns, as ideally it'd be a big babyface star who finally takes her down.
Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler, Kiss Me Arse Match: Sheamus wins because Ziggler is small.
Dean Ambrose vs. Luke Harper, Chicago Street Fight: Ambrose wins.
EDIT:
Cesaro & Tyson Kidd vs. The New Day, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: This was a last-minute move to the main show with Daniel Bryan not being able to wrestle, so I'll go with the champs retaining.
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Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton, WWE World Heavyweight Title Steel Cage Match, Rollins retains.
Roman Reigns vs. The Big Show, Last Man Standing Match: Reigns wins
John Cena vs. Rusev, United States Championship Russian Chain Match: Cena retains
Daniel Bryan vs. Bad News Barrett, Intercontinental Championship Match: Bryan Retains
Nikki Bella vs. Naomi, Divas Championship Match: Nikki
So all champions retain.... hmmmm that can't be, right?
Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler, Kiss Me Arse Match: Sheamus must win this
Dean Ambrose vs. Luke Harper, Chicago Street Fight: Seems like it ought be Ambrose to me, but I am calling Harper, perhaps by Wyatt-Nanagins
We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.
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Rollins retains when Orton hits an RKO from the top of the cage and gets DQ'd.
RR Juggernaut via many pump-action fists and a spear or two.
Rusev shocks the world, but unfortunately does not ride a tank.
BNB. Bryan is hurt again and will retire the next night on RAW.
Naomi. Gone are the days of AJ's long title reign. Naomi needs this more than Bella does.
Ziggler. Be a Star.
Ambrose. Something about insanity and doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result as it's related to Dean Ambrose's win-loss record on PPV. But yeah, Ambrose.
Mostly interested in this to see if Cena keeps his Extreme Rules weirdness streak alive:
Extreme Rules 2010: Cena beat Batista in a Last Man Standing match by duct taping Batista to the post, setting the stage for Batista to quit (and secretly become the Anonymous GM and Bigger Picture behind the Nexus by my own deductions).
Extreme Rules 2011: John Cena ends the show by being the first person on television to break the news that Osama bin Laden has been caught and compromised to a permanent end. His source? The Rock, the very first person on the entire planet to have the story, leaking it ahead of all media outlets and a full hour before the White House is able to confirm. Rock and Cena then go on to have a two year feud and, in the last year, both hint that there was secret heat between them that we can only assume was related to their classified roles in Operation Neptune Spear.
Extreme Rules 2012: Cena shocks pretty much everybody by beating Brock Lesnar in Lesnar's first match in eight years. Odd booking decision aside, it's rightly and near universally regarded as a spectacular match that would go at or very near the top of any list of Cena's greatest matches. He then, of course, ends the show by cutting a weird, confusing promo about how he has to go away for a long, long time now. Naturally, he's on Raw the next night and headlines the next PPV.
Extreme Rules 2013: Ryback "turns" on Cena leading to an Extreme Rules match where Ryback puts Cena through the LED wall on the stage. Ryback survives essentially unscathed while Cena is taken out in an ambulance. It's...called a draw.
Extreme Rules 2014: Cena vs. Bray Wyatt in a cage match where the cage is there specifically to keep the Wyatt Family out and to seal the evil of Bray Wyatt in. Luke Harper spends half the match in the cage with them anyway but Cena singlehandely beats the Wyatts so thoroughly that he has the match won...until An Actual Magical Satanic Demon Child appears on the ring steps and talks in an evil magic voice to distract Cena long enough for Wyatt to escape. Wyatt's evil spreads across the globe and to this day we are all servants of Bray Wyatt.
Extreme Rules 2015 Prediction: Rusev's tank does make an appearance and drives up to the aisle during the match, aiming at Cena. Cena counters by doing a Five Knuckle Shuffle from the ring post out to the tank, and his fist causes the tank shell to blow up the tank. It's revealed that Putin was driving it and is dead now. Cena makes it back into the ring at a 10.1 count and Rusev is given a countout victory and is considered to have "won" the feud depsite not winning the belt back.
Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton, WWE World Heavyweight Title Steel Cage Match, Randy Orton's RKO is banned, Kane is the gatekeeper: Rollins beats Orton when Kane SWERVE~!s everybody by doing a super quadruple turn in the middle of the match and reveals himself to be... a member of the Authority.
Roman Reigns vs. The Big Show, Last Man Standing Match: Reigns wins with a couple of Superman Punches which comically knock The Big Show down.
John Cena vs. Rusev, United States Championship Russian Chain Match: Cena wins when Lana deliberately costs him the match this time.
Daniel Bryan vs. Bad News Barrett, Intercontinental Championship Match: If the match happens, Barrett wins to avoid the title being vacated.
Nikki Bella vs. Naomi, Divas Championship Match: Nikki retains.
Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler, Kiss Me Arse Match: Sheamus wins because Ziggler is small. (copied from above)
Dean Ambrose vs. Luke Harper, Chicago Street Fight: Ambrose.
Reigns vs. Big Show: Reigns wins. Looks strong in doing so.
Cena vs. Rusev: Cena retains. The Cena Open Challenge is one of the best things about WWE TV right now. I think they keep that going. Rusev needs something to do after this, though, so he doesn't fade away.
Barrett vs. Bryan: I have a sad, scary feeling that Bryan is done. If they do a match, Barrett wins. (Though I think they'll quickly transition the title to someone else.)
Nikki vs. Naomi: Naomi
Sheamus vs. Ziggler: Sheamus, but someone will save Ziggler from the arse kissing. Neville maybe?
Ambrose vs. Harper: Ambrose finally wins a damn PPV match.
Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton, WWE World Heavyweight Title Steel Cage Match, Randy Orton's RKO is banned, Kane is the gatekeeper: Rollins retains. Kane probably turns face so they can set up Rollins vs masked Kane for Payback.
Roman Reigns vs. The Big Show, Last Man Standing Match: Reigns beats Big Show for what is probably, and without exaggeration, the twentieth time this year.
John Cena vs. Rusev, United States Championship Russian Chain Match: Cena wins. Lana figures in to the finish so they can eventually turn her face and Vince can carry out these "big plans" he has in mind for her.
Daniel Bryan vs. Bad News Barrett, Intercontinental Championship Match: If Bryan's fit, he wins. If he's not, he forfeits the title, Barrett celebrates only to be challenged by Neville, who shocks everyone and wins his first WWE title. When Bryan's fit, he comes back and feuds with Neville.
Nikki Bella vs. Naomi, Divas Championship Match: I'll go with Naomi as surely they wouldn't have turned her for nothing, and Paige challenging Naomi for the title upon her return makes more sense than yet another Bella vs Paige feud.
Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler, Kiss Me Arse Match: Sheamus wins and takes another step towards his feud with Bryan that they seem determined to run.
Dean Ambrose vs. Luke Harper, Chicago Street Fight: Ambrose wins. Probably.
Rollins - they aren't taking the belt off him so soon, but hopefully this will be a good match.
Reigns wins here for sure. Guessing Show will dominate for a lot of the match giving Roman a beating but then the hero comeback starts and he wins after several superman punches.
Cena wins and for once I hope he does. The open challange is a great idea and makes him watchable. Still don't want to listen to him though! A good chance that Lana will cost Russev the match, although not sure what would then happen with her. So maybe that won't happen after all.
Barrett will win/be given the title. Could well be another match immediately after with him defending and then losing the title as they like to change champions on a more than regular basis. Not sure who that would be against though. Neville is a possible. Balor?
Bella. Can't see them choosing Naomi as the one to beat the favoured Diva.
Sheamus - could be a hard hitting match with some good action but can't see Ziggler winning. Probably no arse kissing after the match though.
Ambrose. Surely....
Kidd/Cesaro - they are fantastic and New Day are just a chant that is catching on. So New Day will probably win.
Rollins. I really hope Orton breaks out several different finishers from other wrestlers here though. Angle Slam, Jackhammer, Rock Bottom. It would also be nice to see Orton use the Curb Stomp if it wasn't banned.
Reigns.
Cena.
Barrett will be given the title. Then they make the Chicago Street Fight a three way and Ambrose walks out with the title. Like what they did when Edge got hurt and they teamed Show up with Y2J or when HHH fought three times at No Mercy 2007 due to a Cena injury.
If that doesn't happen, them I pick Barrett over Bryan, and Ambrose over Harper.
I think the split was good in the way it allowed new people, especially Booker T and RVD, to get pushed for more TV time and/or up the card. Hell, you think we would have had Stevie Richards pick a fight against Ric Flair without it?