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The Miz and Alex Riley walked out. Miz said Daniel Bryan has challenged him to a tag match tonight. He said Bryan is like someone who wins a lottery and thinks he’s going to win it every time because of it. Bryan interrupted with what Miz called his “Superman music.” He asked him who his partner was. Miz’s ex-partner, John Morrison, came out.

Bryan opened up with some karate kicks on Riley followed by a flying clothesline. After Morrison tagged in, the heels took over with rapid tags and isolating them in their corner. The fans taunted Miz with a chant of “You Tapped Out!” Cole insisted, “He did not tap out! It was a valiant effort by Miz.” Lawler said he was tapping like crazy. Morrison eventually rolled under Miz and hot-tagged Bryan back into the match. He knocked Riley off the ring apron and then gave Miz a nasty released German suplex. He scored a two count after a power dropkick into the corner. Miz elbowed Bryan, but Bryan countered with a Lebell Lock attempt. Miz escaped and shoved Bryan into Morrison on the ring apron, then gave him the Skull Crushing Finale for the win.

WINNERS: Miz & Riley in 4:00

Afterward, Miz decided to kick Bryan. Morrison made the save and tackled Miz to the floor. Bryan then dove through the ropes, aiming for Miz, but he his Morrison too. Bryan went after Miz with punches. Morrison yanked him off of Miz. Bryan gave Morrison an elbow to the head. Morrison got up and jumped Bryan. Bryan shoved Morrison over the ring barrier. Miz jumped Bryan from behind and got the advantage. Morrison then dove off the ring apron onto both. The G.M. chime sounded. Cole stepped up to the laptop and said he has decided that this Sunday at Hell in a Cell, for the first time ever, Bryan will defend the U.S. Title against both Miz and Morrison in a Triple Threat Submissions Count Anywhere match, which the G.M. said he “just made up.”

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Back from commercial and The Miz is staying at ringside for commentary. Out first for the next match is Edge. Next to the ring is the new WWE United States Champion, Daniel Bryan, for this non-title match. Daniel Bryan comes out to something like his old pre-WWE theme music. Miz and Cole talk a lot of trash about Bryan as he enters the ring and shows off the title. The bell rings and Edge attacks, beating Bryan down in the corner.

Edge continues the assault on Bryan. Edge dumps Bryan out on the floor and the referee starts to count. Edge brings it back in the ring and poses before stomping on Bryan’s head. Bryan fights back with kicks to Edge. Edge drops Bryan again for a 2 count. Bryan fights out of a submission but Edge hits him with a right. Edge runs the ropes and Bryan hits him with a knee to the gut. Bryan flips off the top rope and clothesliens Edge. Bryan goes for the LaBell Lock but Edge counters it. More back and forth until Bryan takes Edge down with a high knee. 2 count.

Bryan leaps off the top rope but Edge kicks him in mid-air. Edge goes for a spear but Bryan catches him with a LaBell Lock attempt. Alex Riley runs down and hops on the apron to distract the referee. Miz comes from behind and drops Bryan’s back over the ropes. Edge gets up and spears Bryan for the pin and the win.

After the match, the e-mail alert goes off and we have a message from the General Manager. Cole says that due to outside interference by The Miz, the referee’s decision is reversed and the winner of the match via DQ is Daniel Bryan.

Winner via DQ: Daniel Bryan

- Edge is pissed after the announcement. Edge takes a mic and says he is sick of the General Manager and his gimmicks at ringside. Edge says this is not a joke, it’s his career. Edge throws down the mic and walks off, frustrated. Miz and Riley enter the ring and start stomping on Bryan. Miz hits a big running kick to the head and another. The crowd is chanting “you tapped out” to Miz. Riley holds Bryan while Miz works him over. Miz smacks and taunts Bryan now. Riley drops Bryan and Miz kicks him in the head once again. Riley grabs Bryan again and ore slaps and aggressive taunting from Miz. Miz lays Bryan out with the Skull Crushing Finale. Riley and Miz walk off before we go to commercial.

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We go to the ring and out comes WWE’s United States Champion and Money in the Bank winner, The Miz. He has Alex Riley with him. Out next comes Daniel Bryan to a nice pop.

The bell rings and Bryan chases Miz around the ring before Miz steps into the ropes to stop Bryan’s advance. Miz kicks Bryan in the stomach before locking in a side head lock and taking Bryan over with a shoulder block. Bryan goes for a hip toss and Miz tries to reverse it, almost allowing Bryan to lock in the LaBell lock, but Miz is able to roll to the outside. When he comes back in, Bryan takes Miz right over with an arm drag, and a big leaping boot, that’s good for a near fall. Bryan focuses on Miz’s arm with an arm bar, but Miz turns it around, hanging Bryan’s arm up on the top rope. Miz locks in a hammer lock and slams him into the turnbuckle. Another hammer lock from Miz, and this time we get a belly to back drop that’s good for a near fall.

Miz tries to work over Bryan’s arms, wrenching away and pulling his arms straight back and away from his body. Bryan is able to fight up to his feet and out of the hold, going for a backslide that’s good for two. Miz comes right out of it with a kick to the shoulder and continues to work over Daniel’s arms. Miz distracts the ref and it allows Alex Riley to wrench away on Bryan’s arm as well. Miz hits a couple of elbow breakers before going back to work with a hammerlock. Bryan backflips out of it, but Miz responds with a big shoulderbreaker, that’s good for a two count.

Bryan rolls out to the apron, and Miz uses some pretty inventive offense to continue the work on the shoulder. Miz brings Bryan back into the ring and goes for the pin, but only gets a two count. Miz locks in an arm bar and Bryan is able to fight out of it. Bryan sidesteps a dive from Miz and Miz sails to the outside. Bryan follows Miz with a suicide dive through the ropes. Bryan rolls Miz back into the ring and hits a beautiful missile dropkick. Bryan hits a stiff kick to Miz’s chest that’s good for a near fall. Bryan goes for a leg submission, but Miz fights it off with a kick to the shoulder. Bryan comes right back with a beautiful high knee attack.

Miz and Bryan trade blows with Bryan getting the upper hand. Bryan ducks a right hand from Miz and lays into Miz with a series of kicks in the corner, before hitting a beautiful IED, a la Austin Aries. Danielson nails Miz with a stiff kick to the side of the head but it’s still not enough to keep the Miz down. Bryan takes Miz to the corner and puts him on the top turnbuckle, he goes up too, but Miz crothces him on the top rope and dives off with a big clothesline that takes Bryan off the ropes and down to the mat. Miz goes for a cover but only gets a two count.

Miz simply wrenches away on Bryan’s shoulder and arm, with his knee on Bryan’s head. Bryan is able to make it to the ropes to force a break. Miz stalks Bryan as he gets to his feet and he tries for the SCF, but Bryan counters it into a roll up for a two count. Bryan traps Miz’s arm and goes for the LaBell lock, but Riley jumps up to the apron. Bryan argues with Riley and Miz tries to attack, but he ends up running into Riley instead of Bryan. Bryan almost scores the win with a quick roll up, but Miz sends him to the outside. Bryan sidesteps Riley on the outside, sending him into the ring post, and he’s able to kick out of a small package from the Miz. Miz punches and kicks away at Bryan, forcing the ref to pull him away. When Miz goes back to Bryan, Bryan locks in the LaBell lock! The Miz taps and that’s it.

Winner and New WWE United States Champion: Daniel Bryan

When it comes to WWE NXT, there will be rookies who have made enough of a mark in the eyes of World Wrestling Entertainment management who will still be kept and stick around, although they did not win the contest.

One of those superstars for Season Two appears to be “The Varsity Villian”, Alex Riley, who has been a mainstay on “The Worldwide Leader In Sports Entertainment’s” flagship telecast, WWE Monday Night RAW, following the season finale, in which “The Warrior” Kaval was victorious.

In recent weeks, Riley has been involved in the ongoing storyline between his NXT pro, “The Awesome One” The Miz, and his rookie from Season One of NXT, “The American Dragon” Daniel Bryan, which will culminate in a WWE United States Championship title match at the upcoming WWE Night of Champions pay-per-view event.

According to multiple online reports, Riley expected to remain on the WWE Monday Night RAW brand as a regular performer following the feud between Bryan and Miz, with talk of Riley feuding with Bryan following The Miz possibly moving into the main event WWE Championship title picture moving toward the end of this year.

Riley has the prototypical look for a top competitor in the promotion, mic skills to get over with the WWE Universe, and has showed some good things in a limited amount of time as a worker inside the squared circle.

World Wrestling Entertainment management appears to be extremely high on Riley, going back to his time in WWE’s developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling, where he was their FCW Champion at one point in time prior to the call for NXT Season Two.

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Bryan comes down to the ring with a smile on his face for this non-title match. We go to commercial.

Back from the break and Bryan is working over Miz in the corner with kicks. Bryan misses a charge in the corner and lands on his knee. Miz takes over and works on Bryan’s leg. We see Alex Riley at ringside. Miz stomps away on Bryan’s leg. Miz locks on a Figure Four leglock. Bryan reverses it and the hold is broken. Bryan goes for the LaBell lock but Miz makes it to the ropes. Miz rolls out to the floor to regroup.

Miz is really selling an injury as Riley checks on him. Miz grabs a mic and says he thinks he has a hernia. Yep, it’s definitely a hernia, he says. He says to ensure that he can defend his belt at Night of Champions, he’s pulling out of this match. The ring announcer goes to announce Bryan the winner by forfeit but Miz cuts him off and says he’s hurt, not quitting. Miz says Bryan can face Riley tonight if he wants to perform.

Alex Riley vs. Daniel Bryan

Riley takes his shirt off and hops in the ring, not dressed to wrestle. The bell rings and he attacks Bryan. Riley applies a leg lock on Bryan but he counters it. Bryan locks on the LaBell Lock and Riley taps out.

Winner: Daniel Bryan

- After the match, The Miz runs in the ring and starts beating down Daniel Bryan, looking to be just fine now. Miz drops Bryan with a big boot to the face. Miz drops his US Title beside Bryan and presses his face into it. Miz taunts Bryan and calls him average. Bryan gets up and Miz goes for the Skull Crushing Finale. Bryan counters and locks on the LaBell Lock. Miz taps out as Riley just looks on from ringside. Miz continues to tap but Bryan won’t break the hold. Bryan finally breaks it and smiles to the crowd as his music plays. Riley helps Miz up the ramp.

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Bryan comes out and introduces himself to Miz, which gets a pop. Miz says Bryan has accomplished nothing in WWE. Bryan jokes on his own theme music. Bryan says if anything, he’s the anti-Superstar. Bryan says if he faces Miz for the United States Title, he can beat him. Miz says if that happened, the next WWE Magazine might look like this… Miz shows a cover on the screen where Miz tapped out to Bryan. Bryan says he can become the next United States Champion. Miz accepts Bryan’s challenge. Miz goes to attack but Bryan turns it into the crossface. Alex Riley runs in from the crowd and attacks Bryan. Bryan dumps Miz to the floor and applies the submission on Riley. Riley taps out while Miz looks on from ringside. Bryan kicks over Miz’s magazine cover display and they stare each other down as Bryan’s music plays.

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Back from the break and the bell rings. Kaval is going at it with McGillicutty. He applies a side headlock but Kaval gets out. Michael back on the offensive. Kaval counters with some high flying maneuvers and gets the first quick cover.

Alex Riley is down in the corner as Kaval goes back to McGillicutty. Michaels goes off the ropes and lands a dropkick in a counter. He follows with a quick cover. Riley is back up and takes out both his opponents. McGillicutty counters and pins Riley for a two count. He takes out Kaval but eats kicks from Riley.

McGillicutty counters and hits a nice backbreaker on Riley followed by a cover. Kaval makes the save. Kaval takes out McGillicutty then works with Alex Riley. Hard chop from Kaval onto Alex Riley. Riley reverses it and delivers a chop the chest of Kaval of his own. McGillicutty comes over and takes out Riley then chops Kaval in the corner. He stomps Riley but Kaval hits a chop, knocking McGillicutty to the apron. Kaval attempts a suplex to bring him back in the ring but it’s reversed and Kaval is thrown to the outside. Riley knocks McGillicutty to the outside as we go to break.

Back in the ring, Riley has McGillicutty in a sleeper on the mat. Kaval staggers back in the ring and breaks the hold. Riley was in control during the break. Riley gets back into the action and counters on both his opponents. Michael Cole high fives The Miz at ringside and tells him he’s doing a great job. McGillicutty hits a clothesline on Riley and follows with a splash. He hits a belly-to-belly suplex and gets a two count when Kaval makes the save. Kaval goes to work on McGillicutty, hitting a spin kick to the face and a two count.

Riley climbs up to the top rope but Kaval comes over to stop him. Riley appears to knock him off but Kaval actually rolled through and took him off the to the outside with a kick. McGillicutty takes out Kaval from behind and gets a two count. Kaval counters and locks in the bite of the dragon (dragon sleeper). McGillicutty makes it to the ropes to have the hold broken. Kaval tries an innovative splash in the corner on McGillicutty but he gets out of the way.

Fisherman’s suplex by McGillicutty on Kaval. He goes for the cover but Riley pulls him out of the ring. McGillicutty gets out and takes out Riley on the outside. McGillicutty goes for the McGillicutter but Kaval counters, seemingly knocking him out. Kaval goes to the top but Alex Riley pulls him off and pins McGillicutty to win the match.

Winner – Alex Riley

Matt Striker says the time for the first elimination is upon us. He wants to interview the guys eliminated. Titus O’Neal is first and asked who should win NXT and why. He says we got the Ninja, Will Ferrell’s look alike and the guy trying to re-live his high school football days. HE says the guy trying to relive his high school days. Eli Cottonwood says Alex Riley should win because he has everything and is the most likable. Lucky Cannon says they flushed the show down the toilet when he was cut. Percy Watson picks McGillicutty. Husky Harris picks McGillicutty, saying he was just born better like himself and his pro Cody Rhodes.

Alex Riley has been eliminated.

Striker tells Kaval it’s a long way from the dog house but the show is his. Kaval says he doesn’t know what to say but says “thank you” to the WWE Universe. All of the eliminated Rookies hit the ring and take him out. The Pros run in to make the save. It’s chaos in the ring as things have completely broken down. Referees come out to break up the melee. Husky Harris hits his finisher on Kaval. Alex Riley and Michael McGillicutty come back out and hit the ring. McGillicutty goes after Kaval but Kaval goes back after him. Riley just hit his finisher on Percy Watson. Harris has Kaval on the mat.

Percy Watson is thrown out by Riley. McGillicutty, Harris, Riley and Lucky Cannon work over Kaval in the ring. Harris hits his finisher as Riley delivers his finisher. The eliminated Rookies continue their beat down as Titus O’Neal hits his finisher. McGillicutty stands over him and talks him down. LayCool are mortified on the ramp.