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Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes and Goldust

The Shield stands face to face with the Rhodes family including Dusty who holds his belt buckle out, making clear he has full right to use it on anybody. Rollins starts of the match against Cody Rhodes and attempts to choke him out with Ambrose yelling from ringside “make him feel it, make his mother feel it!” Cody manages to get in some offense by stomping on Seth’s chest with an energetic anger. The referee warns Cody to calm down as he almost get’s carried away despite the five count.Roman Reigns is tagged in next and knocks Cody down with his signature “Rawwwwrr”. Reigns marches Cody into the corner and holds him for Seth to deliver a punch from the top rope. Seth then follows it up with an arm bar as Ambrose keeps and eye on the “Dream” from the outside of the ring. Rollins prevents Cody from getting a tag and he hangs Cody up in the corner of the ring and delivers stomps to the chest. The crowd chants “We want Goldust!” as Seth takes a shot to the face.Cody goes up top for his moonsault and catches Rollins square in the head. Goldust and Reigns get tagged in as Goldust delivers his vintage atomic drop.
Goldust delivers punches in the corner on Reigns but get’s planted on the floor. Ambrose takes the opportunity to talk some trash. Seth awaits his return to the ring and Goldust barely makes it back in at the 9 count. Seth delivers shoulders to the midsection and tags in Reigns. Reigns uses all his power to hold Goldust down. Rollins goes back in against Goldust but misses the dropkick. Reigns gets back in and get’s a boot to the face and makes a quick tag back to Rollins. Rollins takes a slam from Goldust who then takes in Cody.
Cody delivers a massive dropkick to Seth, then follows it up with a hard kick to the middle and a spin around to his back. It doesn’t do it though as resilient Rollins kicks out. Seth tries to get up but gets planted hard again onto his back. Reigns goes in to interrupt the count and takes out Goldust from the equation. Cody eliminates Reigns and Ambrose and Seth catches him by suprise from behind. Cody catches Seth in Cross-Rhodes and manages to get the three and save his families jobs.