WWE Fastlane 2016 live results: Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns vs. Dean Ambrose
Welcome to the F4WOnline.com’s live coverage of WWE FastLane! Tonight’s show takes place at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Ohio, which traditionally means bad news for The Miz. The last stop before WWE Wrestlemania is here with the winner of tonight’s triple threat main event going to the big show to face WWE World Champion Triple H.
We’re looking for your thoughts on tonight’s show as well as Friday’s Bellator show, so you can leave a thumbs up thumbs down or thumbs in the middle plus a best and worst match to Dave Meltzer.
Your main card:
- Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns vs. Dean Ambrose
- WWE Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens vs. Dolph Ziggler
- WWE Divas Champion Charlotte vs. Brie Bella
- Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch vs Tamina Snuka/Naomi
- Chris Jericho vs. AJ Styles
- Big Show/Ryback/Kane vs. The Wyatts (Braun Strowman/Erick Rowan/Luke Harper)
- WWE U.S. Champion Kalisto vs. Alberto del Rio (2/3 falls, kickoff show)
Also, Edge and Christian will interview WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day to help promo the debut of their new show after Fastlane.
This is just the second ever Fastlane after last year’s debut show at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN. On that show, Reigns took on the recently retired Daniel Bryan in a no. 1 contender’s match. Also on that show. then-U.S. Champion Rusev downed John Cena by DQ, and Sting had a confrontation with HHH.
KALISTO VS. ALBERTO DEL RIO FOR THE U.S. TITLE 2/3 FALLS
Del Rio was disqualified in the first fall for hitting Kalisto with a chair as Kalisto went for a springboard move. Del Rio won the second fall with a double foot stomp. The third fall saw Del Rio miss the double foot stomp after doing it outside the ring. Kalisto flipped Del Rio into the corner and schoolboyed him to take the third fall and retain. This was a good match.
SASHA BANKS & BECKY LYNCH VS. NAOMI & TAMINA
Banks & Lynch won with a double submission with Banks with the bank statement on Tamina while Lynch used the disarmer on Naomi. The first part of the match was pretty sloppy with Lynch getting beaten on but it got good when Banks was in. Banks kicked out of the rear view and was also saved by Lynch when Tamina used a superkick. The impression with the double win to me would be a three-way at Mania, but we’ll see.
KEVIN OWENS VS. DOLPH ZIGGLER FOR THE IC TITLE
Good match. The crowd was pretty hot with it being in Cleveland which is Ziggler’s home town. Owens retained and they said they were on the road to KO Mania. There was some commentary talking about how Owens never beat Ambrose to win the title. The finish was clean with Ziggler missing a superkick and Owens using the pop up power bomb.
BIG SHOW & KANE & RYBACK VS. BRAUN STROWMAN & ERICK ROWAN & LUKE HARPER
Show & Kane & Ryback won when Ryback pinned Harper clean with the shellshock. The match was better than it sounds as it was solid even when Strowman and Rowan were in. Show pressed Harper overhead and three him out of the ring on Rowan & Strowman. It wasn’t a complete press. Show then gave Strowman a great looking spear on the floor.
Roman Reigns did a promo with JoJo. The fans booed him a lot. He vowed to win and said a lot of things will change with he and Ambrose. Ambrose showed up and was cheered heavily. Ambrose said one of them will be on the road to WrestleMania and the other will have to hitchhike. Amborse said he’s already booked his travel on Priceline. Amborse said that Lesnar won’t win but one of us will.
CHARLOTTE VS. BRIE BELLA FOR THE DIVAS TITLE
The crowd was super behind Brie because of the Daniel Bryan sympathy. In fact, they were super into this late, more than anything on the show so far when she got a near fall with the X-factor, as well as near submissions with the Yes lock and a half crab. The story is that Brie hurt her left leg doing a missile dropkick, and she couldn’t continue the half crab and Charlotte powered out and Brie caught her neck on the roipes. Charlotte then won with the figure eight. Again, better than you’d think. Rough early but the last few minutes were quite good.
Chris Jericho did an interview and said Styles’ future rides in his hands because if he loses review to him it’ll be his second straight loss and it could derail him. He made the wins and losses aspect of this match feel important.
A.J. STYLES VS. CHRIS JERICHO
As far as the layout and intensith at the finish, this was great. The crowd was super into it with dueling chants early as well as into it big the last few minutes. Some spots were scary, some in a good way and just being off on a couple of spots inlcuding a Jericho power bomb spot where he dropped Styles in a scary way. Some good innovative spots including a Styles plancha into a dropkick by Jericho on the floor. The finish saw Jericho kick out of the Styles clash, which was weird doing it this early, and then Styles put him in the calf crusher and Jericho. Jericho did a tremendous job selling the submission before he tapped.
After the match Jericho stared him down and teased attacking him. Jericho pulled back his fist and AJ respohnded but then Jericho offered his hand.
Edge & Christian were out with The New Day. Edge & Christian plugged their TV show and Edge said he wanted to get serious for a minute and referenced Lance Storm. The crowd chanted “JNew Day Rocks.” Edge said when you showed up at first I’ve never seem so much chocolate sound so vanilla. Said they copied every Edge & Christian segment, replacing awesomeness with booty, sunglasses with unicorn horns. Said we don’t rip on sports teams and then said LeBooty James will never win a title in this city. They made fun of Kingston dropping his Jamaican accent. Who is better than the New Day. Made fun of Ascension, Usos, Dudleys and the League of Booty. Seemed to push League of Nations vs. New Day. Woods said say they’re trying to stir the pot but we already cooked the meal Woods called the League of Nations are hot garbage. Woods said we’ll say it to their face if they were here. Then all four of them came out and we’ve got a new program. The New Day left. King Barrett then threatened Edge & Christian. Sheamus called them hip replacement candidates and Justin Beiber candidates. Del Rio said I kicked your ass an forced you to retire. Edge joked he did more in the last five years than Del Rio. Edge & Christian left the ring and called them the International House of Dumbassees. They plugged their show right after Fast Lane. Edge & Christian had some great lines in this, but it went way too long.
R-TRUTH VS. CURTIS AXEL
The other three Outcasts were running around the ring. Goldust came out. Goldust threw Slater into the barricade and threw Adam Rose into the ring. Rose being in the ring distracted R-Truth and Axel pinned him with a schoolboy with tights. R-Truth was mad at Goldust when it was over. It was over in 2:00.
The Vince face on the award makes it seem like it’s an angle to show up Vince.
BROCK LESNAR VS. ROMAN REIGNS VS. DEAN AMBROSE
Crazy great match. Lesnar destroyed both of them with German suplexes early until he made a mistake and then The Shield power bombed Lesnar through a table. When Lesnar started to recover they put him through a second table. The crowd was super into Ambrose vs. Reigns and they were great working together. The crowd was completely behind Ambrose of course. Reigns was booed heavily here and Lesnar was cheered the most of the three. Reigns kicked out of Dirty Deeds. Reigns had Ambrose up for the Samoan drop when Lesnar German suplexed both. Ambrose landed right on Reigns’ head. The finish saw Reigns hit the spear on Lesnar, but Lesnar, who was booked as a Super monster, grabbed a Kimura. Reigns was about to tap but powered Lesnar up. Ambrose came in and nailed both guys with about five chair shots each. Lesnar rolled out of the ring. Reigns then hit the spear on Ambrose for the pin.
The show ended with Reigns and HHH in the ring doing a staredown with the Mania sign in the background.