Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles Signed the Contract for Their Undisputed WWE Championship Match at BacklashThis was a pretty straightforward contract signing with both guys getting a chance to hype their upcoming championship clash. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but I appreciated that it didn't end in physicality as most wrestling contract signings do. It feels like most of Rhodes' rivalries feature a Dusty mention at some point, but Styles does have history with him from TNA and it would've been silly to not acknowledge that.
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The System Interrupted Nic Nemeth and "Broken" Matt HardyNemeth started the show talking about he felt "broken" following his failure to beat Moose for the TNA World Championship at Rebellion and that brought out Hardy, who showed footage of Nemeth's shoulder being up when Moose pinned him. I honestly didn't catch that when it happened, so Nemeth has a claim to a rematch eventually. The System played their part perfectly fine in this segment, setting up Nemeth vs. Eddie Edwards for the night's main event. TNA probably shouldn't have advertised Nemeth vs. Edwards for this episode in advance in order to make this announcement feel more organic.
Isiah Kassidy def. KomanderKassidy made his Ring of Honor debut a few weeks back. I'm not sure why Kassidy is wrestling on his own as opposed to teaming with Marq Quen, but at least we're getting to see him at all since he's barely been on AEW programming since resurfacing at the start of the year. This was the expected quality contest from these two and they made nice use of their time. Kassidy winning was a slightly surprising outcome considering Komander does way more singles matches (and gets way more championship opportunities as a result).
Ivar def. Apollo CrewsCrews' last Main Event was over a month ago, so I forgot he was on the roster until he resurfaced here. I said that about Xia Li last week and she ended up getting released the next day, so I hope Crews doesn't soon suffer the same fate. Ivar has been making the rounds recently between Raw, NXT and Main Event and this was another impressive outing from him. They had a good match in the time they were allotted.
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