Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Stomping Grounds 2019 results. The show featured a steel cage match for the WWE Championship, a Universal Championship match with a mystery special guest referee, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of Stomping Grounds column.
WWE Stomping Grounds Kickoff Show Results:
– Cruiserweight Championship Match: Drew Gulak defeated Tony Nese (c) and Akira Tozawa. Gulak hit a Torture Rack into a neckbreaker on Tozawa to get the pin and win the match, making him the new Cruiserweight Champion.
WWE Stomping Grounds Results:
1. Raw Women’s Championship Match: Becky Lynch (c) defeated Lacey Evans. Lynch won by submission with the Disarmer.
2. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn defeated The New Day. Owens pinned Xavier Woods after a Stunner.
3. United States Championship Match: Ricochet defeated Samoa Joe (c). Ricochet pinned Joe after a 630 senton to win his first WWE main roster championship.
4. Smackdown Tag Team Championship Match: Daniel Bryan and Rowan (c) defeated Heavy Machinery. Bryan was able to pin Tucker Knight with a small package (because he’s MISTER small package) to retain the championship.
5. Smackdown Women’s Championship Match: Bayley (c) defeated Alexa Bliss. Nikki Cross took a dive from Bayley, allowing Bliss to capitalize. As Bliss was about to win the match, Cross got in the ring trying to attack Bayley. This caused a distraction, allowing Bayley to recover and win the match with a Bayley-to-Belly.
– The Good Brothers and AJ Styles interrupted Ricochet’s championship photo shoot to pose with him. Styles said he’d see Ricochet on Monday night.
6. Roman Reigns defeated Drew McIntyre. Shane McMahon interfered multiple times, pulling the referee out of the ring, and hitting a coast-to-coast dropkick on Reigns. Reigns recovered, and pinned McIntyre after a spear.
7. Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship: Kofi Kingston (c) defeated Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler was about to crawl out of the cage, so Kingston dove through the ropes to the floor to win the match.
8. Universal Championship: Seth Rollins (c) defeated Baron Corbin. Lacey Evans was Corbin’s special guest referee. The crowd chanted for AEW, Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, for and against John Cena, and “boring.” Rollins put Corbin through a table and tried to get him counted out, so Evans said the match was “no count-out.” Rollins had Corbin pinned with a frog splash, so Evans pretended she was too injured to count. Corbin attacked Rollins with a chair, so Evans announced the match was no disqualification. At this point, Evans just stopped counting for Rollins. Evans slapped, kicked, and low-blowed Rollins, so Becky Lynch ran down to the ring and beat up Evans. Referee John Cone took over, so Rollins hit a Stomp and won the match.
