Stephanie is not in the mood for any nonsense. So she's very straight forward and brusque when she lays out the matches for the evening, ignoring whatever disgruntled, displeased reactions she notices for this. Her eyes, instead, rest on Roman Reigns' smirking face and she huffs, needing to leave the room immediately or risk slapping the nearly 50 people in the room. She has no qualms doing so in WWE but almost half of the people in the room are contracted with another company, and... She shudders at the thought of what that lawsuit would look like, what her husband, what her father would say to her.
Sitting rigidly in her office, she oversees the matches. The night begins with Odarg, TNA's poor attempt at passing off a man recently fired as a new hire, beating Curtis Axel, and she grimaces. The poor showing for her company continues when BJ Whitmer defeats Chris Jericho in what, admittedly, had been a very close contest- the men mesh well, their veteran abilities both enough to keep the match rolling until Whitmer had overwhelmed Jericho with an exploder suplex, drawing all of the window from Jericho's throat and leaving him prone to the Adrenaline Spike. Stephanie grunts and turns away, mumbling viciously to herself.
She doesn't bother to watch the next match, aware by the commentary that it's moving fast. Too fast, in fact, for Kane to get much of a grip on Lucha Underground's Angelico and dish out the punishment everyone knows he's capable of. After dodging another chokeslam attempt, Kane's rage-filled roar is interrupted when finally Angelico spins off of the top rope, sending Kane hard to the mat and pinning him after a corkscrew senton. The bad luck for the WWE Superstars continue when Big Show loses to Jay Briscoe, Stephanie burying her face in her hands at this point.
She peeks through her fingers, however, when Paige comes out to compete against Madison Rayne, having some hope that one of her handpicked divas to be the base of the Divas Revolution all of those months ago wouldn't let her down. The match does go back and forth for awhile, punches and kicks evolving into more brutal moves as Madison grabs Paige by the arm and whips her over, smashing Paige's face into her knee. Groaning, Paige rolls away and struggles to catch her breath, just for Madison to force her into the corner and choke her with her foot, ignoring the referee until she runs the risk of getting DQ'd. Her backing away gives Paige the space and time to lunge forward and clip Madison's legs, sending her toppling down with a squeech.
Rubbing her throat, Paige gets to her feet shakily and starts stomping Madison down, gripping her by the hair and pulling her up just to toss her aside like she's nothing. Madison struggles to get back up, the referee now rebuking Paige, but there's nothing for it: Paige grips Madison and tangles her up in the PTO, planting her feet as best as she can until finally the Knockout gives up and the match is called, Paige raising her hand in victory even as she struggles to catch a full breath.
Stephanie sighs, relieved that at least there's one victory for WWE tonight. The streak lasts when Jack Swagger continues Roderick Strong's bad week by defeating him. But she thinks she might trade both of those wins when, somehow, someway, Mahabali Shera stands against everything Rusev throws at him and defeats him with one of his spinebusters. "What the hell did I just see?" she mumbles in disbelief as the man shuffles around her screen. "Oh God, make it stop."
Her disgust grows when the next match brings out Heath Slater to face ROH's Rowe. "Dammit," she moans, curling in on herself as Heath, oblivious fool that he is, strums an air guitar as Rowe stares at him blankly. Heath's ego always overwhelms his sense so, after a lock up attempt, he quickly finds himself down on the mat, gaping at the ceiling as Rowe lifts him up, just to suplex him back down. He gasps and struggles, trying to move away, but Rowe grabs him and all but throws him out of the ring with a forearm smash. Gripping his face, Heath staggers around a bit, trying to catch his breath, before punching an advancing Rowe and surprising the man. Somehow Heath collects himself and, when Rowe lunges at him again, meets him halfway with a heel kick that staggers him even further.
Seeing another chance, Heath takes to the top rope and hits a missile dropkick, finally knocking Rowe completely off of his feet. Lunging forward, Heath grips his legs and holds on title, just to get a two count. He grits his teeth and leans over, trying to lift Rowe... just to fail as his back protests this action, Heath staggering into the corner and rubbing his spine as Rowe slowly gets himself up, the expression on his face somewhere between being impressed and annoyed. Heath looks a little frightened, finally, but lifts his arm and elbows Rowe right in the face, staggering forward just in time to catch Rowe as he approaches again and scoop powerslams him down, using his own momentum against him in both aiding to lift and to throw him back down. His back is on fire, but it all becomes meaningless as Heath pins him, closing his eyes as the three is achieved, immediately rolling away and flopping out of the ring.
Stephanie's not sure who's more surprised, Heath, Rowe, the audience, or herself. Her brief befuddlement passes, however, when Roman Reigns comes out the victor against Eddie Edwards. She grits her teeth and rolls her eyes skywards as he celebrates afterwards. She sits back and crosses her arms over her chest, watching with a glower as a handicap match she'd made in a fit of anger begins. Not much different than the matches with and against the Shield, it's a six on three mess, Prince Puma, NJPW's Tenzan, Neville, Zack Ryder, Son of Havok and Xavier Woods facing off against AJ Styles, Hanson and Makabe. It's a fast moving match and Stephanie finds herself caught in the action sometimes, raising her eyebrows at some of the highflying ridiculousness, AJ's team unable to compensate for the uneven numbers of the teams until finally Neville hits Red Arrow on Makabe and achieves the pin.
Following this, Ethan Carter III defeats Sheamus and Davey Richards defeats Kofi Kingston. Michael Bennett takes out Big E and Becky Lynch wins an Ultimate X match against Gail Kim, Ivelisse, Summer Rae, Natalya, Charlotte and Sasha Banks after keeping a desperate Summer Rae from grabbing the X hanging from the ropes crisscrossing in the middle of the ring by kicking her away and shimmying over before the others could stop brawling in and outside of the ring enough to stop her. Kalisto's speed overwhelms Cage's power next and he manages a quick pin after hitting the Saleda del Sol from the top rope, the crowd buzzing in shock and amazement.
The next match is a triple threat, Kevin Owens facing off with Mark Briscoe and Ryback, the three formidable men circling each other before Mark goes after Owens, the three of them brawling back and forth, exchanging powerful forearm shivers and bodyslams that makes the ring shake. Mark eventually gets thrown out by Ryback and Owens slips in, waiting for Ryback to turn around and hitting a bone rattling Popup Powerbomb as soon as he does. It's enough, Ryback unable to respond in time and getting pinned as Mark slips into the ring a second too late, Owens laughing smugly as he rolls out of the ring, the prizefighter one step closer to getting yet another prize to his name.
Afterwards, Stephanie can't help but to smirk as the main event begins and Alberto Del Rio's music hits, followed by Rockstar Spud's. The crowd buzzes, expecting something of a bloodbath as the two men face off in the ring. She even puts her clipboard down, curious to see just how badly beat down TNA's underdog gets by the Mexican aristocrat. Spud looks nervous, understandably so, but when Alberto points and begins to laugh at him, he stands straight, keeps his chin up and waits for the bell to ring before lunging forward and hitting Alberto right in the face with a fist. This infuriates the taller man, and he chops Spud hard, ridding the man of oxygen with one blow and sending him staggering backwards. This is only worsened when Alberto snaps Spud's head back with a brutal enziguri, Spud collapsing to his knees while struggling to remain conscious.
Alberto laughs and grabs at Spud, deciding obviously to end the match early and pushing him into the corner before lifting him up and pressing him into the second rope before hopping up above him, glaring down. Spud is out of it, his eyes fluttering but, as Alberto makes the leap to stomp his chest and send him crashing into the mat, Spud instinctively uses his core strength to lift himself up and hug the turnbuckle, listening dazedly as Alberto hits the mat and jams his knee, cursing vehemently in Spanish. Spud pants and gasps, feeling nauseous and weak, but eventually he flops back and succeeds at freeing his legs, hitting the mat and slowly rolling onto his stomach to watch as Alberto paces around, trying to work out the pain his leg is currently in.
Realizing that Spud's free, Alberto tries to shake it off and go after him again but Spud twists around and drop toeholds him into the corner, struggling up to his feet and dropkicking Alberto into the turnbuckle post. Alberto staggers for a bit before getting out and lunging back towards Spud, just to get hit with a tilt-a-whirl DDT, knocking him out for real. A 450 splash later and Spud pins him, biting his lip until he hears the three. Until he hears the crowd, and his own music. He'd won! Suddenly drowning in adrenaline, he gets to his feet and tries to celebrate... until he sees Alberto struggling up and lunging for him. He just misses as Spud dives out of the ring and stares back at him, wide eyed, as he makes his way to the entrance ramp, the referee following him to raise his hand in victory.
Stephanie shuts the TV off before going to hit her head against the nearest wall.