Before the next show, Stephanie meets up with those booked for Team Work this week. She smiles insincerely at them all, reading their faces. "So, we're three weeks away from this season of Team Work ending. I've enjoyed myself, and I hope you have too. Since interest still seems high, we'll be having another season of this starting in mid-September. Since Summerslam is this week, and ROH is also having events, we'll be taking it a little easier this week. The match card is up by the locker rooms. Good luck, everyone." She waits until they leave her office before sinking into her desk chair, smirking as she crosses her legs and stretches out languidly. She loves having all of the power like this.
The first match is a ten man battle royal, Zack Ryder, Mojo Rawley, Moose, Sin Cara, Lio Rush, Michael Bennett, Dean Ambrose, Braun Stowman, Lashley and Brother Nero Jeff Hardy entering the ring. The mix of men stare at each other, Zack and Mojo standing side by side while Moose hovers close to Bennett. The brawl that finally starts shows the WWE guys going against the TNA and ROH guys, Sin Cara quickly finding himself overwhelmed by Moose, barely able to breathe before he's thrown over and out. With his elimination, everyone breaks apart and stares at each other, sizing up the next reasonable target. It's clear the federations decide to stop making it a pride thing and be somewhat smart, the eight other man crowding Strowman and doing all they can to weaken him, Lashley giving the last push of strength to send him clear out of the ring. Bennett goes next, looking up in confusion at Moose, who had been knocked into him while brawling with Lashley. His eyes narrow as his bodyguard shrugs innocently at him before getting back into the mix of things.
Dean Ambrose is brawling with Jeff Hardy but, since breaking under his brother's influence, Jeff almost seems to enjoy each and every bit of abuse he takes. Dean quickly runs out of ideas to take him out of the game, staring at him in confusion, before Jeff drags him to the top rope and stares at him for a long moment before simply pushing him out of the ring with a maddened kind of laugh. "Brother Nero, Brother Nero, Brother Nero!" he chants repeatedly. He's still standing there when Mojo Rawley runs up behind him and plants his hands on his legs, easily pushing him off to follow Dean. Mojo only blinks when Jeff laughs, seeming unconcerned with even this result, but Zack nudges his tag partner and bumps fists with him before they get back to work. It doesn't last long, though. Zack is busy trying to get the upperhand against Lio Rush's speed when he glances over just in time to see Mojo get lifted up and bodied clear out of the ring by Lashley.
It's him, Lio, Moose and Lashley and he can't help but sweat as the two TNA wrestlers start brawling. He's not sure what he's going to do but it's too late to change his strategy now as he ducks Lio's highrisk attack and hits him with a clothesline, downing him long enough for Zack to re-focus. Once LIo's leaning against the corner, Zack hits him with the Broski boot and then hoists him up, sending him over the top rope and then drop kicking him from the apron when he somehow lands there. This leaves Zack with Lashley and Moose and he turns, watching them fight for a few moments. He has little chance, he knows, so... Why not? he thinks, rushing forward and dropkicking Moose right between the shoulders. As soon as the man turns, Zack is on him, punching and hitting him with as many forearms as he could, staggering him. He's just started to think maybe he'll somehow succeed at one more elimination when Lashley comes from behind and lifts him up, unconcerned as he tosses him over the top ropes. Lashley barely stops for a breath before he's back to brawling with Moose, the two men exchanging ridiculous blows until Lashley gets the upperhand and shoulders Moose into the ropes. He's staggered, allowing Lashley to turn and grab him, slamming him thoughtlessly over the top. Moose tumbles over and lands hard, staring up at the ceiling in shock as Lashley poses in victory in the ring above him.
Stephanie makes her second appearance of the night, peeking into the main WWE locker rooms and calling six names. Once they're all together in the hallway, she taps her foot against the ground and smirks at them. "So, I was thinking we'd have three Beat the Clock challenges. Raw vs Smackdown." As the six men murmur and discuss this amongst themselves, she points out two of the men. "You're up first. Good luck, men." One thing the draft had brought Stephanie with Team Work is the ability to put her brother in his place by having more brand vs brand matches, prove whose roster is the best.
Her first real opportunity sees Neville vs Tyler Breeze. They fight back and forth, exchanging blows and kicks, Neville bouncing back nicely after his injury. Tyler's attempt at a beauty shot is reversed by one of Neville's enziguiris, Tyler dazed and struggling just to stand back up when Neville makes it to the top and flies off, hitting a perfect Red Arrow and pinning him in 6:01. Whatever energy the crowd had gained after the first two matches is drained after Alexa Bliss defeats Sasha Banks in the next contest, using her smaller size to first squirm away before Sasha could hit knees in the corner, and then wrenching her away and hitting the Twisted Bliss on her before she could fully recover.
Chad Gable's second week in the contest goes poorly as he loses to Darren Young, unable to gain enough of an advantage on the man to hold any serious chains of offense until Darren twists him up into the crossface chickenwing, leaving him with no option but to tap out once he realizes there's no way for him to get to the ropes from this position without risking seriously injuring himself. The next match is the second Beat the Clock challenge, Rhyno facing off with Luke Gallows. Rhyno is on top of the world after winning primaries in his state and defeating Heath Slater, but it's not enough to take out Luke Gallows, who successfully dodges his gore attempt and snags him around the throat, slamming him down mercilessly in 3:49.
Once the ring is cleared, Sami Zayn makes his way to the ring, trying to stay cheerful even in the face of Matt Hardy's lunacy as he interacts with the audience down the ramp, screaming DELETE at them, and other insane things. Sami fights as hard as he can, but none of it really seems to affect Matt that much, the mad gleam to his eye never diminishing until he grabs Sami during an attempt at the Helluva kick, twisting him around and planting him into the mat before pinning him.
The next match is the final Beat the Clock challenge and, although Rusev laughs raucously when he sees his opponent is Dolph Ziggler, but his ego works against him as Dolph's goal is more to run the clock down instead of out right winning, aware that it would be impossible in under four minutes against a man like Rusev. It's a struggle, avoiding Rusev's attacks, but Dolph succeeds, hitting random strikes here and there and keeping his distance otherwise. Even so, Rusev's speed is easy to underestimate even if you know him fairly well and before long, Dolph gets caught and brutalized down until there's less than a minute on the clock. Rusev then takes things more seriously and wrenches Dolph down, stomping him in the middle of the back and forcing his arms back, locking in the accolade and putting as much pressure on him as possible. There's 45 seconds left and everyone assumes Dolph will either tap or pass out before the time fully ticks down... Rusev watches closely until there's ten seconds to go, Dolph still struggling against the pain... when Rusev segues into the extended accolade, bridging Dolph while pinning his legs under them. It's brutal, Dolph is screaming in agony, but the clock is ticking, ticking away, and... time runs out. Rusev and Dolph neither win, but Dolph is slumped on the mat, laughing weakly as Rusev screams out at the mocking crowd. He's just turned around to lock in another accolade on Dolph when the crowd starts to respond positively, Zack and Mojo scrambling into the ring. As Mojo yells at Rusev, Zack shields Dolph and before long, Rusev waves them off in disgust and storms out of the ring.
"You alright?" Zack wonders, brushing some of the sweaty hair out of Dolph's eyes as he braces him against his legs, staring at him.
"Better now," Dolph mumbles, his head slumping forward.
"Good job on keeping Rusev from getting more points," Zack says slowly. "Now let's get you looked at by the trainer, bro." Getting Dolph up is painful, but between he and Mojo they accomplish at clearing the ring in time for the next match.
Carmella faces off against Gail Kim in the next match but between her nerves and being so new to the scene, Gail quickly takes advantage and responds to her attempt at a big boot by meeting her with the Eat Defeat when she turns back around, pinning her. Matt Jackson wins in a triple threat match against Cesaro and Jack Swagger, taking advantage of the situation when old tension between Cesaro and Swagger bleeds out to the surface, the two men too determined to fight each other to pay full attention to him and leaving them vulnerable to so many superkicks that the crowd loses count.
The main event of the night is Jason Jordan vs Nick Jackson, which follows the same course of the prior match, even with Jason hitting as many suplexes as possible. Nick just keeps coming back for more until finally he lands a solid superkick that sends Jason's head snapping back, leaving him vulnerable for Nick to grab him and move him into position for a piledriver. Jason squirms out of it and DDTs him once he's recovered sufficiently, but Nick recovers too quickly and superkicks him until Jason is unable to move, twitching but too weak to do anything to save himself from the 450 splash that follows. After the referee counts the three, Jason lays there and stares at the lights before rolling out of the ring and grunts, not sure how to take all of the losses so opposite of their showings so far on Smackdown. As Matt Jackson comes out to celebrate the back to back wins with his brother, Chad sneaks out to check on Jason, who shakes his head glumly and hooks an arm around Chad's shoulder, the two of them leaning on each other as they slowly make their way up the ramp to leave, regroup.