WWE BACKLASH: FRANCE
The WWE Backlash: France PLE began with a two fall match for both the World Tag Team & WWE Tag Team Championships. It was a triple threat tag team match that featured both sets of newly crowned champions. The Creed Brothers with Ivy Nile(World) and the Street Profits(WWE) as well as the former champions the Judgment Day represented by the duo of “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio and JD McDonagh. The first fall saw the Creeds retain the World Tag Team Championship by pinning McDonagh with a Clothesline & German Suplex Combo. The second and final fall of the match culminated with Montez Ford pinning Mysterio with a Frog Splash.
Next Bayley(c) put the WWE Women’s Championship on the line against the self proclaimed “Center of the Universe” Tiffany Stratton. It concluded with a retention for the former aka Bayley who moved out of the way of attempted Prettiest Moonsault Ever which resulted in Stratton crashing to the mat. From here the defending champion capitalized on the situation and hit the Rose Plant for the pin.
In the third match of the night the “Annihilator” and current reigning and defending Women’s World Champion, Rhea Ripley(c) stepped into the squared circle with Shanya Baszler. These two women know each other all too well and go back to the end of 2019 where Ripley defeated Baszler to capture the NXT Women’s Championship. In the end the “Queen of Spades” aka the challenger Baszler, would get that win back here. As she trapped her opponent in the Kirifuda Clutch, Ripley passed out in the hold.
After that the penultimate match of the night was a WrestleMania XL rematch of sorts for the World Heavyweight Championship. At the event the then Mr MITB, Damian Priest entered himself into a match for the title between then champion Seth “Freakin” Rollins and Kofi Kingston. He would end up pinning Rollins to win the title for the first time in his career. It was quite clear that despite doing the exact same thing at WrestleMania 31 the now former champion wanted his prize back. Rollins would end up being unsuccessful in this attempt to reclaim the WHC, as he fell victim to a South of Heaven off the top rope.
The show closed out with a six man tag team street fight which pitted the Bloodline against the unlikely trio of WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, the number one contender LA Knight and Randy Orton. Given the stipulation of the main event that it shouldn't’ surprise anyone that the match was both brutal and intense. In the end, Solo Sikoa was able to get the win for his team after a miscommunication between Rhodes and Knight allowed him to pinned the latter.