[NOISE] >> Welcome to Ricochet's sanctuary.
The top rope where this man goes to work.
>> Ricochet looking for, roll through.
Gunther back to his feet.
>> Big left boot from Ricochet.
>> Driving Gunther into the corner.
Gunther with a drop kick of his own.
Driving Ricochet across the ring.
Gunther has him where he wants him.
Setting up Ricochet for a Powerbomb.
Stacks him up, cover by Gunther.
Here's the new Intercontinental Champion.
>> Here is your winner and
new Intercontinental Champion, Gunther.
>> One of those first major Championship in WWE,
a very gallant performance by Ricochet tonight.
But in the end, Gunther has arrived in WWE as the new Intercontinental Champion.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Battling out for
the Intercontinental Championship.
Gunther now beginning to punish Shinsuke Nakamura,
now locking Nakamura into a sleeper and Nakamura perhaps could be fading.
>> We are naked from Günther, silencing the universe.
Maybe putting Shinsuke to sleep.
>> Nakamura fading.
>> [NOISE] >> Shinsuke's back.
>> Nakamura, can he somehow break the grip of Gunther?
>> Right arm.
Shinsuke well versed in mixed martial arts.
>> Uh-oh.
>> Good reversal of the rear naked here.
>> And that's the injured right arm that Nakamura is working out of.
Gunther, Gunther though with a drop kick to the back.
Flooring Nakamura again.
Both of these men have left everything on the line in this match for
the Intercontinental Championship.
And there's the Powerbomb, stacking up Nakamura for the champion.
And that's it, Gunther wins a hell of a battle.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Here is your winner and
still the Intercontinental Champion, Gunther.
>> Gunther's down, Sheamus with an opportunity.
>> Absolute bad luck, [CROSSTALK] >> My goodness, wait a minute.
That little ringside here.
>> Fighting on the announce table.
Sheamus is setting up for the Bro kick.
Meanwhile Gunther with the shell that
was headed to her by Kaiser the official never saw it.
Deal with a fight outside the ring Sheamus went for
the pro, Gunther is gonna steal the damn match.
[SOUND]
[MUSIC]
>> Here is your winner and
still winning the WWE Championship, Gunther.
>> Heading up to the top rope with a Frog Splash, nobody home.
Gunther rolls out of harm's way.
>> Just a beat too long for Mysterio.
>> And now a 250 pounder with a massive Drop kick.
>> [NOISE] >> Powerbomb to Mysterio.
Stacks up Rey, and Rey kicks him out.
How the hell is Rey still in this match!
>> NOISE] >> Just
the unfading nature of Rey Mysterio frustration now for Gunther!
>> Gunther cannot believe it.
Rey Mysterio is surviving somehow.
>> [NOISE] >> One absolute classic.
>> And the ring general is about to blow a gasket.
>> [NOISE] >> Mysterio again fighting back.
Gunther with a chop.
And that one chop, look at Rey still fighting.
Gunther into the second rope.
Braun looking for a 6'19 and kicked out of the air with a boot by Gunther.
And the Intercontinental Champion with another clothesline.
Cover on Mysterio, hook to the leg, and it's over.
>> [SOUND] [NOISE]
[MUSIC]
>> Here is your winner and
still the Intercontinental Champion, Gunther.
>> What a performance by Rey Mysterio!
>> [NOISE] >> Goodness,
chopping Ricochet out of mid air.
Powerbomb by Gunther, stacks him up, Ricochet is done.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Ricochet is still in it.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> 15,000 have come unglued in Chicago.
>> Cannot believe what we're seeing, Michael.
>> And here comes the challenger.
>> Ricochet can't even stand up.
>> And Gunther just like that, the cover on Ricochet with the last symphony.
Gunther retains.
>> Here is your winner and
still the Intercontinental Champion, Gunther.
>> My God, Cole.
>> She imprisons the rest of the Perion out to the ring to celebrate with Gunther
who retains the Intercontinental Championship over a very game Ricochet.
>> The challenger is looking for the Monster Bomb and
Gunther went right back to work on the injured shoulder.
>> [NOISE] >> Strowman
still on his feet, runs into a clothesline, does the champion.
>> Braun can barely stand up at this point though, on jelly legs and go through,
but he's got a spring up offense here, it could be over.
>> Shoulder first to the Turnbuckle.
There's the drop kick driving Strowman into the corner.
>> [NOISE] >> Wicked clothesline,
cover by the champion, two retained, hook to the leg on Braun, who kicks at two.
>> Such a powerful lock of that clothesline, that could have split
the diaphragm of Braun Strowman, but now we're going up top.
>> For a Splash by Gunther.
Cover on the challenger for the win.
Strowman kicks out again.
>> What an effort by Braun Strowman!
>> Frustration etched all over the face of Gunther.
He knows he can have beaten any other member of the Roster five times at
this point.
>> [NOISE] >> The champion again,
headed up to the top rope, Braun Strowman's gonna meet him there.
>> [NOISE] >> And again,
big right hand by the challenger.
>> [NOISE] >> That
is a lot of humanity balanced on those ropes, Cole.
>> Yeah, but look at Gunther back to the bad arm,
working on the bad arm again of Strowman.
>> Always thinking, always with a trick up his sleeve.
>> Look.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Now Gunther,
with a 6-8, Strowman up high.
Cover for the win, stocking up Strowman.
Gunther with the victory.
[MUSIC]
>> Here is your winner and
still the Intercontinental Champion, Gunther.
[MUSIC]