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The Miz(c) vs Matt Hardy - Intercontinental Championship match
Matt Hardy was the surprise opponent for The Miz' IC title defence. Matt Hardy started off with a roll-up but was unsuccessful.
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After a while, The Miz began taking control, even landing a neckbreaker from the top turnbuckle onto Hardy. The match was fairly slow paced at this point but the crowd in Baltimore was still well behind Matt Hardy, going all out with the "Delete!" chants.
Hardy did eventually hit the side effect, but the champion kicked out in a brilliant near-fall. Makes you realise how underrated The Miz really is.
Following this, Matt Hardy hit a picture-perfect moonsault onto Miz, but it was another near-fall! It's not every day you see Matt Hardy do that. Miz gained a little control after this but Matt got a major advantage when he hit the Twist of Fate. However, the champion rolled out to the apron. When Matt brought him back to the ring, he stunned the tag team legend and hit the skull-crushing finale for the win.
The Miz defeated Matt Hardy to retain the Intercontinental Championship
Backstage, Alexa Bliss congratulated Kurt Angle for being RAW team captain. Alexa said that she could help Angle and asked him to cut some of the dead weight off the RAW roster like Mickie James and replace her with Mae Young Classic talent instead, even joking that they could dig up Mae Young.
Kurt said that he liked the idea of bringing in new talent, but not at the expense of Mickie James. He criticised Alexa for not helping during the siege last week and told her that she'd have to defend the RAW Women's Championship against Mickie James in the main event!
