Intercontinental Title Match: The Miz with Maryse vs. Dolph Ziggler (Champion)
The Miz made his entrance first with Maryse by his side. Highlights of The Miz’s title defence against Dolph Ziggler two months ago were shown. Dolph Ziggler came out next. Maryse seemed to be discussing things with The Miz in the ring before the match began. Both wrestlers get introduced, with Dolph getting unanimously cheered by the crowd.
The two started things off by locking horns in the middle of the ring. After a brief back and forth, Dolph Ziggler rolled The Miz up for a quick pin. The Miz bounced right back into it however, but narrowly avoided a superkick before getting rolled up for another pin attempt once again.
The Miz also avoided a dropkick by Dolph Ziggler and the two men were left staring at each other, back on their feet as we cut to commercials.
Back from commercials, a flying axehandle attempt by the Miz off the top rope got countered by a dropkick from Dolph Ziggler. We were shown a clip of The Miz driving Dolph Ziggler into the barricading with full force during the commercials.
Back to live action, The Miz connected with a neck breaker and proceeded to continue working on the left leg of Dolph Ziggler. Dolph finally managed to kick The Miz away and started to recover from the beatdown as he avoided an ‘Awesome Clothesline’ by The Miz. The Miz’s own leg appeared to be hurt.
A couple of clotheslines by Dolph Ziggler coupled with an Avalanche ended up in a swinging neck breaker and finally culminated in an elbow drop on The Miz.
Dolph Ziggler then locked in a sleeper hold on to the Miz before The Miz got to the ropes to break the hold. A quick pin attempt by Dolph saw The Miz kick out. The Miz then landed a big boot to Ziggler’s face and pinned him, using the ropes for leverage. The referee saw this, however, and ended up reprimanding the Miz for it.
Miz kicked out of another pin attempt by Ziggler after a famouser as we cut to commercials.
Back from the commercials, the two men were trading punches in the middle of the ring. The Miz got the upper hand. He then taunted Daniel Bryan’s Yes! chants and landed a bunch of “Yes kicks” to Dolph Ziggler, to which the crowd replied with resounding “No” chants instead.
The Miz then connected with a Running Knee to the face of Ziggler, it was followed by a Jaw dropping finale connnecting and a Nearfall.
Realising he hadn’t done enough to put Ziggler away, The Miz attempted a Figure-Four Leglock which saw Ziggler make it out of it. Miz got rolled up again by Ziggler. which the Miz kicked out of only to get hit by The Zig Zag instead.
Another pinfall attempt by Ziggler saw Miz put his foot on the bottom rope to break it. Ziggler started going for The Superkick, which was when Kenny and Mikey of The Spirit Squad interfered, which forced Ziggler to superkick them instead.
Miz managed to lock in the figure-four leglock and it seemed like he might have been able to pick up the win but Ziggler made it to the ropes and kicked out.
Miz got rolled up by Ziggler after Miz attempted another Figure-Four leglock but Maryse, being at ringside, pushed them away which resulted in The Miz pinning Ziggler instead. Miz picked up the win AND the Intercontinental championship!
The Miz was jubilant and got congratulated by his wife Maryse and The Spirit Squad at ringside while a distraught Ziggler looked on. The Miz will face Sami Zayn for the title at Survivor Series!
Result: The Miz defeated Dolph Ziggler and is the new Intercontinental Champion
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