As seen on this week’s episode of RAW, The Miz defeated Bronson Reed, Ricochet and Ivar in a Fatal 4-Way match to become the #1 contender for the Intercontinental Championship.
After the match, Ivar attacked Miz and laid him out with a Moonsault. WWE then booked Miz vs. Ivar for next week’s RAW.
During the finish of this match, Ivar was pinning Ricochet and Miz was pinning Bronson at the same time, and the referee was counting the pin for both. However, Ricochet ended up kicking out before the 3 count, which resulted in Miz pinning Bronson and winning the match.
According to the Wrestling Observer, this finish was scheduled to be a double pinfall, which would’ve resulted in Miz vs. Ivar on next week’s RAW being for the #1 contender spot, with the winner going on to Survivor Series to face Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship.
However, Ricochet forgot to follow the plan and ended up kicking out because he got “rocked earlier in the match” (possible concussion), when his head bounced off the mat during a spot.
In an update from the Observer, Ricochet is in concussion protocol right now:
“He doesn’t remember a lot of the match. I think it was Miz talking to him kind of through the match.
The only thing that I saw Miz doing was when they were doing the finish. He was screaming at the ref to count because the ref was supposed to count both of them down and Ricochet was supposed to get pinned. And you can see when the ref gets two, Ricochet kicks out and the ref holds up because he doesn’t know why the guy kicked out.
And then so Miz starts screaming at the ref to just count the f**king pin, so he counts the pin and Miz wins. So it was supposed to be Miz and Ivar actually winning.
Ricochet is all right. But, as far as, like, when he’ll be cleared and all that, it’s concussion protocol.”
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