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00:00The following is a fatal
00:18four way match for the United States Championship.
00:27What an incredible way to kick off Backlash tonight, a fatal four way match for the United States Championship.
00:53Hello again, everybody. At ringside tonight, I'm Michael Cole from Monday Night Raw.
00:57He's Wade Barrett from Friday Night SmackDown.
00:59Our normal partner, Pat McAfee, not here tonight because he has a match with Guthrer later on.
01:04But what a way to kick off the night for the U.S. title.
01:07Yeah, what is likely to be one of the most physical matches of the year.
01:10The championship on the line, packed arena, and they are bellowing out support for the megastar L.A. Knights.
01:18Yeah.
01:18Some tremendous statistics from our Jackie Redman during the countdown show.
01:23L.A. Knights has been extremely successful so far in 2025.
01:29More wins than just about anyone.
01:31Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
01:32Let's go, let's go, let's go.
02:02Next, from Air Scotland, weighing in at 275 pounds, Drew McIntyre!
02:30Drew McIntyre has not held a championship since WrestleMania 40, some near 14 months ago.
02:41The night he won the world heavyweight title, defeating Seth Rollins, only to hold it for
02:45five plus minutes before being cashed in on by one of the men in this matchup tonight,
02:50Damian Priest.
02:51And those 14 months have been the longest of McIntyre's career.
02:57Well, just cast your eyes on Drew McIntyre.
03:01That physique is undeniably fab.
03:04But the grimace on the face tells its story.
03:07Drew McIntyre is livid that he is in a fatal four-way matchup this evening, instead of a
03:13one-on-one match after winning a number one contenders match on SmackDown a couple of weeks ago.
03:20He aims to make these three opponents pay this evening.
03:30Of course, McIntyre yesterday, on SmackDown, did connect with a play more to the jaw of the champ,
03:37Jacob Batu, that could be the pathway to victory, and gold tonight for McIntyre, and a win here,
03:44capturing the United States Championship, will make Drew McIntyre a Grand Slam champ.
04:07From New York City, weighing in at 249 pounds,
04:34Damian Priest is a former United States Champion, would love to win the gold back here tonight.
04:51No one will ever forget, backlash two years ago in Puerto Rico, Damian Priest and Bad Bunny,
04:59one of the most incredible matchups we've seen at this event.
05:02As we celebrate the 20th, backlash here tonight.
05:09Damian Priest has a major point to prove after losing the Sin City Street Fight at WrestleMania 40.
05:16One of his opponents tonight, Drew McIntyre, something the Street King Priest,
05:22wants to make good this evening.
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05:46Cast, rule, count, five, two!
06:09And the opponent, from Sacramento, California,
06:29And the opponent from Sacramento, California, weighing in at 291 pounds, he is the United States Champion, the Samoan Werewolf, Jacob Batuu.
06:54Ladies and gentlemen, the United States Champion, Jacob Batuu, has never been pinned or made to submit since his arrival here at WWE.
07:04The interesting thing about this matchup tonight, Wade, is he doesn't have to be pinned or be submitted in order to lose his United States Championship, because the first man to gain pinball or submission becomes the champion.
07:15Yeah, that's why Drew McIntyre's reaction to this becoming a fatal four-way is a little surprising to me.
07:23I think the pathway to victory for LA Knight, Damian Priest, and indeed the Scottish Terminator McIntyre is that much easier in that they don't have to pin the current champion, a man who may well be unpinnable.
07:38Jacob Batuu staring across the ring at that man, LA Knight.
07:42The man Batuu defeated at WrestleMania in an incredible match for the United States title.
07:47What a shock, McIntyre has a scowl on his face as he makes his way to the ring to officially begin this match for the prestigious United States Championship.
07:58Dozens of WWE Hall of Famers have held this title over the years.
08:03Of course, the very first crowned back in 1974.
08:05Someone who this part of the world knows very well, the late great Harley Race, the first ever United States Champion, an inspiration for many men in the current roster in WWE.
08:19So Wade, strategy tonight for these men in this match.
08:22Avoid the man that the world is chanting the name of right now, Jacob Batuu.
08:33Try and focus all of your energies on softening up one of the other two and stay out of this cold, violent barbarian's way.
08:41And no surprise that the two rivalries have split off to start this match, Fatuu and LA Knight, and of course, McIntyre and Priest.
08:50We talked a lot on the Countdown Show, whether Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest, nearly 14-long, 14-month rivalry with each other,
08:58would possibly cost them in this match tonight.
09:00Immediately vacating the ring and leaving the edge to the jump of the fourth.
09:04Now into the ring.
09:11Priest and LA Knight were tagging together last night.
09:14The second the match ended, they started throwing fists at one another.
09:18All bets are off now, every man for himself.
09:22And LA Knight now, oh, and there's that slingshot.
09:25Shoulder right to the chest of Jacob Batuu.
09:28Oh, and look at two driven into LA Knight's knees and LA Knight.
09:32Focused here in the early going tonight.
09:37Oh, oh, the blocks is the Megastar.
09:39He wants his gold back.
09:50And LA Knight now, oh, DDT.
09:53Lance Damian Priest tonight is so focused here, Wade.
09:56Well, this has been an absolute cakewalk thus far for the Megastar.
10:01But putting one of these men down for the three count is a very tall order this early in a match.
10:06Batuu going for the Samoan drop, but again, LA Knight counters it.
10:10And here's the cover now.
10:11And a kick out by Batuu.
10:13That inverted DDT by LA Knight.
10:16It's been a two-minute highlight reel of LA Knight's ability thus far.
10:20This was not what anyone was anticipating, but you do fear the Megastar may well run out of steam at this kind of pace.
10:28And Damian Priest goes after Jacob Batuu as the champion starts to fight back.
10:32Remember, Knight was embarrassed at the way that he lost at WrestleMania.
10:36It was a great match, but he did not want to lose the title on the grand stage.
10:40Oh, and a big elbow drops Batuu again.
10:41The cohesion between Priest and the Megastar once again.
10:46Only take it so far in a match like this.
10:48A temporary alliance formed here.
10:51Because remember, it's every man for himself when it comes to a fatal four-way.
10:55Batuu driven into the post.
10:57And now LA Knight, just like I said, temporary alliance.
11:01Well, I like the alliance in taking out Jacob Fatou.
11:03Oh, my God.
11:03And a throw by McIntyre.
11:05What an absolute domineering powerhouse.
11:07And Priest landed on the Spinebuster.
11:09Is this the pace you expected?
11:14Neckbreaker!
11:15It's not a pace that can be kept up for long.
11:17Not with the mass of these bodies.
11:19These are four huge competitors.
11:22Neckbreaker to Jacob Fatou.
11:24And after a trio of neckbreakers,
11:26Drew McIntyre is going to wow us with his athleticism into a kippah.
11:30That's a 275-pound man, ladies and gentlemen.
11:34Just an unfair number of gifts bestowed upon Drew McIntyre.
11:38McIntyre looking for a claymore, and he's intercepted by LA Knight.
11:43You talked about it earlier.
11:44The claymore to Fatou last night almost repeated itself here 24 hours later.
11:48Well, we've seen time and time again already in this match the inherent problem of a fatal four-way.
11:53There is always a fresh opponent lurking and waiting to strike when you least expect it.
11:58That step-up kick by Priest, and Fatou now on the top rope.
12:02Damian Priest going to go up high as well.
12:04So agile for a while.
12:05Big man, and a hurricanrana sends Fatou across the rink.
12:08Oh, 6'5 superstar should be capable of moves like that.
12:12And Priest!
12:13Just one wrinkle in the massive playbook of this powerful Puerto Rican.
12:19And now Damian Priest takes out Fatou on the other side.
12:23Off that flatliner, taking out LA Knight.
12:27McIntyre finds his way back into the ring as well.
12:29Priest turns his attention again to the champion.
12:31And a big kick by Priest again.
12:39This cross, Priest, if you remember, this move here.
12:42Old school from the top ropes against McIntyre and Messylvania.
12:45And this turns into a cross body.
12:47The costume this time worked perfectly.
12:50And now a big clothesline turns Fatou inside out.
12:53And Jacob Fatou has got zero momentum so far in this matchup.
12:57The other trio at moments have looked like they're closing in on victory.
13:01And perhaps that facade of invincibility is being chipped away on Fatou
13:08by the other three competitors.
13:10Not at all focus their biggest offense on Jacob Fatou,
13:13perhaps realizing he is the most durable threat in the matchup.
13:17He'll kick by Damian Priest, who now finds himself in control.
13:22I'm impressed because Priest is in control,
13:24and he's not breathing heavy at all this deep into a matchup
13:27from a lot of offense.
13:28Wake up.
13:28Oh, look at this now.
13:29Fatou.
13:29Oh, a drop out of the barricade.
13:33Interesting.
13:33He said that about Priest.
13:34I talked to him earlier today.
13:35He said, ever since WrestleMania has increased his cardio,
13:38he's tightened up the diet,
13:42and I have no interest in being anywhere near this man
13:44because he is completely unhinged.
13:48Here's a man who,
13:49and I've told this story before,
13:51spent a number of times in jail,
13:53got out, had to sleep on a mattress.
13:55He said, I'm never going back there again.
13:56I'm going to become a wrestler.
13:57I'm going to make some money,
13:59and I'm going to destroy people in the process.
14:01I'm going to use that killer instinct that I learned in jail
14:03and take it on on everybody here in WWE.
14:06Oh, God.
14:07We've got two alpha males from opposite sides of the planet
14:10about to square off.
14:12No back down in either one of these men.
14:17McIntyre and Fatou.
14:19All gas, no brakes,
14:20doesn't do you any good when you hit a brick wall.
14:24That's the words of McIntyre.
14:25Quite the moment building here in St. Louis.
14:41Fatou and McIntyre exchanging blows.
14:44Now it's McIntyre is a bit wobbly.
14:58What a headbutt.
15:02By Drew,
15:03and a big shoulder tackle.
15:05Drew McIntyre might be about to get dog walked.
15:09Pop up some and drop.
15:10Yeah, what I mean.
15:12What?
15:14That's what he says.
15:15This guy's a quote machine.
15:17Can you translate that?
15:18I think it means,
15:19do you know what I mean?
15:20Oh, got it.
15:21Oh, into the corner.
15:22Paying homage to, of course, Umaga and Rukisi.
15:26Not the kind of guy I want to have many conversations with,
15:29but like everyone else,
15:30I want to stare on in awe
15:32at the power of Jacob Fatou.
15:35Yeah, I made sure there was a table between us
15:37when I spoke with him earlier.
15:38Got to stay a safe distance away from this man.
15:41And the problem is he can close distance in double quick time.
15:45Indeed, it is an incredible athlete
15:50for his size,
15:51the power and the agility,
15:54the strength and the quickness,
15:57the high impact offensive style.
15:59He's also absorbed more punishment
16:01than anyone else in this matchup.
16:03Yet now, he is firmly in control.
16:06What does that tell you?
16:06Well, he took a little bit too much time there,
16:08and McIntyre right to the eyes.
16:10The official can do nothing,
16:11can remember no disqualification
16:13in a fatal four-way match.
16:15You simply got to go savage
16:17against Jacob Fatou.
16:19Do what you got to do to get it done.
16:21And now LA Knight
16:23across McIntyre.
16:26Stops away at the midsection of McIntyre.
16:29McIntyre is in trouble now.
16:31Will that frenzy of energy
16:33taking over this place?
16:36LA Knight into the corner!
16:40McIntyre
16:40not able to do anything
16:43as LA Knight now heads to the top rope.
16:45Time to go to work on the champ.
16:48Fatou able to knock him away.
16:50With Priest down,
16:51McIntyre tied up.
16:52This is effectively a one-on-one match.
16:54This is where you need to get to
16:55to get victory here.
16:56What the hell is Fatou thinking?
16:58And look at the core strength of McIntyre
17:01as he sends Fatou into Knight!
17:03And Jacob Fatou follows it up!
17:05What an incredible pivot from Jordan
17:07by McIntyre!
17:08And on a suicide dive
17:08and Priest driven into the announce table!
17:12Jacob Fatou
17:13has him on their feet in St. Louis!
17:16This guy is an absolute athletic freak
17:19and he's closing another kill!
17:22Swan caught from the top!
17:26And LA Knight!
17:28Blood force trauma!
17:29Priest!
17:31Priest!
17:32South of heaven!
17:35Prime arm on McIntyre!
17:37All of the mutants!
17:39Priest into the cover!
17:40Priest into the cover!
17:41McIntyre breaks things up!
17:43Priest almost was able to steal it!
17:45Oh God!
17:46Talk about stealing defeat
17:47from the jaws of victory!
17:49McIntyre almost falling
17:51on his own sword there!
17:52This is absolutely incredible!
17:55First part two
17:55with the swan time
17:57but that wasn't it Wade!
17:58Unloading all of the heavy artillery
18:01do not turn your back
18:02do not celebrate
18:03BFT from the Megastar
18:05followed immediately
18:06by a cushion
18:07south of heaven!
18:09And then McIntyre
18:11here in the big one!
18:12All four men are down
18:14it's for the prestigious
18:15United States Championship!
18:19Incredible electricity here!
18:2517,000 plus
18:26in St. Louis!
18:28Two things guaranteed
18:30to win
18:31you need to take
18:31your body to places
18:33your opponents won't
18:34and secondly
18:36all four of these men
18:37are going to need
18:37major medical intervention
18:40when this one is over!
18:41Well maybe not Fatou
18:42who's back to his feet
18:43and shaking
18:43and juking
18:44and driving
18:44and now
18:46oh!
18:47McIntyre caught him
18:48and now Drew
18:50looking at the future shot
18:51DDT!
18:52About that medical attention call!
18:55And Fatou now
18:56rolls out to the apron
18:57LA Knight able to counter
18:59look for the BFT
19:00LA Knight
19:01got caught up with Fatou
19:03rolled out of the ring
19:04and now McIntyre
19:05after shock again!
19:06As soon as a future shock again
19:08by McIntyre
19:09Kip up now by Drew
19:10and we're all feeling
19:13the aftershocks
19:13of the level of impacts
19:15these competitors
19:16are absorbing
19:17Drew's cooking
19:18something up here
19:19like a tightly coiled
19:223, 2, 1
19:25Climb on!
19:28Drew McIntyre
19:29into the cover
19:30hooks the leg
19:32and Priest
19:34Priest pulled the rep
19:35out before a three count
19:36Rep can't do anything
19:39no disqualification
19:40and once again
19:42Damian Priest
19:43has screwed
19:44Drew McIntyre
19:45out of a championship!
19:47Perfectly legal
19:48but incredibly
19:49underhanded
19:50Priest just
19:52haunting the career
19:53of Drew McIntyre!
19:54But again
19:55Wade we talked about
19:56this earlier tonight
19:57with this
19:57this awesome animosity
19:59between these two men
20:01spill out
20:01and cost them the match
20:02Priest just
20:03cost McIntyre
20:04a title again!
20:06Meanwhile
20:06Fatou back into the ring
20:07and this has just
20:08played into the hands
20:10of Jacob Fatou
20:11and potentially
20:12L.A. Knight
20:13maybe to Fatou
20:15because he's just
20:16delivering headbutt
20:17after headbutt
20:18tonight
20:19and this
20:20Roland Tenson
20:21is turned into
20:22a one-on-one matchup
20:25because McIntyre
20:26and Priest are down
20:27in the timekeepers area
20:28quick and the moonsault
20:29Knight rolled out
20:30of harm's way
20:30now it's L.A. Knight's
20:32turn!
20:32It's the moonsault
20:33that has taken
20:34everyone out
20:35L.A. Knight
20:36just getting away
20:37in the neck of time
20:37what does everybody want?
20:40L.A. Knight!
20:41L.A. Knight!
20:41L.A. Knight!
20:42L.A. Knight!
20:42On the top rope
20:43big elbow
20:44down goes the champ
20:45L.A. Knight now
20:49top rope again
20:50delivers the elbow
20:51to the heart of Fatou
20:52Knight into the cover
20:53to retain
20:54I should say
20:54regain his championship
20:56and it's not
20:57a two and a half
20:58so small
20:59of a mega star
21:00you have to stack
21:01offense against
21:02something
21:03wait a second
21:03meanwhile
21:04the fight between
21:05McIntyre and Priest
21:06has now spilled out
21:07onto the floor seats
21:09of the WWE fans here
21:11McIntyre
21:12he's bored at work
21:13he's bored at work
21:14equipment case
21:16and now
21:16talking trash
21:17to the camera
21:17well you certainly
21:18can't win a match
21:19all the way out there
21:20these two completely
21:21focused on one another
21:23and not victory
21:24at this point
21:25it seems
21:25the hell are they going
21:27now
21:27McIntyre
21:28and Priest
21:28up
21:29up in that area
21:31for where our audio
21:32and our video
21:33equipment are all
21:34stored
21:34those massive
21:36massive crates
21:37nothing positive
21:38ever happens
21:39from this position
21:40and now up top
21:42McIntyre
21:43looking to take
21:44Priest out
21:44of the entire
21:45equation
21:46that was a long
21:47old drop goal
21:48Priest now
21:53breaking the eyeballs
21:54of McIntyre
21:55little payback
21:56and again
22:01the rage
22:03the disdain
22:05between these two
22:06coming to a
22:06boiling point
22:07tonight
22:08Priest
22:08lifting
22:09McIntyre
22:10up south
22:10of heaven
22:11and chokeslam
22:12all the way
22:13to the floor
22:14my god
22:15that was a
22:16kamikaze
22:17south of heaven
22:18taking out
22:19McIntyre
22:20but at what cost
22:21McIntyre's down
22:28Priest is down
22:30LA Knight
22:31and Fatou
22:32are down
22:32at ringside
22:33as we take
22:33another look
22:34watch this
22:35impact wave
22:36oh my god
22:36a standard
22:37south of heaven
22:38is bad enough
22:38but with the
22:39elevated height
22:40crossing through
22:41their table
22:42both men
22:43may well be
22:45right out
22:46by this
22:46such as their
22:47level of hatred
22:48for one another
22:48again we speculated
22:51about this earlier
22:52would it affect
22:52these two men
22:53in this match
22:54and apparently
22:54it has
22:55Wade
22:55well medical
22:56staff have
22:56understandably
22:57sprinted out
22:58here that may
22:59have been
23:00an error
23:01from Damian
23:02Priest who
23:03saw the red
23:04rag before
23:04his eyes
23:05the mist
23:07descended
23:07and there is
23:09now a somber
23:10chill in the
23:11air as these
23:11two men are
23:12in great danger
23:13and again
23:14remember Wade
23:14there are no
23:14countouts
23:15there are no
23:15disqualifications
23:16this matchup
23:17ends only with
23:17pinfall
23:18or submission
23:19so LA Knight
23:20realizing that
23:20trying to take
23:21advantage
23:22as he sends
23:23the champ
23:23Fatou
23:24into the
23:24ring post
23:25well I'm
23:25completely
23:26writing off
23:27McIntyre
23:28and Priest
23:29oh god
23:29at this point
23:30this is a
23:31one-on-one
23:31match
23:31and it's
23:32getting really
23:32really ugly
23:33and now Fatou
23:34on our announce
23:35table
23:36the hood of the
23:37announce table
23:37compression into
23:38our laps
23:39and now
23:39using the
23:40front of the
23:41announce table
23:41as a weapon
23:42to Fatou
23:43Jacob Daup
23:45coach on the
23:46announce table
23:47here
23:47well the referees
23:48completely
23:49unable to prevent
23:51any of this
23:52carnage going on
23:53match continues
23:55LA Knight
23:57LA Knight
23:58now
23:58right headed
24:00up to
24:00the second
24:01rope
24:02and look
24:03who's here
24:04Solo
24:05Sokoa
24:06pulling
24:07Jacob
24:08Fatou
24:09off the
24:09announce table
24:10and maybe
24:12saving his
24:12championship
24:13pays to have
24:16backup in this
24:17game and
24:18LA Knight
24:18just knew
24:19that his
24:19chance of
24:20victory
24:20went begging
24:21look out
24:25who the
24:27hell
24:28oh my
24:30god
24:30wait
24:31wait
24:32that's one of
24:32the biggest
24:32free agents
24:33on the
24:33planet
24:34oh my
24:34god
24:35that's
24:35Jeff Cobb
24:36assaulting
24:39LA Knight
24:40sending him
24:41into the
24:41to the
24:42post
24:42apparently
24:43doing
24:43so long
24:44Sokoa's
24:45dirty work
24:45for him
24:46well
24:46LA Knight
24:48completely
24:49blindsided
24:50has absolutely
24:51no idea
24:52what hit him
24:53or who
24:54hit him
24:55this guy
24:56is just
24:56a ball
24:57of muscle
24:58and menace
24:58he just
25:00crushed Knight's
25:01spine
25:01against the
25:02ring post
25:02and now
25:04sends Knight
25:05back into
25:05the ring
25:06Fatou now
25:07coming to
25:09that
25:10ringside
25:11he looks
25:18as confused
25:18as we
25:19are
25:19well the damage
25:41has been done
25:42by that
25:43man
25:43and now
25:44Jacob
25:44Fatou is
25:45going to
25:45continue
25:46the assault
25:47on a
25:47now defenseless
25:49LA Knight
25:49again
25:50Wade
25:50Fatou looks
25:51as perplexed
25:52as the rest
25:53of us
25:53whatever the deal
25:54Solis
25:55and Cole
25:55has struck
25:56here
25:56Fatou
25:58apparently
25:58had no clue
26:00and Fatou
26:03retains
26:04the United
26:05States
26:06Championship
26:07here is
26:08here is your
26:08winner
26:09and still
26:11the United
26:12States
26:13Champion
26:15the Samoan
26:17Werewolf
26:18Jacob
26:19Batou
26:22he said
26:24don't look
26:25a gift
26:25horse in
26:26the mouth
26:26Batou
26:27retains
26:28thanks to
26:29that
26:29intervention
26:30but
26:30it does
26:31not appear
26:32that
26:32Jacob
26:32Batou
26:33wanted
26:33any
26:33gift
26:34or
26:35any
26:35help
26:35whatsoever
26:36Jacob
26:40Batou
26:41wins
26:42the
26:42fatal
26:42four-way
26:43match
26:43for the
26:44United
26:45States
26:45Championship
26:46Wade
26:47remember
26:47what
26:48Solo
26:48Sokoa
26:49said
26:50last night
26:50on Smackdown
26:51he said
26:52I'm out
26:52of soldiers
26:53you gotta
26:55wonder
26:55is this
26:56man
26:57his
26:58newest
26:58soldier
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