La Arquitecta

Chapter 29

Tuesday Night Smackdown – May 8th 2018

Earlier in the show, Stephanie McMahon had added a stipulation to the cage match between AJ Styles and Seth Rollins for the WWE Championship. The winner would be the first person to escape the cage. There would be no pinfalls, no submissions, and no disqualifications. One way or another, there had to be a definite winner. Stephanie had cited the cowardly way that Bayley had retained her Smackdown Women's Championship by deliberately losing by count out the previous week as the reason.

When AJ was able to deliver a top rope superplex to Seth, the first real chance for one of the competitors to win the match was at hand.

"Both men have put so much into this contest, but Styles is crawling for the door," Renee said. "All he's got to do is get out of the cage and touch the floor with both feet, and he will regain the WWE Championship that he never lost."

"Well, he did lose it. Seth Rollins is the WWE Champion," Graves pointed out sarcastically.

"You know very well what I mean," Renee fired back. "Zelina Vega and her cartel stole the title from AJ at Fully Loaded."

"Speaking of Vega," Coach said as she was shown on the screen standing at ringside, in front of the commentary table, looking very concerned with how the match was proceeding inside the cage, where she could do nothing about it other than shout encouragement to Seth. "She looks very worried to me. Styles is halfway to the door."

Seeing what AJ's intention was, the referee went over and opened the door, then stood in perfect position to make the decisive call if Styles managed to touch the floor with his feet.

When AJ made it to the ropes near the door, Seth was only just starting to stir.

"Get up, Seth!" Zelina screamed, frantically grabbing hold of the cage.

It was obvious that Rollins wasn't going to catch AJ in time. Walking around the corner of the ring, Zelina looked towards the door in panic. Her man, her cartel, were about to lose the WWE Championship.

The noise in the crowd rose when Zelina started marching towards the door. They knew she was going to do something, and were trying to warn AJ.

"Watch Vega," Coach said in a warning of his own.

Neither the crowd nor commentator were able to alert Styles to the danger. As he started to climb through the ropes and stuck his head out of the door opening, Zelina grabbed hold of the door itself and slammed it shut as hard as she could.

"Damn it!" Renee yelled as the crowd groaned their disappointment. After a few seconds, they began to vent their anger at Zelina, booing loudly. "Vega just slammed the cage door on AJ's head! He could be out cold!"

"Get away from there!" the referee could be heard shouting at her angrily.

Holding her hands up in a protestation of innocence, Zelina walked back around the ring towards the commentary table.

"Renee, sit down," Graves said, before the audience had a chance to see what was going on.

"What the hell was that?" Renee shouted, still wearing her headset. The shot changed to show the fact that she was on her feet, remonstrating with Zelina as she walked around to that side of the ring. "AJ had Rollins beaten, again! Why can't you just stay out of it, Vega?"

"Renee," Coach said, urging her to calm down.

"Who do you think you're shouting at?" Zelina demanded as she approached the table, reacting heatedly to aggression being shown towards her, especially by a commentator.