

For the 2012 event, the winner received their choice to challenge for either the WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXVIII. Angle gained the advantage after performing a vertical suplex outside the ring. Shortly after entering the match, Mabel took out Blackman, Severn, Singh, Meanie and Droz, and started a clash with Road Dogg, who was just fresh and took Edge out, having the upper hand. Ziggler won the match after Punk was distracted by Laurinaitis throwing out Vickie Guerrero and Swagger from ringside. Some controversy arose when referee Teddy Long seemed to make the three count as Gangrel rolled the diving X-Pac into a roll-up pin, the champion kicking out too late. Kane dragged Ryder to the ring and performed a Tombstone Piledriver on him. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 05/22/17: Monica 34: FIVE-Ohhh! Deville then officially entered the match and eliminated Cameron, due to her ties with Naomi, who Deville had been feuding with on SmackDown. Angle fell onto the top turnbuckle, and Tazz performed a belly to belly suplex off the turnbuckles. He was in the match for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, beating Edge's 2010 record by 5 minutes and 7 seconds. Results were predetermined by WWF's writers, with storylines produced on their weekly television shows, Raw and SmackDown.
