Unforgiven (2017)

October 15, 2017

Background
Unforgiven is a Velocity Pay-Per-View, only showing matches between the Velocity superstars. It is the Pay-Per-View that competes with Heat's Taboo Tuesday, which is in early November.

After the Brand Extension, Ryback started to go on a winning streak, defeating the likes of WWE Tag Team Champion Hunico, Anderson, and Xavier Woods. During the match with Woods, Adam Rose was out at ringside trying to distract Ryback, to no avail. A match was then signed on between the two at Unforgiven.

On the October 3 episode of Heat, Anderson and Jesse defeated The New Day's Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods to gain the opportunity to face Hunico and Stardust for the WWE Tag Team Championships.

Due to Kingston and Woods losing to Anderson and Jesse, the two were punished by having to face the undefeated "The Giant" in a 2-on-1 Handicap Match at Unforgiven. On the October 10 episode of Heat, Kingston and Woods watched as The Giant destroyed Darren Young in a Singles match. After the match, Woods and Kingston entered the ring and delivered a double dropkick to The Giant, knocking him out of the ring.

Due to a lack of tag teams for the tag team division on Velocity, Heath Slater was brought from Heat to Velocity. He was told that if he didn't find a tag partner to tag with in the division, he would be fired from Velocity AND Heat. Slater soon found Vader, and challenged Sheamus and Rusev, another team on Velocity, to a match at Unforgiven, with the latter team accepting.

Cody Rhodes won the Universal Championship after defeating Sami Zayn in the finals of a tournament for the title. Rhodes then went on a winning streak, defeating the likes of Adam Rose, Big E, and Heath Slater for the title on subsequent weeks of Velocity. The fourth week, he was facing Sami Zayn for the title when Rhodes got himself intentionally disqualified during the match. It was then announced that Zayn would face Rhodes for the title at Unforgiven. However, there was a dispute as Zayn was also supposed to challenge John Cena for the United States Championship at the event, after defeating Cena in a non-title match. Rhodes and Cena then faced off on the final week of Velocity, with the loser of the match having to defend their title in a Triple Threat Match against the winner and Zayn. Cena ended up winning the match, meaning that Zayn vs. Rhodes vs. Cena for the Universal Championship at the event.