In the main event, Seth Rollins defeated Braun Strowman to retain Raw's Universal Championship.

Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode defeated Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman to win the Raw championship, while The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) defeated The New Day's Big E and Xavier Woods to win the SmackDown championship.

[2] A Clash of Champions event did not occur in 2018, as it was replaced by Evolution, but following WrestleMania 34 that year, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive pay-per-views (PPV).

[3] On June 17, 2019, Clash of Champions was reinstated and all WWE titles available to Raw and SmackDown at the time, as well as 205 Live, were defended.

[10] The following week, Rollins and Strowman defeated Gallows and Anderson to win the Raw Tag Team Championship.

[11] Rollins was then scheduled to defend both the Universal and Raw Tag Team championships at Clash of Champions.

On the August 26 episode of Raw, Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler won a Tag Team Turmoil to earn a Raw Tag Team Championship match at the event, while later that same night, Strowman challenged Rollins for the Universal Championship, which Rollins accepted.

[12] At SummerSlam, Becky Lynch defeated Natalya in a submission match to retain the Raw Women's Championship.

[14] During the WWE Championship match at SummerSlam, Randy Orton attempted to target Kofi Kingston's family, who were at ringside.

[13] On the following episode of SmackDown, The New Day (Kingston and SmackDown Tag Team Champions Big E and Xavier Woods) faced the team of Orton and The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) in which the latter won, after which, Orton performed an RKO on all three members of New Day.

Zayn stated that after months of losing matches, he realized that he would be better suited to helping people on SmackDown and introduced his first client, Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura.

[27] On the August 5 episode of Raw, Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross defeated defending champions The IIconics (Peyton Royce and Billie Kay), The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane), and Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to win the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.

[22] On the September 3 episode of SmackDown, Rose and Deville challenged Bliss and Cross for the titles at Clash of Champions.

Bliss claimed that they did not deserve an opportunity, however, Cross accepted a non-title match for that night, which Rose and Deville won.

member AJ Styles for the United States Championship, only for the match to end via disqualification due to interference from fellow O.C.

[32] On the September 3 episode, Lince Dorado defeated Carrillo, thus making it a triple threat match for the title.

[38] The actual pay-per-view began with Universal Champion Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman defending the Raw Tag Team Championship against Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode.

[39] After that, The New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) defended the SmackDown Tag Team Championship against The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder).

In the climax, Dawson and Wilder performed Shatter Machine on Big E outside the ring before doing the same to Woods back inside.

[39] In the fourth match, Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross defended the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship against Fire and Desire (Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville).

During the match, an impromptu 24/7 Championship defense occurred when reigning champion R-Truth ran out to the ring, being chased by several wrestlers.

After resuming the match, Rose and Deville performed a high-low kick combo on Bliss, but Cross broke up the pin.

In the end, as Orton went for the Punt Kick, Kingston dodged and executed a Trouble in Paradise to retain the title.

Early in the match, Rollins performed three Superkicks and a Frog Splash, but Strowman kicked out before the referee began the count.

"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt then appeared and attacked Rollins with a Sister Abigail, and choked him out with the Mandible Claw.

[39] Prior to Clash of Champions, it was rumored that Bray Wyatt would challenge for the Universal Championship at Hell in a Cell.

(United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson) defeated Cedric Alexander and The Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar) in a six-man tag team match.

[37] The following week, during the Viking Raiders' match against Gallows and Anderson (which the former won), Styles was ejected from ringside, and was attacked by Alexander.

Later that night, Bryan cut a promo, stating that regardless if he was a face or a heel, he had never lied and thought of Rowan as his friend and his equal.

Reigns and Bryan then challenged Rowan and Harper to a tag team match at Hell in a Cell, which was made official.