after wrestlemania 32, ziggler went to a double countout with baron corbin on the april 4 episode of "raw", leading to corbin hitting an "end of days" outside of the ring to ziggler, igniting a feud in the process. at the payback pre-show, ziggler faced baron corbin in a winning effort. the two then had a no disqualification match at extreme rules where corbin won after hitting a low blow on ziggler. following extreme rules, on the may 23 episode of "raw", ziggler had a confrontation backstage with corbin and challenged him to a technical wrestling match the next week. in that match, ziggler intentionally got himself disqualified when he kicked corbin in the groin immediately after the match began. this led to a rubber match at money in the bank, which corbin won to end their feud.