Tuesday, April 17, 2018

SmackDown Live

The show opens with a video recapping Shinsuke Nakamura's recent heel turn.

AJ Styles heads to the ring when the show goes live in the arena. He gets a nice welcome but he is not smiling. He calls Nakamura a con artist and dueling chants break out. He says he won't leave the ring until Nakamura comes out for a confrontation.
Aiden English and Rusev come out on the stage and the former Vaudevillain sings AJ a song. Styles says he will fight Rusev since Nakamura is clearly a coward. Rusev heads to the ring.

AJ Styles vs. Rusev
AJ gets Rusev locked in the Calf Crusher almost immediately and English breaks it up to cause a DQ. Daniel Bryan runs down to make the save and helps AJ clear the ring.

Paige walks into Shane's office and does her best Teddy Long impression when she books Rusev and English vs. Bryan and Styles for the main event.


Shelton Benjamin comes out Benjamin says his inspirational message to Gable on Twitter was because he got hacked. He claims he never needed Gable to succeed, but he does need the respect and championship opportunities he deserves. Randy Orton comes out at first, but then Jeff Hardy's music hits and he runs right past Orton, who looks confused.


Shelton Benjamin vs. Jeff Hardy
Jeff Hardy won

Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville are announced as having been drafted to SmackDown.

Jey Uso vs Luke Harper
Luke Harper won
The Bludgeon Brothers continue their attack after the match.
Naomi runs down and pleads with Harper and Rowan to leave her husband alone. Surprisingly, they listen and leave with their masks and hammers.

Samoa Joe vs. Sin Cara
Samoa Joe won

Joe grabs a mic and says SmackDown seems more like the land of handouts than the land of opportunities. He says nobody is going to have it easy now that he is on the roster and he is going to put all of our favorites to sleep.

A video package for Sanity plays when we return. The NXT stable is going to be great on the blue brand.

Big Cass has a confrontaton with Daniel Bryan backstage.

Carmella heads to the ring for her celebration.
The new women's champion tells everyone chanting for her to shut up and stop jumping on her bandwagon. She brags about beating Charlotte and plays a video package for herself.
Charlotte comes out and says Carmella only won because of the attack by Royce and Kay last week. This brings out The Iconic Duo to call her pathetic.
Royce and Kay do a great job ripping Charlotte apart, but they seem to be friends with Carmella. Charlotte attacks them in the aisle, but they get the better of her while Carmella watches from the ring. Becky Lynch runs down to make the save.

Charlotte and Billie K
Charlotte won
Carmella attacks Charlotte after the match. Kay joins in to keep Becky at bay, but Asuka runs down to even the odds and help clear the ring.

Cesaro and Sheamus announce they are heading to SmackDown.

Andrade "Cien" Almas and Zelina Vega are also heading to SmackDown.


AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan vs. Rusev And Aiden English
Nakamura comes out of nowhere and hits AJ with a low blow on the apron. Then Big Cass appears in the ring and levels Bryan with a boot to the face. Shinsuke taunts Styles at ringside while Big Cass poses in the ring with his fistt in the air.

Renee tries to get a interview with Nakamura about his recent attacks on AJ Styles and still he gives us the same answer that he doesn’t speak English and walks away.

The show ends with Big Cass standing tall over Daniel Bryan with his fist held high.


Rating: 70/70
Pretty great show and matches as we look on to WWE Backlash.

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