SmackDown Live

SmackDown opens with Kevin Owens in the ring for another episode of The Kevin Owens Show. He welcomes the crowd and talks about WrestleMania 35.

Owens talks about how Orton interfered when Styles was supposed to face Angle in his final SmackDown match. Orton says he is proud of what he did because the match never should have happened. He talks about how he was in the main event of WrestleMania while Styles was wrestling in armories and high school gyms. Styles brings up Orton being suspended for failed drug tests.

Orton says that with Cena going to Hollywood, he's taken the role of corporate bitch. Kevin Owens chooses to leave the ring as the situation becomes volatile. They begin to brawl, and Styles pushes Orton away before going for the Phenomenal forearm. Orton RKO's him mid-air!

The Usos and Aleister Black and Ricochet vs. The Bar and Rusev and Nakamura 

The Usos and Aleister Black and Ricochet won 

After the match, Alexa Bliss is out! 

Alexa Bliss announces that The Usos will be defending the title in a Fatal-4-Way tag team match at WrestleMania against all the teams they shared the ring with.

 

All eight men start brawling immediately. Aleister and Ricochet was the last team standing.

Billie Kay and Peyton Royce are out after the break to talk about the women's tag title match. They talk about all of the different ways they could win the belts.

The Miz heads to the ring after the break and talks about how proud he is of his family. He also talks about how he is going to beat Shane at WrestleMania. He says he is doing it for his father.

 

The Miz vs. Sanity in a 1 on 3 Handicap Match

Shane comes out before the match and makes Greg Hamilton announce him as the best in the world. He says he just wanted to watch the match and calls for the bell.

Shane comes out on the stage and says he forgot to mention this handicap match was Falls Count Anywhere. He also shows a picture of himself attacking The Miz's dad to distract him to Sanity can take control. All three men starts destroying The A-Lister.

 

The Miz won 

Becky Lynch is shown arriving at the arena in a cop car before the break. She makes her way out after WWE plays a video hyping her match against Charlotte and Ronda Rousey. Corey Graves is in the ring to conduct the interview.

 

Becky stands on top of the announce table and talks about the difference between her career now and a year ago. She says it has been a fight to get where she is, but now she is in the main event of WrestleMania.

18 - Person Mixed Team Match

 

Everyone gets in the ring and starts brawling. The ref calls for the bell as everyone starts trying to throw each other out of the ring. Asuka was the last one standing in the ring. 

Samoa Joe vs. Ali

Samoa Joe won

it's time for the WWE Championship contract signing between Daniel Bryan and Kofi Kingston for their match at WrestleMania.

Bryan tries to educate Kofi and the crowd, but the fans just keep chanting KofiMania at him. He gets some cheap heat by saying Baltimore is ignorant. He calls Kingston complacent and says nobody should strive to be like him because he settled for just a little success for 11 years.

Kofi finally stands up and tells Bryan to shut up so he can be educated. He says Bryan doesn't know anything about him. He says he has been watching Bryan since he came to WWE and he hasn't been through what Kofi has been through. It has taken him 11 years to get a singles match for the WWE title and he is not going to waste this opportunity.

SmackDown ends with Kofi signing the contract and declaring he will win the WWE Championship at WrestleMania.

Rating 80/80:

Great show and matches as we get closer to WrestleMania. Don’t forget to join Wrestling101WithKaren for live coverage of WrestleMania. Also, the coverage for WrestleMania Axxess.