This week’s Smackdown started as highlights of WrestleMania 38 were shown. Ronda Rousey came out to the arena after the highlights. After a short promo she challenged Charlotte Flair in an I Quit match at WrestleMania Backlash. Smackdown Women’s Champion Charlotte appeared on the big screen and declined to have the match. Ronda said that the match will definitely happen.
Match 1 – Xavier Woods defeated Butch
WWE Smackdown 08.04.2022 Results & Ratings
This was the debut match of Butch and it was booked for around 6 minutes. Butch dominated most Period of the match but Xavier Woods pinned him with a Small Package Hold. Seriously hope they do not bury Butch.
Backstage Sami Zayn was seen standing with Adam Pearce where he was complaining about whatever happened with him WrestleMania. They were standing in front of a door and Sami said that he wanted to face the first person that walked out of the door, Pearce agreed. The person turned out to be Drew McIntyre.
Match 2 – Gunther defeated Joe Alonzo
This is an exciting news that Gunther made his main roster debut today along with Marcel Barthel who is now going by the name of Ludwig Kaiser. Why did not they bring in Fabian Aichner as well? We should have get the whole Imperium. Joe Alonzo was an enhancement talent who was squashed by Gunther in only two minutes. Gunther pinned him with his finisher Power Bomb.
Raquel Gonzalez made her main roster debut on Smackdown as well who was seen backstage being interviewed by Kayla Braxton. She had been rename the as Raquel Rodriguez. Angel and Humberto tried to flirt with her but she ignored them.
Happy Corbin and Madcap Moss came out to the arena. Corbin did not look happy at all but Moss was happy. Corbin blamed Moss for his loss at WrestleMania. At the end they ended up fighting. Corbin attacked Moss first but Moss fought back and delivered a nice beating to Corbin. So this team is over and Moss is now a babyface.
Match 3 – Drew McIntyre defeated Sami Zayn by countout
Sami was beaten down badly by Drew for around 3 minutes. As he was about to hit the Claymore, Sami got out of the ring and escape to the crowd. Referee counted him out.
Lacey Evans appeared on the big screen and a pre taped footage of her got aired. She talked about her childhood and how she went through a lot of difficulties from the very beginning of her life. Michael Cole announced that the story of Lacey Evans continues next week. Lacey sounded quite nervous while talking. So Lacey is coming back to WWE and thankfully, it looks like her previous gimmick will be scrapped and they will give her a new gimmick regarding her Marine persona.
Match 4 – Liv Morgan defeated Sasha Banks
This match was booked for around four and half minutes and it was a good match. No particular wrestler dominated the match but Liv came out with a cheeky victory as she pinned Sasha with Leg Scissors.
The Bloodline came out to the arena. They were supposed to be discussing about the next step. Roman Reigns made it pretty clear that The Usos will now go on to Monday Night RAW to challenge WWE RAW Tag Team champions and they will unify the championships. Another step closer to end the brand split.
Shinsuke Nakamura came out to the arena. He did not say anything at all and just stood face to face with Roman Reigns. Roman reminded what happened to Jimmy Uso when he picked up the knee injury keeping in mind the knee injury of Rick Boogs. He hugged Nakamura for condolences and the Usos nailed him with a Double Superkick. The Bloodline celebrated as this week’s SmackDown went off air.
Overall it was quite good show. It was way better than the show they gave in the name of RAW after WrestleMania. From the shows after WrestleMania fans generally expect returns and debuts. There were both in this show. The only down parts of this show were wasting times with WrestleMania footages, and weak matches. We give it 2.5 stars out of 5.
Sportzwiki Ratings – 2.5/5