WWE News: Spoilers For New Year’s Episode Of Smackdown Live
Dec 31, 2018 at 12:44 PM
Smackdown Live will air on Tuesday Night in a taped format for a second week in a row. Filming of the show is over from the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. John Cena’s return was the highlight of the show where we saw a fresh mixed tag team match. Also, a fatal-5-way main event match was in-store. Here are the spoilers courtesy of wrestlingINC.com,
The New Day opened the New Year’s edition of Smackdown Live. All three of them cut promos about 2019 resolutions. Big E, Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston then declared themselves for the Royal Rumble match.
Samoa Joe competed in a rematch against Jeff Hardy. Joe won the match via the Coquina Clutch and made his way to the Smackdown main event match of the night. It will feature Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Rey Mysterio, Randy Orton, and Mustafa Ali.
A backstage segment took place between Vince McMahon, AJ Styles, and Shane McMahon. Styles threatened Vince to show his real side on Smackdown main event. Vince seemed eager to see the real AJ in this intense confrontation.
WWE United States Champion Rusev and Lana were out to celebrate the championship victory from last week. Shinsuke Nakamura attacked Rusev from the back. Lana tried to prevent Nakamura and got injured in the process. Rusev hit a superkick but ultimately got hit by a Kinshasa to get down.
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Sonya Deville competed in a match against Naomi on Smackdown. Mandy Rose distracted Naomi at the beginning of the match. This allowed Deville to take control who won the match after delivering a spinebuster.
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— Pro Wrestling Sheet (@WrestlingSheet) December 30, 2018
John Cena returned on Smackdown Live issuing an open challenge to anybody from the locker room. Becky Lynch interrupted him saying The Man runs things around here. Andrade “Cien” Almas and Zelina Vega interfered the session with Vega talking trash against Lynch. This set up a mixed tag team match among the four standing in the ring.
Becky Lynch and John Cena teamed up Zelina Vega and Andrade “Cien” Almas. Cena was rolling after hitting the signature moves. But Lynch tossed him out of the ring and locked the dis-arm-her to force Vega tapping out.
The fatal-5-way match was the main event of Smackdown Live. Rey Mysterio hit a 619 on Randy Orton but he could not get the pin since Joe grabbed him from the back. AJ Styles hit a 450 springboard splash on Orton to get the pinfall win. He will now challenge Daniel Bryan at Royal Rumble for the WWE Championship by virtue of this win.