This week’s Smackdown started as the WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions The Usos came out to the arena and entered the ring for the first match of the night. They said The Street Profits would pay for their mistakes in this match.
Match 1 – The Street Profits defeated The Usos by DQ, Usos retained
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This was definitely a new beginning for the feud for the Tag Team Championship since there was no outcome from this match. Street Profits stood tall after the match.
Next up was an excellent backstage segment including Paul Heyman, Kayla Braxton and Big E.
WWE SmackDown Women’s champion Becky Lynch came out to the arena and entered the ring. Becky welcomed everyone to Smackdown. She said that she did not understand the fact that she had been portrayed as the bad guy after SummerSlam. She addressed Bianca Belair and said she was not good enough to end her title reign.
Bianca Belair came out to the arena. Fans throughout the arena chanted her name. She said that would never mind to take Becky down to get the title which had been a part of her life since she won it. She asked for the title shot tonight. Becky said “No!” and left.
Match 2 – Rick Boogs defeated Dolph Ziggler
The match was short and it was dominated by Rick Boogs. It was not a squash match though. Boogs pinned Ziggler with the Pump Handle Slam.
Match 3 – Cesaro defeated Seth Rollins by DQ
This is quite rare nowadays to see Seth Rollins in action on Smackdown. The match was going well before Rollins intentionally disqualified himself. After the match, he started beating down Cesaro. When he went really extreme Edge came out for the save. Rollins left as Edge entered the ring.
Next up was the KO show with Happy Corbin being the special guest. KO welcomed the fans into the show and then he welcomed Happy Corbin. Corbin came out to the arena and entered the ring. Corbin talked about how much enjoyed his time so far.
Corbin then welcomed his special guest Logan Paul. Logan said that they were all good now and were having a good time together. Kevin insulted both Corbin and Logan. Logan insulted him back as it turned out to be ugly. As Kevin was about to attack Logan, Corbin nailed him with a Chokeslam. So Logan turned heel.
Match 4 – Sami Zayn defeated Dominik Mysterio
The match might have been short but it did a good job to build up and continue the storyline. Sami Zayn pinned Dominik Mysterio with the Helluva Kick.
Match 5 – WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns defeated Finn Balor by Knockout to retain
The match was not very long, it was booked for only ten minutes but in this amout of time it did a lot. There is no doubt in the fact that it was the best match of the night. Roman hit a low blow during a kickout which was confirmed it was intentional. He knocked Balor out with Guillotine Headlock. Roman Reigns as this week’s Smackdown went off air.
Overall it was a very good week where there were a lot of things happening. They tried to cover up all the ongoing feuds and in most cases they were successful. It was quite clear that two hour time is not enough for SmackDown right now. But they did as much as they could. We give it 3.5 stars out 5.
Sportzwiki Ratings – 3.5/5
Next week SmackDown will be taking place at Madison Square Garden where there will be a lot of things going on. Brock Lesnar is coming to SmackDown next week and there will be an official contract signing for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship between the current champion Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair.