At the end on this segment of Smackdown, they locked Jey’s hands on the ring ropes and forced him to watch his twin brother getting beating down. Jimmy was receiving a very brutal beat down and Jey had to watch it all. Jey tried to get out of it but Solo knocked him out. At the end, Solo put Jimmy through the announce table.
On the next scene, we see Jimmy was being taken to the hospital with Jey running along with the security and doctors. He was taken out by an ambulance with Jey was left behind. Clearly, they are going to give Jimmy an injury angle so that Jey had to take on Roman alone at Summerslam.
WWE SmackDown 07.07.2023 Results Part 2, US Championship, Edge Is Back, AJ Styles Vs. Karrion Kross
Match 1 – WWE United States Championship – Austin Theory defeated Sheamus to retain
This match was booked for six minutes and it received a similar booking to their previous encounter. Sheamus dominated the most part of the match but Pretty Deadly came out to distract him, and they were successful. As Sheamus was being distracted, Theory pinned him with a Roll Up.
Next up on Smackdown was the much awaited segment of the night, The Grayson Waller Effect featuring WWE Hall of Famer Edge as the special guest. Edge reminder everyone that it was his 25th anniversary in WWE. He appeared on SummerSlam 1998 as the mystery partner of Sable against Marc Mero and Jacqueline.
Austin Theory Retains His Us Title
Grayson Waller interrupted him and said that Edge would also announce his retirement tonight. The fans would be seeing him for the last time here tonight. Edge said that he was not going to retire but he was about to have a match tonight and that would be against Grayson Waller.
Match 2 – AJ Styles defeated Karrion Kross
This match had potential but it was booked for less than two minutes and ultimately it was an easy victory for the former two times WWE World Champion. Scarlett attempted to assist Kross from outside but Michin took her out and AJ easily pinned Kross with the Phenomenal Forearm.
Next up they presented the match flow from last week where Charlotte Flair challenged Asuka for the WWE Women’s championship and Bianca Belair got involved into the match and Beat Down both Asuka and Charlotte Flair led the match to disqualification.