The focus on last night’s WWE Smackdown was on the condition that Daniel Bryan was in from the attack delivered by Owens and Zayn the past week.
These two’s status on the show was also a major concern needed to be addressed. Also, some matches were announced to hype up the show, two weeks before Wrestlemania. Here are the results from it from the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WWE Smackdown kicked off with a video package focusing on Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn attacking Daniel Bryan. We went live into the arena with Jinder Mahal inside the ring. He announced that Sunil Singh is injured and hence he needs to replace his partner. Rusev turned out to be the one to join Mahal in the tag team opening contest.
Randy Orton attacked an injured Sunil Singh standing at the ringside to level the score in his team’s favour. However, he could not keep the momentum going in his favour since a miscommunication broke out with Bobby Roode. It forced Orton to deliver an RKO on his partner. Rusev delivered a Machka kick to Orton to earn the pinfall win.
After the match, Jinder Mahal congratulated Rusev for the win and invited him to stay at ringside for the US title match at Wrestlemania. Rusev decided to demand a title opportunity in the title match from Daniel Bryan for this win. Becky Lynch defeated Ruby Riott in a singles contest with a roll-up.
Once the contest was over, the members of the Riott Squad tried to deliver a sneak attack on the Irish Lass-kicker. But, Lynch was able to put each one of them over the top rope signaling that she is winning the women’s battle royal. The same was done by Dolph Ziggler, too after he defeated Tyler Breeze, easily in a match. He indicated to win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.
Daniel Bryan appeared on Smackdown Live to address the situation from last week. He announced that Shane McMahon might be good to go at Wrestlemania. Hence, he will team up with Shane to take on against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn at Wrestlemania. The two heels of the blue brand were reinstated on the roster and they might lose their job is they come up short in the match.
The New Day returned to Smackdown cutting a usual fun promo. Later, they squared off against The Bludgeon Brothers in a tag team match. Harper tried to charge in with a Mallet to destroy the unicorns when The Usos made the save from behind. The match got disqualified. The Bludgeons still stood strong with the mallets in hand, as all the other participants retaliated.
In the main event match of Smackdown Live, Nakamura squared off against Shelton Benjamin. He won the match with a Kinshasa despite interference from Chad Gable. After the match, the two heels attacked AJ Styles who was present at the ringside. Nakamura ran down to make the save for his Wrestlemania opponent. He got a chance to hit Styles with Kinshasa but decided to dodge, instead to close the show.