AJ Styles returned on his home-city on this week’s Smackdown Live. This was the final night before WWE Crown Jewel PPV. We received the final buildups for the show with a trick or street fight. The United States Championship was on the line. Also, the world cup tournament qualifiers tried to build final momentums. Here are the results from the show hosted by the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
AJ Styles opened the show with fans loudly chanting his name. He had a face-off segment with Daniel Bryan to declare that last week, he intentionally hit Bryan with the Pele Kick. Bryan became furious and could not wait for the due WWE title match. Shane McMahon came to the ring and announced that the Crown Jewel title match will happen right here in Atlanta.
Daniel Bryan received the championship opportunity on Smackdown’s opening contest. He started with some YES kicks but AJ put him away with a Dragon Screw. Bryan came back with an arm-bar converting into the YES lock. But AJ countered with Styles Clash and locked in the Calf Crusher. Bryan had no choice but to tap out giving AJ the win.
Samoa Joe attacked both of them after the match. He specifically targeted the WWE Champion and locked in the Coquina Clutch. AJ looked furious with this and demanded a match against Joe. Shane McMahon booked the match at Crown Jewel PPV event.
The New Day entered Smackdown dressed as the Brood aka Gangrel, Edge, and Christian. The Street Fight was next n the show where Big E was up against Cesaro. E started the match breaking Kenso Sticks on Cesaro. Sheamus interfered the match and dropped E with a big knee. But E came back into the match using the red mist on Cesaro’s eyes. He landed a Big Ending for the win.
Shinsuke Nakamura defended his US Championship against R-Truth. Her MMC partner Carmella was standing at the ringside and they asked for a dance break in between the match. He also mocked Nakamura’s gestures to make the champion angry. He gave e knee into his midsection of Truth followed by another one into the back. Thereafter, a Kinshasa helped her to retain the title on Smackdown.
Becky Lynch appeared on Smackdown Live to cut a promo on Survivor Series. She talked trash about Ronda Rousey and how she likes to rip off arms of people. But all her life she has beaten women like this. On November 18th, she will come up with her own arm-bar to dislocate the arm of Ronda Rousey. A short promo ended the segment.
Jeff Hardy and Rey Mysterio teamed up against The Miz and Randy Orton in the main event of Smackdown Live. Jeff went for the Swanton Bomb early but The Miz pushed him off. Rey entered the match and have a DDT to the Miz. He ducked a big boot and delivered a plash to him. He delivered the 619 on Miz tagging Jeff who connected with the Swanton for the win. Orton landed RKOs on everyone once the match was over.
