4th December Edition Of The Friday Night Smackdown & Wrestling News
4th December Edition Of The
Friday Night Smackdown & Wrestling News
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The 4th December Edition Of The Friday Night Smackdown show kicked off with kayla braxton introducing roman reigns accompanied by paul heyman and jay uso to the ring where roman eviscerated her for asking stupid questions like are you afraid of kevin owens and are you manipulating jay uso and before you know it out came owens to issue a challenge for tonight's main event which had already been announced as reigns and jay versus owens and otis and then he also challenged roman to a tlc match at tlc for the universal championship I wonder whether he'll accept jay gets himself involved again because he apparently doesn't learn his lesson accepting owens's main event challenge on behalf of roman to which roman tells jay later backstage that there will be consequences.
Bayley vs natalia with bianca
bel-air on commentary which was designed to further the feud between bayley and
bel-air bayley consistently trash-talked bel-air from the ring after hitting
almost every move before natalia came back locked in the sharpshooter and then
bayley just tapped no surprise roll up from bayley taking her eye off the ball she
just tapped I think wwe were trying to tell the story of bayley's focus being
elsewhere so she wasn't up to her usual standard but it didn't work this just
made bayley look worse which means if bianca beats her in this feud she won't
look as good as she could or even worse if she loses she'll be losing to a
loser here's a fun fact bayley hasn't won a match since august what the hell
she had the smackdown women's championship for over a year and carried wwe's
women's division through the performance center era alongside sasha banks and
now it seems like they're trying to do all they can to wipe away her shine she
needs to continue to be treated like a champion even after dropping the belt otherwise
she won't feel like one anymore and any victories over her will feel much less important
than they should.
After the first of three
heartwarming patterson tribute video packages throughout the night there was a
tribute match in his name featuring six former intercontinental champions with the
original 1979 belt at ringside daniel bryan rey mysterio and big e teamed up to
face dolph ziggler shinsuke nakamura and current champion sami zayn and big e has
new music featuring our best friend and former quizzlemania guest wale it's
gonna take some time to get used to biggie not entering to the new day's music
or the now iconic oh insert location here but this is not a bad theme at all plus
he's now got his chalk back that he used to use which I'm all for wait biggie
referenced the five count from nxt last week and now he's got the chalk back
biggie heel turn confirmed the match itself was pretty fun with a lot of
fast-paced action and some cool spots with sami reversing rey's rolling bulldog
into a blue thunderbomb and a brutal looking brain buster though thankfully
this week not on the apron unfortunately sami is once again the man who took
the pin getting rolled up by daniel bryan in an inside cradle and then after
the match the three babyfaces get back into the ring and beat up dolph ziggler
with some major house show vibes this was a nice bit of levity and a lovely
tribute to pat I just wish sami didn't take the pin when there's a perfectly
good dolph and or shinsuke right there.
Kevin owens cut a promo backstage
with kayla braxton featuring a wild encounter with kalisto who came out wearing
a fedora then left I have no idea what that was.
Before sasha banks and carmella had
a sit-down interview and hey guess what guys they actually got some story after
some fairly naturalistic back and forth between the two carmella spoke about
how with half the training she's better than banks banks had to spend her entire
life pouring her blood sweat and tears into becoming a wrestler whereas carmilla
waltzed into the performance center on a whim and skyrocketed to the top this
is actually quite a nice story that fits well with both of their characters and
i'm glad they've actually got some story to play into into their eventual match
at tlc.
The rematch from last week of murphy
vs king corbin with murphy being accompanied by the mysterio family featuring
dominic's best cosplay of a flamingo and after the mysterious randomly started using
heal tactics last week corbin came prepared this week being flanked by wesley
blake and steve cutler wait corbin being flanked by two cronies no no no no no
not again not again it can't be baron corbin's mid-card vortex no it can't be
please help all jokes aside though I am very glad the forgotten sun seems to
have been quietly disbanded and cutler and blake get the opportunity to do
something without being painted with the same brush as jackson riker and they
worked pretty well in this match attacking the mysterio family under corbin's instruction
leading to murphy getting involved and running straight into the end of days for
the corbin win now I know it's corbin with two cronies this could be dreadful
but I'm optimistic about blake and cutler with corbin they seem like a good fit
or at the very least much better than drew mcintyre dolph ziggler bobby roode
or whoever else was part of the mid card vortex before however I do feel like
the story made to introduce them was quite unnatural with the mysterios
randomly changing how they wrestle leading to corbin's retaliation this week.
The street prophets are backstage
cunning a promo on no one before robert rood and cesaro interrupt and they all
squabble and talk over each other and then the segment ends alright cool glad
that meant something
Finally it was time for the main
event of otis and kevin owens vs jay uso and roman reigns except in classic
roman fashion as is consequences for jay getting involved in the opening
segment he didn't show up at the start of the tag match jay had to go it alone
for a little while but when roman did come out he almost immediately destroyed
otis on the outside with the steps and wiped him out of the rest of the match would
that count as a dq are the steps ever considered a dq why aren't they with the
numbers advantage flipped reigns and jay beat down on owens until eventually
owens gets double teamed and jay goes up top for a splash but reigns calls him off
saying he needs to finish this but after owens fires back reigns just gets in locked
in the guillotine and the ref calls for the dq jay uso grabs two chairs and he
and roman beat the hell out of owens with them before reigns then turns and
starts wailing on jay as well reigns then cuts a vicious promo in owens's face
to end the show I really liked all of this and reigns's story continues to be
the highlight of smackdown.
Wrestling News
CM Punk Shoots On NXT
As we all know former wwe champion
and everyone's favorite name to chart cm punk is well known for speaking his mind
on well literally everything especially when he thinks something could be
better his latest target was the entirety of nxt who punk took aimat this past
week in a statement on his twitter his gripe is that part-time wrestler pat mcafee
is in his opinion the best promo on the entire roster and that the rest of the
roster should be embarrassed a lot of it has to do with circumstance but everyone
else on the show should feel embarrassment and subsequently use said feeling to
better themselves at the fact that pat mcafee is a better promo than everyone
on the show punk was asked by a fan what he thinks mcafee's potential ceiling
could be if he were to commit to being a full-time wrestler to which he replied
there's zero reason for him to fully commit to wrestling he's already the best
thing on this show not named rhea ripley well at least he was nice to rhea what
a great guy punk is while punk made a shock return on wwe backstage in november
last year he was never signed to a wwe contract and therefore has no
contractual obligations to be nice about anyone on any of the rosters as he's
shown time and time again seeing punk at nxt confirmed perhaps he'd be nicer if
one of wrestling's top three agents joined wwe because it seems she's not heading
to aew.
AEW Rumor Killer
It's now been nearly six months since
impact released former world champion tessa blanchard and since her release
she's had just one match a losing effort to kylie ray in the warrior wrestling
stadium series in september when her release was announced it seemed like it
was only a matter of time before she was snapped up by someone else the only
question was whether it will be aew or wwe while both promotions have been
rumored to be interested in tessa it seems that aew at least have no intention
of signing her at the moment according to the latest wrestling news while tony
khan and co recognize tessa's talents they've given up on pursuing her for the
time being this may well come as a surprise to some as if aew needs to improve
anything it's arguably it's women's division we'll just have to see if this
gives nxt an easier path to her signature.
Top NXT Star Returning Soon
Speaking of nxt it seems one of the division's
biggest stars could be returning at any second carrion cross won the nxt
championship in august at takeover 30 but was immediately forced to relinquish
the belt after separating his shoulder in the match with keith lee speaking
ahead of tomorrow's nxt takeover war games triple h revealed that cross would
be back any second possibly teasing that he might make his return at war games itself
which would be fun or at the very least the nxt episode afterwards.
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