Smackdown
WWE Performance Center
April 17, 2020
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Friday Night SmackDown kicks off with an image remembering the late
great Howard Finkel.
A Moment of Bliss
Live at the Performance Center, it’s Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross
starting the show. Alexa says they have a big guest tonight and by
big, they mean monster. She introduces the WWE Universal champion
Braun Strowman.
Out comes Strowman as she congratulates him on his win vs. Goldberg.
Strowman thanks them and congratulates them on beating the Kabuki
Warriors not once but twice. Cross says next week they will
successfully defend their tag team titles. Bliss asks about last
week what happened with Bray Wyatt. She calls Bray cunning, brutal
and psychotic. We take a look at last week’s show where Wyatt
challenged Braun Strowman for the championship.
Back at the Performance Center, Alexa asks him what his response is
to it. Strowman says no one knows Wyatt like he does. It’s true, he
used to be a part of his family but that is a part of his past he is
trying to forget. Wyatt didn’t create him and he doesn’t owe him
anything, especially in apology. He achieved everything on his own.
He knows how Wyatt thinks and works. He calls Wyatt a manipulator.
He’s not playing those games. If Wyatt wants to challenge him, be it
known that if he comes for him and not the title, the only thing is
he going to get are these hands.
Bliss says he bets he will. Strowman asks if that is for him as he
sees a gift wrapped box in the ring. He tells Alexa she didn’t have
to get him a gift. Strowman says he knows her, team little big.
Strowman opens the box and it contains Strowman’s old black sheep
mask he used to wear when part of the Wyatt family. Strowman looks
confused as we hear Wyatt’s laugh. Strowman stands up and looks
around the ring in anger.
We see a picture of Strowman wearing the mask from years ago.
-Commercial Break-
Sasha Banks with Bayley vs. Tamina: Should Tamina win, she
challenges Bayley for the WWE SmackDown women’s championship
The bell rings and we are under way. Banks gives Tamina a Sasha
Banks shirt and says it looks right on her. Tamina says it’s a small
and she wears an extra large. Sasha looks at Bayley as Tamina drops
Sasha down. She lifts Sasha up but Sasha gets into a cover but
Tamina kicks out.
A headbutt by Tamina knocks Sasha down. She gets Sasha on her
shoulders but Sasha lands on the ring apron as Tamina elbows Sasha
down to the outside.
-Commercial Break-
Back from commercial, Sasha with a knee to the face followed by the
double knees. She goes for the cover but Tamina kicks out. Right
hands by Sasha followed by a kick to the face. Sasha goes for the
cover but Tamina kicks out. A sleeper hold by Sasha but Tamina gets
to her feet and slams Sasha into the corner.
Sasha runs towards Tamina as Tamina slams her onto the mat and Sasha
rolls to the outside. Bayley tries to distract Tamina as Sasha takes
advantage and slams Tamina into the ring post. She pushes Tamina
into the steel steps and gets back in the ring. With the referee
distracted, Bayley takes her shoe off but Lacey Evans comes running
down. She takes Bayley out as Sasha goes for a baseball slide,
Tamina moves out of the way and hits her with a super kick.
Tamina throws Sasha back into the ring and hits her with another
super kick. She goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winner: Tamina
Jey Uso is backstage and cuts a promo involving his match against
The Miz and Big E for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team championships.
-Commercial Break-
Lacey Evans is backstage with Charly Caruso. When asked about Sasha
Banks, Evans says Sasha got a taste of her own medicine. After what
she did to her at WrestleMania, where Sasha goes, she goes. Not only
is she a United States marine, she won’t stop until the mission is
complete.
Sheamus vs. Denzel
Sheamus with elbows to the back taking Denzel down. Sheamus with
knees to the side of Denzel’s face. Denzel gets up as Sheamus hits
him with the Brogue Kick. He goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winner: Sheamus
After the match, Sheamus asks Cole if he is serious. He says last
week he was the dominant superstar and before he got in the ring,
Cole spoke about Jeff Hardy. And again, he is talking about Jeff
Hardy. Sheamus says what about him. He says he will not be
disrespected.
We see clips of Jeff Hardy: Chapter 2, the fall
Carmella says Dana Brooke should be focusing on their tag team
championship match next week. Dana says she could beat Naomi tonight
in a Money in the Bank qualifier and be champions next week.
-Commercial Break-
It’s mentioned that the Money in the Bank will be held at WWE
headquarters.
Money in the Bank qualifier: Naomi vs. Dana Brooke
The bell rings and we are under way. Naomi goes for a cover but Dana
kicks out. Brooke goes for a cover herself but Naomi reverses it and
Brooke kicks out. A drop kick by Naomi. She goes for the cover but
Dana kicks out. Both women back up as Dana throws Naomi to the
outside. Dana with a baseball slide takes Naomi back down. Brooke
goes to the outside and throws Naomi back into the ring.
Brooke goes for the cover but Naomi kicks out. A submission by
Brooke but Naomi reverses it into a cover but Brooke kicks out. A
kick to the head by Naomi followed by a springboard knee to the
face. She goes for the cover but Brooke kicks out. Kicks to the face
by Naomi as she runs to the ropes but Brooke catches her and lands a
power bomb. She goes for the cover but Naomi kicks out.
Both women back up and a back elbow by Brooke. She goes for a moon
sault but Naomi gets her knees up. Naomi goes for the Rear View,
Brooke ducks, goes for the cover but Naomi kicks out. Naomi with the
Rear View as she goers for the cover but Brooke kicks out.
Naomi with a moonsault off the top rope but Brooke moves out of the
way. Brooke goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winner: Dana Brooke
We see clips involving the Otis, Mandy Rose, Dolph Ziggler and Sonya
DeVille storyline.
-Commercial Break-
Sonya DeVille comes down to the ring and grabs a microphone. She
tells Mandy she has been trying to get a hold of her for two weeks
and Mandy is not talking to her. She asks Mandy to come out to make
things right. Sonya says she never had someone like her in her life
before. From Tough Enough to NXT to WWE, Mandy even came to her
sister’s wedding with her.
Out comes Mandy Rose to the ring. Mandy tells Sonya she has nothing
to say to her after what she did. Sonya says for the last 5 years,
she spent more time with her than her own family. And to think that
Mandy doesn’t even give her time to explain herself makes her feel
like it meant nothing to her. What Sonya wanted to say was that
Mandy is the most selfish human being she has ever met in her entire
life.
Mandy asks what is she talking about and what does it have to do
with her and Otis. Sonya says it has something to do with the fact
that when she got interested in a man like Otis, she was ready to
kick her aside. Fire and Desire was never about them. Sonya says
they used to come out to Mandy’s music. Trying to share camera time
with her. She says she almost gagged but Mandy must be doing a lot
of that with Otis.
Sonya says she had to keep her focus on Fire and Desire and Dolph
cared about her. Look at Dolph and look at Otis. Yes, she helped
Dolph, oh well. That was in exchange for him helping them as a team.
It could have been them winning the tag titles at WrestleMania and
Mandy ruined it. Sonya says she feels better because now all she
wants to do is to see her hurt. Sonya says Mandy might be pretty but
she’s nothing but a dime a dozen bottled blonde who looks like she
was created in some sort of lab.
She asks if she knows what it feels like to work 5 years of her life
trying to be second best to some eye candy with no talent. She tells
Mandy she knows her better than anyone, like a sister, like a room
mate, like a partner and she will use every ounce of her being to
ruin her life. And then what will happen? Everyone will realize who
the real champ of Fire and Desire, an actual fighter and not a
bitch.
Out comes Dolph Ziggler. He tries to calm Mandy down. He says they
went about this the wrong way. He made a huge mistake. But she can’t
deny what they had or even fake it. He says he will make it up to
her. He asks Mandy to look him in the eye and tell him that she
doesn’t feel anything for him. Ziggler touches her as Mandy tells
him not to and Sonya knocks Mandy down.
Ziggler asks her why she did that and out comes Otis. He gets in the
ring and knocks Ziggler down. Sonya jumps on top of Otis but Mandy
throws her down as Sonya escapes with Dolph. Ziggler gets back in
the ring as Otis knocks him down. Otis lands the caterpillar on
Ziggler.
Michael Cole and Corey Graves speak about Howard Finkel as they air
a video tribute.
-Commercial Break-
The Miz says this must be the greatest injustice in WWE history. He
mentions how John Morrison already defended the titles at
WrestleMania. But now he has to go out and prove why they are the
greatest tag team.
We see video about The Forgotten Sons.
Money in the Bank qualifier: Cesaro with Shinsuke Nakamura vs.
Daniel Bryan with Drew Gulak
The bell rings and we are under way. A shoulder take down by Cesaro.
He walks towards Bryan but Bryan throws him to the outside. A
suicide dive by Bryan as we see the man from a few weeks back in a
black hoodie. We see a clip of The Usos, Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross
and a number of other tag teams. He says some friends keep their
friends close and others keep their friends closer. The truth will
be heard is written on the screen.
-Commercial Break-
Back from commercial, Cesaro and Bryan exchange blows and reversals
in the ring. Bryan with an arm bar but Cesaro rolls out of it and
hits Bryan with a back elbow. Cesaro runs to the ropes and a hip
toss by Bryan turning into an arm bar but Cesaro lifts Bryan up and
drops him onto the mat.
A bodyslam by Cesaro followed by a kick to the back. Cesaro lifts
Bryan up and another bodyslam. He goes for the cover but agian Bryan
kicks out. Bryan gets on the ring apron and slams Cesaro’s arm onto
the ropes. Bryan on the top rope as he goes for a cross body but
Cesaro catches him and slams him onto his knee. He goes for the
cover but Bryan kicks out.
Cesaro with the sharpshooter but Bryan reaches the ropes. Bryan
rolls to the outside of the ring as Cesaro runs towards him and hits
him with a European uppercut.
-Commercial Break-
Back from commercial, both men in the ring. Bryan with an arm bar
take down as Cesaro gets out of it. He lifts Bryan up but Bryan
drops Cesaro and kicks Cesaro’s arm. Bryan with the Yes kicks. He
goes for the last kick but Cesaro blocks it with his left arm. Bryan
with another kick. He goes for the cover but Cesaro kicks out. Bryan
with elbows but Cesaro lifts Bryan up on his shoulders and slams him
neck first into the top turnbuckle. He throws Bryan in the air and
hits him knee to the face.
Cesaro goes for the cover but Bryan kicks out. Cesaro gets the
crossface onto Bryan but Bryan reverses it as he tries to go for the
Yes lock. Cesaro gets out of it and reverses it into a cover but
Bryan reverses that into a cover as Cesaro kicks out. Both men back
up and Cesaro with a clothesline. Cesaro with a few European
uppercuts in the corner. Cesaro sends Bryhan to the corner as Bryan
jumps off the second rope, Cesaro catches him and spins him around
but Bryan drops him and gets him in the Yes lock.
Shinsuke Nakamrua tries to break it up but Gulak dregs Nakamura to
the outside and Cesaro taps out.
Winner: Daniel Bryan
Big E cuts a promo talking about how he will win the WWE SmackDown
tag team championships.
Elias is walking backstage as Baron Corbin knocks him down. He slams
Elias into a production truck. Right hands by Corbin as he drags
Elias away.
-Commercial Break-
Corbin keeps beating up on Elias backstage. He slams Elias into
production equipment. Corbin steps on the left hand of Elias as
Corbin tells him to sing for him. Corbin tells Elias that he is a
king and Elias will bow down to his king. Corbin grabs a guitar and
slams it across the back of Elias and walks away.
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match – The Miz (c) vs. Big E
vs. Jey Uso
The bell rings and we are under way. Miz knocks Jey down and a belly
to belly onto The Miz as Miz falls to the outside. Big E goes to the
outside and throws Miz into the barricade. Big E cleans out the
announce desk. Big E turns around as Jey hits him with the super
kick and Miz kicks Big E. Jey Uso and Miz suplex Big E through the
announce table.
-Commercial Break-
Back from commercial, Jey clothesline Miz to the outside and a
suicide dive takes Big E out. He gets back in the ring and a suicide
dive onto Miz. He throws Miz back into the ring as Jey with a cross
body off the top rope butr Miz kicks out. Big E gets back in the
ring but Jey with a kick to the head takes Big E down. He goes after
Miz as Big E takes Jey down.
A double axe by Miz onto Big E. Miz goes for the Skull Crushing
Finale but Jey Uso with a super kick on Miz and one on Big E. He
goes for the cover but Big E kicks out. Jey goes to grab Miz but Miz
with a roll up as Jey kicks out. A sunset flip by Jey but Miz gets
out as Jey kicks Miz away and The Miz knocks Big E down. The Skull
Crushing Finale by Miz onto Jey but Jey kicks out.
The Miz gets the figure four leg lock onto Jey but Big E breaks it
up. Big E hits The Miz with the Big Ending. He goes for the cover
and gets the pin.
Winners: New WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions, The New Day
We cut to Kofi Kingston at home celebrating. He says in the famous
words of Howard Finkel and New WWE SmackDown Tag Team champions, The
New Day! We see Xavier Woods at home celebrating.