Dot Net readers Shawn Kenter and Kristopher Maffey are at the WWE Smackdown taping in Cincinnati, Ohio and are passing along the following report on the taping for the this week’s television show. Refresh the page for their latest combined updates. Attention APP Users: Our mobile website will refresh more frequently than the latest updates than the app will. CLICK HERE to see the very latest updates to this article throughout the show.
Roman Reigns was out to all boos. Kristopher noted that the boos were so loud that he couldn’t even here the promo, which received a lot of “What” chants. Meanwhile, Shawn felt the crowd was split down the middle and noted that Reigns delivered a short promo. Not good. Not his worst…
A Chris Jericho recap video aired… Renee Young interviewed AJ Styles backstage. AJ said the WWE Universe can chant whatever they want (CM Punk joke chant.). Owens walked in and had a back and forth to set up their match….
1. Dolph Ziggler beat The Miz. Ziggler won for the thousandth time. Early chain wrestling and slow holds. This is the same match you’ve seen from them so many times. Dolph won with a superkick at 8:58…
A recap of Ryback challenging Kalisto on Raw was shown. Michael Cole conducted a brief sit-down interview with Kalisto, who accepted Ryback’s challenge to a U.S. Title match at WrestleMania…
An Ambrose video aired of him looking at the city skyline. Big pops from his hometown. He spoke about training to fight for your life. Cincinnati taught him everything. Big hometown promo…
2. Bubba Ray (w/D-Von) beat Goldust. D-Von teased using a table early. Early pound offense by Bubba, who was so loud on trash talk even up in higher seats. Back and forth offense with Bubba mostly on top. Bubba won with a cheap shot and pin at 3:17. R-Truth ran out to get knocked down. The Usos run out and double super kick to clear ring…
Charlotte was out first for the Divas segment. The crowd just wants to woooo. Charlotte asked the challengers to come out. Becky Lynch was out first and said you can count on her to take that title. Sasha Banks came out. Charlotte equated them to the Four Horsemen as the horsewomen. She teased an apology to them, but then apologized to Ric Flair for ever comparing them to horsemen. Sasha and Becky broke down, but then double teamed Charlotte…
WWE will be returning to Cincy for a Raw Sept 26th…
New Day came out with trashbags to call League of Nations hot garbage. Big E, channeling old Hulk Hogan, challenged them to a WrestleMania match. It seems to be a four on three match…
3. Kofi Kingston beat King Barrett. A good singles match with attempted interference from both sides, which led to a brawl at ringside. League’s numbers advantage showed. Barrett was rolled up and pinned at 4:34…
Ambrose was shown at a local pub where he cut another promo about bringing Cincinnati with him to the street fight. I wonder if this will actually make air… A recap of the final segment on Raw aired…
The Social Outcasts came out. They cut their promo sitting on the ring apron facing out. Interesting position. They pointed to the WrestleMania sign, then claimed they will win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royale as a team. They chatter back and forth until Ambrose came out to a huge reaction. He had a kendo stick in hand and beat up all four men.
Ambrose cuts a promo saying Brock Lesnar will be on Smackdown next week. So will he. It was a brief promo to the point and with more hometown love…
4. Kevin Owens defeated AJ Styles in a non-title match. Owens was out first to a decent pop. Styles’ pop was big but half of what Ambrose got. AJ’s pyro is loud. Owens got good heel heat as Cincy is a very pro-babyface crowd usually. Solid match. Styles teased the Styles Clash at one point, but Owens rolled away. Late in the match, Styles attempted a spinning slam from a rack position for two. Owens attempted a top rope brainbuster that was countered. Styles et up for the Phenomenal Forearm, but Chris Jericho came out. The Jericho distraction led to Owens hitting a Popup Powerbomb on Styles for hte win at 9:24. After the match, Jericho gave AJ a Codebreaker. Y2J taunted the AJ chant on mic.
Owens came back to taunt, but Ambrose runs out with cane to attack both heels and save AJ. This was likely a dark segment. AJ hit the Phenomenal Forearm on Jericho, and Ambrose performed Dirty Deeds on Owens to end the show…
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