Are you ready for a good time? Super Smackdown came at us hot and fast as the road to WrestleMania continues.
Roman Reigns and the Usos kicked off the show with a WrestleMania promo and were interrupted by King Corbin, Roode and Ziggler. King Corbin wanted Reigns to know that he couldn't beat him without the help of the Usos. Corbin thinks he would've been in better shape for the rumble had the Usos not interfered, hard to agree with that.
Corbin demanded the 6 man tag match and the Usos reminded the King of all the super kicks, Superman punches and spears by the big dog Corbin and his lackeys have endured. Corbin attacked low and personal saying the Usos were embarrassing themselves and their family, they were embarrassing the big dog with dog food. That was a terrible moment and the heel work from Corbin is spectacular.
Reigns hopped back on the mic and added a stipulation. The loser of the 6 man main event would eat dog food. The fans were all about it, King Corbin surprisingly accepted. The promo ended with a cart of dog food wheeled out, some great banter to kick the show off. This rivalry is a little stale but the mic work by everyone involved was solid.
Fatal 4 way tag team match
The first match of the night was a fatal four way tag team match. Heavy machinery, the revival, John Morrison with the Miz and lucha house party. Heavy Machinery and Dash Wilder kick off the match and Tucker dominated early on. The tag action was fast and often with Lucha house party getting into the match and delivering high risk moves. The match quickly went to the outside of the ring and Morrison decided to get in the mix taking heavy machinery down.
Otis got back into the ring after all the teams get to their respective corners and he was a human wrecking ball and the shirt came off, Otis was fired up. Morrison attempted to stop the big mans momentum. Otis did a stellar caterpillar on Morrison and the Miz, after the Miz kicked out he was able to get the momentum on his side.
The tag action continued at a fast pace, in and out. The last minute or two of the match was chaos as all the men were tagging in and out, just when it looked like the revival was going to get a win, the Miz landed a skull crushing finale while being tagged by Morrison who was able to roll up Dawson for the win.
Backstage promo with Heavy Machinery. Mandy and Sonya show up. Mandy offers her thanks to Otis for his help in the Royal Rumble match. Otis, with a little confidence from his boy Tucker finally asks Mandy Rose out on a date, next Friday. Mandy shut him down, stating she has plans next Friday, but doesn’t have plans the following Friday which is Valentine’s day! Congratulations Otis!
A video package recaps the excellent strap match between Daniel Bryan and the Fiend at the Royal Rumble. If you missed that, you should watch it, stellar match.
Tag team match
Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross against Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville, the winner could face the Kabuki Warriors for the women’s tag team titles. Fire and desire attacked early before the bell. Sonya and Mandy had quick tags, establishing their game plan and keeping Bliss isolated away from Nikki. The teamwork for those two was fantastic, a big turning point was when Bliss fought her way out of Fire and Desire’s corner, laying both out allowing herself to get a tag.
Nikki came in fired up, taking both Mandy and Sonya out. Nikki dropped Mandy with a neckbreaker, tagging Bliss in and allowing her to hit a twisted bliss on Mandy for the win. Fast, fun tag team match.
Before the next match, some poor soul had to stir the wet dog food by the entrance ramp.
Intercontinental Title Match
The monster among men, Braun Strowman made his way to the ring first. Shinsuke, the Intercontinental Champion made his way to the ring with his posse. Shinsuke started fast, a lot of strikes, sticking and moving. Braun took the momentum away from the artist and Sami didn’t like it, did his best to keep the ref distracted to give Shinsuke time to catch his breath. Sami kept getting his cheap shots in and Shinsuke kept the momentum because of it.
After several minutes, Braun was able to get Shinsuke under his control but the match went outside the ring, Braun put the artist back inside, the champ has an advantage outside the ring. This allowed Shinsuke to get control back. Sami’s presence was felt over and over again as Cesaro snuck into the ring Sami removed the pad over the turnbuckle. When Shinsuke went to throw Braun into the exposed turnbuckle, Braun reversed, bounced Shinsuke off the turnbuckle and ended up getting the pinfall. The monster among men has finally won his first singles title in WWE, quick but very fast paced match. The crowd was all over it, Sami and Cesaro were in a state of shock and disbelief, this could cause some issues in that group, it will be interesting to see where this storyline goes.
There was a backstage promo with Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro. Sami pulled off a great promo while raging and was interrupted by a guitar playing Elias in the center of the ring. Sami requested Elias and everyone to sit down and shut their mouths so he could say his peace. Sami sent Cesaro out to walk with Elias and it didn’t end well for him as Elias was ready and handed Cesaro a quick beatdown.
Royal Rumble Rematch
A video package about Shorty G and Sheamus lead to Sheamus heading to the ring only to be attacked by Shorty G. Sheamus was shocked but when the match started, Sheamus was in charge. Shorty G was able to gather some offense, Sheamus had a hard time with G’s creative offense. Shorty G landed a moonsault but Sheamus was able to kick out, honestly the match looked like it was over. Sheamus reversed and landed an elbow, this caused a momentum shift. Sheamus began to punish Shorty G. After that momentum shift, a brogue kick right to the mouth was all it took, Sheamus by pinfall.
Bayley took to the ring, and the WWE Universe has finally started booing her, much to her pleasure. She called the fans annoying sheep and called out Charlotte Flair saying she knew that she would pick her for her title match. Naomi interrupted Bayley’s call out and the fans erupted.
If looks could kill, the look on Bayley’s face would’ve murdered Naomi. Bayley received a reminder that she hasn’t beat Naomi, and Naomi believes the title could use some glow. Bayley had enough of it and gave Naomi the title….to the face and delivered some quick ground and pound. Naomi got her bearings and kicked Bayley out of the ring, and it looks like we have a new rivalry on Smackdown, and this could be a good one.
6 Man Tag Team Match
This match between Roman Reigns, the Usos vs. King Corbin, Roode and Ziggler was a loser eats dog food match, hilarious. There needs to be more “stipulations” for matches, it adds urgency even if the stipulations are ridiculous, it makes non title matches more meaningful.
Corbin and Jimmy began the match, Roode quickly tagged himself in after Jay got into the mix. Corbin’s thugs kept the match outside and capitalized on any and all cheap shots they could get. Roode was still in control after the commercial break. Roode tagged Ziggler in who missed a splash. He tagged Corbin back in who ran across the ring and attacked Reigns, Jay still in the ring at this time. Team Corbing does not want to eat dog food.
Jay fought his way out of the hole, tagging Reigns who was beyond fired up. Reigns landed a superman punch in the middle of the ring, and went to work on King Corbin. Reigns kicked out of a dramatic 2 and 7/8s count, it was close! Corbin gained the momentum and just decided to attack everyone. Reigns fought back, Roode did a great job distracting the ref allowing Ziggler to super kick Reigns and allowing Corbin to hit a superkick, again a kick out at 2.
The Usos prevented Roode from from handing the scepter to Corbin, the Usos had Roode and Ziggler on the outside allowing Reigns to finish Corbin off with a clean pinfall in the middle of the ring.
Corbin tried to escape, but the Usos were there to cuff the king up as Roode and Ziggler are trapped under the announce table. Roman landed a vicious spear on a handcuffed Corbin, and the Usos delivered the dog food.
King Corbin is doused with dog food and it was an absolute mess, somehow more disgusting than when Reigns was force fed the mush.
The first episode of Smackdown post rumble was a good time. There’s some interesting story lines developing. Mandy and Otis, Reigns should be gearing up to take on the fiend, Sami’s crew could be unraveling in front of our eyes! And Naomi and Bayley? Yes please. Let us know in the comments what you think the most intriguing storylines are right now.