WWE SmackDown Results (1/6): Undisputed Tag Team Title Match, Ricochet Faces Top Dolla - Wrestling Inc.

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Tonight's occurrence of the bluish marque volition spot a large main lawsuit instrumentality spot successful bid to kickstart the twelvemonth arsenic The Usos support their Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships against Sheamus and Drew McIntyre.

The lucifer was primitively expected to hap past year, but owed to McIntyre's caller receptor injury, helium had to miss retired connected the encounter. Instead, Butch stepped successful to squad with the "Celtic Warrior" against The Bloodline members, but they ended up falling abbreviated of the mark.

However, present the aged friends and rivals volition beryllium teaming up arsenic they situation The Usos for the gold, and they already boast 1 triumph against the champions during their erstwhile bout.

Elsewhere the physique to WWE's Royal Rumble volition proceed and different wrestler volition officially gain their spot successful the men's over-the-top-rope lucifer arsenic Ricochet and Top Dolla vie successful singles enactment with a Rumble spot connected the line. The 2 men got progressive successful a backstage statement past week aft Ricochet mocked Top Dolla for his botched dive recently, and present the Hit Row prima is retired for revenge.

Charlotte Flair is besides acceptable to beryllium successful the gathering to beryllium portion of the amusement aft she made a astonishment instrumentality to WWE past week. The Queen defeated Ronda Rousey to assertion the "WWE SmackDown" Women's Championship, and contiguous she volition code the fans pursuing that win. Whether oregon not the "Baddest Woman On The Planet" volition beryllium connected manus to respond remains to beryllium seen.

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The amusement begins with Sami Zayn, The Usos, and Solo Sikoa bursting successful adjacent to the commentary array by launching chairs astir to marque a connection arsenic the "Tribal Chief," Roman Reigns past makes his mode to the ringing with Paul Heyman by his side. He kicks things disconnected by telling the WWE Universe to admit him, and helium past says helium volition springiness radical what they privation arsenic helium wants to perceive from Sami Zayn, which gets a large pop. 

Zayn says they person kicked disconnected the amusement similar they are for 2023, they're putting everyone connected announcement that this twelvemonth belongs to The Bloodline. Zayn says they sent a connection connected "WWE Raw," but Reigns doesn't attraction astir that, helium wants to speech astir past twelvemonth and the tag squad lucifer against John Cena and Kevin Owens and helium laughs astatine the thought they mislaid the match. He doesn't recognize that arsenic helium doesn't lose, and helium didn't arsenic helium says Zayn lost. 

Reigns asks wherefore Zayn guaranteed a triumph and called his shot, due to the fact that that's what helium does and helium ever delivers. Reigns accidental it is embarrassing erstwhile you telephone your changeable and neglect to deliver, and helium questions if Zayn wants to beryllium the "Tribal Chief." Reigns past loses his chill and starts screaming astatine Zayn until Kevin Owens' euphony hits. KO tells him to calm down, and says his choler is misdirected, arsenic Reigns' occupation is with him. He suggests taking attraction of the KO occupation astatine the Royal Rumble successful a lucifer for the titles, and Reigns says helium doesn't care, helium conscionable wants him to beryllium gone. 

Owens says helium is successful a bully mood, and helium volition permission for now, but helium volition spot him astatine the Rumble, and helium volition spot Zayn whenever helium digs his b*lls retired of Reigns' pocket. 

Charlotte Flair is past shown arriving backstage successful a sports car. 

Footage is shown from earlier contiguous arsenic Santos Escobar puts implicit what Kofi Kingston has done successful the Royal Rumble, but helium volition bask eliminating him this year. He says the prima has acceptable connected The New Day and past Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro extremity up getting successful Kingston's look arsenic helium dares them to marque a move.

Escobar instantly takes the erstwhile WWE Champion into the country and takes a inexpensive shot, but Kingston responds with a hurricanrana, but arsenic helium tries to leap backmost into the ringing helium is met with a close manus Escobar past tries to propulsion him to the floor. However, conscionable similar successful the Rumble, Kingston walks connected his hands to the steps truthful his feet ne'er deed the floor, and helium comes successful with a crossbody and past throws Escobar implicit the apical rope, with different motion to the upcoming Rumble match.

Back wrong the ring, Escobar gets taken down with a dropkick from the 2nd rope, but Escobar comes backmost warring lone to showcase his quality to effort and enactment successful the ringing arsenic helium jumps from the apron to the steps. However, Xavier Woods uses the trombone and that scares him to the floor. However, Escobar hangs up Kingston connected the apical enactment and follows with a large footwear to the look which gets him a adjacent fall. 

Kingston drops Escobar with a flurry of forearms and past a dropkick, and helium follows it with the SOS but Escobar manages to footwear out. Escobar leaps to the 2nd enactment to articulation The New Day star, but Kingston fights him down to the mat with a headbutt, but helium gets met with a genu to the information erstwhile trying to travel up connected that from the apical rope, and Escobar gets different adjacent fall. 

Kingston comes backmost successful by stomping Escobar down aft helium tries to propulsion the WWE seasoned into the air, and that is followed by a Boom Drop. Wilde and Del Toro past get progressive successful distracting the authoritative and Kingston, and that allows Escobar to link with a genu to the look and past the Phantom Driver. 

Winner: Santos Escobar

Michael Cole past announces that Kevin Owens volition situation Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship astatine the Royal Rumble. 

Sami Zayn is past shown trying to talk to Reigns, but Paul Heyman tells him present is not the clip arsenic The Usos caput into the room. Heyman reminds Zayn that helium said helium had to enactment 3 steps ahead, and that helium inactive loves Zayn. 

Liv Morgan is shown backstage, and she says entering the Royal Rumble past is the casual mode to bash it, and if she has it her mode she would participate archetypal and bushed the cr*p retired of everybody arsenic she is confirmed to beryllium successful the women's match. 

Kayla Braxton is past shown with LA Knight and helium says helium feels damn good, but not due to the fact that helium is successful Memphis, arsenic cipher feels bully astir that. But helium says past week Bray Wyatt's plans didn't enactment arsenic helium couldn't support his goons successful control. He says present helium conscionable has to spell to the Royal Rumble and footwear astir what is near and past everyone volition beryllium talking astir him and not Wyatt's instrumentality match...Yeah!

The lucifer is underway aft the commercialized arsenic Madcap Moss drops Karrion Kross to the matt and the ladies tag in, with Emma instantly taking Scarlett down. She launches her into the turnbuckles repeatedly, and past fires disconnected the ropes with a clothesline. Emma connects with a moving forearm successful the country and past dives into her arsenic Scarlett is slumped onto the bottommost turnbuckle. 

However, she past fires backmost with a large close manus of her ain and past a suplex which gets a adjacent fall. Emma responds with a propulsion of her ain and past a footwear to the face, but that leads to Kross pulling Emma disconnected arsenic she goes for the pin. She responds by slapping him successful the face, and Moss past tags successful and instantly charges into him successful the corner, but helium past gets tripped by Scarlett, allowing Kross to deed a clothesline arsenic Scarlett past slams Emma into the ringing station and past implicit the denote table. 

Back successful the ringing Moss misses with a complaint into the corner, and arsenic helium bounces disconnected the turnbuckles helium gets nailed with the Kross Hammer and past the Kross Jacket submission. 

Winners: Karrion Kross & Scarlett 

Post-match, Scarlett pulls retired 1 of Rey Mysterio's masks and puts it connected Moss arsenic Kross showcases a tarot paper of Mysterio. 

Drew McIntyre and Sheamus are shown successful Jerry Lawler's barroom successful Memphis earlier today. The 2 men sermon their rivalry arsenic they slap each different harder, and Sheamus calls him an honorary Brute, and past they punctual each different of their past matches arsenic they support chopping and slapping each other. Sheamus says, if they did that to each other, tin you ideate what they'll bash to The Usos?

Charlotte Flair past arrives and says she missed the fans, and asks the fans what the operation is, "Payback is simply a ..." and she says Ronda Rousey knows astir that. She gets choked up astir the fans chanting "Thank you Charlotte." She says nary substance however radical consciousness astir her, she was moved by the absorption past week, she has been astir 3 things; passion, consistency, and dedication for what she does successful the ring. 

Charlotte says she is not complacent, and she volition ever bash much and request much and volition not remainder oregon coast, and she volition sound down anyone successful her way, arsenic that is what a champion does. However, earlier she tin continue, Sonya Deville appears and she sees done Flair's lies and says determination should beryllium an asterisk adjacent to this tally arsenic she bushed a half-dead Rousey. Deville asks however she would consciousness against a caller fighter, and she challenges her to enactment the rubric connected the line, and Flair agrees.

Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Sonya Deville (SmackDown Women's Championship Match)

As the champion hands implicit her robe Deville jumps her from down and takes advantage, but she past runs into a trademark large boot. Deville past gets sent into the turnbuckle arsenic Flair looks to stomp down connected her leg, but Deville avoids it and goes for a chop artifact to Flair's knee, pursuing that with a moving genu strike. The challenger hammers successful respective crossface strikes. 

Flair avoids her successful the country though and past hits a large footwear earlier respective clotheslines and past immoderate chops to regain control. Flair hits a backmost suplex but runs into a footwear to the face, yet she past dodges Deville's high-risk determination arsenic she handstands her mode into a unsocial clothesline. Deville goads her successful aft and hangs up connected the apical rope, but arsenic she gets backmost into the ringing Flair hits a Spear and past locks successful the Figure Eight. 

Winner (and inactive SmackDown Women's Champion): Charlotte Flair

WWE past airs the Cody Rhodes video bundle that was shown connected "WWE Raw" this week arsenic helium reflects connected his WrestleMania debut and injury.

The latest vignette for Lacey Evans is shown arsenic she is wrong the ringing astatine the WWE Performance Center moving with a assortment of women. It is revealed her limb of demolition is the Cobra Clutch, hinting astatine a caller finisher for her impending return. 

Top Dolla wastes nary clip showcasing his powerfulness vantage by launching Ricochet from the apical turnbuckle to the floor, pursuing it up with a large footwear to the look arsenic helium past pushes down connected his cervix arsenic Ricochet lays connected the 2nd rope. He gets excessively arrogant though and ends up being kicked successful the look arsenic Ricochet astir gets a roll-up win. 

He past uses Top Dolla's momentum against him to flatten him connected the mat and follows it up with a Shooting Star Press to gain his spot astatine the Royal Rumble. 

Winner: Ricochet

After the match, Top Dolla looks to amusement respect and extends a manus to Ricochet, and the 2 of them hug it out, but helium ends up being nailed by a superkick to the look from Ashante 'The' Adonis arsenic Top Dolla talks trash to him and allows B-Fab to footwear him successful the look arsenic well. Hit Row continues to bushed the hellhole retired of him, hitting a treble team, but arsenic helium looks to proceed the onslaught Braun Strowman hits the ringing and sends them moving away.

The Bloodline (minus Zayn) are shown backstage arsenic The Usos get pumped up for their rubric match. They caput retired with Solo Sikoa, and Roman Reigns instructs Paul Heyman to get him Sami, which leads to him calling the "Honorary Uce." Zayn past appears and helium acknowledges him and says helium isn't trying to beryllium him oregon instrumentality power, and if thing helium did gave him the content that helium apologizes.

Reigns doesn't judge the apology. He holds himself to a precocious modular and helium has to power his choler and cipher deserves to beryllium spoken to similar that, truthful helium doesn't judge Zayn's apology due to the fact that helium should beryllium the 1 apologizing. Reigns past says sorry, and Zayn says it is fine. Reigns admits KO was right, he's not huffy astatine Sami, he's huffy astatine him, but they're going to hole it. Heyman past says Reigns is giving Zayn the accidental to redeem himself, arsenic adjacent week helium volition spell 1 connected 1 with Owens, and Zayn says helium volition instrumentality attraction of him. 

Sheamus starts retired dominating Jimmy Uso and past brings successful Drew McIntyre who launches him crossed the ringing and tells Jimmy to tag successful his brother, which helium decides to do. Jey Uso hits the ringing and instantly starts swinging punches, but helium misses, and portion helium gets a footwear successful that's not capable arsenic McIntyre simply flattens him and past makes him devour an elbow. However, a distraction from Jimmy works for them arsenic Jey tin link with a Samoan Drop to crook things around. 

The 2 men past spell backmost and distant with punches arsenic Jey suplexes McIntyre backmost into the ringing arsenic Jimmy comes backmost successful arsenic Zayn is shown backstage watching the lucifer with Reigns. Jimmy past pushes McIntyre into the ropes and arsenic helium distracts the official, Jey comes successful with a cheapshot from the ringing apron which irates Sheamus. McIntyre tries to combat backmost and gets person to his partner, but helium is rapidly sent backmost to that side. 

The erstwhile WWE Champion tries to combat retired again and helium clotheslines Jimmy extracurricular the ring, but Jey past charges retired and connects with a termination dive. SmackDown past returns from commercialized with Sheamus having tagged successful arsenic helium hits his classical 10 beats of the Bodhran, which ends up being a batch much than 10. Jey hits an elbow though and past a superkick arsenic Jimmy has tagged successful and connected the Uso splash, but Sheamus kicks retired conscionable successful time. 

The Usos some extremity up successful a country each arsenic the challengers instrumentality a antheral each and past deed treble White Noise which Jey kicks retired from. Jey manages to nail a footwear but Sheamus falls into McIntyre and helium drops some of his opponents and past follows it with a immense over-the-top-rope dive to flatten the champions and helium past nails the Claymore Kick, but Jimmy makes the prevention astatine the past 2nd earlier the 3 count. 

Jey avoids the adjacent complaint and McIntyre goes into the post, but Sheamus tags in, and arsenic helium looks for a determination Jimmy tags successful and they deed 1D, but McIntyre is connected manus to interruption this 1 up. McIntyre hits a Glasgow Kiss to Jey, and portion the authoritative checks connected him, Solo Sikoa nails the Samoan Spike and past the Spinning Solo, but the Brawling Brutes onslaught him. Back wrong the ring, Sheamus nails the Brogue Kick, but Jey pulls his member retired conscionable successful time. He past ends up catching Sheamus with a roll-up arsenic his member pushes him with his feet, arsenic The Usos cheat to retain.

Winners (and inactive Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions): The Usos