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WWE SmackDown Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Analysis from November 11
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Credit: WWE.com
History beckoned The Usos Friday nighttime arsenic portion of an occurrence of SmackDown headlined by their defence of the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship.
A triumph and they surely would go the longest-reigning tag squad champions ever successful WWE. To execute that, though, they had to flooded the situation of the erstwhile grounds holders, The New Day.
Were they successful, frankincense continuing their reign atop the part and The Bloodline's dominance implicit the institution arsenic a whole, oregon did Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods bring their rubric reign to a crushing conclusion?
Find retired present with this recap of the November 11 broadcast.
Match Card
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- Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match: The New Day vs. The Usos
- No. 1 Contender's Six-Pack Challenge Match: Shotzi vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Liv Morgan vs. Sonya Deville vs. Xia Li vs. Lacey Evans
- SmackDown World Cup First-Round Match: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Santos Escobar
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day vs. The Usos
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The Usos sought to marque past by becoming the longest-reigning tag squad champions successful WWE past to footwear disconnected Friday's show. In bid to bash so, Jimmy and Jey had to flooded acquainted foes and the holders of the erstwhile record, The New Day's Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods.
Two teams with bonzer in-ring chemistry and a bequest of show-stealing matches, they wrote the latest section successful their historical feud successful a fantastic opener. A red-hot assemblage hung with each precocious spot, near-fall and mendacious finish, elevating the wide prime and rewarding the combatants for their hard work.
The blistery tag from Kingston to Woods, the near-fall disconnected of a treble top-rope splash by the champs and the teased rubric alteration disconnected the Midnight Hour by the challengers had fans connected the borderline of their seats.
Kingston, making 1 past gasp effort to sphere New Day's legacy, leapt disconnected the apical enactment and into the waiting arms of his opponents, who drove him into the mat with the 1-D for the triumph and palmy rubric defense.
This was a fantastic lucifer betwixt 2 teams that are arsenic liable for preserving the creation of tag squad wrestling successful this generation. Others get their owed but it often feels similar we instrumentality The Usos and New Day for granted, possibly due to the fact that of the magnitude of tv clip and vulnerability they person received implicit the years.
With overmuch hype surrounding the contention and an abundance of humanities talk, they roseate to the juncture and delivered different classical successful a agelong enactment of them. This was fantastic, nary hyperbole.
Result
The Usos defeated The New Day to retain
Grade
A+
Top Moments
- Roman Reigns, Solo Sikoa and Paul Heyman were shown watching from the backstage area, the unit connected The Usos to clasp and marque history.
- Michael Cole gave Big E props for his engagement successful New Day's historical tally arsenic champions.
- Jey covered his ears arsenic the fans chanted "Sami," refusing to admit The Honorary Uce.
- Woods exploded into the ringing disconnected a large blistery tag from Kingston.
- Woods kicking retired of the treble splash from the Usos and Jimmy narrowly kicking retired of Midnight Hour were 2 effectual false-finishes that wholly got the assemblage to bite.
SmackDown World Cup Match: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Santos Escobar
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Credit: WWE
The SmackDown World Cup kicked disconnected successful the night's 2nd lucifer arsenic Shinsuke Nakamura battled Legado del Fantasma's Santos Escobar, who was accompanied to the squared ellipse by Cruz Del Toro, Joaquin Wilde and Zelina Vega.
A competitive, backmost and distant gave mode to late-match interference from the heels arsenic the competitors and commentary squad enactment implicit the numbers vantage Escobar and Co. payment from.
They did here, arsenic the distraction caused by Nakamura laying retired Del Toro and Wilde astatine ringside allowed Escobar to retrieve capable and present an avalanche Phantom Driver for the pin-fall victory.
Escobar looked awesome present and Legado del Fantasma continued to found itself arsenic a unit connected SmackDown. Beating Nakamura adds credibility to the faction and sets Escobar up arsenic a imaginable aboriginal favourite successful the World Cup tournament.
With a small much time, and without the pesky commercialized successful the mediate of the match, this astir apt would person been adjacent better. For now, it served its intent successful kicking disconnected the tourney and legitimizing Escobar.
Result
Escobar defeated Nakamura
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Nakamura wiped retired Del Toro and Wilde astatine ringside.
- Escobar's Phantom Driver was adjacent parts unsafe and picture-perfect from the apical rope.
Bray Wyatt Makes a Friend; Six-Pack Challenge No. 1 Contender's Match
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LA Knight joined Megan Morant for a backstage interrogation but was interrupted, archetypal by the Bray Wyatt video bumpers, past the antheral himself. A tense enactment betwixt the 2 gave mode to the erstwhile Universal champion rocking the egotistical bottommost with a headbutt.
This mightiness person felt similar a random archetypal feud for Wyatt, and possibly it was, but this was an intriguing conception that acceptable the signifier for The Eater of Worlds' archetypal foray backmost into the squared circle.
Back successful the arena, Shotzi, Raquel Rodriguez, Liv Morgan, Sonya Deville, Xia Li and Lacey Evans clashed successful a Six-Pack Challenge Match for an accidental to situation Ronda Rousey for the SmackDown Women's Championship.
A sometimes chaotic and chaotic, astatine different times disjointed and ugly, lucifer saw the communicative involving Morgan and Deville continue, and Rodriguez tease immoderate accrued intensity, earlier Shotzi delivered Never Sleep Again for the triumph and pin-fall connected Evans.
Triple H has done immoderate large things arsenic the caput of originative successful WWE, including getting arsenic galore women connected tv arsenic possible, but helium truly needs to absorption connected the SmackDown part and bash a amended occupation of gathering stars and stories.
We person repeatedly seen multi-women matches find the latest No. 1 contender and worse yet, they are usually matches featuring women who person been underwritten and under-served by the originative process.
Shotzi winning is simply a large telephone and, hopefully, is but the commencement of a sustained tally for her. It would person meant much if determination was adjacent a skosh of physique to the triumph oregon accordant on-screen appearances from fractional of the women involved.
Yes, determination are an ample magnitude of moving pieces for him to woody with arsenic the overseer of 5 hours of tv a week but this is 1 country that could usage immoderate attraction truthful that these matches mean more.
Result
Shotzi defeated Deville, Evans, Li, Morgan and Rodriguez
Grade
C
Top Moments
- Morgan and Deville rekindled their rivalry, with the erstwhile dominating the second portion continuing to showcase the burgeoning unhinged broadside of herself.
- "Hi, beauteous girl," Morgan taunted Deville.
- Cole did a coagulated occupation of reminding the assemblage of Shotzi and Rodriguez's caller past of tag squad partners, explaining wherefore they whitethorn beryllium much inclined to assistance each other.
- Rodriguez produced a array from nether the ring. She acceptable Deville up for a powerbomb but Morgan interrupted with a transverse assemblage block. An awkward landing led to a botched spot that near each 3 women down.
- Backstage, Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler confronted Shotzi, the second putting the caller No. 1 contender to sleep.
Bray Wyatt Makes a Friend; Six-Pack Challenge No. 1 Contender's Match
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Credit: WWE
LA Knight joined Megan Morant for a backstage interrogation but was interrupted, archetypal by the Bray Wyatt video bumpers, past the antheral himself. A tense enactment betwixt the 2 gave mode to the erstwhile Universal champion rocking the egotistical bottommost with a headbutt.
This mightiness person felt similar a random archetypal feud for Wyatt, and possibly it was, but this was an intriguing conception that acceptable the signifier for The Eater of Worlds' archetypal foray backmost into the squared circle.
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Back successful the arena, Shotzi, Raquel Rodriguez, Liv Morgan, Sonya Deville, Xia Li and Lacey Evans clashed successful a Six-Pack Challenge Match for an accidental to situation Ronda Rousey for the SmackDown Women's Championship.
A sometimes chaotic and chaotic, astatine different times disjointed and ugly, lucifer saw the communicative involving Morgan and Deville continue, and Rodriguez tease immoderate accrued intensity, earlier Shotzi delivered Never Sleep Again for the triumph and pin-fall connected Evans.
Triple H has done immoderate large things arsenic the caput of originative successful WWE, including getting arsenic galore women connected tv arsenic possible, but helium truly needs to absorption connected the SmackDown part and bash a amended occupation of gathering stars and stories.
We person repeatedly seen multi-women matches find the latest No. 1 contender and worse yet, they are usually matches featuring women who person been underwritten and under-served by the originative process.
Shotzi winning is simply a large telephone and, hopefully, is but the commencement of a sustained tally for her. It would person meant much if determination was adjacent a skosh of physique to the triumph oregon accordant on-screen appearances from fractional of the women involved.
Yes, determination are an ample magnitude of moving pieces for him to woody with arsenic the overseer of 5 hours of tv a week but this is 1 country that could usage immoderate attraction truthful that these matches mean more.
Result
Shotzi defeated Deville, Evans, Li, Morgan and Rodriguez
Grade
C
Top Moments
- Morgan and Deville rekindled their rivalry, with the erstwhile dominating the second portion continuing to showcase the burgeoning unhinged broadside of herself.
- "Hi, beauteous girl," Morgan taunted Deville.
- Cole did a coagulated occupation of reminding the assemblage of Shotzi and Rodriguez's caller past of tag squad partners, explaining wherefore they whitethorn beryllium much inclined to assistance each other.
- Rodriguez produced a array from nether the ring. She acceptable Deville up for a powerbomb but Morgan interrupted with a transverse assemblage block. An awkward landing led to a botched spot that near each 3 women down.
- Backstage, Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler confronted Shotzi, the second putting the caller No. 1 contender to sleep.
SmackDown World Cup Match: Braun Strowman vs. Jinder Mahal
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Braun Strowman followed his triumph implicit Omos astatine Crown Jewel with different awesome win, this clip implicit erstwhile WWE champion Jinder Mahal successful a SmackDown World Cup first-round match.
The Monster Among Monsters overcame an aboriginal onslaught by the bottommost to vessel him implicit and enactment Mahal distant with the Monster Bomb, arsenic called by Wade Barrett.
This was a one-sided beatdown that did much to perchance telegraph Strowman winning the tourney and challenging GUNTHER for the Intercontinental Championship than anything.
He is the biggest prima successful the tract truthful that was already evident but it would person been bully to spot a imaginable twist early, adjacent if putting the ice-cold Mahal implicit Strowman is simply a laughable idea, astatine best.
Result
Strowman defeated Mahal
Grade
C
Top Moments
- Mahal claimed that nary antheral could halt him connected his quest to triumph the SmackDown World Cup. Strowman's entranceway interrupted and the look connected his look sold The Modern-Day Maharaja's fear.
B-Fab vs. Zelina Vega...Or Not
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The advertised lucifer betwixt B-Fab and Zelina Vega arsenic portion of the ongoing feud betwixt Hit Row and Legado del Fantasma ne'er got started arsenic The Viking Raiders made their return, flanked by Sarah Logan.
Erik and Ivar obliterated 5 antheral Superstars portion Vega escaped unscathed. B-Fab, not truthful much.
Logan rocked her with a pop-up headbutt, leaving her lying earlier joining her squad and lasting gangly to adjacent retired the segment.
This was a hellhole of a reintroduction for The Viking Raiders and Logan looked similar a full badass here, presented with haunting caller look and wholly immersing herself successful it. This was amended than thing we person seen retired of this peculiar squad to this constituent successful their WWE run.
With Triple H astatine the helm and seemingly knowing this enactment amended than anyone earlier him, the trio should thrive successful ways it has not been allowed to.
Result
No contest
Grade
A
Top Moments
- Cole feigning disorder arsenic to who Logan was astatine archetypal enactment implicit the alteration successful quality and cognition of the erstwhile Riott Squad member.
The Bloodline Closes SmackDown
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The WWE Universe present has its archetypal sensation of what the men's War Games lucifer volition look similar astatine Survivor Series, acknowledgment to the show-closing conception of Friday's show.
Roman Reigns and The Bloodline deed the ring, undoubtedly to bask successful their accomplishments of the past week, until The Brawling Brutes' Butch and Ridge Holland interrupted. Sheamus returned and Drew McIntyre followed suit arsenic the European contingent battled the apical bottommost faction to adjacent retired the show.
There volition beryllium immoderate who judge the War Games lucifer should diagnostic much stars to warrant its spot connected the Survivor Series paper but the Brutes and McIntyre are uber-over and should warrant a damn bully lucifer against The Bloodline successful the main lawsuit of the yearly premium unrecorded event.
It besides sets up a script wherever Sheamus tin triumph and gain a changeable astatine Reigns astatine Royal Rumble, keeping some men engaged arsenic WWE enters its astir important period.
Grade
A
Top Moments
- "It's not casual being my cousin," Reigns said earlier reminding the satellite however helium has ever been acknowledged and celebrated.
- Sheamus' mic chopped retired connected him a mates of times, starring Reigns to improvise and mock him for not adjacent being capable to get that to work.
- The popular for McIntyre was immense and indicative that his popularity has not waned contempt the nonaccomplishment to Reigns backmost successful September.
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