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WWE SmackDown Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from November 4
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On the eve of the epic brushwood betwixt undisputed WWE cosmopolitan champion Roman Reigns and societal media megastar Logan Paul astatine Crown Jewel, SmackDown deed the Fox airwaves with a title clash of its ain arsenic Rey Mysterio challenged GUNTHER for the intercontinental rubric successful the night's main event.
Would the legendary fig beryllium capable to dethrone the seemingly unbeatable Ring General, oregon would GUNTHER rotation to different palmy rubric defense, his reign of dominance continuing for different week?
Find retired present with this recap of Friday's broadcast.
Match Card
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- Intercontinental Championship Match: Rey Mysterio vs. GUNTHER
- No Disqualification Match: Liv Morgan vs. Sonya Deville
- Ricochet vs. LA Knight
No Disqualification Match: Liv Morgan vs. Sonya Deville
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The weeks-long rivalry betwixt Liv Morgan and Sonya Deville, which has seen the descent into utmost of the erstwhile SmackDown Women's champion, concluded Friday nighttime with a No Disqualification Match.
A hard-hitting lucifer centering connected Morgan's intensifying aggression, it saw the competitors speech power of the bout, with Deville appearing to person the lucifer won pursuing a devastating powerbomb onto alloy chairs.
The resilient Morgan fought done the pain, fought from underneath and scored the triumph with ObLIVion.
A bully lucifer with immoderate awesome limb shots, it highlighted the prima that Morgan has go and proved that Deville is inactive a massively underutilized endowment whose spot successful prominence should not beryllium successful question pursuing her large tally arsenic a bottommost authorization fig a twelvemonth ago.
Result
Morgan defeated Deville
Grade
B-
Top Moments
- Deville rocked Morgan with a hard close manus to commencement the match.
- The erstwhile WWE authoritative utilized a kendo instrumentality to unload connected Morgan, lone for the erstwhile SmackDown Women's champion to instrumentality the favor.
- Morgan enactment herself and Deville done a array heading into the break, a grin connected her face.
- Deville delivered a powerbomb retired of the corner, driving her hostile into a heap of alloy chairs.
Ricochet vs. LA Knight
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LA Knight made his lucifer with Ricochet idiosyncratic early, targeting his opponent's girlfriend, ringing announcer Samantha Irvin earlier the bell. Ricochet took objection and took the combat to the erstwhile Maximum Male Model.
Knight turned the tide heading into the interruption and worked implicit Ricochet, unloading his arsenal connected The One and Only. The babyface absorbed everything thrown astatine him and appeared to beryllium en way to a triumph precocious arsenic helium scaled the ropes.
The bottommost evaded the high-flying assault, reversed a rollup, and scored the tainted triumph via a fistful of tights and ropes.
Take 2 precise bully wrestlers, enactment them successful the ringing with each different and a fewer minutes to enactment with and the effect volition a prime match. This felt much similar the archetypal section successful a rivalry much than conscionable a lucifer for the involvement of having one, which bodes good for some men.
It has been a agelong clip since Ricochet has been progressive successful an existent programme portion Knight moving with idiosyncratic of his caliber is simply a large mode to present the charismatic bottommost to the SmackDown audience.
More of this, please.
Result
Knight defeated Ricochet
Grade
B
Top Moments
- LA Knight insulted Samantha Irvin astatine ringside, taking objection to her instauration of him successful consecutive weeks. Ricochet defended his real-life girlfriend, wiping the loudmouth bottommost retired with a tope suicida.
- Knight smartly grabbed his opponent's foot, halting his momentum.
- Ricochet, rocking pinkish and achromatic gear, took the Bret Hart sternum-first bump into the corner.
- The babyface's lasting shooting prima property earned him lone a two-count.
Bray Wyatt Speaks; The Usos Address The Brawling Brutes
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Backstage, a tormented Bray Wyatt took objection to a stagehand interrupting him and threatened violence.
Back successful the ring, Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions The Usos chopped a promo astir their rubric defence against The Brawling Brutes' Butch and Ridge Holland Saturday astatine Crown Jewel.
The New Day's Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods interrupted and called next, stating their volition to situation for the golden next. The Brutes attacked from retired of obscurity and New Day exited. The accomplishment of Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa gave the heels the numbers vantage arsenic a beatdown ensued.
Despite a comeback effort by Butch, Sikoa enactment an exclamation constituent connected the segment, laying him retired with the Spinning Solo.
This was a smartly constructed conception successful that it gave fans a look astatine things to travel aft Crown Jewel, enactment implicit the tenacity of Butch and the ferocity of Sikoa arsenic the indestructible unit helium has
The Wyatt worldly was large but, arsenic has been the lawsuit since his return, it was much astir planting the seeds for the inevitable revelation of immoderate this incarnation of Wyatt looks like.
Grade
B+
Top Moments
- "I'm not the benignant of idiosyncratic who likes to stock their feelings," Wyatt mused.
- "It makes it adjacent much hard for maine to bash erstwhile radical play with maine similar that. When they effort to interrupt maine erstwhile I'm trying to bash something."
- "All I privation to bash is instrumentality you implicit determination and smash your caput into that airy post!" Wyatt exclaimed, enraged that a signifier manus had chopped him off.
Natalya vs. Shayna Baszler
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SmackDown Women's champion Ronda Rousey accompanied Shayna Baszler to the squared ellipse for her lucifer with Natalya.
Baszler, rediscovering the slayer instinct that Rousey demanded of her a fewer weeks back, tore done The Queen of Harts en way to a submission victory.
This was a large reintroduction to the Baszler fans of the NXT marque knew and loved. She stomped the limb of Natalya, manipulated her joints and choked her out, each portion an approving Rousey watched from ringside.
It was precisely what it needed to beryllium and Baszler volition payment exponentially aft 2 years of mediocrity connected the main roster, acknowledgment to sub-par booking.
Result
Baszler defeated Natalya
Grade
B
Top Moments
- Rousey giddily mocked the fans and egged her person connected arsenic she destroyed a erstwhile communal friend.
Natalya vs. Shayna Baszler; Braun Strowman's Message to Omos
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SmackDown Women's champion Ronda Rousey accompanied Shayna Baszler to the squared ellipse for her lucifer with Natalya.
Baszler, rediscovering the slayer instinct that Rousey demanded of her a fewer weeks back, tore done The Queen of Harts en way to a submission victory.
This was a large reintroduction to the Baszler fans of the NXT marque knew and loved. She stomped the limb of Natalya, manipulated her joints and choked her out, each portion an approving Rousey watched from ringside.
It was precisely what it needed to beryllium and Baszler volition payment exponentially aft 2 years of mediocrity connected the main roster, acknowledgment to sub-par booking.
After the commercialized break, Braun Strowman bowled implicit 5 enhancement stars successful the aisle, past laid retired MVP with a powerslam successful 1 past connection to Omos up of their colossal clash.
It was good for what it was, but hardly a beardown capable conception to drum up involvement for a lucifer lone fans of spectacle volition appreciate.
Result
Baszler defeated Natalya
Grade
B
Top Moments
- Rousey giddily mocked the fans and egged her person connected arsenic she destroyed a erstwhile communal friend.
- A pre-taped promo from Legado del Fantasma promised the feud with Hit Row volition continue.
Intercontinental Championship Match: Rey Mystero vs. GUNTHER
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The much-hyped lucifer betwixt No. 1 contender Rey Mysterio and Intercontinental champion GUNTHER headlined Friday's show.
The Ring General dominated the contention early, overwhelming the aboriginal Hall of Famer with his size and powerfulness advantages. The pesky Mysterio teased a comeback connected respective occasions but the champion chopped him down and continued to enactment him over.
Down the stretch, the all-timer did equine that comeback and came wrong seconds of dethroning the Austrian. Instead, GUNTHER managed to thwart his comeback effort and present a lariat clothesline for the win.
This was a fantastic lucifer that further proved however superb an in-ring endowment the champion is portion reaffirming the greatness of Mysterio. At property 47, helium is having amended matches than wrestlers fractional his property and low-key entering his sanction successful contention for G.O.A.T. status.
These 2 had bonzer in-ring chemistry and a rematch oregon 2 would not beryllium a atrocious thing. For now, GUNTHER continued his reign of dominance, begging the question: who volition beryllium beardown capable to yet instrumentality the rubric distant from him?
Result
GUNTHER defeated Mysterio to retain
Grade
A
Top Moments
- Mysterio delivered a springboard bulldog to instrumentality GUNTHER down and commencement his comeback attempt.
- GUNTHER launched his challenger from the apical enactment similar a ragdoll.
- Mysterio delivered a Code Red for a large near-fall.
- The champion uncorked a shotgun dropkick and powerbomb but could not support his hostile down.
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