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WWE SmackDown Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from October 28
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Undisputed WWE Universal champion Roman Reigns returned to tv Friday nighttime connected SmackDown conscionable 8 days earlier a monumental clash with societal media megastar Logan Paul astatine Crown Jewel successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
What did The Tribal Chief person to accidental astir his upcoming defense, and however did helium code the caller dissension wrong The Bloodline betwixt Jey Uso and "Honorary Uce" Sami Zayn?
Find retired with this recap of a amusement that besides featured an unfastened situation from SmackDown Women's champion Ronda Rousey.
Match Card
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- The instrumentality of Roman Reigns
- Open Challenge: Ronda Rousey's SmackDown Women's Championship Defense
- Ridge Holland and Butch vs. Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa
- Hit Row and a Mystery Partner vs. Legado del Fantasma
Brawling Brutes vs. Solo Sikoa and Sami Zayn
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Sami Zayn stressed the value of Roman Reigns seeing The Bloodline's arms raised successful triumph up of his accomplishment to the arena tonight. That started, helium said, with him and Solo Sikoa defeating The Brawling Brute's Butch and Ridge Holland.
With Undisputed WWE Tag Team champions The Usos watching from ringside, it started promisingly, with Sikoa delivering a uranage to Butch connected the ringing apron and seizing power up of the commercialized break.
The dissension wrong The Bloodline proved costly, arsenic has been the lawsuit successful caller weeks, with an statement astatine ringside betwixt Zayn and Jey Uso causing a distraction and allowing Butch and Holland to people a prime win.
After the match, the bickering continued, with Jimmy appearing peculiarly perturbed by everything astir him. This brought retired Reigns, who made his mode to the ringing up of different break.
The lucifer itself was good, but that should not beryllium a astonishment to anyone who has been paying adjacent the slightest attention. Butch and Holland person developed into a prime team, portion Zayn and Sikoa person their ain blossoming chemistry.
The lucifer was story-heavy, with a batch of attraction paid to extracurricular factors, and that whitethorn person wounded the wide quality. With that said, thing present was intended to beryllium a classic. Rather, it was the latest section successful a overmuch much important and overarching storyline that will, hopefully, marque stars of each involved.
Result
Butch and Holland defeated Sikoa and Zayn
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Zayn rallying the troops, lone to beryllium met by varying facial expressions by the genuine uces astir him, volition ne'er not beryllium funny.
- Jey Uso jumping onto the apron, poised to intervene portion inactive not trusting that Zayn tin really correspond The Bloodline efficaciously and triumph the match, was large quality worldly that conscionable reflects the small things helium has been highly bully astatine implicit the past 2 years.
- Jey pulled Zayn retired of harm's way, lone to spark different statement with the Honorary Uce.
Roman Reigns Addressed The Bloodline
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A visibly frustrated Reigns joined The Bloodline successful the ring, undoubtedly acceptable to code the petty in-fighting that had defined the faction of late.
Reigns demanded a solution to the issues gripping the group, to which Zayn enactment his manus retired to Jey successful a motion of solidarity, lone for the tag squad champion to unload weeks of vexation connected his associate.
Reigns warned his relative that if his absorption to Zayn continues, helium volition rename the Honorary Uce "Sami Uso," to which the assemblage popped and Uso looked connected successful disbelief.
Paul Heyman, not 1 to stay silent, threw it to the commercialized break.
This was a fantastic spot of concern that highlighted the personalities of each astatine play and featured immoderate genuine hilarity arsenic much than 1 antheral cracked. The facial expressions, assemblage connection and promo enactment was fantastic, providing the latest section successful a communicative that is easy the champion successful WWE—if not each of pro wrestling.
Grade
A+
Top Moments
- "I privation this occupation fixed, close now!" Reigns said of the issues betwixt Zayn and Jey.
- "I don't cognize what I did to offend you, but I'm sorry," Zayn said earlier offering Jey his hand.
- "How you deliberation you're portion of the Bloodline if you ain't blood? Ain't nary 1 successful this country similar you. I conscionable got the balls to accidental it retired loud," Jey said.
- "I don't springiness a damn what the Tribal Chief said!" Jey said earlier Reigns' caput snapped up and a look of disdain painted his face.
- "What Jey conscionable said was truly messed up, but helium didn't mean it," Zayn said.
- Reigns cracked Jey successful a comic infinitesimal that saw some men, and Zayn, visibly laughing.
- The Tribal Chief warned that if Jey doesn't find his "ucey," he's going to instrumentality the "honorary" portion of Zayn's rubric distant from his nickname.
- "If you don't fig this out...we're conscionable gonna sanction him "Sami Uso," y'all!" The reactions connected Jey and Sami's faces were extraordinary.
New Day vs. Maximum Male Models
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New Day battled Maximum Male Models successful tag squad enactment next.
The match, which was good for what it was, saw Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods people the triumph successful the conflict of the directionless tandems.
Neither squad is doing overmuch of thing absorbing close now, which whitethorn beryllium the biggest indictment connected Triple H's originative process to this point. Somehow, New Day feels stuck, and their originative (or deficiency thereof) is uninspired.
That is somewhat dumbfounding fixed the tremendous personalities astatine play.
Backstage, Sonya Deville chopped a promo connected Liv Morgan, lone for a brawl betwixt them to interruption retired earlier referees and officials separated them.
A prime feud that keeps Morgan astatine the forefront and gives Deville thing to do, this has each worked good to this point.
Result
New Day defeated Maximum Male Models
Grade
C-
Top Moments
- The backstage brawl betwixt Morgan and Deville was entertaining, if thing else.
Open Challenge for the SmackDown Women's Championship: Ronda Rousey vs.
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Ronda Rousey, intelligibly a heel, issued an unfastened situation to anyone successful the women's locker room. Former NXT prima Emma (Tenille Dashwood to Impact and indie fans) made her instrumentality to WWE, acceptable to assertion a rubric that eluded her during her archetypal tally with the company.
Hubris astir proved the champ's downfall arsenic she intelligibly underestimated the challenger and spent excessively overmuch clip taunting the audience, allowing Emma to astir people the upset connected much than 1 occasion.
A well-timed rake to the eyes of her opponent, proving she is not astir arsenic ascendant arsenic she would similar to marque immoderate think, allowed Rousey to people the triumph and clasp her rubric successful a harder-fought lucifer than she expected.
It is bully to spot Emma back, peculiarly aft however poorly her main roster tally was handled. With that said, Triple H is adjacent to moving into a occupation the competitors person implicit connected Wednesday nights successful that determination is truthful overmuch endowment moving astir the women's part close now, and constricted opportunities, that adding different rival to the premix feels similar helium is creating a daunting task for himself.
If anyone tin fig retired the pieces and marque it work, it is him, but close now, it is perfectly acceptable to question wherever the Aussie fits.
Result
Rousey defeated Emma to clasp the title
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Rousey egged connected the jeers, continuing to found her caller bottommost persona.
- "You're each excessively mediocre to adjacent cognize what you're looking at," Rousey said to the WWE faithful.
- Cole noted that Emma's instrumentality comes 4 years, 364 days aft her merchandise from WWE.
- Rousey rocked Emma with a footwear to the midsection past sent her into the alloy steps.
Hit Row and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Legado del Fantasma
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The rivalry betwixt Legado del Fantasma and Hit Row continued Friday arsenic Zelina Vega accompanied Santos Escobar, Cruz del Toro and Joaquin Wilde to the squared ellipse for a lucifer with Ashante Thee Adonis, Top Dolla and a enigma partner, who were accompanied by B-Fab.
That partner? Shinsuke Nakamura, who drew a immense ovation for his reveal.
The heels controlled the bulk of the match, isolating Ashante from his partners. A blistery finish, though, saw the babyfaces people the triumph and summation a measurement of revenge against the NXT exports.
A solid, inoffensive lucifer saw Hit Row payment from the astonishment of Nakamura and guarantee that the heels' dominance was halted, if lone for a week.
Result
Hit Row and Nakamura defeated Legado del Fantasma
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Backstage, Shayna Baszler congratulated Ronda Rousey connected her win, past choked retired Natalya, who claimed she would person beaten Rowdy had she answered the challenge.
- Michael Cole pointed retired that B-Fab was not wearing heels due to the fact that she was expecting to tangle with Vega. It was an observant telephone by Cole that pointed retired the small things that adhd to these segments.
Madcap Moss vs. Karrion Kross
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Just 8 days earlier a day with Drew McIntyre wrong a Steel Cage, Karrion Kross squared disconnected with Madcap Moss Friday night, acceptable to nonstop a connection to The Scottish Warrior and beryllium that helium does not request Scarlett to unafraid a win.
Except, helium perfectly did.
Moss mounted a late-match comeback, a shot of occurrence poised to tally implicit his hostile en way to an upset win. The specified beingness of Scarlett provided a distraction, allowing Kross to present a large boot, Down the Rabbit Hole and people the win.
After the match, Kross vowed that past would repetition itself for McIntyre erstwhile they clashed successful Riyadh. Kross refused to merchandise the Kross Jacket, sapping consciousness from Moss.
The lucifer was good, coagulated wrestling from 2 competitors who embody those adjectives. Moss continues to impressment successful his constricted TV reps astatine this point, portion Kross scored a triumph implicit a Superstar acquainted to his rival up of a lucifer that whitethorn beryllium to beryllium his top trial to date.
Kross decidedly needs a breakthrough show to triumph implicit a main-roster fanbase that is not rather definite what to marque of the erstwhile NXT prima to this point. He should get it successful Riyadh, but if helium does not, questions astir his quality to beryllium the cerebral, unsafe main lawsuit bottommost that Triple H envisions him arsenic volition turn louder.
Result
Kross defeated Moss
Grade
C+
Top Moments
- Cole and Wade Barrett did a large occupation of putting implicit the effect Scarlett has had connected Kross' feud with Drew McIntyre to this point.
- "The lone question has been 'what is his absorption post-split from Corbin,'" Barrett asked, shining a large ol' airy connected thing fans person asked for months.
Bray Wyatt Addressed His Demons
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Bray Wyatt returned for different in-ring promo to adjacent retired the show.
Continuing his candor, helium said that helium likes being unfastened and honorable with fans and adjacent admitted that helium likes that helium is consenting to bash unspeakable things.
His promo was interrupted by the masked idiosyncratic we were momentarily introduced to past week, who is seemingly known arsenic Uncle Howdy. He called Wyatt a liar, claiming helium wears a disguise contempt his claims to the contrary.
The champion happening astir the Wyatt worldly to this constituent is the intrigue it has created among fans. This did much of that, creating much questions than answers and gathering excitement for the adjacent developments.
Another prime adjacent to the show.
Grade
A
Top Moments
- "When you commencement doing that, it makes maine consciousness similar I'm invulnerable," Wyatt said of the fans' adulation.
- "There's nary disguise that I'm hiding behind. There's nary fume and mirrors. It's conscionable maine and you. That's what I privation you to get utilized to. This is conscionable me, Bray Wyatt, the existent man."
- "I americium going to bash immoderate spectacular things portion I'm here."
- "My emotions don't enactment similar astir different people's. I don't ever person control. Sometimes, they tin nonstop maine to a precise acheronian place. Other times, I conscionable don't consciousness thing astatine all."
- "There's a portion of maine that truly likes that I'm consenting to bash immoderate genuinely atrocious things."
- "You're a liar. You accidental you don't deterioration a disguise but we some cognize that isn't true. You'll ne'er beryllium capable to fell from me. Your Uncle Howdy," a mysterious masked fig revealed himself, calling retired Wyatt's evident lie.
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