Smackdown Live celebrates it 1000th episode. 19 years in the making, past legends arrive, and the World Cup tournament progresses. What surprises happen? Who showed up? Who advanced in the World Cup Tournament? Let’s dive in to this once in a lifetime episode of Smackdown Live!
19 years of montage. Truth Tv opens up with a dance party. Opponents for the WWE Title team up.
The beginning.
SDL starts off with a great montage of the 19 years it has been on. It showed key moments of the Smackdown show. Then it was time to start the historic show with Truth TV! R-Truth and Carmella have a short segment in which they ended up Flossing. Then Billion dollar princess makes her way in. Stephanie McMahon arrives, then starts to promote the special night. Then the risk taker of the McMahon family music hits, Shane McMahon! Mr Money gets into the ring and ask Steph to stop looking down on this show, as it is the true “A show” between Raw and Smackdown. The two continue to disagree about the brands and the one music to end all McMahon rivalries hits. It is “No Chance In Hell” and the one and only owner of WWE, Vincent Kennedy McMahon swaggers his way down. He want to put a stop to the bickering, so how did do it? Vince proclaimed it was time to dance, and everyone in the ring proceeded to. This was a lighthearted start to a big show, and was pretty comical to see Vince shake it, again.
AJ Styles/Daniel Bryan vs The Usos. The Usos win via pinfall<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”><a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/TruthTV?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#TruthTV</a> with special guests <a href=”https://twitter.com/StephMcMahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@StephMcMahon</a> & <a href=”https://twitter.com/shanemcmahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@shanemcmahon</a>… AND a dance break?!<br><br>There's NO CHANCE <a href=”https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@VinceMcMahon</a> would miss out on this! <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/SD1000?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#SD1000</a> <a href=”https://t.co/UXka3I35Sb”>pic.twitter.com/UXka3I35Sb</a></p>— WWE (@WWE) <a href=”https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1052352786422149123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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on Daniel Bryan.
After the lighthearted opening, Smackdown Live got serious with WWE Championship opponents, AJ Styles/Daniel Bryan vs the great tag team The Usos. AJ Styles and Danieal Bryan took control of the matches quickly. Utilizing tag team moves that the Usos were not prepared for. AJ and Bryan ended their offensive assault with locking in the Usos in a Yes-Lock and calf crusher respectively. During the cmmercial break, The Usos fight out. They target Daniel Bryan with multiple tag team moves, wearing him down. When the break was over, AJ gets a hot tag and takes it to the Usos. After the offensive stint AJ displays, Bryan attempts to help with a forearm on Jay Uso. However, Jay ducks and it connects on AJ. The Usos land a double Superkick on Bryan for the pin.
Former Smackdown General Managers arrive, Evolution foreshadows, World Cup qualifying match.
Shortly after the matche, the crowd and viewers are greeted with all of the past Smackdown GMs gathering backstage. Nothing really came about it, but just fan service. Vickie Guerrero, Teddy Long and John Laurinaitis are seen dancing backstage. However, off camera they book a match with a meaningful outcome.
Evolution arrives.
The most decorated stable in WWE history arrives, Evolution. HHH, Rick Flair, Randy Orton, and Dave Bautista. HHH starts off giving praise to the historic show tonight and thanks the fans. Rick Flair follows with he cant wait for Smackdown 10,000! In which, may take 173 years. Now this is where it gets interesting. It is now the Viper’s turn. Orton started off praising all the stable, but then he added jabs to HHH and Ric Flair. Then states that Bautista spends mre time in the make up chair then the entire stable. Up next, Bautista and he states he is going to ignore Orton. Bautista states that he would thought of holding a WWE microphone in his hand again. Dave goes on how he does this for the love of the fans. Lastly, Baustista states that HHH has done everything in this company, but beat him. Tension ensues, however the stable hugs it out. There is a lot of seed planting in this segment.
The Miz wins vs Russev via roll up pin, for World Cup qualifying match.
In a quick burner match for the world Cup. Russev takes it to the Miz. However, the Miz rolls out quickly and then Adien English shows up to distract Russev. Allowing the Miz to pull a quick roll up pin. after the match Russev is furious and decimates English. *yawn*
The Cutting Edge returns. Title match! Master of the 619 vs the King of Strong Style!
The Rated R Superstar WWE Hall Of Famer arrives for a special Cutting Edge show. Edge’s guest for this occasion is Becky Lynch. The Ultimate Opportunist wastes no time in telling Lynch that she is wrong for throwing away her friendship with Charlotte Flair, just to obtain championship gold. Stating that from his own experience she will be alone with the accolades. Lynch responds with that she loves herself and does not care about her friendship with Flair and loves what she is now. The Queen arrives and states to Lynch, since you love what you become, you’re going to love what I am going to do to you. Flair then attacks Lynch, ending the segment.
Smackdown Tag Team Title Match. The Bar wins via pin fall over The New Day.
While dancing around backstage, the current and former Smackdown General Managers made this match, and was called by The King Jerry Lawler and Booker T. On New Day’s side, it the belts were defended by Big E and Xavier Woods. The match starts out with Sheamus controlling Woods. Xavier fights back and lands a hurricanrana to drop kick. Woods offense sputters quickly as The Bar take it to him with quick tags and offense. After a long beat down by The Bar, Xavier manages to hot tag Big E in. The New Day powerhouse quickly evens the playing field. However, it was short lived as a flurry of back and forth action happened between the two teams. Ending up with Cesaro landing the Neutralizer on Big E.
After the break, it seems that New Day is control, but Sheamus maneuvers put of a top turnbuckle move. The Bar then executes a top turnbuckle power bomb/neck breaker move. Kofi interrupts the count. Now with The Bar outside., Xavier Woods attempts a suicide dive over the referee, on to The Bar, but is caught and slammed. The Bar then clears off the announcer’s table and The Big Show’s music hits! Big Show makes his way down and extends his hand to Kofi, then Choke Slams him through the table. Allowing Sheamus to Brogue Kick on Big E for the pin, and new tag team champions.
A Legend returns. Rey Mysterio wins via pin fall
In this last World Cup qualifying match of the night, we are treated to a dream match. Rey Mystrio vs Shinsuke Nakamura. The zKing f Strng Style quickly dominates Rey. Landing hard strikes throughout the match, Mysterio fights back and lands a under the rope baseball slide to a prone Shinsuke outside. After the break, Shinsuke has Rey prone on the top turnbuckle for a move. Mysterio spins out and hit a Super Hurricanranna. The two men get to their feet and Nakamura attempts not on, but two Kinsashas. Rey counters both and hits the 619 on Shinsuke for a clean pin fall. Afterwards, the Undertaker walks out and give the same warning to HHH and Shawn Michaels as he and his brother Kane did on Raw.
Ok, but had flaws.
This was a big show for Smackdown. I give them kudos for trying to service the fans. However, with only two hours allotted for this show. It seemed a bit rushed. If they had the dreaded third hour for tonight, I think it they would have benefited from it. Just this one time only.
