• Samoa Joe opened the show in the ring talking poo poo about Roman and the rest of the Shield. Rollins sent Ambrose to get Roman, and when he arrived he told Seth and Dean he would handle this.
  
  
• Roman answered Samoa Joe's challenge, coming alone to the ring where the two immediately began fighting. The Bar appeared from nowhere to attack Roman, so Seth and Dean rushed down to assist but ended up getting beaten down by the other three.
  
  
• There was a brief look at Sasha Banks' reaction to making history by having a wrestling match against Alexa Bliss in Abu Dhabi.
  
  
• Mandy and Paige from Absolution defeated Bayley and Mickie James in a tag match. Before the match Absolution did a pretty awful promo talking about Paige's defeat of Sasha last week and their plans to show up the others.
  
  
• Bray tried to do his typical spooky promo, intercut with Woken Matt Hardy having the time of his life, insisting he and Sister Abigail had crossed paths many times across history but she was addicted to the darkness. Bray declared that only one of them could survive, and Matt said he and his Woken Warriors would DELETE Bray. The segment was good but the pacing was upset by the inclusion of transitions between each Bray/Matt cut.
  
  
• Drew Gulak met Enzo backstage to let him know that a different opponent would be found for Gulak and the shot at Enzo's title now that Rich Swann's opportunity had been revoked (obviously no mention of why). Enzo accidentally mentioned Nia Jax and looked concerned that Drew had figured out she was on his mind, but Drew assumed it was a test by Enzo to ensure he was prepared for anything.
  
  
• Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas came to the ring to Miz's music, mocking Finn's entrance and laughing at their own joke. Bo jumped Finn before the match against Curt, but Finn still quickly won.
  
  
• Kane did a promo backstage warning that he was going to defeat Braun tonight and go on to face Brock Lesnar at the next PPV.
  
  
• Seth Rollins defeated Sheamus in a lengthy, back and forth singles match. Sheamus seemed to get through it all fine despite his current neck problems.
  
  
• Renee interviewed Ambrose backstage about his match with Samoa Joe, with Dean taking over to fire up about how he was going to get his hands on Joe.
  
  
• Drew Gulak was on guest commentary from the second-chance fatal fourway between Cedric Alexander, Mustafa Ali, Tony Neese and Daivari. Gulak was careful not to directly answer questions on if he would try to get the title from Enzo if he beats the winner of this match. Cedric pinned Daivari after a match that slowly built up in crowd reaction, with plenty of pin breakups by heel and face alike.
  
  
• Drew went backstage to meet with Enzo where he "joked" that after beating Cedric he would become the new Cruiserweight Champion. Enzo informed him that they weren't friends and that Drew worked for him. He was cut off during his insults when he spotted Nia Jax, and Drew happily took at face value Enzo insisting that he loved the Powerpoint Presentations since apparently Nia does too.
  
  
• Roman retained his IC Title in a really, really, really loving good match against Cesaro that everybody should go out of their way to watch.
  
  
• Braun did a promo warning Kane he was gonna gently caress him up.
  
  
• Asuka was meant to face Alicia Fox in a rematch but she did not show up, apparently still injured from the previous week's beatdown. Absolution came out but instead of Asuka just leaving this week, she stayed in the ring. Paige was bemused at this and sent in her buddies to attack, and Asuka managed to beat up all three before they finally piled in on her. Before Paige could get in any cheap shots though, the entire women's roster charged the ring and alongside Asuka to beat up Absolution and sent them packing.
  
  
• Jason Jordan met with Kurt Angle to apologize but also insist that he should be the one facing Samoa Joe. Angle reminded him that he kept saying he was the only one who could hold his own against the likes of Roman, Braun, Kane, Joe etc but he also kept losing against them and that wasn't good enough.
  
  
• Samoa Joe defeated Dean Ambrose after Ambrose got furious at Jason Jordan showing up at ringside and getting involved, getting distracted and giving Joe to chance to take him out.
  
  
• Titus O'Neil and Apollo Crews welcomed Dana to Titus Worldwide. The Club showed up to mock them for being NERRRDDDSSS but they all scattered when Braun came stomping through.
  
  
• Kane vs Braun went to a loving double countout and loud boos from the crowd after Braun knocked Kane through the barricade and they were counted out. Braun and Kane continued fighting afterwards, including both attacking simultaneously with the steel steps. Braun grabbed a table, Kane grabbed a chair, and Kane managed to get the best of Braun with it, but they both laid each other out with clotheslines when Kane was trying to set up the table.
  
  
• Kane sat up, but then Braun did too which freaked Kane out. Kane tried to chokeslam Braun through the table but Braun powered out and hit the running powerslam through the table instead. Braun's music played, while Corey Graves asked who would face Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble - Kane or Braun (poor Finn).

• A recap of Shane last week closing the show telling Bryan that he would be special guest ref at Clash of Champions and that if Sami and Kevin lose, they will be fired from ALL of WWE.
  
  
• Kevin and Sami, winning "Yep Yep Yep" shirts, walked around backstage introducing the "Yep Movement" to confused wrestlers and backstage crew, handing out fliers to "occupy Smackdown" and do away with Shane McMahon.
  
  
• WWE Champion AJ Styles came to the ring to talk about Jinder and his upcoming title rematch at Clash of Champions. The Singh Brothers came out and promised they were done with Jinder, but AJ revealed he had seen them on Social Media still backing Jinder on the India tour, and beat them up. Jinder came out but backed off from accepting AJ's challenge to fight him in the ring.
  
  
• Ruby Riott vs Charlotte ended in a DQ win to Charlotte after Nattie - on guest commentary - attacked Charlotte at ringside. The Riott Squad tried to destroy Charlotte but Naomi returned followed by others in the women's division who chased them off.
  
  
• Kevin and Sami dropped off an anti-Shane flier to Daniel Bryan while he was on the phone with Shane.
  
  
• Bobby Roode interfered in a match between US Champion Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler, hitting the Glorious DDT on them both ahead of their US Title match at Clash of Champions.
  
  
• The Fashion Files took place on Youtube and NOT on Smackdown, with only a brief excerpt played to explain the match taking place at Clash of Champions between Breezango and the Bludgeon Brothers.
  
  
• The Bludgeon Brothers murdered a screaming jobber and his less-screaming jobber partner. The screaming jobber was COLIN DELANEY!
  
  

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• Owens and Sami came to the ring to announce the arrival of the "Yep" Movement. They called out the roster to rush out and join them in occupying Smackdown, but nobody did. Daniel Bryan finally showed up, told them they didn't understand the concept of the Yes Movement, but that he would be at Clash of Champions as the second of the guest referees. Sami and Kevin seemed pleased about this.
  
  
• Rusev and Aiden English came out to sing Rusev's praises. Usos came out to mock them, then Shelton Benjamin and Chad Gable also came out to mock both. The New Day watched on commentary. Rusev and English defeated The Usos.
  
  
• AJ was being interviewed by Renee backstage about how he wasn't outsmarted by Jinder and the Singhs, then he got outsmarted by Jinder and the Singhs who rushed in and beat him up.
  
  
• In-ring, Renee interviewed Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura about the motives of Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan, but Orton said it was as straightfoward as him not liking Kevin Owens and Sami and wanting to make sure they got fired. "Yep," agreed Shinsuke.
  
  
• Daniel Bryan was on guest commentary and was immensely entertaining teaming up with Corey Graves to dunk on Byron Saxton throughout the match.
  
  
• Kevin Owens pinned Shinsuke Nakamura after a ref bump saw Daniel Bryan put on the ref shirt and insert himself. Sami and Orton fought in and out of the ring and the distraction allowed Owens to hit the Pop-Up Powerbomb on Shinsuke and get the pin. Afterwards, they grabbed the mic off of Renee and insisted that they were the best not just on Smackdown but in the entire WWE.
  

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Dec 13, 2017

DarkstarIV fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Dec 12, 2017