• Recap of Nakamura/Orton defeating Jinder/Rusev last week and then the RKO by Orton on Nakamura, ahead of their match tonight for the number one contendership.
  
  
• Tom Phillips and Byron Saxton announced the departure of JBL and welcomed Corey Graves to the announce table. Graves was pleased to be working with Tom again, and noted that Byron was also there.
  
  
• Orton did a backstage promo saying he has seen many so-called new stars crash and burn, and that last week's RKO was a reminder to Nakamura that he couldn't let his guard down for even a second. Nakamura retorted in a promo, acknowledging Orton's skills at coming out of nowhere to inflict pain, but Nakamura would make it be felt EVERYWHERE.
  
  
• Ellsworth was interrupted while trying to introduce Carmella by the insane Kevin Owens, who announced he was going to be the new guest referee. As he tried to force the ref to take off his shirt, Shane McMahon showed up and told him he wouldn't be allowed to ruin another match like he did last week (the crowd booed). They had a great back and forth as Owens poo poo all over Shane, claiming he was desparate for his father's attention and claimed his family would be better off if he hadn't survived his helicopter crash - his dad, his wife, and even his kids. Shane snapped and assaulted Owens, and Daniel Bryan had to rush down, yelling at Shane for losing his cool and demanding to know what he thought he was doing. A visibly distraught Shane walked away as the crowd chanted for him.
  
  
• Backstage Daniel tried to apologize to Kevin who insisted that he was going to sue Shane, WWE and every member of the McMahon family and turn Smackdown into the literal Kevin Owens show. Daniel tried to talk him down but he claimed he was leaving to press criminal charges right now.
  
  
• Nattie defeated Carmella after James Ellsworth hosed up when Carmella was looking like she had the win. Ellsworth assumed she would want to cash in and tried to hand the briefcase over to the ref, Carmella had to call it off and it gave Nattie the time she needed to recover and roll her up for a pin. Afterwards a furious Carmella told Ellsworth he was a miserable excuse for a human being (twice!), insulted him viciously and then declared they were through as a pairing.
  
  
• Dolph Ziggler came out, declared the fans didn't deserve him, then went backstage and came out again to John Cena's music aping his mannerisms/entrance. He cut that off and came back out doing (a terrible) Macho Man, then did Naomi's gimmick complete with glowing hair extensions, before declaring the crowd made him sick and walking off.
  
  
• Aiden English beat Sami Zayn. Clean. Afterwards English insisted on finishing the song that Sami interrupted. Sami chased him up the ramp as English sang at him to please not do so.
  
  
• New Day (Xavier was present) showed up backstage to cheer up Bryan who was still upset about what happened with Shane and Owens earlier. The Usos also arrived and Bryan asked them to name the stipulation for next week's title match - it would be a Las Vegas Street Fight. BIG E was delighted and declared The Usos were about to bust, and was confused at the others hesitation. Daniel Bryan got a phonecall from a man he called "sir" (presumably Vince McMahon) and given clear instructions.
  
  
• Daniel Bryan came to the ring and called down Shane, where he reminded him that he himself had been forced to control his temper and not attack Miz just like Shane had warned him not to. Shane agreed he had gone too far but that he'd been driven into a rage by Kevin mentioning his family, but Bryan reminded him that he has to think about every employee and wrestler's family too. Shane said he would sort this out with Owens, but Bryan explained he'd recieved a call from Vince McMahon and been instructed to inform Shane (specifically in the ring!) that he was indefinitely suspended.
  
  
• Backstage, Jinder Mahal was interviewed and claimed it was irrelevant who won between Shinsuke and Orton, he'd already beaten both of them.
  
  
• Baron Corbin defeated Tye Dillinger in a surprisingly good match largely dominated by Tye until Baron was able to get in a cheap shot to his throat when the ref couldn't see (AJ on commentary was furious). Backstage AJ told Tye he was impressed by him last week and this week, and Corbin's involvement had wrecked what everybody wanted to see. So next week, he was giving Tye a shot at the US Title.
  
  
• An enthusiastic Corey Graves took great delight in throwing to a video package on Bobby Roode, refusing to let Saxton do it.
  
  
• Backstage Ellsworth begged Carmella to take him back and he wouldn't gently caress up anymore. She told him from now on they did things her way, gave him a big ol' kiss and then slapped the poo poo out of him.
  
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Randy Orton clean in the main event, in a solid match that incorporated a really fantastic counter of the RKO into an armbar. Nakamura hit the Kinshasa to get the pin, watched from a skybox by Jinder Mahal and the Singh Brothers.
  
  
• Next week will feature 3 title matches from Las Vegas, including Naomi vs Nattie, The Usos vs The New Day, and AJ Styles vs Tye Dillinger.
  
  
• Daniel Bryan got to Kevin Owens backstage and told him that with Shane suspended, that was an end to the matter. Owens laughed that Smackdown was now his personal playground and there was nothing anybody could do to stop him. Bryan informed him that next week, Vince McMahon would be making a personal appearance to deal with this situation.
  

Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Sep 7, 2017

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