• Becky Lynch (C) faced Charlotte Flair and Asuka in a Triple Threat Tables, Ladders and Chairs match in the main event of the evening, losing her Smackdown Women's Championship to Asuka in an absolutely incredible match. Ronda Rousey tipped a ladder with both Becky and Charlotte on it, giving Asuka the opening she needed to grab the belt.
  
• Seth Rollins (C) was defeated by Dean Ambrose, losing his Intercontinental Championship.
  
• Daniel Bryan (C) defeated AJ Styles to retain his WWE Championship.
  
• Ronda Rousey (C) defeated Nia Jax to retain her Raw Women's Championship.
  
• Rey Mysterio defeated Randy Orton in a Chairs Match.
  
• Finn Balor defeated Drew McIntyre, marginally aided by Dolph Ziggler who ran out and sneak attacked Drew who then kicked Dolph's drat head off.
  
• Natalya defeated Ruby Riott in a Tables Match.
  
• BRAUN! defeated Baron Corbin to guarantee his Royal Rumble title shot against Brock Lesnar, with Corbin being stripped of all his Authority as a result. BRAUN! was aided by Roode and Gable, Apollo Crews, Finn Balor and referee Heath Slater.
  
• The Bar (C) retained their Smackdown Tag Team Titles against The New Day and The Usos.
  
• R-Truth and Carmella defeated Alicia Fox and Jinder Mahal to win the final of the Mixed Match Challenge, with Truth and Carmella winning the #30 spot in their respective Royal Rumbles.
  
• Elias defeated Bobbly Lashley in a Ladder Match with a Guitar hanging over the ring on the Pre-Show.
  
• Buddy Murphy (C) defeated Cedric Alexander to retain his Cruiserweight Championship on the Pre-Show.
  

• Christmas Presents were on the Entrance Stage. Vince McMahon came out to a big ovation and scattered booing (that got louder when Vince told people not to boo). Vince brought out HHH, Stephanie and Shane and all of them spoke about taking control of Raw and Smackdown back and giving true authority to the fans, as well as showcasing new wrestlers and matchups.
  
• Baron Corbin came out and got heavily booed. He tried to make a case for staying as GM, but instead they gave him the "opportunity", if he could beat Kurt Angle in a match he could be become permanent Raw GM.
  
• Stephanie announced Heath Slater would be the referee, but after going to break, the show came back to HHH announcing this was a handicap match. Bobby Roode, Chad Gable and Apollo came out and put a beating on Corbin, and then Shane announced the match was ALSO No Disqualification. Everybody took turns beating on the whipping boy with chairs, then Kurt hit the Angle Slam on Corbin and pinned him before they put Corbin through a table with another Angle Slam.
  
• A clip was shown of John Cena accepting the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award from Sports Illustrated.
  
• Finn Balor defeated Dolph Ziggler by DQ after initially beating up Drew McIntyre when he showed up to ringside. Drew got back in and attacked Finn as he was preparing to beat Ziggler, then tossed Balor from the ring and beat up Ziggler some more.
  
• Dean Ambrose came to the ring with his gas-masked goons and mocked Seth Rollins and the fans, saying he'd told them what would happen and everything had come true. Renee talked about how good Dean looked with the belt but wouldn't give Corey Graves any details on their "celebration" last night.
  

• The Cameo posted:

  “I saw a sign the other day that said ‘honk if you wanna gently caress Dean Ambrose’, and, Corey, I gotta tell ya, I just leaned on the horn”
  

• Dean offered Seth the chance to come out and face him in a non-title match, but there was no reply. So he offered anybody NOT named Seth Rollins a title match, and Tyler Breeze immediately accepted.
  
• Dean defeated Tyler to retain his Intercontinental Title, though Tyler did get a bit of a comeback and a mild chant. Postmatch, Seth's music hit and three of the goons went to block him off only for the fourth to be revealed to be Seth himself, who attacked Dean. Dean escaped when the other three goons rushed back and Seth got distracted beating them up.
  
• Shane met with AOP backstage, with Maverick trying to get them a title rematch against Roode and Gable. Shane said an automatic rematch was antiquated, and instead booked AOP vs. The B team vs. The Revival vs. The Lucha House Party, with the winner getting a title shot.
  
• Incoming wrestlers from NXT are Heavy Machinery, Lacey Evans, EC3, Nikki Cross (yay) and white supremacist Lars Sullivan.
  
• Lio Rush and Bobby Lashley were in the ring and Lashley did his poses (a grumpy Renee grunted "we get it, you've got great glutes". Elias showed up and smashed Lashley with a guitar
  
• A hype video for a soon-to-return Sami Zayn aired, still making him out to be a heel though the crowd cheered to see him.
  
• The Revival defeated AOP, Lucha House Party and The B-Team to earn a Tag Team Title shot.
  
• Seth Rollins was giving an interview backstage when Baron Corbin showed up to complain that it was Seth's fault that the McMahons were back in charge () and then mocked him for losing the IC Title. Seth punched Corbin in the face.
  
• They replayed the opening of the show with the McMahons FINALLY being back in charge of Raw and Smackdown are all this time, with Michael Cole calling it an iconic moment (not IIconic)
  
• Ronda Rousey came out to a big pop and said she wasn't here to explain what she did last night, but to show why she is the Champion. She issued an open challenge to ANYBODY who wanted to fight.
  
• Backstage, the Raw Women's roster were brawling and shouting at each other to get the shot. Stephanie McMahon shut them up, as FINALLY Stephanie McMahon got to take charge of the women's division. She brought out the women (something like 12+) and said she was done picking favorites... so she was picking 8 of them to have a gauntlet match for a shot at Ronda.
  
• Bayley, despite selling a knee injury, defeated Alicia Fox in the first stage of the Gauntlet match. She was also able to defeat Dana Brooke despite the knee apparently getting worse. She put up a great fight against Mickie James but eventually was pinned by her.
  
• Ember Moon defeated Mickie James but was pinned herself by Nattie. Ruby Riott came out next but Nattie was eventually able to beat her too. Sasha was the last entrant and they went at it for a surprising length of time before Nattie was finally able to put Sasha into the Sharpshooter and submit her.
  
• Ronda Rousey came down to the ring as Nattie celebrated and lifted her arm and then hugged her. Ronda then eyed up the title and then offered her hand for Nattie to shake. After some hesitation, Nattie shook her hand and hugged her again before the two left the ring together.
  
• Next week (which will be a taped show) will feature a Triple Threat between Finn Balor, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre, plus Elias and Bobby Lashley in a Miracle on 34th Street Fight; a Paul Heyman "Celebrates the Holidays" segent; and Seth Rollins faces Baron Corbin in a match.
  
• Nattie and Ronda's title match will be next week as well. The show ended with a relieved and happy Nattie on the entrance ramp drinking in the moment.
  

• Shane opened the show addressing the Smackdown roster backstage, talking about the new era for WWE (this time, the McMahons are in charge!) and called up Paige to thank her for her work, saying she wasn't going anywhere but the role of GM had now been changed.
  

• Raskolnikov38 posted:

  https://twitter.com/henrytcasey/status/1075200975319764992
  

• Becky came out to the ring, said she wasn't interested in being in the back listening to some corporate speech, she was out here to call out Ronda Rousey for not having the guts to fight her like Becky did to her before Survivor Series. Charlotte came out to claim that Ronda screwed her too but worse, because SHE was the one who was going to get the title when she and Becky got pushed off by Ronda.
  
• Asuka came out and made a very succint point,"FORGET RONDA! ASUKA IS THE CHAMPION NOW!"
  
• Becky and Charlotte angrily proclaimed that Asuka never beat either of them, then Vince McMahon's music played and he came strutting out. He said complaining meant nothing, if they had a problem with Ronda they should deal with her personally. He congratulated Asuka on her win and asked if she wanted to defend her title tonight.
  
• Naomi came out and said Charlotte had her opportunities, Becky WAS the Man but had lost the title, and now she wanted her shot against a game Asuka.
  
• Despite Naomi putting up a good effort, she was NOT ready for Asuka and was submitted. Charlotte and Ronda watched from ringside and Asuka taunted them at points in the match and posed with the belt afterwards as they glowered at her.
  
• The Miz wanted to speak with Shane backstage but got Vince instead, and asked for Vince's blessing for he and Shane to be a tag-team. Vince says he has never blessed anybody in his life, but will give Miz an opportunity: if he can beat a tag team of Vince's choice with a tag-partner of Vince's choice, then <something something>.
  
• Rusev was interviewed backstage with Lana, and asked about Shinsuke Nakamura. Rusev talked about how handsome and strong he is, claimed Shinsuke looks like Sonic the Hedgehog, and that he will get his hands on Nakamura and take his US Title from him.
  
• Samoa Joe had promised to apologize to Jeff Hardy, who came out to the ring to hear it. Joe showed up and explained he had lied, because this was actually an intervention. Jeff turned it around on Joe, asking why he was so angry all the time, was it because he'd been in WWE for 2 years and only had one title to show for it? Joe tried to jump Jeff who got the better of him and walked away as Joe fumed in the ring.
  
• Miz's mystery tag partner ended up being Mandy Rose (Vince McMahon chose a hot blond!?!) and his mystery opponents were R-Truth and Carmella. Miz pinned R-Truth after Mandy Rose tried to jump Maryse and got superkicked out of the ring by Carmella who followed her out, and Miz hit the skull-crushing finale.
  
• Mustafa Ali is now an active fulltime member of the Smackdown roster.
  
• White Supremacist Lars Sullivan is also coming up to the main roster, but it is still unclear if it will be Raw or Smackdown.
  
• Another series of video packages aired for the NXT callups Lacey Evans, Heavy Machinery, ECIII and, most importantly of all, Nikki Cross.
  
• The Usos came out to talk about not being the ones getting pinned at TLC. The Good Brothers came out to complain they were sick of New Day, The Bar and The Usos getting all the TV time, as they hadn't appeared on any televised show since August (they did appear very briefly in a backstage segment before Survivor Series). They were going to wipe the slate clean and start over right now. The Usos told them to step up or get stepped on, because they weren't backing down.
  
• The Good Brothers and The Usos were having a really good match that got a lot of time before being cut off by the arrival of tag champs The Bar. Before they could do anything, Sanity appeared and attacked both the Usos and the Good Brothers then stalked out, laughing at The Bar that they beat them to it. The Bar stepped into the ring and attacked the Good Brothers and Usos as well.
  
• Nakamura showed a video of silly things that Rusev has done on Total Divas, saying that this was not a man he should be scared of, Rusev was nothing more than a "Total Diva".
  
• Next week, Shane McMahon will be the guest on MizTV; Rusev faces Shinsuke Nakamura for the United States Championship; and Jeff Hardy faces Samoa Joe. Smackdown next week is on Christmas Night so literally not a single person on the planet is going to watch it.
  
• Daniel Bryan did an absolutely incredible in-ring promo ripping on Fresno as polluters and idiots who are too stupid to self-educate, and criticized them for not accepting him as their role model.
  
• AJ Styles and Mustafa Ali defeated Daniel Bryan and Andrade "Cien" Almas in the main event, which was a cool match and MUSTAFA ALI PINNED WWE CHAMPION DANIEL BRYAN TO WIN THE MATCH! The match ended when AJ hit the Phenomenal Forearm on Andrade before he could prevent Ali hitting the Inverted 450 on Bryan and getting the pin. One hell of a win for Ali.
  
• Smackdown was really loving good this week.
  

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Dec 19, 2018