The main event of Clash of Champions has been changed!
The Fashion Police are going to be on PPV!
And, well, that’s about it.
I am Luke Owen and this is the 12th of December edition of Smackdown Live… in about 4 minutes.
Headline: AJ Styles Is Not A Dumb Babyface
AJ Styles opened the show and reminded us all of the Jinder Experiment disaster of 2017,
like the Punjabi Prison match, the return of The Great Khali and the constant interference
from The Singh Brothers.
This brought out Sumir and Sunil, who told AJ they were done working for the Modern Day
Maharaja after he beat them up a couple of weeks ago.
They said they wanted to be in AJ’s corner at Clash of Champions, and then made some
really funny comments about Jinder being a bad and smelly person.
However AJ showed images of them accompanying Jinder to ringside during their tour of India
and he didn’t believe they were being genuine.
This brought out Mahal, and AJ attacked The Singh Brothers sending them packing back to
their leader.
Later on in the show, Jinder attacked AJ backstage wearing a shirt befitting of the festive season.
Headline: Charlotte defeated Ruby Riott via DQ
Charlotte and Ruby Riott didn’t really have a match, most of which took place in the ad
break.
When they came back, Charlotte single-handedly beat up all of The Riott Squad and Natalya
who was doing guest commentary - which led to Nattie attacking the Smackdown Live Women’s
Champion for the DQ.
Absolution then took over, which brought out the rest of the Raw women’s locker room
to run them off [RECORD SCRATCH] wait, wait, sorry I’m reading my Raw notes.
Do apologise.
Ahem.
The Riott Squad took over, which brought out the rest of the Smackdown women’s locker
room to run them off.
Totally different.
Headline: Baron Corbin defeated Dolph Ziggler via DQ
Dolph Ziggler has dropped his silent entrance gimmick, and had a nothing match with Baron
Corbin when… guest commentator Bobby Roode got in the ring and attacked Dolph.
He then laid out Corbin for good measure.
This was not Glorious.
Headline: Bludgeon Brothers defeated Jobbers
In some rather upsetting news, The Fashion Files has been permanently moved from Smackdown
Live to WWE.com.
Because why would you put something popular and over on TV where people can see it?
In this WWE.com episode, they announced a match against The Bludgeon Brothers at Clash
of Champions.
And then The Bludgeon Brothers killed two jobbers, one of which was former WWECW Star,
Colin Delany [19].
Who presumably contacted WWE after James Ellsworth was released.
Headline: Kevin Owens And Sami Zayn Occupy Smackdown Live
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, inspired by their general manager, attempted to start the Yep
Movement to occupy Smackdown Live against the tyrannical Shane McMahon, who wasn’t
at this show despite being a week from Clash of Champions where he’s in the main event.
And going by Daniel Bryan comments later in the night, apparently he wasn’t watching
the show on TV either.
What a great boss.
Owens and Zayn asked the Smackdown Live roster to join them in their protest, but no one
did.
Instead Daniel Bryan came out to announce himself as the second guest referee for their
tag team match this Sunday.
Headline: Rusev & English defeated The Usos
Aiden English finished his 12 Days of Rusev song from last week, and the two beat The
Usos in a nothing match.
The New Day we’re out on commentary - because I guess every match needed a guest commentary
spot this week - which meant there were SIX COMMENTATORS SITTING IN A ROW.
This was very distracting, and The New Day were very annoying.
Headline: Kevin Owens defeated Shinsuke Nakamura
The main event saw Kevin Owens take on Shinsuke Nakamura in a decent TV match.
And guess what - Daniel Bryan was guest commentator!
You get to be a guest commentator!
And you get to be a guest commentator!
Both Sami Zayn and Randy Orton - in his pants - were at ringside for the match, and got
involved during the finish.
Owens accidentally knocked down the referee, leading to Bryan putting on the refs shirt.
A key to this is that he hesitated when sliding in to count for Nakamura, allowing Owens to
kick out.
Kev then hit the Pop-Up Powerbomb and Bryan counted the pinfall.
So that was this week’s Smackdown Live in about 4 minutes here’s the usual ratings
recap from top to bottom.
SmackDamn, SmackTastic, Smack Bang in the Middle, Ellsworthy and Kane Main Eventing
Raw In 2017.
I’ll reveal my rating shortly but first, vote in the poll above my head and I’ll
read out the results in tomorrow’s news.
Despite being the go home show for Clash of Champions, this was a very missable episode.
Smackdown’s biggest issue at the moment is that it’s only interested in one storyline:
Owens and Zayn vs. Shane McMahon.
This means that every other feud got either lazy copy and paste booking, or just a random
match with guest commentators.
Mojo Rawley and Zack Ryder - a match that has had a storyline all year long - is on
the pre-show and neither man was featured on this episode.
A fun main event aside, this was a pretty boring episode of Smackdown Live - which I
shouldn’t be saying with a PPV coming this Sunday.
This week’s Smackdown Live, is Ellsworthy.
Which top WWE star has a serious injury?
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