John Cena just made his return, so we’ll see what’s going on there with him. We’ll also check
out the latest updates on The Bloodline’s story, L.A. Knight’s feud with The Miz, and much more.
Let’s start things off with John Cena’s return from the September 1st edition
of Smackdown and how it morphed into The Bloodline’s storyline.
So John Cena kicks off Smackdown with his big
return. It’s his first WWE appearance since Money In The Bank back in July.
John Cena mostly spoke about how grateful he was to be back in front of the fans.
He thanked them for always welcoming him back in with open arms,
how he’s really excited about his upcoming first career match in India,
and how he’s soaking it all in because he knows it’s all coming to an end soon.
John Cena has been heavily hinting at his full retirement from the ring all year long.
Even at Wrestlemania 39 with his match against Austin Theory,
John Cena was taking bows and thanking the fans before hitting his signature moves,
leading fans to believe Cena really was wrapping things up real soon.
Thankfully for the fans, Wrestlemania 39 wasn’t his last match, but Cena isn’t
shying away from the fact that his last match is definitely coming up in the near future.
Even in a post Smackdown interview, John Cena once again touched on those same few ideas.
He said that tonight wasn’t his last one,
but he knows it’s definitely coming up, and how he’ll be 47 years old soon.
September first, wasn’t John Cena’s only appearance,
this is another decent sized run for him this late in his career.
He’ll be appearing regularly on Smackdown every week for just around the next two months,
with his last scheduled appearance taking place on October 27th.
John Cena also picked up the hosting gig for the
Payback event and he’s also being rumored to appear at Fastlane.
But getting back to the segment, John Cena gets interrupted by Jimmy,
who’s also making his return after a few weeks away.
Jimmy has his own brand new theme song,
which of course means that Jey will be keeping their originally shared theme.
So Jimmy comes out to the ring, and his segment
was advertised as him explaining his Summerslam actions in greater detail,
but Jimmy basically just repeated what he said from the Smackdown after Summerslam.
Jimmy said once again that he did what he did to Jey out of love and
to stop him from becoming a new version of Roman Reigns.
Jimmy switches his focus to John Cena and says that he has an issue with him
because Cena is just like Roman Reigns because all he does is take and take.
Jimmy said that the only difference is that John Cena takes with a smile on his face,
while Roman doesn’t have a smile on his face when he takes things.
Cena then responded by telling Jimmy that the wrong brother quit the company. Jimmy
tried attacking him, but Cena was able to deliver the attitude adjustment.
And this event just started a spiral of bad events for Jimmy.
Jimmy then went backstage and started verbally abusing some of the WWE crew members.
That only got him in more trouble and he was called into Adam Pearce’s office.
Mia Yim was already in the middle of a conversation with Adam Pearce,
but Jimmy comes right in and rudely interrupts their conversation and disrespects Mia.
Adam Pearce told him that he needs to calm down and treat people with more respect.
And because of that entire event,
Mia goes and tells The O.C. Members about what Jimmy did to her.
Anderson and Gallows seem extremely uninterested in joining Bloodline related business,
but it’s AJ Styles who’s gets heated and wants to instantly confront Jimmy.
So Jimmy is on his way out of the arena before getting stopped and
confronted by AJ Styles for what he did to Mia earlier in the night.
But the big twist of the segment here is that Solo Sikoa comes to
Jimmy’s rescue and takes out AJ Styles for him.
And that’s a confusing move right there because obviously Solo and
Jimmy haven’t been on the same side with each other since early Summer,
but Solo did drop a line that explained why he helped Jimmy.
Solo said that Jimmy is out of the Bloodline when they say he’s out of The Bloodline.
Which basically implies that Roman Reigns must’ve given these orders to Solo Sikoa to go after Jimmy
and bring him back into The Bloodline, and tell Jimmy that he’s not free yet at all.
After Summerslam, Roman was actually grateful for what Jimmy did and wanted
to bring him back into The Bloodline as the new right hand man, but like Jimmy
has expressed several times already since then, he still very much hates Roman Reigns.
His thoughts, feelings, and standings towards
Roman Reigns hasn’t changed at all despite his Summerslam heel turn.
He still hates Roman and wants nothing to do with him,
and that’s why he did what he did to Jey at Summerslam.
Jimmy hates Roman that much that he really didn’t want
to stand by and watch Jey become Roman Reigns.
Jimmy tells Solo that there’s nothing him, Roman, or Paul Heyman can tell him to do.
Notice that Jimmy didn’t include Jey in that sentence,
that’s because in Jimmy’s mind, he doesn’t have any issues with Jey.
Jimmy said he did what he did to Jey out of love,
he wants Jey to understand that, and Jimmy would love to be fully reunited with Jey.
So at this very point of the story, Jimmy and Jey are split,
but Jimmy doesn’t hate Jey right now in this current moment of time.
Jimmy still wants to reconcile with his brother
and make him see the reason why he did what he did at Summerslam.
But Jimmy still very much despises Roman, Solo, Heyman and everything they stand for,
he’s still doesn’t want anything to do with them.
But it looks like ever since Summerslam,
Roman and Heyman have been looking at Jimmy as basically a Bloodline free agent.
They know that Jey is obviously not gonna want anything to do with Jimmy after Summerslam,
so Roman and Heyman are trying to reel Jimmy back into The Bloodline,
but so far, it’s not working and Jimmy is basically on an island by himself right now.
But then we get to the closing moments of Smackdown,
that a lot of fans argued made things a bit more confusing.
Jimmy makes an appearance during Solo Sikoa versus AJ Styles to interfere in
the match and assist Solo Sikoa in picking up the win over AJ.
And after the match, Jimmy tried to celebrate with Solo,
but remembering all of the recent events and even what Jimmy said earlier in the night,
Solo instantly gets on the defensive and attempts to go for a spike on Jimmy.
Solo doesn’t hit the spike on him because Paul Heyman tells him not to and he leaves the ring.
Jimmy also gave AJ Styles another super kick in those closing moments.
The show went off the air with Solo and Jimmy staring at each
other while Paul Heyman called Roman Reigns.
And this is a moment that just really had fans wondering what’s going on here.
Jimmy just gave Solo Sikoa the cold shoulder earlier in the night and
said he doesn’t wanna hear anything from him, but then he comes out twenty minutes
later to help Solo win a match and try to celebrate with him.
A lot of fans are still trying to figure it out,
but some fans believe that Jimmy is probably reverting back to trying to
break Solo Sikoa out of The Bloodline by using some manipulation and gaslighting of his own.
Roman’s main power is obviously the power of manipulation,
that’s basically what he used to make the entire Bloodline fall in line.
So maybe Jimmy is taking that into consideration
and now trying to manipulate Solo into leaving Roman and Heyman.
If you look at the story direction in that way then it definitely makes a bit more sense.
Jimmy hates Roman Reigns with a passion,
but that hatred really shouldn’t be there with him and his brother, Solo Sikoa.
So maybe he took some time to think about it
and figured that he’ll try and get through to his brother Solo Sikoa.
Obviously, the way Jimmy was trying to get through to Jey and help him
at Summerslam didn’t work out and wasn’t appealing at all to Jey,
so maybe Jimmy is taking a new approach with his attempt of trying to get through to Solo.
And with no returns dates in sight for Roman and Jey, it looks like the main focal point of
The Bloodline’s story will be Solo Sikoa and Jimmy at least for the foreseeable future.
So hopefully the next few weeks of Smackdown will
clear up the current confusion in the story between Jimmy and Solo.
And obviously once Roman and Jey make their returns,
maybe that’s when we’ll see the next big steps for this story come into place.
So we’ll see how this heel turn continues to unfold for Jimmy.
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Smackdown also featured a face-to-face between The Miz and L.A. Knight.
They both took some heavy and deep personal shots at each other during the segment.
The Miz argued that L.A. Knight is basically just cosplaying as
a WWE superstar and that none of it is genuine.
L.A. Knight argued that he had to grind for everything he’s ever gotten,
while The Miz got served everything right to him.
Maryse was even heavily referenced in their exchange of words.
L.A. Knight wanted to give his regards to Maryse in advance for sending her a broken and beaten
down husband, and even told Maryse to give him a call after Payback if she needed someone.
So the feud has definitely gotten extremely personal to that level, but it’ll be
interesting if Maryse could be brought into this storyline in the near future if it continues.
Whenever The Miz gets involved in a heavily featured storyline,
Maryse does make either a special appearance or a cameo appearance.
So now that she’s been directly name-dropped in the story, it’ll be interesting to see if
she does make a return to confront L.A. Knight for his remarks as well…
But what are your thoughts on todays stories?
Thanks for watching guys.