Absolutely, 100%, you're on.
[MUSIC]
[SOUND] >> But let's talk Backlash.
One week from Saturday, you and your tag partner, Jade Cargill,
have the opportunity to dethrone The Kabuki Warriors.
How satisfying will that victory be on a stage of that magnitude in Léon, France?
>> So satisfying.
I really hope that Jade gets drafted to SmackDown on Monday,
because I've had a lot of history with Damage CTRL.
And while I've had a lot of amazing women fight alongside me,
I have never been the one that's gotten to finally ended with Damage CTRL,
for everything that they've done to me and to this division.
And Jade is the perfect person to help me do that.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Now,
Damage CTRL is falling apart piece by piece, and
that final piece is those Tag Team Titles.
So once Jade and I take those titles at Backlash,
The Kabuki Warriors won't even have a reason to show back up here to SmackDown.
>> [APPLAUSE] [SOUND] [NOISE]
>> Melo got drafted in round one,
to be clear.
Bron Breakker is still up for grabs, and
I'm gonna guess he's gonna move- >> [LAUGH] I didn't have time to talk
about Cedric raising his stocks.
>> One, two, three.
>> Good night.
[SOUND]
[MUSIC]
>> Here is your winner, Bron Breakker.
[MUSIC]
[SOUND] >> No!
>> [CROSSTALK]
[NOISE]
[SOUND]
>> And as a first round draft pick,
I can't think of a better way to shoot my shot
here on SmackDown than to shoot it against you.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Hang on.
>> Right.
>> Hang on.
[NOISE] >> Fortune certainly favors the bull,
but I don't know, you folks don't wanna see me in action tonight, do you?
>> [APPLAUSE]
>> I don't know, what if I forgot my gear?
[NOISE] >> That's right, I didn't forget my gear.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> And this right here for
me means absolutely, 100%, you're on.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> I'll see you out there.
[MUSIC]
[SOUND] >> Setting up for something big,
perhaps the end for Rey Mysterio Double underhook.
[NOISE] >> Rey countered, able to trip up Angel.
>> Freakish athletic ability.
>> Tag made, Dragon Lee is legal for LWO.
>> Absolutely, textbook 619.
>> Project Dragon.
>> One, two three.
>> And The LWO does it.
>> Here are your winners, The LWO.
[SOUND] >> Jamie Noble desperately trying to drag,
KO!
[MUSIC]
Talk about an unexpected ally.
>> Of all the music in the world you do not wanna hit, it's Randy Orton's.
[NOISE] >> Tama and
Solo trying to bullrush The Viper.
Solo escaping the RKO.
Orton giving chase.
[NOISE] >> Place is in complete meltdown.
[NOISE] >> I
don't know if anybody expected to see Randy Orton tonight,
certainly not bringing the fight to The Bloodline.
I know Owens would have never asked for help, but
KO's got to be happy to see Orton.
>> This would have ended up gruesome had Randy Orton showed up in the nick of time
when we might get put into it.
>> Owens isn't done yet.
Kevin Owens will not rest, Kevin Owens will not settle.
KO may not sleep until this issue is resolved.
>> And this is certainly not the last we've seen from these four.
[SOUND]
[NOISE]
>> Told him.
[NOISE]
>> It was Carlito, Carlito all along.
[NOISE] >> Give the man an Oscar.
[NOISE] >> The ultimate betrayal,
but we're left asking the question, why?
[NOISE] >> I'm sure no one's more confused than
Rey Mysterio, who personally brought Carlito into The LWO.
[SOUND] >> I'm excited to see who does this, and
it looks like my girl Naomi.
>> Natalya to the cheekbone, maybe the nose.
>> Naomi got all- >> Ouch!
>> Hey, who's that?
Uh-oh.
>> Nia Jax, Nia just ripped Bailey out of her commentary seat.
And The Irresistible Force is wrecking the WWE Women's Champion.
>> This match is continuing, we've got bedlam at ringside,
thanks to The Annihilator.
>> But Naomi finally realized what was going on and
tried to come to the aid of Bayley.
[SOUND] >> Mind your business.
>> Referee Dan Engler just threw this match out, it's gonna be a-
>> No choice.
[NOISE]
>> Nia flattens Bayley again.
>> Here's what happens when you are the champion.
>> Tiffany Stratton cares about one thing and one thing only, herself.
[NOISE] >> Prettiest moonsault ever, times two.
[MUSIC]
[SOUND] >> With the first pick of
the 2024 WWE Draft, SmackDown
selects The EST of WWE, Bianca Belair.
>> No surprise there, Bad News, The EST,
Bianca Belair staying right here on Friday Night SmackDown,
bolstering what I believe is the best Women's Division in the game.
[SOUND] >> Who can find that next gear?
Both men with the same idea, Cody with a gnarly landing on his shoulder.
>> Horrible, horrible landing, about as bad as it could have been.
And right now, Melo has the chance to capitalize on a wounded duck.
>> Cody's hurt, uh-oh, uh-oh.
>> [APPLAUSE]
>> Cross Rhodes, can Cody finish the job?
>> One, two, three.
[SOUND] >> Here is your winner,
The Undisputed WWE Champion,
The American Nightmare, Cody Rhodes.
[MUSIC]