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WWE SMACKDOWN REPORT: A CONTRACT SIGNING, BEST FRIENDS FACE OFF IN THE RING, ASUKA IN ACTION, AND MORE

By Richard Trionfo on 2018-06-05 21:59:00

Paige is in the office with Shinsuke Nakamura and AJ Styles for the contract signing.    Paige reminds AJ and Nakamura about the rules for a Last Man Standing match.  Paige guarantees that there will be a winner.

AJ asks to make a statement.  He says it seems like they have been at this forever.  Now he thinks he understands why Nakamura does what he does.  Nakamura knows that he cannot beat him.  That is why he hides behind the low blows and he picks a stipulation where he can do whatever he wants.  AJ says he will be walking out of Money in the Bank the same way he walked in, as WWE Champion.

AJ signs the contract and then Nakamura says the pen is out of ink.

Nakamura asks to borrow AJ's pen.  Nakamura looks at the pen and he says the pen is broken.  

AJ yells at Nakamura and tells him to stop playing these games and stand up.

AJ slaps Nakamura and leaves.

Nakamura pulls out a pen and signs the contract.

We go to commercial.

Match Number Four:  Becky Lynch versus Charlotte Flair

They lock up and Becky with an arm drag.  Charlotte goes for the leg but Becky goes for the arm and Charlotte sends Becky to the floor.  Becky returns to the ring and Charlotte with a single leg take down but Becky kicks Charlotte away.  Becky with a side head lock take down.  Charlotte with a side head lock.  Charlotte with a cartwheel and leap frog followed by a head scissors take down.  Becky bridges out of a cover and gets a near fall.  Charlotte escapes a cover.  

They exchange a spot of tea but then they both go for a kick and block it.  They ask the other to put their feet down and they oblige.  They both go for cross bodies and go down.  Becky with a drop kick and snap leg drop followed by a snap elbow drop.  Charlotte avoids a twisting leg drop and she applies a figure four head scissors.  Charlotte rolls Becky around the ring and she gets a near fall.  Becky with arm drags into an arm bar.  Becky with a hammer lock and she bridges over to add more pressure.

Charlotte with forearms and Becky goes for DisArmHer but Charlotte escapes and she chops Becky.  Charlotte misses a chop and Becky with European uppercuts>  Charlotte with a back slide for a near fall.  Charlotte with a chop.  Charlotte with a belly-to-back suplex but she runs into a boot and Becky with a springboard back kick.  Charlotte with a back breaker for a near fall.  

Becky with a flying forearm and she goes to the turnbuckles.  Becky with a leg drop for a near fall.  Charlotte with a rollup for a near fall.  Becky with a forearm but Charlotte with a spear and Becky rolls to the floor.  Charlotte with a pescado.  Charlotte rolls Becky back into the ring and Charlotte goes up top for a moonsault but Becky gets her knees up.  Becky with an inside cradle for a near fall.  Charlotte is kicked away by Becky and Becky with DisArmHer and Charlotte taps out.

Winner:  Becky Lynch

Samoa Joe is in the interview area and he asks Dasha if she sees a vicious man.  Someone with the moral compass of a man who will stop at nothing.  You will find that those things are true.  People will look at him and see a man who made a promise.  He promised that he would put Daniel Bryan to sleep.  Joe put the ladder underneath the briefcase and he climbed the ladder and seized the briefcase.  He says he felt a collective shiver down their spine on Smackdown because the saw the truth.  The WWE Champion is a marked man.  Very soon, everybody will get it.

We go to commercial.

We are back and there will be a Summit next week involving the women in the Money in the Bank Match from the Smackdown brand.

Big Cass makes his way to the side of the stage.

Renee asks Cass about his match against Daniel Bryan at Money in the Bank and how will he make sure the result is different.

Cass says he is a big man unlike Daniel Bryan who is only an inch taller than Renee.  Cass has a little story.  He was backstage at Wrestlemania 30 while he was in NXT.  He walked down the hallway and he was walking behind Daniel Bryan, who had just won the WWE Championship.  Cass says all he could think was 'seriously?  How could this pathetic little man be the WWE Champion?'  That main event victory was a fluke, just like his victory at Backlash.  Cass says he will give credit where credit is due.  He picks a punch for someone with as petitte a stature.  A good big man will always beat a good little man.

Cass says poor little guy.  Cass says he almost feels bad for Daniel.  Daniel asked for that.  He asked to come back to WWE and he asked to come back to the ring.  Little did he know that he would have a seven foot shadow following him.  Daniel Bryan has never been in the ring with anyone as big as him, as educated as him, or as big a star as him.  Daniel has never been in the ring with someone who holds a grudge like him.  Cass says that is why he will do everything he can do to dismantle Daniel Bryan and embarrass him.  Cass says he will take his scrawny little arms and rip them off his body.  

Daniel Bryan needs to take his ball and go home.  He needs to do what he does best, playing a garden gnome on Total Bellas.  Daniel will be beaten and battered.  He will come to the slow realization that a pathetic little man like him will never survive in this big man's world.

Sin Cara is in the interview area and he is asked about the interaction between him and Andrade Almas.  Sin Cara says he has known Almas since he was fourteen years old and then something happened.

Zelina Vega shows up and she wants to know if she is what Cara is talking about.  She says she is the best thing that happened to him.  He was nothing when he was with you.  You forced him to hide behind a mask.  She told him that he did not have to hide.  Vega says that she went to Paige to get a match between them for next week.

Almas attacks Cara from behind and sends him into a storage case.

Match Number Five:  Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, and Big E versus Samoa Joe, Miz, and Rusev

Miz and Woods start things off and Miz with kicks.  Miz with an Irish whip but Woods floats over and connects with a rolling elbow for a near fall.  Woods with a European uppercut and snap mare.  Kofi tags in and they hit double team moves.  Big E tags in and he hits a splash for a near fall.  Joe tags in and Big E with a belly-to-belly suplex.  Woods tags in and he hits a double sledge from the turnbuckles.  Joe with an elbow and enzuigiri to Woods.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Miz with a snap mare and reverse chin lock on Woods.  Miz pulls Woods back to the mat when it appears he is on his way to make the tag.  Miz with a knee to the midsection and then he sends Woods into the turnbuckles.  Miz puts Woods on the turnbuckles and sets for a superplex but Woods blocks it.  Woods punches Miz off the turnbuckles.  Woods with a missile drop kick and both men are down.  Joe tags in and Rusev attacks Big E on the floor and sends him into the ring steps.  Woods with a kick and knee.  Both men are down in the ring.

Miz and Kofi tag in and Kofi with a springboard chop followed by running chops and a drop kick.  Kofi misses a leaping clothesline but he hits a cross body for a near fall.  Miz avoids SOS but Kofi hits a jumping clothesline.  Kofi with the Boom Drop.  Joe distracts Kofi and Miz with a kick and DDT for a near fall.  Miz sets for the Skull Crushing Finale.  Rusev tags in and Rusev goes for a belly-to-back suplex but Kofi lands on his feet.  Big E tags in and he hits an overhead belly-to-belly suplex.  Rusev with a knee and kick to stop a suicide dive attempt.  Joe tags in and Rusev Irish whips Big E into the corner for an STJoe.

Rusev goeas over the top rope when Woods ducks.  Woods with a plancha onto Rusev.  Miz tags in and Joe is sent over the top rope.  Miz goes for the Skull Crushing Finale but Big E escapes.  Big E with a spear through the ropes as Kofi hits a springboard coffin drop.  Kofi tags in but Rusev with a Machka Kick to Kofi.  Joe with the Coquina Clutch on Woods.  Big E goes into the ring post shoulder first.  

Miz gets the pancakes and he throws them at Rusev and Joe instead of Big E.  Rusev with a Machka Kick to Miz and then Joe with a back senton.  Big E tags in for the Midnight Hour and the three count.

Winners:  Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods

We go to credits.


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