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THE NEW DANIEL BRYAN, MYSTERIO DISGRACED, FLAIR DOES DOUBLE DUTY & MORE: COMPLETE WWE SMACKDOWN COVERAGE

By Mike Johnson on 2018-11-20 20:00:00

Thanksgiving Feast Fight with The New Day vs. WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions The Bar & Big Show.

The table with the feast was moved to ringside.

Show and Woods started off.  Woods nailed a superkick in the mid-section, but Show immediately took him down and worked him over, including ripping off his pilgrim costume.  Cesaro tagged in and nailed a big uppercut.  Sheamus tagged in and beat Woods over the chest.   Cesaro tagged in and covered Woods for a two count.  The Bar tagged in and out, working over Woods.    The fans rallied Woods with New Day chants.  Woods started to make a comeback but was nailed in the mid-section and dragged back over to the corner.  Cesaro tagged in and nailed a low dropkick for a two count.

Woods fought to get into position to make a tag but Cesaro kicked Big E off the apron.  Kofi made the hot tag and cleaned house.  Big E got involved and knocked Big Show off the apron, where he crashed down through a table with all sorts of Thanksgiving dinner decorations.  Sheamus brought a turkey into the ring but Woods knocked him out of the ring.  Kofi came off the top with the turkey, smashing it into him and knocking him through the other Thanksgiving table.  Big E put his hand inside the turkey and nailed Sheamus with it for the pin.

Your winner, The New Day!

New Day smashed Cesaro with a series of pies and sauces after the match before taking a bump into the remnants all over the mat.  

See you all at the Christmas Street Fight.

Randy Orton cut a promo and said people think Rey Mysterio's mask means something.  He said it means nothing to him and said it needs to be destroyed, just like the man who wears it.  He said everyone will be full of shock and horror when he takes care of Rey with the RKO.

Asuka & Naomi vs. Sonya Deville & Mandy Rose.

Naomi and Asuka controlled the match early.  The talking points of the announcers is that whether Rose and Deville can get along.  Asuka and Naomi hit stereo hip attacks to knock them off the apron as they went to commercial.  When they returned, Naomi had kicked Deville in the face.  Rose and Asuka tagged in.  Asuka snapped her with a back suplex and nailed a shining wizard for a two count.    Rose rebounded off the ropes and Deville made a blind tag.  Rose almost nailed her and they had words.  Asuka went for a kick.  Deville shoved Rose out of the way but ate the kick.  Asuka took her down in the Asuka Lock and Deville tapped.

They aired clips of Orton vs. Mysterio at Crown Jewel.

They ran a video package on Lars Sullivan, noting he was coming soon.

WWE announced AJ Styles will challenge Daniel Bryan for the WWE title at WWE TLC.

WWE Champion Daniel Bryan came out and said he committed an act of betrayal three years ago when he gave up on his dreams and retired.  He said the difference between himself and "these people" is that he doesn't accept failure.  He went all over the country to see doctors and experts.  He forced himself to sit inside a hyperbaric chamber for three hours a day.  He said that silence gave him the chance to create his mantra, fight for your dreams and it worked.  He said how else can you describe the miracle where Daniel Bryan returned to the ring.  He said he heard the loudest Yes chants he had ever heard and it was a great moment.

For the people, it was just a moment.  They weren't there for the pain or the struggle.  They didn't have to deal with family fights or the therapists and the psychiatrists who told him to move on.  He said the only people who moved on were the fans, the idiots chanting for AJ Styles.  That brought up a Styles chant.   He called them fickle fans.   He said Daniel Bryan's dreams took over and did what they were programmed to do and they kicked AJ Styles in the balls.  He said that Daniel Bryan's dreams made him realize that he didn't need these people for anything and they told him at Survivor Series, he didn't need to beat Brock Lesnar to win.  He won by allowing Lesnar to beat the weakness out of him, so there would be a new emergence out of that match  - and there has been.

Daniel Bryan declared the old Daniel Bryan is dead and so is the Yes Movement.  He said that all that is left is the new Daniel Bryan, the WWE Champion - and the only thing that matters is that you never give up on your dream, again. 

Good promo and an interesting new direction for Daniel Bryan.  He made Greg Hamilton announce him as the "New Daniel Bryan" and he posed on the announcing table.  No Yes chant stuff.

Randy Orton vs. Rey Mysterio.

If you were 18 when they last wrestled on Smackdown, you are now 30.

They tied up and Orton nailed Rey with a back elbow.  Mysterio was able to set him up for a 619 but Orton went to the floor.  Rey hit a seated senton to the floor.  Back in the ring Orton nailed Rey while he was in the ropes and grabbed at the mask.  Orton was fought off but Rey remained tied to the tree of woe as they went to commercial.  When they returned, Mysterio was nailing shots to the mid-section but was wiped out and covered for a two count.

Orton planted him on the top turnbuckle.  He went back after the mask and tore it at the eyehole.    Mysterio fought him off but a missile dropkick but swatted away.  The announcers said Orton was trying to take Rey's identity.  Yep, just like that bad booking.   Rey came back with a top rope seated senton and a nice bulldog.  Rey went for the 619 but Orton blocked it.  Rey kicked him in the head and finally connected with the 619.  Orton rolled out of the ring.  Mysterio hit a sliding kick.  Rey went for a dive but caught Rey with an RKO out of nowhere as he sailed through the ropes.  Orton tossed the unconscious Rey back into the ring and pulled him by the mask, revealing Rey's face.  Oosps!  That won't make the WWE Network version.  Rey was nailed with another RKO and pinned.

Your winner, Randy Orton.

OK match.  Orton showed some good, old school vicious tendencies.

Orton placed a chair around Rey's head and ran him into the ringpost, then stole his mask.

 


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