What’s up for Smackdown this week?
Here are the results taped for Smackdown on October 13, 2015 to air on October 15, 2015:
Thanks to Erik Weiss and Brandon Estes from WrestlingInc from tonight’s tapings in Cincinnati, Ohio:
* Roman Reigns kicks off SmackDown with an in-ring promo but is interrupted by Bo Dallas.
* Roman Reigns defeated Bo Dallas in a quick match with a spear. Reigns cuts another promo after the match about Hell In a Cell but Bray Wyatt interrupts on the big screen and warns him.
* Cesaro and Neville vs. Sheamus and King Barrett is next. Big pop for Cesaro and lots of heat on Sheamus. Stardust and The Ascension appeared at ringside in the crowd. Stardust had a “Stardust Section” sign mocking Cesaro. Sheamus gets the pin on Cesaro.
* Summer Rae cuts a promo on Rusev and Dolph Ziggler. She announces she will be special referee for their match tonight.
* Dean Ambrose was interviewed by Byron Saxton and got a big hometown pop.
* WWE Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens defeated Zack Ryder in a quick non-title match. Ryback watched from ringside and stopped Owens from destroying Ryder after the match.
* Backstage segment with Paige and Natalya arguing.
* Dolph Ziggler vs. Rusev with Summer Rae as special referee is next. Ziggler got a huge pop. Summer did a fast count to give Ziggler the win. She got excited and went to celebrate with him after the match but he turned her down.
* Backstage promo with Dean Ambrose and The Dudley Boyz.
* Luke Harper and Braun Strowman defeated The Prime Time Players. Harper took outTitus O’Neil wile Braun choked out Darren Young for the win.
* WWE Divas Champion Charlotte with Becky Lynch defeated Alicia Fox with The Bella Twins in a non-title match. Charlotte won with a Figure Eight. Team Bella beat Becky and Charlotte down after the match but Paige made the save.
* We see Natalya laid out backstage.
* The Dudley Boyz and Dean Ambrose defeated The New Day by DQ when Xavier Woodshit Bubba Ray Dudley with the trombone. Ambrose got a massive hometown pop for his entrance. The New Day takes shots after the match and stand tall to mostly boos. SmackDown ends.
Second report Credit: PW.net
1. Roman Reigns beat Bo Dallas. Before the match, Bo cut a promo about Roman’s match with Bray Wyatt at Hell in a Cell, and mentioned going to Suplex City. He told Roman the only way he would leave Hell in a Cell is on a stretcher. Bad move. After some initial offense by Bo, Roman ended up destroying him in five minutes…
Roman cut a promo about the Hell in a Cell Match. Several in Cincinnati gave him the “What?” treatment. I shook my head. Bray appeared on the Titantron, and said that next Monday he will make a promise of some sort. “Anyone but you.” That was that for that promo…
2. King Barrett and Sheamus beat Cesaro and Neville. I can deal with these teams. While all four certainly should mean more in the singles ranks (especially Barrett and Sheamus), tag teams are a nice consolation prize. After a couple great false finishes down the stretch, it ended when a ref distraction by Sheamus with the MITB briefcase, allowing Barrett to hit the Bull Hammer on Cesaro, then Sheamus pinned him…
Summer Rae was interviewed regarding being a special referee for Rusev vs Dolph Ziggler. She promised to be impartial…
3. Kevin Owens beat Zack Ryder. Ryback was out at ringside. This was the expected Owens squash in about three minutes. Afterward, Ryback rushed the ring and then Owens bailed quickly…
Dean Ambrose and the Dudleys vs New Day was hyped as the televised main event…
4. Dolph Ziggler beat Rusev with Summer Rae as special referee. Will Pruett is right, Ziggler could mean so much more and he doesn’t. As for Rusev, scattered boos but again, I can’t help but feel like he could be so much more. Summer called it down the middle at first, but then gave Ziggler the faster count and either wouldn’t count pins or gave slow counts for Rusev. It ended with Summer slapping Rusev, leading to Dolph hitting Zigzag for the fast three count…
Post match, Summer cut a promo, saying Lana and Rusev did them dirty. Summer ended up asking Ziggler if she could be with him…which led him to saying no because, as he said it, “When it comes to those kind of games, I’m not playing them”…
The Dudleys and Dean Ambrose did a backstage interview for the main event. The Dudleys put over Dean as combustible. They hyped the Hell in a Cell Tag Team Championship match, then Dean went for the cheap hometown pop and ended by saying New Day was going to get 3D’ed…
After a Susan Komen video, Prime Time Players came out for the next match.
5. Braun Strowman and Luke Harper beat The Prime Time Players. Hard hitting match, but I knew how it would end. Sure enough, Harper and Strowman won by submission in about five minutes…
6. Charlotte (w/Becky Lynch) beat Alicia Fox (w/Nikki Bella, Brie Bella) in a non title match. Team BAD was shown backstage watching. Charlotte won with a Figure Eight in about four minutes. After the match, Team Bella started a beat down of Charlotte and Lynch until Paige ran out to make a save! There was an uneasy peace as the segment ended. Please Lord, don’t tell me PCB are back together… Enough of the factions!…
A backstage segment showed Paige repeatedly saying she would make everything up to Becky and Charlotte. We soon saw why as Natalya was found laid out in another room.
7. The Dudley Boyz and Dean Ambrose beat New Day by DQ. Before the match, New Day cut a promo talking about all of the people they’ve put down in the past. As usual, Cincy blew the roof off US Bank Arena for Dean Ambrose and the hometown boy soaked it in. The match was a normal six-man tag until New Day used the trombone to cause the DQ and laid waste to the Dudleys. No save by Ambrose. A replay followed and the New Day stood tall concluding the Smackdown taping.
Dark Main Event
1. Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns beat Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper. Reigns took the punishment for much of the match until he could explode out of the corner with a clothesline and make the hot tag. Ambrose cleaned up from that point onward, except a brief comeback by the Wyatt Family. It ended with Reigns spearing Wyatt while Dean hit Dirty Deeds on Harper for a pin in about seven minutes.
