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SMACKDOWN 11/3/23

-Jeffrey T. Fountain, Contributor 

The go home show for Crown Jewel was recorded last week from Milwaukee, WI. WWE started Smackdown with a replay of the contract signing from Oct 27th's Smackdown before getting into the action.

 

Smackdown opens with LA Knight talking about the events from last weeks contract signing and the main event with Jimmy Uso, followed by Roman Reigns trying to take him out with a spear ahead of their match-up at Crown Jewel. Instead Knight lands a BFT.

 

Midway through LA Knight's promo, Roman Reigns interrupts him with Paul Heyman at his side. Roman steps into the ring on the non hard camera side with his back to LA Knight. Once inside the ring, Paul Heyman hands Roman the mic and and he immediately goes into LA Knight. Roman didn’t ask for acknowledgement because Milwaukee knows who he is. Roman is talking about how he turned the WWE into a multi-billion dollar industry and all LA Knight has done was cosplay a, "redneck version of his cousin". This is a great stare down before their meeting at Crown Jewel with both men trading jabs. If you weren't ready for this match already this promo would have definitely put you there. 

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Match 1 

Kevin Owens vs. Austin Theory 

Smackdown debuted a new Kevin Owens walkout image, before KO came out to the ring wearing his new Smackdown blue KO tee. This was a fun match from the beginning, we were getting a classic version of Kevin Owens and it looked like he was having fun again in the ring. Austin Theory gave KO one hell of a fight but KO put him away with a pop up power bomb and a stunner. Grayson Waller on commentary during this match great provided great comedy at commentary. 

Winner: Kevin Owens

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Backstage Segment 

Kathy Kelly welcomes Bianca Belair for a interview and during the interview Damage Ctrl viciously attacks her ahead of her upcoming matches against Damage Ctrl's Bailey and Iyo Sky. WWE officials have to come in and break it up. 

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Back from the commercial break and Logan Paul is walking through the arena before stopping to talk to the Street Profits and Bobby Lashley. After their interaction with Logan Paul, B-Fab approaches and ask to speak to Bobby Lashley. Could we be seeing the first female break into the group? 

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Match 2 

Chelsea Green/Piper Niven (Womens Tag Champions) vs. Shotzi/Mystery Partner 

After Shotzi's walkout, her mystery partner is revealed to be none other than Charlotte Flair. Chelsea and Piper gave everything they had to Shotzi and Charlotte but Charlotte proved to be to much for the current tag team champions. Shotzi and Charlotte get a clean victory over them while the Unholy Union watched on from the back. Shotzi and Charlotte have earned a future title match. 

Winner: Shotzi and Charlotte Flair 

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After the break, we get Solo Sikoa with Paul Heyman in the ring for a face to face with John Cena before their showdown at Crown Jewel. Paul Heyman announces that this is the end of days for the Dr. of Thug-a nomics, John Cena. As Paul keeps going on and on about Roman making the call to the enforcer, Solo stops him and takes the mic from Paul. Solo says, "We didn’t come here to talk to them, we came to talk to John Cena, face to face."

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John Cena makes his way to the ring and didn't seem himself while in the ring with Solo. Solo addresses John and says, "Roman told me to give you the mic so you can address the crowd one more time because after tomorrow you won't be able to". John Cena takes the mic, and says he only needs 90 seconds and half a voice to roast him. John calls Solo a bargain basement Taz ripoff and says that’s about 90 seconds and drops the mic and walks off. 

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Damage Ctrl is backstage talking about how easy it was to take out Bianca Belair and Bailey should take her out and replace her at Crown Jewel. Nick Aldis walks up and bars Damage Ctrl from ringside and Iyo walks off saying, "You can handle it" to Bailey. 

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Match 3 

Good Ol' Fashioned Donnybrook match 

Brawling Brutes (Ridge Holland and Butch) vs. Pretty Deadly 

This donnybrook started off with the Brawling Brutes beating Pretty Deadly all the way to the ring where the Brawling Brutes kicked us off with the "10 Beats". We got a lot of back and forth action between these teams with both utilizing all the tool you would expect from a donnybrook. Ultimately, the Brawling Brutes were outsmarted by Pretty Deadly, Yes Boys! 

Winner: Pretty Deadly 

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Backstage Segment 

Nick Aldis is walking throught the arena halls when Paul Heyman walks out of the Bloodline locker room offering "pearls of wisdom" to the new Smackdown General Manager. Paul tells Nick to have plenty of medical personnel on standby cause LA Knight was going to need it after Crown Jewel. Nick asked Paul if he was done and Paul told him, "With LA Knight, hardly".

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After the commercial break we get Nick Aldis overseeing the official weigh in for the US Championship match between Rey Mysterio and Logan Paul. Logan Paul weighs in at 213 pounds and Rey Mysterio weighs in at 175 pounds. After the weigh-in we get the face off between the two competitors and Logan running his mouth to Rey. Rey grabs the mic and says he only has one thing to say and slaps the taste out of Logan's mouth and this is after Nick Aldis told them no contact. Logan takes a wild swing and hits a security guard and Rey comes over the top and hits Logan with the mic. Nick Aldis is visibly frustrated that his weigh-in didn't go as planned. 

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Main Event 

Bianca Belair vs. Bayley (Damage Ctrl) 

Bianca came out aggresive and Bailey uses that to her advantage to start off. Bianca quickly regains her composure and gets the upperhand on Bailey. This match was full of back and forth action and both women getting the best of each other. Bianca hit a big superplex on Bayley that say Bayley and Bayley immediately rolled out of the ring. Bayley the wiley veteran grabbed Bianca's hair and pulled her into the ring post and rolled her into the ring and hit a big elbow from the top. The ending saw Bianca use her hair on Bayley followed by a KOD to secure the victory. After the match Bianca grabs Bayley outside the ring and delivers a KOD to Bayley through the announce table sending a warning to Iyo Sky. 

Winner: Bianca Belair 

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Takeaways 

1. Roman Reigns showed up to work again 

2. Nick Aldis is still doing outstanding as the Smackdown GM

3. Bianca could take the belt away from Iyo but I sense a heel turn

4. Go Home show for Crown Jewel was pre-recorded

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