Tonight’s Friday Night Smackdown is live from WWE ThunderDome at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. WWE announced two big matches for the tonight show.
The Rated-R Superstar Edge is going face Jey Uso in singles match and winner of the match will become the special guest enforcer for Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan Universal Title match at WWE Fastlane.
WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks will defend her title against Nia Jax and also Big E and Apollo Crews will have an sit down interview on tonight’s show.
Here The Full Matches And Results With Short Review:
– Bianca Belair at backstage with Smackdown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks and arguing about why she is defending her title against Nia Jax. She says it’s a bad decision and they have to prepare for WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship Match at WWE Fastlane. Banks blames Reginald for everything and continued arguing. Belair says tonight she won’t come out to save her, Banks says she also not expecting that.
– Sasha Banks defeated Nia Jax via Pinfall and retained her WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship. During the match, Binaca Belair and Shayna Baszler brawled at ringside and caused distraction, then, Baszler tries to hit Banks but she accidentally hit the Jax. Then, Banks hits the jackknife on Nia Jax and pinned to retain the title. After the match, Sasha Banks takes the title and celebrate with Belair on ramp. Baszler looks to be apologizing Nia Jax.
– Kayla Braxton at backstage with Edge and asks about his feeling of having a match in SmackDown after a decade. Edge says it’s crazy, Smackdown is always his home and had his career best moments her including his World Heavyweight Title win over Undertaker. He also had career worst moments that he had handed his World Heavyweight Title and retired but now, he’s back.
Then, Edge talks about putting himself in match between Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan at WWE Fastlane. Edge says Daniel Bryan needs to get fair shot and he will get it if he was a special enforcer for their match. He also addressed Bryan attack and says he would have done the same. Edge also talks about his opponent Jey Uso, says he’s greatest talent but as long as he’s on Roman Reigns shadow he will be in trouble and this time Edge is the trouble.
– Nia Jax is arguing with Shayna Baszler for what happened earlier on her match. Baszler says sorry for that but Jax says she doesn’t want to hear anything. She wants to know what Baszler is going to do about it. Then, Baszler says she’s going have match with Belair tonight and will get hell of a beating to her.
– Seth Rollins in the ring and talks about his return several weeks back with Smackdown roster surrounded around the ring. He says some don’t like him but they did it because they had respect for him. He calls them as idiots and says one took disrespect that is Cesaro. Rollins says he disrespected and humiliated him because he’s jealous of Seth Rollins. He’s jealous because of Seth Rollins success and how loved and also the WrestleMania main eventer. But Cesaro is a abject failure.
Rollins says he’s fighter and not a failure but we can’t say same thing to Cesrao after what happened on last week. He shows the replay of last week how he took out Cesrao with two stomps. Rollins continued to taunt Cesaro and says he’s the biggest watse of potential in WWE history. Then, music hits, here comes the Shinsuke Nakamura.
Seth Rollins rants about Nakamura disrespecting him and warns him to stay out of the ring. Nakamura enters the ring and says shut up to Rollins. Then, Seth tries to attack Nakamura but he escapes and sent him to the floor. Then, Nakamura taunts and welcomes him back to the ring, then, Rollins rushes to the ring but Nakamura takes him out and hits kinsasha.
– Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio defeated The Street Profits via Pinfall. After the match, Dominik and Rey Mysterio celebrates but Otis and Chad Gable interrupts them. They confronted Mysterios and hope they didn’t get title shot before them. Gable recalls how they took out them but Rey and Dominik attacked them.
– Otis and Chad Gable defeated Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio via Pinfall. After the match Otis and Chad Gable cleebrates in the ring. SmackDown Tag Team Champions Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler says they will welcome any challengers at any time. Then, Street Profits have words with the champs.
– Sami Zyan at backstage and ranting about his conspiracy documentary film crew and aslo mentions his match against King Corbin tonight. Sami stops Kevin Owens and asks if he reconsider to involve in his documentary. Owens says he know Sami for long time and if he considered all this might be a fault. Sami won’t take any blame for anything and continues to blame them. Then, Owens asks who ‘they, are, but Sami didn’t answer anything. Sami invites Kevin Owens to be ringside at his match to watch. Sami says if Owens didn’t find any suspicious, then, he will drop all his conspiracy stuff.
– Daniel Bryan in ring and hypes Edge vs. Jey Uso match tonight. Bryan says we all what will happen of Jey Uso wins tonight but Edge is an unltimate opportunist and he will whatever it takes to get what he wants, and what he wants is to have one-on-one match against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 37. Bryan gets it and he knows Edge doens’t want to face Bryan and he thinks he can beat Roman Reigns. But Bryan knows he will beat Roman Reigns and he will do it this Sunday at Fastlane, make him tap out just like he did to Jey Uso. Then, music hits, here comes the Universal Champion Roman Reigns along with Paul Heyman.
Roman Reigns says he can deal with Bryan’s little lies, like saying he’s ambitious and deserving WrestleMania main event. But can’t brag Tribal Chief name and lie on tapping him out. Reigns says he no one in his entire career made him tap out and he would rather lose his arm than to tap out. He would rather die than to tap out for someone like Daniel Bryan. Then, Bryan says everyone think they are invisible until they’re not, unbeatable until they lose and untappable until they tap out. Bryan says he doesn’t want Reigns to die but promises that he’s going to Roman Reigns at WWE Fastlane to win the Universal Title.
King Corbin defeated Sami Zyan via Pinfall. After the match, Kevin Owens tells Cole that he didn’t find any suspicious against Sami Zyan. We see, Sami Zyan arguing with referee and ask Owens if he saw any conspiracy stuff against him. Owens defends referee and says Sami just go mad for things didn’t go in his way.
Sami rants about this but Owens says let go off this. Sami then attacks Owens from behind and his a helluva kick. Sami rants at him and blames referee for everything. Sami says Owens doesn’t want to see truth and that’s his problem.
– Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Seth Rollins match confirmed for WWE Fastlane 2021.
– Big E and Apollo Crews are in different locations and Micheal Cole leading the interview from the announcers table. Crews asks if they are ever going to settle thier differences. Then, Big E says that’s over, he doens’t want to talk about vengeance. He says Big E has two days to enjoy crispness of air, enjoy normal functioning of his limbs because new future is dark and bleak. Big E is confident that Sunday he will retain his Intercontinental Title.
Apollo Crews says Big E should think twice before he talks about Nigerian Royalty with such disrespect. Crews talks about his Nigerian Royalty history that there is proverb that his royal grandfather have for those who try to harm him. That they fill your mouth with a razor and you will. Exactly the same thing happen to Big E at Sunday. Crews says he will crack Big E face and he will see Nigerian Royalty in Crews and he will get what he deserves finally.
Big E says that there’s is no waiting till Sunday and yelling at Apollo Crews. Then, Crews says find him. Big E finds Crews and attacked him. Big E unloads on him and destroyed him until officials came to seperate them.
– Edge defeated Jey Uso via Pinfall and he will be the special guest enforcer for Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan match at WWE Fastlane. After the match, Roman Reigns spears Edge and taunts Daniel Bryan, who is at announcers table. Then, Bryan tries to get into the ring but Jey Uso attacked him and throws inside the ring. Then, Reigns hits spear to Daniel Bryan and stands tall. Roman Reigns raises the Universal Championship and Smackdown goes off air.
