WWE Friday Night SmackDown Review: 11/07

LA Knight Starts the Show, Roxanne Perez VS Sol Ruca VS Alexa Bliss VS Kairi Sane

LA Knight kicked off the final SmackDown before Saturday Night’s Main Event as The Megastar cut a promo on Seth “Freakin” Rollins and company! LA said Seth can’t do anything on his own anymore, hence all the backup, and that he’s going to get the job done tonight! This brought out Paul Heyman who wanted to say a few words, but he was soon scared off by Solo Sikoa as The Bloodline also threatened Knight! However, Jimmy Uso then arrived to make the save, leaving Nick Aldis to book a Tag Team match for the show’s Main Event! I liked Solo’s involvement here!

Grade: B-

After Alexa Bliss told Charlotte Flair to be in her corner, we got a little preview of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships clash at Evolution as Roxanne Perez, Sol Ruca, Kairi Sane, and Alexa Bliss fought in a Fatal 4-Way! This was a decent match, Sol Ruca was the standout, she is one of the absolute best in NXT, and she can soar high on the Main Roster, too! Roxanne did well, Kairi got plenty of offense in, but the big turning point in the match came when Charlotte Flair wiped out Raquel Rodriguez, opening the door for Bliss to drop Sane with a Sister Abigail to get the win! That probably means that Bliss and Flair aren’t winning tomorrow, though!

Grade: B-

WWE Tag Team Championships: The Street Profits VS The Wyatt Sick6, Jelly Roll’s Live Concert Gets Interrupted

We then went straight into a Championship match as The Street Profits put their WWE Tag Team Championships on the line against The Wyatt Sick6! This was a rematch from a few weeks ago, with their first encounter ending in a No Contest after all of the other teams got involved. Thankfully here, that wasn’t the case, meaning we were able to get a decent enough match! The Profits were definitely the stronger of the two teams, that’s not really a surprise, but Joe Gacy and Dexter Lumis also worked well together before, in an interesting turn of events, The Wyatt Sick6 pinned Montez Ford to get the win and become the brand-new WWE Tag Team Champions! I didn’t expect this, it’s an interesting move, but we’ll see how it goes!

Credit: WWE

Grade: C+

The rest of the SmackDown Tag Team Division certainly weren’t happy about the outcome of the previous match, and DIY weren’t happy about the fact that Andrade and Rey Fenix have now joined their already stacked Division! Jelly Roll was then set to perform one of his songs in front of his hometown, but it didn’t last very long as Logan Paul interrupted to talk about how disgusted he is to see Jelly Roll try and benefit from WWE Superstars’ hard work! This brought out Randy Orton who was super fired up to defend his friend, but he just got floored with a Claymore from Drew McIntyre for his troubles! Logan then tried to beat up Randy himself, but this is when Jelly got physical, resulting in security having to pull Paul away before he destroyed the concert set! This should’ve been horrendous, this shouldn’t have been on this show, and yet it was the best thing on it! This was strong!

Credit: WWE

Grade: B

Aleister Black VS R-Truth, Tiffany Stratton and Trish Stratus Come Face-to-Face

After Randy Orton personally invited Jelly Roll to be in his corner at Saturday Night’s Main Event, Aleister Black made his way down to the ring as he was ready to go one-on-one with R-Truth! This was not good, the match itself was okay, very average, but the finish was just horrendous as for whatever, Ron Killings handed Black his first loss since coming back to the company! Why?! This was so poor!

Grade: D-

Damian Priest’s attempts to tell Aleister Black to calm down resulted in him getting floored before Tiffany Stratton and Trish Stratus had one last segment together before their WWE Women’s Championship clash at Evolution! Tiffany said she wants to beat Trish so she can prove that she is one of the GOAT’s whist Stratus is adamant that she’s going to become an 8-time Women’s Champion! Naomi’s music then hit as she wanted to remind everyone that she holds “all the power”, but all that happened was Miss Money in the Bank got beaten up by Jade Cargill! This also wasn’t very good!

Grade: C-

The Bloodline VS LA Knight and Jimmy Uso

And in the Main Event, The Bloodline’s Solo Sikoa and JC Mateo looked to take out the duo of Jimmy Uso and LA Knight! This match only got about 10 minutes, but that’s all it needed, it was solid, LA Knight had a good hot tag, the crowd were behind him, and yeah, totally solid! The best bit, though, came with Paul Heyman as The Oracle showed up to try and distract LA Knight, but this instead opened the door for Jimmy Uso to steal a roll-up win over Solo Sikoa! This infuriated Solo, but he was then dealt with by LA Knight before Knight got completely destroyed by a Bron Breakker Spear and a Bronson Reed TSUNAMI! Rollins-Knight is really the only match I’m excited about at SNME!

Grade: B-