The 900th episode of Smackdown saw the returns of the Undertaker and Edge, an Intercontinental title match between The Miz and Dolph Ziggler and a brand invasion.
How did Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan address the situation between Smackdown and RAW? What happened when The Phenom returned to Smackdown? How well received was Edge’s return? Read on to find out exactly what happened .
Segment: Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan
Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan make their entrance to kick off this very special episode of Smackdown. Shane McMahon welcomes everyone to the 900th episode and Daniel Bryan further hyped the returns of the Undertaker and Edge.
Shane McMahon started things off by announcing that the Intercontinental title match would be the first one on the show.
Intercontinental Title Match: The Miz with Maryse vs. Dolph Ziggler (Champion)
The Miz made his entrance first with Maryse by his side. Highlights of The Miz’s title defence against Dolph Ziggler two months ago were shown. Dolph Ziggler came out next. Maryse seemed to be discussing things with The Miz in the ring before the match began. Both wrestlers get introduced, with Dolph getting unanimously cheered by the crowd.
The two started things off by locking horns in the middle of the ring. After a brief back and forth, Dolph Ziggler rolled The Miz up for a quick pin. The Miz bounced right back into it however, but narrowly avoided a superkick before getting rolled up for another pin attempt once again.
The Miz also avoided a dropkick by Dolph Ziggler and the two men were left staring at each other, back on their feet as we cut to commercials.
Back from commercials, a flying axehandle attempt by the Miz off the top rope got countered by a dropkick from Dolph Ziggler. We were shown a clip of The Miz driving Dolph Ziggler into the barricading with full force during the commercials.
Back to live action, The Miz connected with a neck breaker and proceeded to continue working on the left leg of Dolph Ziggler. Dolph finally managed to kick The Miz away and started to recover from the beatdown as he avoided an ‘Awesome Clothesline’ by The Miz. The Miz’s own leg appeared to be hurt.
A couple of clotheslines by Dolph Ziggler coupled with an Avalanche ended up in a swinging neck breaker and finally culminated in an elbow drop on The Miz.
Dolph Ziggler then locked in a sleeper hold on to the Miz before The Miz got to the ropes to break the hold. A quick pin attempt by Dolph saw The Miz kick out. The Miz then landed a big boot to Ziggler’s face and pinned him, using the ropes for leverage. The referee saw this, however, and ended up reprimanding the Miz for it.
Miz kicked out of another pin attempt by Ziggler after a famouser as we cut to commercials.
Back from the commercials, the two men were trading punches in the middle of the ring. The Miz got the upper hand. He then taunted Daniel Bryan’s Yes! chants and landed a bunch of “Yes kicks” to Dolph Ziggler, to which the crowd replied with resounding “No” chants instead.
The Miz then connected with a Running Knee to the face of Ziggler, it was followed by a Jaw dropping finale connnecting and a Nearfall.
Realising he hadn’t done enough to put Ziggler away, The Miz attempted a Figure-Four Leglock which saw Ziggler make it out of it. Miz got rolled up again by Ziggler. which the Miz kicked out of only to get hit by The Zig Zag instead.
Another pinfall attempt by Ziggler saw Miz put his foot on the bottom rope to break it. Ziggler started going for The Superkick, which was when Kenny and Mikey of The Spirit Squad interfered, which forced Ziggler to superkick them instead.
Miz managed to lock in the figure-four leglock and it seemed like he might have been able to pick up the win but Ziggler made it to the ropes and kicked out.
Miz got rolled up by Ziggler after Miz attempted another Figure-Four leglock but Maryse, being at ringside, pushed them away which resulted in The Miz pinning Ziggler instead. Miz picked up the win AND the Intercontinental championship!
The Miz was jubilant and got congratulated by his wife Maryse and The Spirit Squad at ringside while a distraught Ziggler looked on. The Miz will face Sami Zayn for the title at Survivor Series!
Result: The Miz defeated Dolph Ziggler and is the new Intercontinental Champion
Segment: Alexa Bliss backstage with Daniel Bryan
Backstage, Alexa Bliss was shown complaining to Daniel Bryan about the referee’s decision for her match against Becky Lynch.
Daniel Bryan acknowledged the problem with the finish, expressed annoyance at being tormented by Alexa repeatedly over the incident and told her that she would get her rematch but that she needed to focus on Survivor Series for the time being.
Coach Natalya walked in blowing her whistle and quoted song lyrics once again. This time it was Tubthumping by Chumbawamba, where she told Alexa to “Get back up” every time she fell down. Alexa expressed her displeasure at Natalya quoting song lyrics and stormed off. Natalya pretended to not know what Chumbawamba was.
Match: Kalisto vs. Oney Lorcan
Kalisto, who will face Brian Kendrick at Survivor Series for the Cruiserweight title, walked out to face the NXT Superstar Oney Lorcan, who was already in the ring.
Kalisto started getting mauled almost immediately into the match by Lorcan as soon as the bell rang. Lorcan connected with a series of punches as well as a half and half suplex. He then pinned Kalisto for a near fall.
Kalisto attempted a high flying move but slipped off of the ropes and was immediately pinned again by Lorcan who was brimming with energy, but Kalisto kicked out. Kalisto finally got some of his own offence in and connected with his finisher, the Salida De Sol, pinned Lorcan and that was it.
Result: Kalisto defeated Oney Lorcan via Pinfall
A small teaser of The Undertaker’s return was shown.
Segment: King Booker addresses Smackdown’s Tag Teams
Backstage, Smackdown’s tag teams were shown dressed up in Smackdown shirts and singlets hyping each other up. Heath Slater brought out a motivational speaker, who was revealed to be “King Booker” Booker T, who then started speaking in verbose.
He was interrupted by Breezango, who called Booker T “King Booger” and a “fashion disaster”. They then handed Booker T a different outfit to wear instead.
Booker T blew his nose on the outfit, proceeded to call them Carribean rejects, told them to be a part of the team and then handed them Smackdown shirts, which he ordered them to wear as the rest of the teams chanted “All Hail King Booker”.
Match: Nikki Bella vs. Carmella
Nikki Bella made her entrance as we cut to commercials. Back from the commercials, Carmella made her entrance as well.
The match started off with the two women locking up in the middle of the ring, with neither being able to get the upper hand, trying to push each other on to the ropes as the referee broke it up. Carmella taunted Nikki by doing the “You can’t see me” hand gesture in front of her. This caused Nikki to chase Carmella around the ring.
Back in the ring, Carmella beat Nikki down for a bit until Nikki got the upper hand and landed a suplex. She then tried to go for a baseball slide on to Carmella who was recovering outside the ring but Carmella connected with a neck breaker instead. Nikki’s neck looked hurt.
Back inside the ring, Carmella tried to go for a pin on Nikki which Nikki kicked out of. Carmella used the ropes for leverage to wear down Nikki’s neck some more but the referee broke it up. Carmella then went for another pin attempt, with Nikki kicking out again.
Carmella proceeded to put Nikki into a chokehold in the middle of the ring but Nikki Bella stood up and got Carmella off of her by driving her into the turnbuckle.
Carmella wasted no time getting back into the match as she used the ropes to break down Nikki’s neck some more. She then mocked Nikki’s dancing and went right back to choking her out. Nikki got on to her feet and broke the hold by grabbing on to the ropes.
Carmella tried going for a Bronco Blast but Nikki moved out of the way, causing Carmella to damage her feet. The two women were seen lying in the ring, recovering from the damage they had caused each other.
At this point, Charlotte, dressed in a red Raw shirt, was seen making her way to the ringside seats from the crowd, waving her ticket around signifying that she was there as a spectator. We cut to commercials.
Back from the commercials, Charlotte was seen sitting at ringside cheering Nikki on as Nikki connected with a clothesline onto Carmella.
She then Irish whipped Carmella on to the barricading. Charlotte mockingly cheered Nikki on from the crowd. Nikki finally had enough of it as she pulled Charlotte out of the crowd and started beating her down in the middle of the ring. The bell rang signalling the end of the ongoing match, presumably in a no-contest.
The rest of the women on Raw came out at this point, dressed in red Raw shirts themselves, to help Charlotte out. Sasha Banks, Alicia Fox, Dana Brooke and Nia Jax all came into the ring to the aid of Charlotte. Carmella tried to help fight the Raw women off of a downed Nikki but failed.
This prompted the other women of Smackdown’s team (Natalya, Naomi, Alexa Bliss and Becky Lynch) to run out to help their fellow Smackdown counterparts out. A brawl ensued which ended up with the Smackdown women standing tall in the middle of the ring as the Raw women made their retreat. We cut to commercials.
Result: No contest due to outside interference
Tag Team Match: Breezango, American Alpha, The Hype Bros, Jimmy and Jey Uso (with Health Slater and Rhyno) vs. The Spirit Squad, The Vaudevillains, The Ascension and The Headbangers
A video package hyping up the Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg match at Survivor Series was shown before this match.
Smackdown’s chosen tag teams for Survivor Series go up against teams that missed out on the opportunity. We cut to commercials as the teams made their entrance. Back from the commercials, Jey Uso tagged himself in and started beating down Mikey. Jimmy Uso got tagged in and almost got a pinfall on Mike, but Mikey kicked out.
Mikey tagged in Simon Goth off the Vaudevillains. Jey Uso got tagged in again and connected with a Lariat press. Jey Uso continued to beat down on Simon Gotch. Mojo Rawley tagged himself in at this point and Simon Gotch ran into a scoop slam by him.
Mojo Rawley connected with a sitting Senton on Simon Gotch as Zack Ryder got tagged into the match. Neckbreaker on Simon Gotch by Zack Ryder, he then tagged Mojo Rawley back in.
Mojo Rawley appeared to get more hyped every time Simon Gotch hit him and beat him down. Zack Ryder got tagged in but Simon Gotch managed to tag one-half of The Ascension, Viktor into the ring.
Viktor started beating down Ryder in the corner but Ryder thwarted his offence and landed a missile dropkick and a wrecking ball dropkick at ringside. All 8 teams nearly came to blows with the referee trying to separate them at ringside, as we cut to commercials.
Back from commercials. Konnor and Zack Ryder were going at it inside the ring. Konnor took out nearly everyone standing in the opposing corner as Mosher from The Headbangers got tagged in. Chad Gable was tagged in on the other side.
Almost immediately, Chad Gable got power slammed by Mosher as Thrasher went on the top rope to attempt a high flying move. Gable took out both of them, which started an all out brawl between the 8 tag teams.
Spirit Squad double teamed Gable but got wiped out by Breezango. Ascension came into the ring and tossed out Breezango. Hype Bros wiped them out, which prompted the Vaudevillains to join the fray, but the Hype Bros took out the Vaudevillains as well.
This meant that the Usos were left in the ring by themselves and took out all their opponents at ringside with a Uso Crazy. Chad Gable held the ropes down for them to perform the move. Gable, still the legal man then connected with the bridge on Mosh in the ring and pinned him for the victory.
Result: Breezango, American Alpha, The Hype Bros, Jimmy and Jey Uso (with Health Slater and Rhyno) defeated The Spirit Squad, The Vaudevillains, The Ascension and The Headbangers.
Segment: The Cutting Edge with Edge, Shane McMahon and the rest of the Smackdown Men’s team (Dean Ambrose, AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton) with James Ellsworth
Edge made his entrance to a huge ovation from the crowd, sporting long hair and a beard. We cut to commercials.
Back from the commercials, Edge spoke about how he helped made Smackdown and thus had vested interests in Smackdown’s team’s performance against their Raw counterparts. He then called the Smackdown 5-man team out, which prompted the combined entrance of the Smackdown’s Men’s team with their mascot James Ellsworth.
Edge spoke about how he had been following Smackdown since the brand split and spoke about it being the land of opportunity. He then shook James Ellsworth’s hand, much to the dismay of AJ Styles. James Ellsworth asked Edge to do a 5-second pose with him. Edge nearly obliged.
AJ Styles cut him off and called the 5-second pose stupid. He then said that nobody cared about either Ellsworth or Edge. He asked Edge to do his job. Edge then started to speak to Randy Orton and accused him of being Bray Wyatt’s puppet. Bray Wyatt told Edge that the Randy he once knew was dead.
Edge then told Shane McMahon that he had work to do if he intended the Survivor Series team to ‘survive’, Shane McMahon replied by telling the team that everyone had to be on the same page. He then proceeded to tell AJ Styles that the team needed to stick together.
AJ Styles then said that he had decided to be the bigger man co-exist with the team. He then called Dean Ambrose a hothead and accused him of not sticking to the plan by attacking a Superstar from Raw during their appearance on the red brand.
Dean Ambrose then told AJ Styles that they would pick their rivalry back up from where it dropped off after the team won at Survivor Series. AJ Styles replied by saying that he might not play nice at Survivor Series.
The Undertaker’s music hit and he made his entrance to the ring as Edge and the rest of Team Smackdown looked on.
He then proceeded to stare Shane McMahon down. He then lauded Shane McMahon as the man who has no fear and said that there could be no one better to be the commissioner of Smackdown. The Undertaker then said that Wrestlemania would no longer define who he was.
The Undertaker said that he was back “Taking souls and digging holes” and reminded everyone that Survivor Series was where The Undertaker was born. He further went on to say Smackdown was his home. He then started to state the second reason for him being out as the crowd broke out in “Undertaker” chants.
The Undertaker said that there was no reason to fear failure at Survivor Series, but told the team that if they failed they’d have reason to fear The Deadman himself. The Undertaker then warned them that Team Raw better “Rest in Peace” at Survivor Series.
Undertaker’s music hit and that’s a wrap!
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