Coming off of an intriguing post-Payback Monday Night RAW, the WWE continued their tour of Virginia when Smackdown came to the Norfolk Scope for Tuesday night’s Smackdown taping.
The WWE billed this show heavily around Roman Reigns’ return after he was kept off of Monday Night RAW this week, and out of the main event angle that featured both Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, the other two members from the Shield. After turning on Rusev on Monday night, would Lana once again appear with the Show-Off Dolph Ziggler?
Here are the full results from the May 21st Smackdown taping:
– Smackdown began immediately when Roman Reigns came down to cut a promo. In a surprising twist, Reigns officially announced that he will be entering the Money in the Bank Ladder Match next month. WWE Money in the Bank takes place Sunday, June 14th from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
After Reigns’ declaration, the Director of Operations Kane came down to the ring to announce the main event of Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt, and to give Reigns the night off.
– The Lucha Dragons defeated Los Matadores, The Ascension and Cesaro and Tyson Kid in a fatal-four-way tag team match.
On Monday Night RAW, it was announced that six teams will be competing in the first ever Tag Team Elimination Chamber Match less than two weeks away when the WWE brings back Elimination Chamber as an exclusive WWE Network special pay-per-view. The Tag Team Champions New Day as well as the Primetime Players were both at ringside for commentary.
– Lana and Dolph Ziggler were once again seen together and flirting backstage, this led up to Ziggler’s match. Dolph Ziggler defeated King Barrett and an excited Lana cheered Ziggler on from ringside with no sign of Rusev anywhere.
– WWE’s raven-haired diva Paige returned on RAW to help aid Nikki Bella from an attack by Naomi and Tamina Snuka. Paige came out to cut a promo saying that the Divas Championship with hers and that she is next in line for a spot — Paige won a No. 1 Contenders Battle Royal on RAW, but was attacked by Naomi after the match and put on the shelf for a month (she was really off filming a movie for WWE Studios).
Naomi and Tamina came out to attack Paige, but then Nikki Bella made the save, returning the favor from Monday night.
– R-Truth defeated Stardust. R-Truth received a good pop.
*Note — Stardust (Cody Rhodes) has pretty much lost every match he’s been in since his break-up and feud with his older half-brother Goldust. My best guess is that all of the losses will eventually make “Cody” snap, forgive his brother and go back to being himself again. Stardust was great at first, but is just not working anymore.*
– The Met(G)a Powers (Macho Mandow and Curtis Axelmania) defeated Heath Slater and Adam Rose
– Dean Ambrose defeated Bray Wyatt — it was the first one-on-one victory for Ambrose over Wyatt since the two first began feuding at WWE Hell in a Cell last October. J&J Security along with WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins interfered to attack Ambrose, but Reigns came out and made the save by fending them off.
Ambrose then hit a Dirty Deeds on Wyatt and got the 1-2-3 for the victory.
