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SmackDown After Mania: January 3rd, 2024
Fallout from a stupendous WrestleMania! + Multiple debuts and returns + Roman Reigns reveals The Next Big Step! All happening in this wild episode of SmackDown!
WRESTLEMANIA 17 WAS LAST WEEKEND!
(this episode was meant to be published on Apr. 8th but was delayed)
🔵 The Mysterios ride the wave of success to a brawl with The Usos: 10min*
The SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos, who retained their titles at WrestleMania this past weekend, open SmackDown to tell the WWE Universe that the Universal Champion and winner of the main event of WrestleMania Roman Reigns will be revealing his next "big" step at the end of the show!
This announcement was immediately interrupted by a victorious team from WrestleMania, The Mysterios!
Rey and Dominik Mysterio let The Usos know that their next big step is them while pointing at the Usos' Tag Titles!
The Usos knock The Mysterios down on the mat and mop the floor with their bodies in a vicious fashion!
There is no chance in hell The Mysterios will forget about this cheap shot!
*Still to come: Sonya Deville's Farewell Speech after losing the Career vs Career match at WrestleMania! Tonight!
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Drew McIntyre relishes his WrestleMania victory.
Drew McIntyre, who retained his United States title at WrestleMania in a Ladder Match, takes part of a backstage interview where he celebrated his victory and called out the SmackDown Locker Room to come get a 'piece' of the warrior!
*Coming up next! Ridge Holland, Sheamus and Butch look to recover from their loss at WrestleMania next on SmackDown!
🔵 Gunther debuts after Sheamus & Ridge Holland w/ Butch vs. The Street Profits: 8min*
The Street Profits are the first step in the way of Sheamus, Holland, and Butch who look to erase their loss at WrestleMania and build some momentum!
Sheamus and Ridge Holland defeat The Street Profits in an exciting back-and-forth action!
After the match, an extremely livid and highly disappointed Street Profits call out everybody and promise to beat them up right there and then, to the bad of luck of The Street Profits, a debuting Gunther and Ludwig Kaiser come out to drop The Street Profits on the ground with authority! Gunther is truly menacing!
*Coming up: What's the next Big Step for Roman Reigns after defeating Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 17?! We will find out tonight!
🔹 VIDEO: The Story of Lacey Evans - Chapter 1
Lacey Evans is backstage and she cuts a promo about her childhood. She says her father suffered from mental health and her mom got caught in the middle of it all and tried to be the best mom she can be.
But all of the abuse got to her mother and before she started elementary school, she had to move. Her mother picked her up from school and they all left without her father knowing. They went from women’s shelters for the rest of her childhood. But moving around as much as she did made her realize she can adapt and she can either live with it or give up. She is different from all the rest.
She went through a lot her life and that is what has made her what she is today. A mother, daughter, sister, wife, US Marine and WWE Superstar. She says that doesn’t make her better than any of the other superstars but that doesn’t make them better than her.
🔵 Rhea Ripley comes face-to-face with the Undisputed WWE Women's Champion Charlotte Flair: 9min*
The Undisputed WWE Women's Champion Charlotte Flair defeated Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey to unify the SmackDown and Raw Women's Titles at WrestleMania!
But when you're the omni-champion, it means there's an even bigger target on your back from the Raw and SmackDown locker rooms combined!
Tonight on SmackDown, Charlotte Flair continues praising herself as The Opportunity and how everybody should look up to her and only her. This continuous way to address the WWE Superstars has become unbearable already for Rhea Ripley!
At WrestleMania, Rhea Ripley defeated Sonya Deville in a Career vs. Career Match, and tonight she looks to move on to the title picture as she steps up to Charlotte Flair.
There's a long history between Flair and Ripley, but will Charlotte Flair accept Rhea Ripley's challenge? Well, no answer was given by THE CHAMPION Charlotte Flair!!
*Still to come: Roman Reigns to reveal The Next "Big" Step! And Sonya Deville's Farewell Speech!
🔵 Bianca Belair & Liv Morgan vs. Asuka & Xia Li: 5min*
Just a few days removed from WrestleMania, Asuka & Xia Li join forces against Bianca Belair & Liv Morgan, who as of last Monday night on Raw will be challenging Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks for the Women's Tag Team Titles!
Bianca Belair and Liv Morgan defeat Asuka and Xia Li when Bianca Belair pinned Asuka.
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Sami Zayn will turn SmackDown upside down.
The continuous streak of bad luck and unfortune makes Sami Zayn despise SmackDown and promisses to make it "his" show going forward!
Sami Zayn lost the US Title, lost at WrestleMania, lost to Drew McIntyre last week on SmackDown, and lost his influence when Sonya Deville's career ended at WrestleMania...
🔵 Damian Priest vs. Drew Gulak: 4min*
The rivalry between Drew Gulak and Damian Priest culminates in a one-on-one normal match on SmackDown as Drew Gulak demands revenge against the unhinged Damian Priest.
Damian Priest knocks Drew Gulak down to pick up the win.
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Edge reminisces his 'old days' as he navigates his different pathways going forward
After he and Randy Orton lost to The Usos at WrestleMania, Edge finds peace in a dark room where he reminisces his old days and everything that made him 'Great' while looking into the future...
🔵 Alpha Academy of Otis & Chad Gable debut against The Viking Raiders: 5min*
Last week on SmackDown after a six-man tag team match, Chad Gable took his rivalry with Big E to the next level by having a returning Otis take out Big E in a brutal way, even leading to the injury of Big E's neck that took him out of action indefinitely and made him miss the US Title Ladder match the next day at WrestleMania.
Chad Gable revealed that all those events were orchestrated by him and he is now on a mission to take Otis to new heights thanks to his "Alpha Academy"
Alpha Academy enters tag team action with The Viking Raiders!
Alpha Academy defeats The Viking Raiders!
+ After the Match: Raquel Rodriguez debuts on SmackDown
NXT's Raquel Rodriguez makes her entrance on SmackDown as a form of introducing herself to the WWE Universe!
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Asuka kicks Xia Li down on her face.
Backstage on SmackDown, an excited and smiley Asuka listens to Xia Li rant about how Asuka doesn't listen to her and how their team can't function. Asuka cuts Xia Li in the middle of her rant and asks her "Why. Are. We. Teaming?!!! YEAAA" and gives Xia Li a kick to the side of the head before laughing her way out! LOL
🔵 Sonya Deville reveals a shocking twist of events during her Farewell Speech: 6min*
At WrestleMania, Sonya Deville was defeated by Rhea Ripley in a Career vs Career match where Deville's career was allegedly over in FBW.
However, during the Farewell Speech of Sonya Deville where she was meant to say goodbye to the WWE Universe, Sonya said "Tonight.... My..... *sighs* My......Career....in WWE..... is.... *almost bursts out crying as the fans chant and sing "Nananana Goodbye"*... over...... as a WWE Official HAHAHA"
Sonya Deville shocked the entire WWE Universe when she revealed that she will remain a WWE Superstar and only her career as a WWE Official is over... for now...
🔵 MAIN EVENT: Roman Reigns manhandles Rey Mysterio as a form of celebration: 10min*
The Universal Champion Roman Reigns makes his grand entrance on SmackDown for the first time since defeating Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania!
Roman Reigns is out with Paul Heyman and the Usos to reveal the next Big Step for The Bloodline post-WrestleMania!
But before they could get into that, Rey Mysterio, who was destroyed with his son by The Usos earlier on SmackDown, comes out to confront The Bloodline and steps up to Roman Reigns in defense of his family despite of his broken body courtesy of The Usos.
Roman Reigns makes a laugh out of Rey Mysterio, calling him a Small Guy for the "Big Step" of Roman Reigns.
The Head of the Table offered Rey Mysterio two choices, either Rey walks out immediately or Roman Reigns will make him walk-out and never be able to walk again. It turns out the choice was never in the hands of Rey Mysterio, who was jumped by The Bloodline nevertheless.
There is no stopping Roman Reigns as the mountain top of WWE....
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