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WWE SMACKDOWN REPORT: HE'S BACK, WHO NEEDS TO QUALIFY FOR MONEY IN THE BANK?, BIG E VERSUS CREWS, SAMI AND OWENS NEXT WEEK, AND MORE

We are back and Crews with a reverse chin lock.  Big E with elbows and Crews with a drop kick for a near fall.  Crews grabs Big E by the hair.  Crews punches Big E in the forehead.  Crews with a reverse chin lock.  Crews takes Big E to the mat and gets a near fall.  Crews misses a splash into the corner.  Crews blocks the overhead belly-to-belly suplex and Crews with a suplex for a near fall.   Crews mocks Big E and continues to kick Big E.  Crews traps the arms but Big E turns it into an overhead belly-to-belly suplex or two.  Big E avoids Crews on a clothesline and hits a belly-to-belly suplex.  Big E with a Warrior Splash.  Big E with an elbow but Crews with a punch.

Crews avoids the UranagE and Crews with a German suplex or three.  Crews gets a near fall.  Big E with a stretch muffler and Azeez pushes the ropes to help Crews get there to force a break.  Crews with an enzuigiri.  Crews goes to the apron and then he goes up top but Big E stops Crews with a punch.  Big E goes to the turnbuckles.  Crews with punches and forearms.  Crews kicks Big E off the turnbuckles.  Crews goes up top and hits a frog splash for a near fall.  Crews with an arm trap German suplex for a near fall.  

Big E goes to the floor and Crews goes to the floor and runs into a UranagE.  Crews is sent back into the ring but Azeez sends Big E into the ringside barrier and the referee stops Azeez and sends him to the back.  Crews with a rollup for a near fall.  Big E with a Big Ending for the three count.

Winner:  Big E

We take a look back at the Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn match from Hell in a Cell.

Kayla Braxton is with Sami Zayn in the back.

Sami apologizes for being so excited.  Sami says this persecution has gotten him to think that the world is a twisted place with chaos and injustice.  Sami says there is order in all of this.  The universe is a machine to deliver justice.  

Kayla asks Sami about having to face Kevin Owens next week in a Money in the Bank Qualifying Match.

Sami is shocked to hear what Kayla told him.  He says he put an end to Kevin Owens and now you are trying to stick it to me again.  You are messing with karma and the cosmos.  Sami says this is the worst week of his life.

Sonya Deville makes her way to the ring.as we go to commercial.

We are back and we are told that Jimmy Uso will face Dolph Ziggler.

Adam Pearce is in the back and Sami Zayn enters.  

Sami wants to know why does he have to beat Kevin Owens again to qualify for the Money in the Bank match.  Sami says he has done so much he should be in the match without having to qualify or just give him the contract.

Adam says that Sami has to face Owens next week and it will be a Last Man Standing Match.

Sami asks if being handed the contract is off the table and Adam tells him it is off the table.

Sami tells Adam he is playing a dangerous game . . . against karma.

We go back to the ring.  

Sonya is ready to announce the first entrant from Smackdown in Money in the Bank.  It is two time winner, Carmella.

Carmella thanks Sonya for making the obvious choice.  She tells Sonya she has a note for her.  She is also the most beautiful woman in all of WWE so she tells Sonya she can do the introduction the right way.

Liv Morgan comes out and she wants to get this straight.  Declaring yourself as the most beautiful woman in WWE automatically gets you an opportunity?  Liv says she beat this conceited princess last week.  She says she knows she belongs in the Money in the Bank match waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Carmella.

Carmella laughs at what Liv just said.  Carmella says this match is for the real stars.  She tells Liv to look at her and then for Liv to look at herself.

Liv punches Carmella and Sonya separates them.

Sonya says that is the way to make a statement.  Carmella is in the match, but Liv can prove that she belongs in the match by facing Carmella right now.

Match Number Three:  Liv Morgan versus Carmella in a Liv Gets to Prove if She Belongs in Money in the Bank Match

The match is joined in progress and Carmella slaps Liv while demanding she be told how beautiful she is.  They return to the ring and Carmella chokes Liv in the ropes.  Carmella with an Irish whip and Liv with a back breaker and she sends Carmella into the turnbuckles.  Liv's knee gives out when she lands on the mat and Carmella with a super kick.  Carmella with a back elbow in the corner.

We see Natalya and Tamina staring in the general direction of a monitor in the back.

Carmella gets a near fall.  Carmella slaps Liv and pie faces her.  Carmella pie faces Liv.  Liv with ObLIVion and Carmella gets her foot on the rope to stop the count.  Carmella with a rollup for a near fall.  Carmella with a kick.  Liv kicks Carmella and Carmella stops Liv on the turnbuckles.  Carmella with a super kick and Carmella with a handstandcanrana and Liv rolls through and gets the three count.

Winner:  Liv Morgan

Jimmy Uso is in the Gorilla Position and Kayla asks him if the pressure is on.  

Jimmy says go through it and he dedicates his victory to the family and Jey.  He tells Roman he hopes he is watching.

We go to commercial.

Match Number Four:  Dolph Ziggler (with Robert Roode) versus Jimmy Uso

They lock up and Uso with a shoulder tackle and he gets a near fall.  Jimmy with punches.  Ziggler gets to the apron and Jimmy breaks.  Ziggler with a waist lock and Uso with a side head lock.  Uso with a shoulder tackle and a dragon whip for a near fall.  Ziggler gets to the apron to force a break.  Ziggler with an elbow and punch.  Ziggler runs Uso across the top rope and hits a drop kick for a near fall.  Ziggler with a reverse chin lock and body scissors.  Jimmy with elbows and Ziggler pulls Jimmy down by the hair and hits an elbow drop for a near fall.  Ziggler with a reverse chin lock.

Jimmy with an elbow and then Ziggler sends Jimmy into the corner but he runs into an elbow.  Jimmy with a boot to Ziggler.  Jimmy sends Ziggler over the top rope to the floro with a back drop.  Jimmy with a suicide dive but he hits Roode and sends Roode over the announce table.  Ziggler with a Zig Zag onto the ring steps.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Ziggler with a reverse chin lock and Jimmy with elbows.  Ziggler with a kick and neck breaker attempt but Jimmy escapes and hits a clothesline.  Jimmy with a Samoan drop and he gets a near fall.  Jimmy misses a super kick and Ziggler with a Zig Zag for a near fall.  Ziggler punches Jimmy and Jimmy punches back.  Jimmy with a head butt and Ziggler with more punches.  They exchange punches and Jimmy with chops.  Jimmy blocks a super kick and Ziggler goes for a Fameasser but Jimmy catches Ziggler.  Ziggler with a sunset flip for a near fall.  Jimmy with a super kick for the three count.

Winner:  Jimmy Uso

We see Paul Heyman and Roman Reigns watching highlights in the Gorilla Position and Jimmy walks through.

Jimmy asks for his thoughts on the match.

Roman smiles and nods and then he walks to the ring.

Paul tells Jimmy that Roman doesn't want him to come to the ring with him but that Jimmy did great.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Paul Heyman says he has some flaws but being articulate is not one of them.  Paul says this footage speaks almost as eloquently as he does.

Paul says the head of the table does not suck.  Here is something that sucks and here is the solution to the problem.  The Fiend got frightened.  Strowman got slaughter.  Kevin Owens got KOed.  Edge and Bryan got embarrassed and neutered.  Bryan was man enough and he got shipped the hell back out.    Cesaro got clobbered.  Then the Mysterios got launched, literally, figuratively, and metaphorically sent to hell.  In less than a year, Roman Reigns has wiped out the enitre division.  Your tribal chief is going to have to change course.  He will do something that has never been done before on network television.  We have no other choice.  There is no one left.

Roman takes the mic and . . . 

Edge's music plays.  

Edge and Roman take off their jackets.

Edge sends Roman into the ropes and Edge punches Roman and then he hits a clothesline off the apron.  Edge sends Roman into the announce table as we have way too many camera cuts to see every angle.  Edge with punches and he sends Roman into the ring.  Roman with a Superman Punch.  Roman gets a chair and Edge with a spear.

Edge puts Roman's head on the chair and Edge goes to get another chair for a one man conchairto.

Jimmy Uso punches Edge and knocks him off the apron.  Jimmy with punches.  Edge Irish whips Jimmy into the ring steps.  Edge spears Jimmy through the ringside barrier.

Roman and Paul are on the ramp and Edge calls out Roman.

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