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WWE SMACKDOWN REPORT: REMEMBERING FUNK AND WYATT

We are back with more Social Media posts about Bray.

Cody Rhodes makes his way to the ring.

Cody tells Louisville he knows what he wants to talk about.  He was 11 years old in Denver traveling with his father.  He hears a man on the people mover yelling the most peculiar insult.  He hears a man calling his father an 'Egg Sucking Dog'.  He asks if he can say that on Fox.  He had choice words for his grandmother.  He could not see the man yelling and he thought there might be a domestic incident.  It was the proprietor of the Double Cross Ranch, it was Terry Funk.  

Modern nomenclature allows people to call each other WWE superstars when we get in this ring.  We have been called wrestlers, athletes, competitors, and carnies.  There are few who can call themselves 'cowboys'.  Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt were cowboys in the best of ways.  He says he has the privilege to talk to you about Terry Funk, a second generation star from Amarillo.  He wore the ten pounds of gold proudly.  He went to West Texas State and actually attended classes there.  Terry was a fixture in this business for fifty years.

For fifty years, Terry Funk has constantly been changing.  There is a thing called 'the rub' when someone with such a legacy steps in the ring with someone who does not have it and he pulls them up to his level.  Terry did that for an entire company and movement.  

We take a look at Terry with a video package.

Cody says from Texas to Tokyo, Terry Funk was passionate.  He was extremely passionate.  Table, ladders, and chairs.  He was hardcore.  

Cody says this match is a Terry Funk Hardcore Match.

We are back with a look at Bray winning the title.

Match Number Three:  Butch and Ridge Holland versus Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins in a Terry Funk Hardcore Match

All four men throw punches as the bell rings.  Butch chops Ford and Dawkins sends Ridge into the ring steps.  Butch with a forearm to the back of the head.  Butch rakes at the face and then grabs the ears.  Dawkins sends Ridge into more steps.  Butch and Ford go into the ring and Ford with a side head lock and Ford with a shoulder tackle.  Butch with a drop kick to Ford and one to knock Dawkins off the apron.  Butch with a spinning toe hold and Dawkins sends him to the floor.  Ridge with a spinning front face lock and a DDT.  Dawkins with a kick and a twisting butterfly neck breaker.  Ford with a splash for a near fall.  Butch kicks and chops Dawkins.  Butch with chops to Ford but Ford and Dawkins with a double face plant to Butch.

Ford and Dawkins kick and punch Ridge in the corner.  Dawkins runs into a boot from Butch and Ford runs into a boot as well.  Butch goes up top and hits a moonsault on both men.  Ridge uses Butch to knock Ford and Dawkins down with an airplane spin.  Ridge goes to the floor and hits a running shoulder tackle on Dawkins.  Ridge goes for a pile driver but Dawkins counters with a back body drop.  Butch with a running knee to Dawkins and Ford with a flip dive onto everyone.

Bobby Lashley's music plays and he makes his way to the ring as if there wasn't a match going on.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Ridge with a power slam to Ford and he punches Ford.  Butch and Ridge with forearms to Ford and Dawkins on the apron.  Ford falls into the ring while Dawkins falls to the floor.  Ridge with a splash into the corner and Butch with a kick into the corner.  Ridge gets Ford up and Butch with a leaping power bomb for a near fall.  Butch is sent to the floor and Dawkins with a POUNCE.  Dawkins and Ridge exchange punches and Dawkins with a flying back elbow.  Dawkins with a spinning splash into the corner followed by an enzuigiri.  Dawkins gets Ridge on his shoulders.  Ford with a blockbuster but Butch breaks up the cover.  Butch with an enzuigiri to Dawkins and Ford.  Ford with an enzuigiri to Butch followed by a super kick to Ridge.  Ridge with a clothesline to Ford and everyone is down.

Dawkins goes up top and Ridge stops him.  Ridge sets for a superplex and hits it.  Ford with a Seven Star Frog Splash to Ridge but Butch breaks up the cover.  Butch goes under the ring and he gets the table but he bumps into Lashley.  Butch gets the table and he puts it in the ring.  Ridge sets up the table and Butch looks at Lashley.  Ford punches Ridge and Butch.  Ford sets up the table in the ring.  Ford sets for a uranage through the table but Ridge blocks it with elbows.  Ridge gets Ford up and he kicks Dawkins to hit a back drop and DDT combination.  Butch pulls at Dawkins fingers.  Ridge punches Dawkins onto the table and Butch goes up top.  Lashley pushes Butch off the turnbuckles and Lashley spears Butch on the floor.

Ford kicks Ridge onto the table and they hit the Revelation through the table for the three count.

Winners:  Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins

We take a look at the first Firefly Fun House.

LA Knight walks in the back.

We go to commercial.

We are back with more social media posts about Bray.

We go to comments from Miz thanks to TMZ Sports where he is asked about LA Knight.  He calls Knight a fad.  If he keeps disrespecting him the way he has, Knight won't make it to Wrestlemania.

LA Knight makes his way to the ring and he has something to say.

Knight says he will get to the Miz in a second.  He says tonight is about Bray Wyatt.  He says he walked out here and saw everyone representing with the fireflies.  It got him thinking because sometimes your greatest foes can be your greatest helpers.  He says Bray and him went through hell and they did everything to each other.  He says Bray was getting him ready for anything.  He says he held himself together until he saw the photos of Bray's family.  He can see it and he can hear it.  When he saw the fireflies out here, he says everyone can feel the spirit of Bray Wyatt in this building.  

He says he isn't going to say that they are best friends, but he says Thank You Bray.  Just like you are feeling the spirit, he is feeling the same spirit to say let me talk to ya.

Miz gets on the screen and he says the same tired material all the time.  He repeats what the Miz said.  He says if he is just a fad, he is okay about that because Miz never was.  When you had a stunt double, he was the star.  When you were champion twelve years ago, you were the background for a story between Rock and John Cena.  If you are looking to end LA Knight, we can do it anywhere.  

Knight says he has one more thing.  He tells Miz a wise man once told him the next time you see him . . . RUN.

We take a look back at Bray's return to WWE.

We go to commercial.

We are back and next week, John Cena returns to Smackdown.  We will also see Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar face Austin Theory and Grayson Waller.  Jimmy Uso returns to Smackdown.  

Match Number Four:  Finn Balor versus LA Knight

Finn with a waist lock take down and he floats over.  They lock up and Knight with a hammer lock and he slaps Finn in the back of the head.  Knight blocks a kick and misses a clothesline.  Finn with a side head lock and Knight with a shoulder tackle.  Finn goes to the floor.  Knight chases him and Finn misses an elbow drop when he gets back into the ring.  Knight stomps on the hand and goes to the floor.  Knight sends Finn into the announce table many times.  Finn is sent back into the ring and he hits a slingshot shoulder tackle for a near fall.  Knight with a kick and shoulder in the corner.  Knight with an Irish whip and Finn floats over but runs into an elbow.  Finn pulls Knight off the turnbuckles and Knight hits his head on the turnbuckles.

We go to commercial with Bray's promo from last December's Smackdown in Tampa.

We are back and Finn with a reverse chin lock.  Finn with a knee to the midsection followed by an Irish whip but he misses an elbow.  Knight with a neck breaker.  Knight with punches to Finn and a kick followed by a DDT for a near fall.   Knight sends Finn face first into the mat and follows up with a boot to the head for a near fall.  Finn kicks Knight in the midsection and he continues the attack with more kicks.  Finn with sling blade.  Finn runs into a clothesline.  Knight kicks Finn and hits a running hip into the corner.  Knight gets Finn up for a Torture Rack but Finn escapes and hits a boot to the chest.  Finn with a running drop kick that sends Knight into the turnbuckles.  Finn goes up top and misses Coup de Grace.  Knight with a power slam.

Knight looks around and hits the YEAHple's Elbow for a near fall.  Finn counters BFT into a rollup for a near fall.  Finn with an elevated elbow drop and Finn goes to the turnbuckles.  Knight crotches Finn.  Knight sets for a superplex but Finn with an elbow to knock Knight off the turnbuckles.  Knight leaps to the turnbuckles for a superplex.  Knight with BFT for the three count.

Winner:  LA Knight

The lights go down and the lantern appears in the ring.

We go to credits.

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