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4/25 WWE SMACKDOWN REPORT: TLC MATCH, WOMEN'S US TITLE MATCH, A RETURN OR TWO, A PROMOTION, CENA AND ORTON, AND MORE

By Richard Trionfo on 2025-04-25 23:00:00

We are back and Miz is in the ring.

He says since 2007, he has been an integral part of Wrestlemania.  This year, he had no match, no mention, and nowhere to be found.  Miz says he main evented Wrestlemania and beat John Cena to retain the championship.  Something Cody Rhodes couldn't do.  He gets the cheers, pyro, and spotlight.  He deserves the cheers.  Does Rey Mysterio go to a legend when he is hurt?  He goes to someone to a guy who was here for a few weeks.  Kevin Owens goes down and do you want a man who beat Randy Orton to face him or do you go for an internet meme.  He says he is tired of people showing up for opportunity after opportunity.

The lights go out and Aleister Black is back as he rises from the ground.

Black slingshots into the ring and sits down in the center of the ring.

Miz starts to talk and he walks into Black Mass.

We are back and Byron is with Bianca Belair.  He brings up Bianca's injury.

She says her fingers hurt and her feelings hurt.  She got a few broken fingers but it was worth it.  She says she is proud of what they did in the match.  

Byron brings up Iyo winning and Bianca says Iyo capitalized on the situation.  She says Rhea slipped into a match that Bianca earned.  She says she is going to return and she has some unfinished business.

Naomi walks in the back and she has nasty stare.

Nia tells Naomi she doesn't care about her revenge on Jade, but she tells Naomi not to get involved with her and Tiffany.

Naomi tells Nia that is fine as long as she proceeds with caution.

Match Number Four:  LA Knight versus Drew McIntyre in a Number One Contender Match

They lock up and Drew with a waist lock and take down and he poses.  They lock up and Drew with a waist lock and Knight with a standing switch and take down.  Knight slaps Drew in the back of the head and poses.  Knight with a side head lock.  Knight lands on his feet when Drew tries for a belly-to-back suplex.  Drew with a shoulder tackle and he slaps Knight in the back of the head.  Knight with an elbow and a belly-to-back suplex for a near fall.  Drew with a chop and Knight chops back.  They go back and forth.  Knight sends Drew over the top rope to the floor but Drew pulls Knight to the floor.  Knight punches Drew from the apron and Drew drops Knight on the top rope and Drew knocks Knight off the apron and into the ringside barrier.  Drew kicks Knight and punches him.  Drew with a dead lift brainbuster for a near fall.

Knight with punches but Drew with an Irish whip.  Knight tries to float over and Drew with a kick to the midsection for a near fall.  Drew with a chop and Knight chops back.  They go back and forth.  Drew with kicks to Knight.  Drew picks up Knight on the apron and connects with a punch.  Drew sets for a suplex and Knight blocks it.  Drew with a forearm to the back.  Drew tries for the suplex again but Knight with the suplex.  Knight with punches and Knight with a flying clothesline.  Knight with a side Russian leg sweep and he escapes a slam.  Knight with a jumping neck breaker for a near fall.  Drew with a head butt and he sets for Future Shock but Knight counters with a jackknife cover.  Knight kicks Drew in the corner and Knight with the double jump elbow drop for a near fall.  

Knight with a kick and he tries for the BFT but Drew escapes.  Knight sends Drew to the apron and Drew is knocked off the apron.  Knight with a drop kick through the ropes.  Knight sends Drew's head into the announce table.  

Solo Sikoa comes out and hits Knight with a Samoan spike.  Solo sends Knight back into the ring while Drew talks to the referee.  Drew isn't happy at what happened but he sets for the Claymore.  Damian Priest pulls Drew from the ring and the referee calls for the bell.

Winner:  Drew McIntyre (by disqualification)

After the match, Priest punches Drew and sends him over the ringside barrier.  Priest with a choke slam through the announce table.

Knight confronts Priest and he tells him that he cost him the number one contender spot.

Fatu with a suicide dive onto Priest and Knight.  Priest is sent into the ring post and Knight is sent into the ring steps.  Fatu sends Knight into the ring and he does the same to Priest.  Fatu with a running hip to Knight and a splash to Priest.  Fatu with a double jump moonsault to Knight and a running hip to Priest.  Fatu with a double jump moonsault to Priest.

The ladders are being brought to the ring for the main event.

We take a look at Seth Rollins and Paul Heyman and friends from Raw.

John Cena walks in the back and the man who idolizes him, R Truth stops him.

Truth says he is proud that his hero won and if John needs him at any time to call him.

John walks past him without saying a word.

Jimmy shows up and asks him when did Cena become so whack.  

Truth says Cena is a real world champion and he wants to be just like John when he grows up.

Jimmy tells Truth he is grown up.

Next week, Miz faces Aleister Black.

Match Number Five:  Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin versus Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano versus Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs Match for the Smackdown Tag Team Titles

They all look up at the belts and then Johnny and Ciampa go after Alex and Sabin.  Montez and Dawkins join in.  Ciampa and Gargano go for a ladder.  Alex and Sabin with drop kicks into teh ladder.  Montez and Angelo go after Sabin and Shelley.  Alex and Sabin with punches on the turnbuckles but Johnny and Ciampa stop them.  Alex and Sabin with forearms to the other four in the corner.  Sabin and Shelley with the Dream Sequence to Ciampa.  Sabin with a suicide dive but he hits a chair held by Gargano.  Gargano hits Shelley in the back of the leg.  Ford is hit with a chair by Ciampa and Dawkins with a POUNCE to send Ciampa over the announce table.  Dawkins picks up Gargano and runs him head first into the ring post.  Dawkins sets up a ladder and he sterts to climb but Sabin stops him.  Dawkins climbs with Sabin on his back.

Shelley catches Dawkins leg in the ladder and hits a dragon screw in the ladder.  Sabin and Shelley start to climb but Johnny stops them.  Shelley sends Gargano into the ladder.  Sabin and Shelley kick Ciampa in the corner.  Sabin sends Ciampa into the ladder. Sabin kicks Ford and punches him.  Sabin and Shelley Irish whip Ford but he goes under the ladder.  They push the ladder into Ford but Dawkins stops Sabin and Shelley.  Dawkins with twisting splashes to Sabin and Shelley.  Sabin and Shelley crotch Dawkins on the turnbuckles and he is in the tree of woe with Sabin and Shelley grinding a sensitive area.  Sabin gets a chair.

Shelley with a baseball slide into the chair against Dawkins' head.  Shelley hits Ford in the midsection with the chair.  Sabin hits a missile drop kick into the chair in front of Ford's face.  Gargano pulls Shelley out of the ring and sends him into the apron.  Ciampa sends the ladder into Dawkins' head.  Ford with a flip dive over the ring post onto everyone and Shelley may have injured his arm on the landing.  Ford gets a ladder and brings it into the ring.  Ford sets it up and he starts to climb but Ciampa stops him and Ciampa climbs the other side.  Gargano gets another ladder.  Ford and Ciampa with punches and Ford with a head butt.  Ford and Gargano almost have a belt in their hand.  Gargano with a flatliner off the ladder to the mat.  Ciampa has the belts but Dawkins stops him and Dawkins with a punch.  Dawkins moves the ladder into place.  Dawkins starts to climb and then Gargano stops him with a forearm to the back.  Gargano climbs next to Dawkins but Dawkins with a Silencer off the ladder.  Ciampa sets up the ladder in the center of the ring.  Sabin climbs the other side.

Dawkins pushes the ladder over and they land on the top rope.  Shelley sends Dawkins to the floor.  Sabin and Shelley climb the ladder but Ciampa stops them with a ladder.  Ciampa puts the chair around Shelley's head and Gargano hits the chair.  Ciampa suplexes Sabin onto a chair.  Gargano and Ciampa hit Dawkins in the back with chairs.  Gargano turns the chairs to double suplex Dawkins onto the top of the chair.  Dawkins escapes.  Gargano punches Ford and Dawkins punches Gargano and hits a twisting neck breaker onto the top of the chairs.  Ford and Dawkins want some tables and they bring one into the ring.  Ciampa sends Dawkins into the apron and Ford with a super kick to Ciampa.  Ciampa gets onto Dawkins shoudles adn Ford with a dive into a Doomsday Blockbuster.  

Dawkins punches Sabin.  Ford has a leg and he hits Ciampa with it.  A ladder is bridged on the ringside barrier and apron.  Ciampa sends Dawkins into the ladder.  Ciampa with a forearm to Shelley's back.  Sabin hits Dawkins with a chair and puts him on a table.  Ciampa sends Ford into a table placed on top of the bridge ladder.  Ciampa sets up the table on the floor.  Shelley sends Gargano into the ring steps.  Sabin goes up top and hits a frog splash on Dawkins through the table on the floor.  Ford goes into the ring and sees Ciampa on a table on the floor.  Ford with a flip dive onto Ciampa through the table.  

Ford gets onto the apron and Gargano rolls into the ring.  Gargano punches Ford and Ford with a kick on the apron.  Ford is pulled off the turnbuckles but Ciampa but Ford with a super kick.  Ciampa with kicks to Ford and Ciampa with an Air Raid Crash onto the bridge ladder.  Johnny sets up the ladder in the ring and Shelley stops him.  Gargano punches Shelley and Sabin.  Gargano goes for a slingshot DDT through the table but Sabin blocks it and he hits a Yakuza kick against the ring post.  Sabin and Shelley set for Skull and Bones and hit it through the table.  Ciampa is the first into the ring and he is at the ladder.  Ciampa climbs and he has the belt in his hand but Sabin and Shelley remove the ladder and Ciampa hangs from the belts.  Sebin and Shelley hit Ciampa with chairs and then they hold him while Dawkins climbs the ladder and hits a spear through a table.  

Sabin and Shelley move the chair back into the center of the ring.  Shelley climbs while Sabin guards the ladder.  Gargano hits Sabin with a chair and throws it at Shelley.  Gargano climbs the ladder and Sabin climbs the other side.  Gargano punches Sabin on top of the ladder.  They exchange punches.  Sabin sends Gargano's head into the ladder and Gargano falls.  Ford leaps to the ladder and knocks Sabin off.  Gargano with a super kick while Ford is caught in the ladder.  Gargano climbs the ladder over Ford and Sabin stops Gargano.  Ford climbs the side of the ladder and he sends Sabin and Gargano into the top fo the ladder.  Ford is the last one on top and he gets the belts off.

Winners:  Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins (retain championship)

After the match, Ford and Dawkins celebrate their victory.

We go to credits.


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