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Your announcers are Corey Graves and Wade Barrett.
We see The Bloodline arrive at the building.
We see The Street Profits and B Fab walking.
We take a look back at King and Queen of the Ring.
Nick Aldis is in the ring and he has a crown behind him.
Nick welcomes everyone to Smackdown. He says there is no better feeling as GM when one of your top draft picks comes through in the clutch. He wants everyone to welcome the Queen of the Ring, Nia Jax, to the ring.
Nick congratulates NIa and he tells her the floor is hers.
Nia puts on her crown and then she takes the mic.
Nia says she wants to get the facts straight. She says it is a fact that she is your Queen of the Ring. It is a fact that as your queen, she gets a title match at SummerSlam. She tells Bayley that he queen is demanding Bayley's presence in her ring.
Bayley's music plays and she makes her way to the ring.
Piper Niven and Chelsea Green attack Bayley from behind and Piper sends Bayley into the ringside barrier. Piper sends Bayley into the ring and Bayley tries to punch Piper but Piper blocks it and gives her a head butt. Piper with a back senton.
Piper stares at NIa and Nia is enjoying what she is watching.
Chelsea tells Nia she doesn't have to worry about facing Bayley. By the time SumerSlam rolls around, your champion is going to be her spicy friend, Piper Niven.
Nia says she doesn't give a damn who the champion is because she will annihilate her regardless.
Nick walks into his office and AJ Styles is waiting there in a light blue suit.
AJ says he thought about what Nick said last week, he says he would appreciate addressing his future later tonight.
Nick says he will give AJ the time, but he asks if AJ has anything to tell him.
AJ says it will be hard enough to do it once, so he asks if he only has to do it in the ring tonight.
Nick tells AJ he has his time.
We are back and Bayley is in the trainer's room and Naomi shows up and says they won't get away with this and she asks if Bayley is ready to fight.
Bayley is told that she is cleared to wrestle.
Naomi says she is going to talk to Nick.
Match Number One: Tommaso Ciampa (with Johnny Gargano) versus Austin Theory (with Grayson Waller)
They lock up and Theory backs Ciampa into the corner and he gives a clean break. Ciampa pushes Theory and punches him. Ciampa with a chop and back elbow. Ciampa with a chop in the corner and he climbs the turnbuckles to punch Theory. Waller gets on the apron and Ciampa punches him but Theory takes advantage and drops Ciampa on the turnbuckles and hits an Ushigoroshi. Theory chokes Ciampa. Theory with back elbows in the corner. Theory with an Irish whip but he runs into a boot. Theory drops down when Ciampa went for a flying clothesline. Theory with a hanging neck breaker off the apron.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Theory with a reverse chin lock. Ciampa with punches but Theory sends Ciampa into the turnbuckles. Theory goes to the apron and he sets for a slingshot rolling move but Ciampa counters with a drop kick. Ciampa with punches and he blocks punches from Theory. Ciampa with chops and a flying clothesline. Ciampa with a reverse DDT and he gets a near fall. Ciampa with a forearm to the back of the head and a second one. Ciampa goes for a neck breaker but Theory blocks it. Ciampa goes or Fairy Tale Ending but Theory blocks it. Theory with a back body drop and Ataxia for a near fall.
Theory signals that it is over and he gets CIampa up but Ciampa blocks A Town Down and chops Theory. Theory with forearms and Ciampa with back elbows. Both men with kicks at the same time and Ciampa has the advantage and Ciampa with a running knee to the head. Waller helsp Theory back into the ring and Waller yells at Wade about how Theory was hurt being in The Way and Theory doesn't like that. Ciampa pushes Theory into Waller and they bump heads. Ciampa with a rollup for the three count.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa
Blair Davenport is with Nick Aldis and Naomi interrupts and demands a match against Chelsea and Piper tonight.
Blair says that Naomi interrupted her. She says Naomi will know exactly who she is.
Nick tells Naomi that they have their match.
LA Knight enters without knocking and he says he wants to run a few things past Nick. He asks if AJ is really going to retire and Nick says he doesn't know. Knight says there is a guy he is looking for and he asks where is Logan Paul.
They sit down to chat.
We go to commercial.
Corey and Wade speculate on what AJ's announcement might be and we take a look at Cody and Logan Paul from last weekend.
We see Nick Aldis' door and LA Knight emerges.
Kayla ambushes Knight about what happened in the office.
Knight asks Kayla what was said in the office. Knight says there isn't much to tell him. He says the only answer that Nick had for him was that Logan was not here tonight so he will talk next week. Knight says wrong and he says he is here. If he does not get the answer he wants, he will make the answer he wants. He wants the US Title and . . .
Carmelo Hayes shows up and he wants to know why Knight is always talking but saying nothing. Why would LA face him if a First Round pick is here.
Knight asks why would he want to fight himself.
Hayes says that if Logan wants to talk the talk, he can do it with Knight but if he wants to walk the walk, he can do it with Hayes.
We see Angel greeting Andrade and he says he put in a good word with Santos and they can look past what happened at Wrestlemania and they will welcome him into Legado.
Santos says thanks but no thanks.
Match Number Two: Apollo Crews versus Andrade
Crews with a waist lock and Santos with a standing switch. Crews blocks a suplex but Andrade with a drop kick. Andrade with a belly-to-back suplex for a near fall. Andrade with kicks. Andrade goes up top and he stops when he sees Garza show up in the aisle. Crews knocks Andrade off the apron and then he hits a moonsault off the apron.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Andrade pushes Crews off the turnbuckles and hits a cross body. Crews with a forearm and Andrade fires back. They continue the exchange and they go to punches. Andrade with a flying forearm and he sets for a running double knee strike and he hits it. Andrade gets a near fall. Crews with a German suplex and he holds on. Andrade with a back elbow and he gets away from Crews. Crews runs into a boot and Andrade goes to the turnbuckles but Crews with an enzuigiri. Crews presses Andrade over his head and he drops him and hits the Uhaa Combination for a near fall. Angel distracts Crews and Andrade with a spinning back elbow followed by the Promise for the three count.
Winner: Andrade
After the match, Santos, Humberto, and Elektra join Angel in the aisle.
Andrade leaves the ring and he walks up to Legado and then he walks right past them.
Santos looks at Angel like he was Solo looking at Paul.
We take a look at Kevin Owens helping out Randy Orton last week.
Solo tells Tama and Tonga to do everything to take them out tonight.
Paul Heyman shows up and he says he has been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of introspection about how he can better serve Solo. Paul says with Roman as Tribal Chief, there is a lot of violence in the Bloodline. It was to preserve family and what the Bloodline worked for. Roman says there was a lot of counsel before any violence happened. He says Solo has recruited some violent men into the Bloodline and he has seen random acts of violence, but no strategy at all. The strategy has to be when Roman comes back, we have Cody in check.
Solo tells Paul they have Cody in check and he doesn't even know it.
Paul asks Solo who is 'WE"?
Kevin Owens' music plays and Solo uses the ultimate WWE MONITOR watching angle to peer at the monitor and Solo tells Paul to take care of this.
Kevin Owens makes his way to the ring.
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