Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Layin 'da SmackDown - SmackDown Live recap for March 28, 2017

General Manager Daniel Bryan starts tonight's show with a contract signing for AJ Styles vs. Commissioner Shane McMahon. Shane is introduced first, followed by Styles. Shane says that AJ Styles has always been a part of his vision to make SmackDown Live the show to watch, and says that Styles is one of the greatest talents to step into a WWE ring and says he is "truly phenomenal." He says that Styles exploded when he arrived to the WWE and quickly won the WWE Championship, but as time passed, he became arrogant and his ego got in the way of everything, costing him the WWE Championship and almost his career. Shane tells Styles if he does not give him his best at WrestleMania, he won't feel so phenomenal afterwards. He signs the contract. Styles asks Shane if he knows what he's in for, as they are having a traditional wrestling match and not a match without rules. He says the ring is his home, and in his home, he is untouchable. After listing off the who's who of people Shane has taken on in the past, Styles tells Shane he has never been in the ring with someone like him, and that Shane will find out how phenomenal he is. He signs the contract, then pushes the table. Shane and Styles have a brief staredown and Daniel Bryan has to play peacemaker before it gets physical, and asks them to shake hands. Styles refuses, and leaves the ring.



Mickie James and Alexa Bliss guest on commentary for the next match.

Becky Lynch vs. Carmella ends when Mickie James and Alexa Bliss fight each other after they argue on commentary, first at ringside and then in the ring. All four women face each other, then Mickie James and Becky Lynch briefly stare down before Mickie points at the WrestleMania sign. This leads to the match becoming a tag team match between the team of Mickie James and Becky Lynch and the team of Alexa Bliss and Carmella.

Carmella and Alexa Bliss beat Mickie James and Becky Lynch. During the match, Natalya shows up and guests on commentary. After the match, all five women brawl, but the biggest surprise is the return of Naomi, who had to relinquish the SmackDown Women's title weeks ago. She is back at 100% in time for WrestleMania, and she's in the match for the SmackDown Women's title.



Tyler Breeze, dressed up like Nikki Bella, tells General Manager Daniel Bryan that he is available for the SmackDown Women's Title match if he needs him. Daniel Bryan says no, then Tyler Breeze removes his wigs and Fandango shows up, telling him he should have worn the bracelet that is in his hands. Breeze laments that he and Fandango will not have a WrestleMania moment this year, and Daniel Bryan decides to recify that by placing them in a ten-man tag team match tonight and giving them the last two slots in the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal.



We look back at Pete Rose getting hit with a Tombstone Piledriver by Kane at WrestleMania 14.

It's time for Miz TV and the "Total Bellas" finale. It is announced that Al Roker will be the special guest ring announcer for John Cena and Nikki Bella vs. The Miz and Maryse. In the finale, "John Cena" and "Nikki Bella" have dinner, and "Bryan" and "Brie" are also guests. After amazingly crazy dinner rules, "Nikki" asks "John Cena" to marry her. After a commercial break, "John Cena" says he does...not ever want to marry her as it will damage his brand, and all he respects is money and only loves himself, as he is not a good person and that if "Nikki" continues to believe otherwise, he will toss her into the gutter like the rest of them. He says that "never gives up" means that if he gives up his spot, he will be made irrelevant. He says he is a ghost because there's nothing to see. "Cena" and "Nikki" give up the charade, reveal themselves as The Miz and Maryse, and tells them that after WrestleMania, Cena will no longer be able to call himself a man and that the fans will not his entire life is "total bullshit." The real Cena and Nikki show up, and Cena admits he found the "Total Bellas Bullshit" sketches pretty funny, but when the jokes were over and the Miz became himself, it stopped being funny. Cena tells Miz and Maryse that they believe their own crap, and calls them out of it. He says he's shooting a movie, just like several Superstars before him - including Miz - and says he's still brand loyal. He then tells Miz that the movies Miz has made are crappy bootlegs of movies he made. Cena then wants to know what The Miz is still doing here, then talks about the Women's Revolution and says the women of WWE are doing more than Miz. Cena says that Maryse was only hired back so they could put Miz on Total Divas and that Miz is using her for that, then says that The Miz and Maryse also don't have kids like Cena and Nikki do. Cena then tells Miz and Maryse they sound ridiculous and blame everyone but themselves for their failures, and at WrestleMania, he and Nikki are going to destroy them. After some more choice words and daring them to step up, Miz and Maryse retreat, tease going back in the ring and retreat again. Nikki calls them "fake ass, see-through haters," and at WrestleMania, they'll kick their asses.







American Alpha (Jason Jordan and Chad Gable), Rhyno, Heath Slater and Mojo Rawley beat The Usos (Jimmy and Jey Uso), Dolph Ziggler and Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango).



Luke Harper tells Bray Wyatt that he has seen the truth. He doesn't need Bray Wyatt, and he is free. He says that if he were Bray, he would run.

Bray Wyatt beats Luke Harper. Randy Orton then appears on the TitanTron in the remains of the Wyatt Family compound. He tells Bray Wyatt that his fate will be sealed at WrestleMania after driving a crucifix - the same one that Wyatt pointed at him last week - into the remains of Sister Abigail and "deliver a serpentine blow" that ends Sister Abigail's influence over Bray.





On Talking Smack, Baron Corbin continues to tell Dean Ambrose that he will take everything from him. Ambrose takes a television remote and both figuratively and literally turns him off.



Here are the top 10 moments for tonight's show!

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