Friday Night Smackdown 10/18 Review

Friday Night Smackdown 10/18 Review

Match One- Shinsuke Nakamura v Roman Reigns- Smackdown gets started with the Intercontinental Champion taking on Roman Reigns for the title. Roman dominates most of the match, but Nakamura manages to get back into it with help from interference from Sami Zayne on multiple occasions. After getting a near fall, Roman is taken out by the hands of Baron Corbin, ending the match in DQ. Daniel Bryan comes to the aide of Roman to fight off Corbin and Zayne. 

A promo involving The New Day and Heavy Machinery building up the tag team turmoil match at Crown Jewel. Didn't go too long, was funny at moments. 

Match Two- Chad Gable v Curtis Axel- I don't understand why commentary is so determined to make fun of Gable for being short. He is very good in the ring and is super underutilized. Gable puts away Axel very quickly with am ankle lock. Good babyface promo by Gable after the match. 

Hulk Hogan shows up on the Tron to let us know that Ali and Gable will be joining team Hogan at Crown Jewel.

Match Three- Heavy Machinery and The New Day v The Revival, Robert Roode, and Dolph Ziggler- Fun tag team action to start, The New Day and Heavy Machinery bring tons of energy to this match. Otis gets the hot tag and lays out all four of his opponents. Dawson bling tags in while Otis is busy with Ziggler in an attempt to steal the win. That doesn't work as Otis manages to get the tag and put away Dawson.

MizTv segment with Bayley and Sasha- This segment just further enforces Bayley's heel turn from last week. Miz antagonizes Bayley trying to pit her against Sasha, Bayley responds by putting down her fans. The competitors of the six-pack challenge interupt and bog down the segment. A decent segment brought down by too many people being involved.

Match Four- Six-Pack Challenge- Sonya v Mandy v Nikki v Carmella v Dana v Lacey- Pretty standard multi-competitor match. Each woman gets their signature offense in throughout the match. Sonya and Mandy work together to gain an advantage. Nikki picks up the win and stares down Bayley.

Video package building up the Universal Championship match at Crown Jewel between Seth Rollins and The Fiend.

Match Five- Strowman v Drew Gulak- Gulak tries to prevent getting destroyed by getting a microphone and trying to give advice to Braun for his match against Tyson Fury and Crown Jewel. That lasted about 15 seconds before Braun squashed him. 

Main Event- Nakamura and Corbin v Roman and Daniel Bryan- After the heel beatdown at the beginning of the show you knew where this match was going. Roman destroys Corbin and Zayne on the outside of the ring while Bryan beats down on Nakamura inside the ring. Bryan puts away Nakamura, a big babyface win to close out the show.

The main event was good, but not great. That pretty much sums up the entire show. There were some good points all the way through without any really bad points. There just wasn't anything really memorable. The worst part of the show was what is pretty much always the worst part of any WWE event; the commentary. Cole and Graves just get on my nerves ad really bring down the entire show. 

My top five for Smackdown this week-

1. Daniel Bryan

2. Nikki Cross

3. Otis 

4. Roman Reigns

5. Chad Gable