Last night while WWE’s Monday Night RAW emanated from the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Superstars of SmackDown Live were in Carbondale, Illinois for their final Live Event before tonight’s episode of the blue brand.

While SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella and the rest of the blue brand’s women did not appear as they were at RAW for Stephanie McMahon’s announcement of the Evolution pay-per-view instead, fans in attendance still got to see a number of SmackDown Live’s top Superstars. Among those featured on the card, WWE Champion AJ Styles defended his title against Samoa Joe, ‘The Viper’ Randy Orton made his in-ring return, plus Jeff Hardy challenged Shinsuke Nakamura for the United States Championship and more. Below are the results:

• The New Day defeated The Bar
• Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas defeated Sin Cara
• SmackDown Tag Title Triple Threat: The Bludgeon Brothers retained over Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and The Usos
• Daniel Bryan defeated The Miz
• United States Title: Shinsuke Nakamura retained over Jeff Hardy, Randy Orton would appear and attack Hardy after the match
• Randy Orton defeated Rusev
• WWE Title: AJ Styles retained over Samoa Joe

Results c/o PWInsider

Thank you @WWEDanielBryan for the quick photo before #WWECarbondale much appreciated sir 😀 #YESYESYES pic.twitter.com/OYW1noAJ5U

— Matthew Dudley (@TheMattDudley) July 23, 2018

I’ve been so obsessed with WWE since the age of 5! Now at 20 years old, I get just as excited every time I get the chance to go and see it live! Thank you guys for coming to Carbondale tonight! #WWECarbondale pic.twitter.com/LPU4104hYx

— Tra 🥨 (@perfect_lopez69) July 24, 2018

when you are this close to the champ! Amazing show #WWECarbondale @AJStylesOrg NEVER disappoints pic.twitter.com/szNhe9AwUx

— Layne (@laynem22) July 24, 2018

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