SmackDown Live

WWE Championship: Last week, Styles and Bryan’s respect for each other took a huge hit after another ‘accidental’ miscue caused Styles to hit Bryan with a Pele kick.

On Tuesday, in front of a very friendly Georgia crowd, Styles kicked off the show to explain himself. Calling Bryan to the ring, Styles said he wanted to apologize for kicking Bryan last week. Bryan said that no apologies were needed, he still respected Styles and they wanted the same thing: The WWE Championship. Bryan is determined to win the WWE Championship, claiming that dreaming about that championship got him through all the career-threatening injuries.

Styles stopped him, saying that he should’ve let him finish. Styles said that the Pele kick WAS intentional, but that it was nothing person, just business. Bryan replied that he wasn’t surprised since the kick being intentional was the only way to explain Styles ‘mistaking’ him for one of the Usos. However, Bryan claims that he doesn’t lie and that he really wants to hit Styles on purpose. After a little more posturing, Styles offers to have their title match right now instead of waiting for Friday.

Shane McMahon comes out, seeming to put a damper on this bravado, but instead calls for referee and the match is on!

Do I need to articulate how great this match was? I hope not. It was amazing! Styles and Bryan tore the house down and took each other to the limit. Bryan tweaked his knee during the match, exposing a target for a determined Styles. Bryan would eventually be forced to tap out to the Calf Crusher.

As Styles was celebrating, he was attacked from behind by Samoa Joe, who locked in the Coquina Clutch. Bryan attacked Joe, but quickly suffered his own beatdown.

Later on in the show, Styles confronted Paige and demanded a match against Joe at Crown Jewel since Bryan had already gotten his match. Paige was reluctant, citing the issues that had arisen the last time Joe and Styles had fought over the title, but Styles was undeterred. Reluctantly, Paige agreed to book the match for Crown Jewel.

Joe, for his part, was completely unrepentant for his actions, restarting his mind games against Styles and vowing to leave Saudi Arabia as WWE Champion.

WWE United States Championship: Shinsuke Nakamura faced R-Truth for the United States Championship. R-Truth was accompanied by Carmella.

The match was pretty good. Nakamura and Truth worked very well together, and the match had a nice little dance break to bring in some class. Unfortunately, the leader of Nakamerica was more focused on wrestling than dancing and put Truth away with his Kanyasa Kick.

SmackDown Women’s Division: After coming up short in her brutal Last Woman Standing match against Becky Lynch, Charlotte was given another opportunity by General Manager Paige. Paige asked Charlotte to be the captain of SmackDown’s Women’s Team for Survivor Series. Charlotte was reluctant to accept. Her excuse was that she didn’t feel that she was the best person for the job, but Paige insisted, asking her friend to give it some thought.

As for her rival, SmackDown Women’s Champion, Becky Lynch, she was also in the house on Tuesday and came out to address her victory at Evolution and her upcoming match against Ronda Rousey.

Lynch wasted no time in tooting her own horn, as well she should, stating that she, and by extension, Charlotte, were the rightful main event of Evolution.

Turning her attention to Rousey, Lynch poo-pooed Rousey’s record, asking on what planet would Rousey be considered the baddest woman. Lynch implied that Rousey had her opponents beat before the match started, but that’s not going to happen with Becky Lynch. Unlike the girls on RAW, Becky’s not a reality TV star or a cosplayer, she’s traveled the world learning how to beat people like Ronda Rousey, and that’s what she’s going to do at Survivor Series by breaking Ronda’s arm.

SmackDown Tag Division: Over the years, the annual Trick or Street Fight has become a must-see tradition on SmackDown. This year, New Day’s Big E and the Bar’s Cesaro got the chance to participate in the always fun tradition.

New Day came out dressed as the Brood, complete with cups of ‘blood’ to spit out. Cesaro and Big Show didn’t dress up for Halloween, but Sheamus did, though no one is quite sure what he was dressed as.

The match was the typical Trick or Street Fight fun, lots of candy and interesting uses of the pumpkins.  Big Show threw his weight around, but New Day was able to neutralize him pouring the fake blood over him, effectively blinding him. With Big Show out of the way, Big E was able to get the pinfall on Cesaro, giving New Day some much needed momentum heading in to their encounter at Crown Jewel.

WWE World Cup: On the final SmackDown before Crown Jewel, everyone was looking to gain some momentum. To add to the pressure, Shane McMahon warned his troops that IF a SmackDown superstar was beaten by a RAW superstar in the World Cup Final, they would no longer be welcomed on SmackDown.

With potential termination facing them if they failed, Hardy and Mysterio took on Miz and Orton in a tag match.

Miz and Orton dominated much of the match, however, Hardy and Mysterio were able to keep up enough offense and use better teamwork to get the pin on Miz and take home the victory. However, Orton, just to give everyone a fair warning, RKO’d everyone in the ring, including Miz.

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