Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Friday Night Smackdown results for October 25, 2019. The show featured Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Cain Velasquez, Brock Lesnar, and technically a little bit of wrestling. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of Friday Night Smackdown column.
WWE Friday Night Smackdown Results:
– MizTV started the show, with Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, the Smackdown members of their Crown Jewel teams, and Jimmy Hart in the ring. Team Hogan is Ali, Shorty G, and Roman Reigns (Rusev and Ricochet aren’t there because they’re on Raw). Team Flair is represented by Shinsuke Nakamura with Sami Zayn and King Corbin (Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, and Drew McIntyre are on Raw). Hogan and Flair shouted incoherently at each other for a while. Sami Zayn made fun of Shorty G, but Shorty stood up for himself. Ali said Sami’s just a mouthpiece and also his breath stinks. King Corbin said that Roman will let everybody down. Roman told Corbin to shut up and called his kingly accoutrements stupid. Hogan said that the two teams should have a six-man tag match, but Sami refused. Then Hogan made it the main event instead, because apparently that’s up to him. Sami said he can’t wrestle because he recently tweaked his neck, but Cesaro will be wrestling in his place. When Cesaro came out it turned into a brawl.
1. Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler Defeated the New Day. Ziggler hit a side folding press on Big E for the win. After the match, the Revival ran in and attacked the New Day, but Heavy Machinery made the save. Lucha House Party was backstage watching the whole thing on TV.
– Coming back from commercial, Michael Cole and Cory Graves talked about the possibility of Tyson Fury being injured, but Graves insisted that Fury will be at Crown Jewel.
2. Lacey Evans Defeated Camron Connors. Lacey Evans initially refused to fight her local opponent, calling her a “nasty thing.” She almost let herself get counted out, walking away from the ring as soon as the bell rang, but then ran back in and hit the Woman’s Right for the pin.
– Nikki Cross talked from backstage to Michael Cole about how she’s excited to face Bayley for the Women’s Championship. She also acknowledged that her opponent tonight, Mandy Rose, is beautiful, but pointed out that this isn’t a beauty pageant, it’s Friday Night Smackdown.
– A recap of Seth burning down the Firefly Fun House preceded the new segment, which was Bray Wyatt presiding over Ramblin’ Rabbit’s funeral. Then Bray kissed the Rabbit’s gory corpse, and magically brought him back to life, good as new. Mercy the Buzzard immediately killed Ramblin’ Rabbit again.
– Drew Gulak attempted to continue his PowerPoint presentation about Braun Strowman and Tyson Fury before his match again Kalisto, but Kalisto dropkicked him.
3. Kalisto (with Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado) defeated Drew Gulak. Braun Strowman came out and scared Gulak, giving Kalisto an opportunity to hit the Salida Del Sol and get the pin. Then Braun beat up Gulak and cut a promo on Tyson Fury.
– Michael Cole interviewed Daniel Bryan in the ring, asking him if the Yes Movement is back. Before he could answer, Shinsuke Nakamura and Sami Zayn came out. Sami played a video of Bryan a few months ago saying that the Yes Movement is dead. Sami said the New Daniel Bryan is actually the Real Daniel Bryan, and everything he said was true. He said that he and Bryan and Nakamura all agree about environmental issues, but also they’re all artists. He asks Bryan to move forward with them instead of reviving the Yes Movement. Bryan refused to shake Sami’s hand, but left without saying a word.
4. Nikki Cross Defeated Mandy Rose (with Sonya Deville). Nikki got the pin with a fisherman’s neckbreaker. Bayley and Sasha Banks were on commentary for the match, and Bayley and Nikki had a staredown afterwards.
– Cain Velasquez and Rey Mysterio came out to the ring together. Rey talked about when Brock Lesnar attacked him and Dominick. He said the strength Dominick showed left Rey with no doubt that Dominick is a Mysterio (sorry Eddie!). He added that next Thursday Brock will pay for what he did thanks to Cain, who will leave him with a scar on the other side of his face. He called for Brock Lesnar to come out, but instead Lesnar and Paul Heyman appeared on the titantron from somewhere backstage. Heyman did his usual bluster, teasing a question about “what Lesnar has been doing and to who,” which led to Lesnar revealing a beaten and bruised Dominick. Rey and Cain ran towards the back.
– Coming back from commercial, Cain and Rey were with Dominick in the medical room, but Brock Lesnar ran in and attacked Cain with a trash can. Then he threw Rey into the wall, and F5ed Cain onto Dominick, knocking them both to the floor.
– After the next commercial, Cain Velasquez angrily yelled into a camera in Spanish about Brock Lesnar.
5. Roman Reigns, Shorty G, and Ali (with Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart) defeated King Corbin, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Cesaro (with Ric Flair and Sami Zayn). Roman Reigns hit the Superman Punch and the Spear on Cesaro, then tagged in Ali, who pinned him with a 450 splash.
