Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Smackdown Live results for April 10, 2018. The Smackdown After WrestleMania featured all the fallout from Sunday’s biggest show of the year, some debuts, some returns, and the final teases before this year’s Superstar Shake-Up.
Be back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of Smackdown column.
WWE Smackdown Live results:
– The show opened with Shane McMahon, who thanked the fans for helping make WrestleMania 34 a success, and praised the return of Daniel Bryan. He said he had accepted Bryan’s letter of resignation and then introduced the new Smackdown Live General Manager, Paige. Paige thanked the fans and said that she wanted to make this night special, so she announced Daniel Bryan’s first televised match in three years, which will be against AJ Styles.
1. The Usos defeated the New Day. This was to determine who would get the Smackdown Tag Team Championship rematch against the Bludgeon Brothers at the Greatest Royal Rumble. Jey Uso pinned Xavier Woods after a top rope splash. The Bludgeon Brothers showed up after the match to taunt the Usos.
2. Naomi defeated Natalya. Naomi pinned Natalya after a split-legged moonsault.
– Backstage, Renee Young asked Shinsuke Nakamura why he attacked AJ Styles after their WrestleMania match. Nakamura said he can’t answer her question because he doesn’t speak English.
– Charlotte Flair came to the ring to wonder who she’ll make magic in the ring with next, but she was interrupted by the debuting Iconic Duo, who mocked her. Flair attacked, then got beaten down both inside and outside the ring by the Duo. When the Australians departed, Carmella ran to the ring with a referee to cash in.
3. Smackdown Women’s Championship Match: Carmella defeated Charlotte Flair (c). Carmella kicked and pinned the weakened Flair to become the new champion.
4. United States Championship No. 1 Contender Triple Threat Match: Randy Orton defeated Bobby Roode and Rusev. Jinder Mahal sat at ringside for this match. Orton pinned Roode after an RKO, and he will face Mahal for the U.S. title at Backlash.
5. Daniel Bryan NC AJ Styles. This was a non-title match. Near the end of the match, Shinsuke Nakamura got in the ring and delivered a Kinshasa to Bryan, then a low blow and a Kinshasa to Styles, followed by another low blow.
