Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Smackdown Live results for April 3, 2018. The show featured the return of Shane McMahon, and was the final main roster WWE television show before WrestleMania 34 hits New Orleans on Sunday.
Be back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of Smackdown column.
WWE Smackdown Live results:
– The show opened with Daniel Bryan and the returning Shane McMahon. The two men apologies for their animosity toward each other in the past months, and then hugged it out.
1. Charlotte Flair defeated Natalya. This was a non-title match. Natalya tapped out to a Figure Eight. After the match, Asuka arrived to taunt Flair.
2. Rusev defeated Jinder Mahal. Bobby Roode sat in on commentary for this match. Rusev pinned Mahal following a Machka kick. After the match, Randy Orton hit Rusev with an RKO, and then he and Roode had a staredown over the United States Championship.
3. Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler, Mojo Rawley and Primo Colon defeated Fandango, Tyler Breeze, Tye Dillinger, and Zack Ryder Corbin hit End of Days on Fandango and got the pin to give his team the victory.
— Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens entered the arena and stood on the announce desk. They ran down Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon and promised to win at WrestleMania. Their mics got cut off and security tried to apprehend them, but they ran up the steps of the arena. McMahon and Bryan came out and Bryan said he wanted everyone to put their cameras on Zayn and Owens, because this is the last time they’ll be on Smackdown.
4. Shinsuke Nakamura and AJ Styles defeated Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin. Styles got the pin on Gable with the Phenomenal Forearm.
— After the match, Shelton Benjamin jumped Nakamura from behind as Styles watched. Nakamura fought off Benjamin, and then Styles faked out Nakamura by teasing giving him a Phenomenal Forearm. Styles patted Nakamura on the head and left holding his belt high.
