Steve Notes Smackdown 5/21/21

Steve Notes Smackdown 5/21/21

All the champions are up on stage for some reason, Sonya announces the WWE is hitting the road in July, Apollo gets on the mic and cuts a promo on his match tonight. He says one by one they will all fall and when the dust settles I will be victorious. Roman is introduced, this shit is cheesy. Heyman comes out instead and says how nice, a parade of champions, but it’s not, it’s a parade of title holders. He says Roman is not a title holder, he is a champion, not just a champion, THE champion, THE PREEMINENT CHAMPION, of ALL WWE and ALL OF SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT. Which is why when someone buys a ticket to these live events, they will do so with the confidence that we are represented by Roman Reigns. Yeah, also why did Heyman come out to Reigns’ old theme? Sonya says give a round of applause to all these champions, Bayley comes out and says HOLD ON, acknowledge ME, I held that title for 400+ days, you should be thanking me for putting this company on my back, esp YOU Dom, riding your dad’s coattails. Rey has overstayed your welcome here. She runs down Nattie and Tamina, gives a shoutout to Apollo and Azeez, then says Bianca used her ponytail to win at Mania, and at Backlash, she’s a criminal, should give the title back to her. Shayna and Nia attack Bianca, Tamina and Natalya come to save, Nia holds Tamina up and Shayna hits her with a knee

Bayley/Nia/Shayna vs. Bianca/Nattie/Tamina

Mid-Match, Bianca funsplashes Bayley/Shayna and tweaks her knee, Tamina comes in for a bit and dominates, but in the end, Natalya taps out to Shayna.

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Big E Interview

The men he’s sharing the ring with tonight are the best of the best, and that’s what he wanted.

Aleister: Father’s scars are marked on my body, pain is honest, it’s truth. Lets hear it for the misery in which we hide our deepest darkest sins. Father always said there is an art to being cruel. You live proudly in your cesspool of sins and denial cuz its all you are. It has become your identity to be loathesome and blind. You are sick and dying animals. It is time for me to separate the weak from the strong. As father taught me, it is time to CULL THE HERD.

King Corbin promo: He’s sick over Shin stealing his crown and seeing it on social media. A real king wears $40,000 watches, a real king owns a dog of war, not a flabby cat. Tonight I’m gonna grind Shinsuke Nakamura and take back my crown, have it cleaned and polished, and put it on my head.

King Corbin vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

RIK BOOGS CAME TO ROCK WITH SHINSUKE NAKAMURA!!

HAHA MCAfee air guitars on Cole

This shit is off the rails and it’s great

Rik is at ringside, managing via guitar

Corbin takes over early, Shinsuke goes for a kinshasa, eats a BIG belly to back suplex

Corbin hits Deep 6 for 2

Boogs starts playing Shin’s theme, Corbin gets distracted, Shin rolls Corbin up

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Backstage, Jimmy Uso is telling Sonya the Usos are ready for a tag title shot, Sonya says have you checked with Jey? He’s still with Roman. Jimmy says we want the smoke, Street Profits. Sonya says we need to advertise that one, so next week.

Roman comes out,   has his own branded tracksuit

Kevin Owens promo, says he wants to rid Sami of the conspiracy stuff, and if means giving Big E a Big L, he’ll walk out a three time IC Champ

Roman promo: I believe myself to be a humble man. I take every opportunity to teach my sons about humility. I don’t like to brag on live TV. So I’ll take this opportunity to let me special counsel celebrate me.

Heyman says I have a moment here to acknowledge your tribal chief. Undefeated since he got back, scared the fiend away to raw, humanized the monster strowman, baptized his cousin back into the bloodline, STACKED EDGE AND DB and pinned them at Wrestlemania, banished DB, the backlash against the strongest, most talented member of the roster, Cesaro, where your champion RR on his own with no one’s help at Cesaro’s own game. My tribal chief, it is a career highlight for me to celebrate and acknowledge the preeminent champion in all sports entertainment, roman reigns. What else may I do for you, my tribal chief?

Bring me my cousin.

Heyman starts yelling at commentary to hit Jimmy’s music. Instead, Cesaro comes out. Roman says cut this bum’s cousin. Cesaro says I was in the back looking for Seth, I heard this yapping in my ear, Roman says what are you gonna do, fight me with one arm? Cesaro says how about me and you at HIAC? Roman laughs him off, Seth attacks him, lays him out at ringside. He works over Cesaro’s arm, then they get pulled apart, he goes back after him, Stomp. HAHAHAHA seth jumps the barricade and bolts back to Cesaro and stomps him on the steel grate.

Seth Rollins interview, he says he doesn’t know what happened, he blacked out, then sees Cesaro on the stretcher, yells at him for making him this person.

Dirty Dawgs come out, Roode says Dom, don’t let that win go to your head, your dad did all the work, you reaped the benefits. Bring your son to work day is over. I prove once and for all that you don’t belong here. Oh fuck Dom is about to get a clean win over Roode isn’t he?

Dominik Mysterio vs. Bobby Roode

Dom hits a 619 0n Roode and beats him clean

Jimmy is excited about their tag match, Jey is mad he did it without telling him. Jimmy says we don’t need Roman. Jey says I need to tell him about this match.

Roman is in his office, Jey tells him he has a tag match, that was Jimmy and Sonya, and since we-- Roman says who’s we? You’re being selfish right now. THIS is we. Everything that WE do represents our family. Roman hugs him.

Street Profits mock the Usos, Dawkins calls Jey Luigi. THey want smoke.

Sami interview at Gorilla, takes issue with Kayla calling him a former champ, calls her a corporate hack. The persecution of Sami Zayn ends tonight.

Crews vs. Big E vs. Owens vs. Zayn

Lots of back and forth, Sami and KO go at it for a bit, KO hits a brainbuster from the top, then Apollo hits a DVD on KO on the apron, Big E hits a spear through the ropes to the bottom as we go to commercial

Big E gives tons of overhead belly to bellies, gets taken out, KO hits a neckbreaker on his knee, KO goes up, Apollo dumps him on his nuts

Jesus, Apollo goes for a exploder on Sami, Big E comes over, German suplexes them both, Kevin owens frog splashes Big E for 2

KO cannonballs Apollo & Big E, Sami hits half n half, Blue Thunder Bomb, Big E goes for Big Ending, KO superkicks him, pop up on Apollo gets 2

Sami hits KO with an exploder on the floor, gets hit with an urunagi by Big E, who hits a Big Ending on Apollo, Azeez pulls him off, Big E posts him, Aleister Black comes out, he enters the ring, confronts E, hits Black Mass, Apollo gets the pin for 3, Black walks out.

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