{"id":6467,"date":"2019-08-27T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2019-09-15T17:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T23:47:50","slug":"smackdown-live-recap-review-episode-1045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/smackdown-live-recap-review-episode-1045\/","title":{"rendered":"SmackDown Live Recap &#038; Review &#8211; Episode 1045"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>WWE SmackDown Live<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Episode 1045<\/strong><br \/>\n#SDLive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Air Date: August 27, 2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Event Date: August 27, 2019<\/strong><br \/>\n(aired live)<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=baton-rouge-la\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Baton Rouge<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=louisiana\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">LA<\/span><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=raising-canes-river-center-arena\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Raising Cane&#8217;s River Center Arena<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary: Tom Phillips, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Greg Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nLast week, someone was revealed as the man who attacked Reigns. Who was it? Well, it wasn&#8217;t Rowan, but it was apparently someone who looks kind of like him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKalya Braxton asks Roman Reigns if he&#8217;s going to apologize to Daniel Bryan and Rowan. Reigns is going to save what he has to say for the ring.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ring Area<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKofi Kingston heads to the ring. Kofi says Orton like to call him &#8220;stupid,&#8221; but who got beat up last week? Kofi has just wanted to prove how good he is, but Orton made things personal between them. Kofi doesn&#8217;t play around when you mess with his family. At Clash of Champions, Kofi gets to prove that he was ready ten years ago, and he&#8217;s ready now.<\/p>\n<p>Orton interrupts via the video screen. He says &#8220;stupid&#8221; a whole lot. Earlier, when Orton was thinking about how to prove how stupid Kofi is, he got a letter from a fan. He reads the letter. It says Kofi is not stupid. Apparently the letter is from one of Kofi&#8217;s sons. Orton is touched. He also has realized that he&#8217;s staying in the same hotel as Kofi&#8217;s family, and he can go pay them a visit right now.<\/p>\n<p>Orton walks off screen, and Kofi runs to the back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKofi catches Orton and the two men brawl. Kofi is doing well until Orton hits Kofi with a draping DDT off a table. Orton leaves while saying &#8220;stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nBig E exits the trainer&#8217;s room and tells Kayla Braxton that Kofi will be ready to compete at Clash of the Champions. Big E isn&#8217;t so sure that Orton will be ready though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>King of the Ring First Round Match<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ali vs Buddy Murphy<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Ryan Tran; watching in the back: Elias)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e738273775f','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e738273775f\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e738273775f\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Ali wins via pinfall after a 450 splash<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 5:31<\/strong> (1 break)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nVery good match. Those of us who watch 205 Live already know that these guys are great together, and this was another example. The match wasn&#8217;t terribly long, but Ali and Murphy fit in a whole lot of great action. I wasn&#8217;t sure who was going to win since both guys are kind of on similar paths on SmackDown right now, and that helped make the match even more interesting. This was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nEmber Moon tells Bayley that Charlotte isn&#8217;t the face of the women&#8217;s division, Bayley is. Moon says she might have lost at SummerSlam, but the best woman won. Lacey Evans walks up and says Charlotte was right when she said that Bayley brings the division down. But Charlotte isn&#8217;t the face of the division, Evans is. Bayley and Moon laugh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ring Area<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe Miz heads to the ring and complains about Sami Zayn. He says Zayn is riding the coattails of Shinsuke Nakamura. He also says that Nakamura won&#8217;t use The Miz to make a name for himself. Miz challenges Nakamura to an IC Title match at Clash of Champions.<\/p>\n<p>Sami Zayn comes out to the stage and laughs. Zayn thinks it&#8217;s funny that Miz keeps talking like the IC Title is his. Nakamura is the champ, and he&#8217;s the king of strong style. Miz is the king of soft style. Maybe Miz needs some respect beaten into him. Miz invites Zayn into the ring to do that, but Zayn isn&#8217;t going to do what Miz says. Miz exits the ring to attack Zayn, but Miz gets attacked by Nakamura instead. Nakamura hits Miz with Kinshasa against the LED board on the side of the ring.<\/p>\n<p>In the ring, Zayn holds Miz so Nakamura can deliver another Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKevin Owens interrupts Elias while he plays guitar in Shane McMahon&#8217;s office. Owens wants to know where Shane is, but Shane isn&#8217;t here. Owens likes that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Bayley<\/strong> (SD Women&#8217;s Champ)<strong> vs Lacey Evans<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Danilo Anfibio)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e7382737863','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e7382737863\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e7382737863\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Bayley wins via pinfall after a diving elbow drop<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 10:40<\/strong> (1 break)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nGood match. This was more of a fight than I expected it to be, and both women looked good. I&#8217;m not really a fan of Evans, but she looked good getting beat up by Bayley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKayla Braxton welcomes Daniel Bryan and Rowan. Bryan says he and Rowan won&#8217;t leave the arena tonight until Roman Reigns apologizes to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 3<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Randy Orton vs Big E<\/strong> (SD Tag Champ)<br \/>\n(referee: Jason Ayers)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e738273789b','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e738273789b\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e738273789b\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Randy Orton wins via pinfall after an RKO<\/strong> (and a distraction from The Revival)<br \/>\n<strong>Time: 6:42<\/strong> (1 break)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nGood match. Big E was angry and fought aggressively. Big E dominated portions of the match, but Orton hit some big moves that slowed Big E down considerably. Big E did look like he was heading in the direction of a victory until The Revival came down to the ring and initiated some shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ring Area<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nAfter the match, The Revival and Randy Orton hit Big E with a tandem double flapjack (The Revival) and RKO (Orton).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nSarah Schreiber welcomes Chad Gable. Gable says Shelton Benjamin can make all the jokes he wants, but Gable is going to win tonight. Benjamin walks up and says he&#8217;s looking for &#8220;Shorty&#8221; Gable. Gable doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s very funny.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nElias carries his guitar as he walks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Video<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nClips from a Fox Sports event where R-Truth, Rob Stone, and Elias became the 24\/7 Champ.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ring Area<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nElias sits on the King of the Ring throne and talks about how no former King of the Ring could wear the crown like him. Elias will be a king you can believe in. Then he insults the &#8220;swamp people&#8221; of Louisiana. Kevin Owens appears behind Elias and attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The brawl makes its way into the ring where Owens hits Elias with a stunner. Curiously, Owens doesn&#8217;t pin Elias for the 24\/7 Title.<\/p>\n<p>Owens leaves, but Elias remains on his back in the ring. R-Truth sneaks up and tries to pin Elias, but Drake Maverick pulls R-Truth out of the ring. Maverick pins Elias and becomes the new 24\/7 Champ. Maverick does a couple of victory laps around the ring before leaving with the title.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nChad Gable warms up for his match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 4<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>King of the Ring First Round Match<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Shelton Benjamin vs Chad Gable<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Ryan Tran; watching in the back: Andrade, Zelina Vega)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e73827378cf','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e73827378cf\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e73827378cf\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Chad Gable wins via pinfall after a sunset flip powerbomb<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 3:43<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nThis was surprisingly short. It could have been a great match, but they just weren&#8217;t given much time. For what it was, it was entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Backstage<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRoman Reigns walks with a blank look on his face.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ring Area<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nRoman Reigns heads to the ring. Before he can say anything, Daniel Bryan and Rowan appear on the video screen. Bryan just wants to hear Reigns say, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221; reigns asks the crowd if he should apologize. They say &#8220;no.&#8221; Reigns decides to show a video.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a man in a black hoodie with a big red beard shoving equipment down beside Roman Reigns after he&#8217; already been safely pinned underneath equipment that been been pushed from the opposite side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bryan yells at Rowan. Bryan repeatedly slaps Rowan and says that he hates liars. Bryan yells until Rowan goes away. Bryan heads to the ring. One he&#8217;s in the ring, Bryan tells Reigns that he didn&#8217;t tell Rowan to attack Reigns. Regardless, Reigns attacks Bryan with a spear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe ongoing attempted-murder mystery took a turn for the &#8220;huh?&#8221; tonight. I&#8217;m kind of intrigued by part of it, but all of these reveals are just kind of underwhelming. I think a lot of that has to do with how the original attack was recorded and edited. It just looks completely fake. Also, they&#8217;re not even going to talk about the bald guy from last week? It&#8217;s very strange.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, this was a pretty good show. The first two matches were quite entertaining. I was disappointed in the main event just because I know Benjamin and Gable could have put on such a great match, yet they were given less than four minutes. Nevermind that Reigns&#8217;s ring entrance and the repeated replays of video footage took way more time than the main event match. But whatever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Ali vs Buddy Murphy<\/strong><br \/>\nAs always, these two guys delivered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Official Results: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/smackdown\/2019-08-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/smackdown\/2019-08-27<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the King of the Ring ends, Big E battles Randy Orton, Bayley takes on Lacey Evans, and Roman Reigns reveals some footage the sets Daniel Bryan off in a pretty good episode of SmackDown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,10,622],"tags":[1049,2440,2363,2761,547,494,915,438,545,527,535,272,553,1878,1679,999,536,516,1149,514,2751,2752,2753,151,1257,1511,517,310,2762,136,2759,437,1947,693,480,2175,552,96,614,563,898,2760,564,830,570,7,1675],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show-results","category-smackdown","category-wwe","tag-adam-pearce","tag-ali","tag-andrade","tag-baton-rouge-la","tag-bayley","tag-big-e","tag-buddy-murphy","tag-byron-saxton","tag-chad-gable","tag-charlotte","tag-corey-graves","tag-daniel-bryan","tag-dash-wilder","tag-drake-maverick","tag-elias","tag-ember-moon","tag-greg-hamilton","tag-jason-ayers","tag-kayla-braxton","tag-kevin-owens","tag-king-of-the-ring","tag-king-of-the-ring-2019","tag-king-of-the-ring-first-round-match","tag-kofi-kingston","tag-lacey-evans","tag-louisiana","tag-new-day","tag-r-truth","tag-raising-canes-river-center-arena","tag-randy-orton","tag-rob-stone","tag-roman-reigns","tag-rowan","tag-ryan-tran","tag-sami-zayn","tag-sarah-schreiber","tag-scott-dawson","tag-shelton-benjamin","tag-shinsuke-nakamura","tag-smackdown","tag-smackdown-live","tag-stupid","tag-the-miz","tag-the-revival","tag-tom-phillips","tag-wwe","tag-zelina-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}