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WWE News: SmackDown Live Event Results From Carbondale, Illinois (7/23/18)
Last night while WWE’s Monday Night RAW emanated from the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Superstars of SmackDown Live were in Carbondale, Illinois for their final Live Event before tonight’s episode of the blue brand.
While SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella and the rest of the blue brand’s women did not appear as they were at RAW for Stephanie McMahon’s announcement of the Evolution pay-per-view instead, fans in attendance still got to see a number of SmackDown Live’s top Superstars. Among those featured on the card, WWE Champion AJ Styles defended his title against Samoa Joe, ‘The Viper’ Randy Orton made his in-ring return, plus Jeff Hardy challenged Shinsuke Nakamura for the United States Championship and more. Below are the results:
- The New Day defeated The Bar
- Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas defeated Sin Cara
- SmackDown Tag Title Triple Threat: The Bludgeon Brothers retained over Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and The Usos
- Daniel Bryan defeated The Miz
- United States Title: Shinsuke Nakamura retained over Jeff Hardy, Randy Orton would appear and attack Hardy after the match
- Randy Orton defeated Rusev
- WWE Title: AJ Styles retained over Samoa Joe
Results c/o PWInsider
Thank you @WWEDanielBryan for the quick photo before #WWECarbondale much appreciated sir 😀 #YESYESYES pic.twitter.com/OYW1noAJ5U
— Matthew Dudley (@TheMattDudley) July 23, 2018
I’ve been so obsessed with WWE since the age of 5! Now at 20 years old, I get just as excited every time I get the chance to go and see it live! Thank you guys for coming to Carbondale tonight! #WWECarbondale pic.twitter.com/LPU4104hYx
— Tra 🥨 (@perfect_lopez69) July 24, 2018
when you are this close to the champ! Amazing show #WWECarbondale @AJStylesOrg NEVER disappoints pic.twitter.com/szNhe9AwUx
— Layne (@laynem22) July 24, 2018
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Did your picks win points?
The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!
Here are your Gold League standings!
- Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
- Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
- Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
- Rush: 0-1, 0 points
- Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
- Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points
Here are your Blue League standings!
- Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
- Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
- Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
- Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
- Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
- Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete
My Thoughts:
Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.
Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.
In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.
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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”
Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:
Blue League
- Bryan Danielson
- Andrade El Idolo
- Brody King
- Claudio Castagnoli
- Daniel Garcia
- Eddie Kingston
Gold League
- Jon Moxley
- Swerve Strickland
- Rush
- Mark Briscoe
- Jay Lethal
- Jay White
Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:
- Every match has a 20 minute time limit
- The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
- EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action
Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!
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