We bring you coverage for the episode of WWE SmackDown airing on October 18, 2024. Missed RAW? You can find the results here.
The new Bloodline opens the show. Solo Sikoa insults Roman Reigns some, but is then interrupted by Jey Uso! He doesn’t like how Solo Sikoa is trying to divide the family. Sikoa says he is trying to reunite the family, and all they have to do is acknowledge him. Don’t follow what Jimmy did, as it got him nowhere. Is he in? Jey hasn’t got an answer, but he doesn’t like how Jacob Fatu is looking at him. All he can say is the next time he sees him, things will be different.
#1. [WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender] DIY vs. Street Profits vs. Pretty Deadly – Winners: DIY*
*Street Profits thought they won, but they had not pinned the legal man.
Roman Reigns and Jimmy Uso show up to find Jey Uso walking by. Reigns tells Jey he is proud of him. Everyone is. Jey tells him “No Yeet”.
Nia Jax is livid as Tiffany Stratton isn’t available for tonight’s tag team match. The new Speed Champion, Candice LeRae, offers her services. Nia tells her that she better bring it, or otherwise, she will end her, and it will take less than three minutes.
#2. Lash Legend (w/ Jakara Jackson) vs. Piper Niven (w/ Chelsea Green) – Winner: Lash Legend
Cody Rhodes makes his way to the ring. The Crown Jewel Championship is on display. Cody asks who will be the first to achieve this? When we talk about what ifs, there was always a reason for dream matches between World Champions not to happen. But in this case, a winner will be decided between champions. He cannot have any disrespect for Gunther. Many are afraid of him, but he is not. Even if he was, he would not bet against him. Cody puts over the beauty of the Crown Jewel Championship.
He has paid the price since becoming champion, and he isn’t done paying the price. The only reason he thinks he is leaving Crown Jewel as champion is because of his daughter. He needs her to know that when she grows up, she will know he was the first to win this title. Cody would like to invite Gunther to SmackDown next week so he can look him in the eyes and ask him what he wants to talk about.
Kevin Owens says he has been in WWE for over 10 years. He has had a lot of ups and downs, but it has not been as bad as it is now. Kevin says he is not allowed to come to SmackDown and it is ridiculous, considering everything that happens on WWE shows. He can’t believe Randy Orton would turn on him like that. He thought they had something different. With everything going on, he does not know when or if he will be coming back to WWE.
Randy Orton storms in to Nick Aldis’ office to demand a match with Kevin Owens at Crown Jewel, but Aldis is adamant that he cannot offer it. This is coming from above him. Randy Orton says he knows who he needs to talk to.
#3. [WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender] A-Town Down Under vs. Motor City Machine Guns vs. Los Garza – Winners: MCMG
#4. Bayley & Naomi vs. Nia Jax & Candice LeRae – Winners: Nia Jax & Candice LeRae*
*A shocking result as Candice LeRae pinned Bayley in this match.
Nick Aldis decides that LA Knight will referee a match between Carmelo Hayes and Andrade next week.
Before the face-to-face, Roman Reigns asks the crowd, perhaps for the last time, to acknowledge him. Solo Sikoa makes his way to the ring on his own. Roman Reigns tells Solo what he heard earlier. That he told Jey Uso the family and The Bloodline are stronger now, but he doesn’t see anything that tells him they are better off now. They are divided and broken.
With everything they have been through and lost in the Summer, but they stand here divided like this? He told his father he could fix this. All he wants to do is put them back in the promised land. He wants titles around their waists and paydays coming from the heavens. What does he have to do to fix this? Solo Sikoa says there is an easy fix. All he has to do is acknowledge him.
Reigns acknowledges Sikoa. Does that make him feel better? Sikoa says that is not good enough. He needs Reigns to acknowledge him as his Tribal Chief. Sikoa needs Reigns to acknowledge him, or else. Roman yells at him “Or else what?”. Solo laughs because he has seen the real him. So, if he isn’t willing to change, then he won’t either.
Solo snaps his fingers and The Bloodline brings out a bloodied Jimmy Uso. Roman Reigns takes action by attacking Sikoa and the rest of the group on his own! He takes them all out and then picks up the Ula Fala. As he puts it on, Sikoa low blows him. The Bloodline recover to beat him down. Sikoa sends a statement by striking Reigns with the Samoan Spike, not once, but twice.
WWE SmackDown Results (10/18/2024)
