WWE Friday Night Smackdown 2/26/2021

WWE Friday Night Smackdown 2/26/2021

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/wwe-friday-night-smackdown-2122021.html

Roman and crew came out to talk and as usual, it took about 5 minutes just to arrive to ringside.

Roman says Smackdown needs him and the Elimination Chamber needed him. He said the Chamber would have been perfect but Edge ruined it by spearing him. He said Edge should go back home instead of challenging him for Mania. He said Edge doesn't stand a chance then Daniel Bryan came out.

DB mocked his idea of the Chamber being nearly perfect and said he wasn't a real champ for forcing the title match right after the Chamber. DB said the head of the table should have defended the title in the main event, not the second match at the show.

DB challenged him to defend the title against him at Fastlane. Jey Uso was offended by this and told DB he lost. He said he's at the back of the line now and Jey said he will come after him if he doesn't back off. Jey then jumped DB, throwing him out of the ring then over the barricades.

Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville talked in the back. Edge came up and said he needed to talk.

Jey and Roman talked in the back. Jey said he disrespected him and Roman said there is nothing to apologize for as long as he gets the job done.

We went back to Edge, Pearce and Sonya. Edge wasn't happy that Daniel Bryan can get a title shot tonight if he beats Jey Uso. Pearce said it would be a bigger attraction and meant no disrespect. I'm not sure what Edge is mad about. His Rumble win was for a title shot at Wrestlemania, not another show. This segment was a little confusing as they didn't make the Jey/DB stipulation clear ahead of time.

Otis and Chad Gable vs Rey Mysterio and Dominic Mysterio

Otis and Chad Gable were on the mic on the ramp. They wanted to replace Otis splashing Rey last week, further proving they are now heels which sucks.

Chad tells Otis to execute the plan. Rey tries to jump on Otis but gets bodyblocked off. Otis drops a big elbow then throws Rey on a slam. Chad gorilla presses Rey into a gutbuster. Dominic does a bice body hurricanrana to Chad into the buckles then walks the middle rope a little into a tornado ddt. Chad is lifted up and Rey does a top rope la silla to him. The Mysterio's hit a double 619 then Rey frogsplshes Chad for 2. Rey springboard dives onto Otis but gets slammed then Otis splashes him from the middle rope for the win.

Short match but nothing wrong with it at all. It's amazing Rey can still do what he does after close to 30 years in wrestling.

They showed Apollo Crews in the back and said they would talk more about his attack on big last week.

Crews has new gear. He said he is from Nigerian and is a real Africa American. He said his grandfather was a ruler there and talked about him having 5 wives. He said his new green and white colors represented that. He said Big E told him to go back to catering, but he went back to his roots. Then he started talking with a Nigerian accent and said something about his opponent tonight which lead to...

Apollo Crews vs Shinsuke Nakamura

Crews jumps Nakamura as he poses. He grabs the steps outside and the ref stops that as we go to break. Back from break and Crews is in control. Crews hits a huge release german on Nakamura, but he comes back and does a cool flying kick. Nak lights him up with more kicks. He hangs him over the top rope and axe kicks him, then sliding lariats him.

Crews hit triple germans on Nak then Nak came back and did his sliding german suplex while Crews was on the middle rope. Crews grabs his scarf on the buckle and pulls Nakamura into the buckles while he has him in a sleeper. Crews then hits an angle slam and wins it. Not bad at all. Not too much story but good action.

Heyman said the DB/Jey match for the title shot was made official to Roman. Heyman and Roman confirm DB only gets the shot "if" he wins tonight.

Tamina with Natalya vs Liv Morgan with Ruby Riott

No entrances for either girl. Liv bridges out of a lariat and running hurricanrana's Tamina. Then she eats a big superkick and gets thrown. Liv gets flipped backwards on a backslide then kicks Tamina in the head. Liv dropkicks her from the 2nd rope for 2. Tamina hits a samoan drop and swinging side slams her for the win. This was short and fine with them doing the giant vs underdog story.

Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville come out and introduce Bianca Belair for her Royal Rumble decision. They play packages for both Asuka and Sasha. Reginald then comes out while Bianca talks. He said Bianca wrestled with Sasha and is now elevated by her genius. He said she will lose if she faces Sasha.

Sasha comes out and says she is the best, which makes Bianca the 2nd best. She tells Reginald not to speak for her and as expected, Bianca challenges her for Wrestlemania. 

Sami and his camera men interview Corbin in the back. Corbin says his crew needs to figure out the mystery of why they are tag partners tonight. Sami said it was his idea as while they don't get laong, they have good chemistry. Sami said he needs a big win after getting robbed and says they could be tag champs if they work together. He says they could be the New Can-Am COnnection or the Kingdom of Liberty.

Corbin agrees but says get the camera men out of his face and stop recording him.

The Street Profits vs Baron Corbin and Sami Zayn

Ford does his handspring into a backflip out of the corner then armdrags Sami. Ziggler and Roode watch in the back, saying they feel bad for them and drinking out of their own plastic cups, mocking the SP's.

Corbin runs out Dawkins with a shoulder and takes a big dropkick. The camera men block Corbin outside and he yells at them. Then Ford jumps off of Dawkins' back to dropkick Corbin off the apron.

We come back with the heels in control and Ford making a tag. Dawkings does a nice back flying elbow and a spinning corner splash. Dawkins hits a nice dropkick on Corbin. The camera men get in Corbin's way and he pushes them off. Sami talks to him and Ford flip dives over him onto Corbin. Ford then springboard splashes Sami to win. Short but another fun match. Dawkins looked really good here.

Daniel Bryan is interviewed in the back. He said he has good chances of beating Uso and Reigns and says his chances of beating Reigns are better than Edge's chances. He said he doesn't know if Edge has what it takes to beat Roman, then Edge comes in. Edge says if DB beats Roman, then DB is facing him. He asks who will win that one and DB won't say. DB said none of that matters if he doesn't beat Jey tonight.

Seth Rollins comes out. He said his complaint last week got a lot of play on social media, then Cesaro came out in jeans. Seth asks Cesaro for a chance to make this right. He calls Cesaro a star and asks why it seems like he always comes up short. Seth said Cesaro keeps coming up short because he doesn't have killer instinct. He said had Cesaro not walked out on him two weeks ago, he would already be champ. He told him to embrace the vision and let him lead him and he will make it. Cesaro giant swings him instead and Seth does a great job of selling it. Cesaro then european uppercuts him to end the segment.

If Daniel Bryan wins, he gets a title shot - Daniel Bryan vs Jey Uso

We have about 11-12 minutes left for this. DB hiptosses Jey early and takes control hitting his usual stuff. He hurricanrana's Jey off the top. He goes for a tope on him but Jey superkicks him as he tries to dive out. Jey then knee drops him on the announcer's table. Jey then rams the knee into the post.

We go to break and come back with Jey working the knee. Jey hits a samoan drop for 2 and misses a top rope splash. DB kick combos Jey and puts him over the top. DB running knee's him off the apron. Jey goes back to working the knee with a single leg crab and DB gets out. DB buzzsaw kicks him for 2. He goes for a running knee but gets speared and superkicked for 2. DB butterfly superplexes him. They go outside and DB goes into the steps and both get counted out. They roll back in after and DB puts him in the yes lock. Roman finally comes in and pounds on DB. Uso superkicks DB as DB puts Romai n the yes lock. Roman then spears him and king crab hold chokes him. Then he poses over top of him to end the show.

As usual, DB/Uso was a decent back and forth match and I liked the knee work. The double count out finish was lame but atleast it is probably leading to something.

Overall thoughts: A pretty good edition of SD. A lot of short but decent TV matches and we've clearly started up some angles.