This week’s Smackdown kicked off with a nice tribute to the late “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, who lived in Portland for years. His family is at ringside.
Seth Rollins starts off SmackDown with another heat drawing promo about how he’s one of the greatest of all time such as Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth. He goes on to talk about his match with John Cena at SummerSlam and him being on Tough Enough and wants Cena to meet him on RAW to accept the SummerSlam challenge. Neville interrupts and wants another title shot but then out comes Cesaro. Kevin Owens shows up and attacks Cesaro from behind on the floor as Rollins beats down Neville in the ring.
Charlotte defeated Naomi with the Figure Eight.
– Video package for Stardust and Stephen Amell airs.
Ryback comes to the ring for a promo and we see a flashback for what happened on RAW during MizTV. Ryback talks about defending the Intercontinental title against The Miz and Big Show at SummerSlam but is cut off by Bo Dallas who wants to be added to the match at SummerSlam. Ryback insults Bo and Bo attacks but gets laid out with a Meathook clothesline.
Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper come to the ring for a promo. Dean Ambrose comes out next followed by Roman Reigns for his match against Harper.(Still can’t get behind this angle at all, not even the great story telling of Bray Wyatt can save this)
Reigns defeated Luke Harper by DQ after Wyatt runs in and stops a pin.
The Prime Time Players defeated The New Day in a non-title match.
Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens defeated Cesaro and Neville after Rollins grabs the tights and “dirty pins” Cesaro
