The New Day issued an open challenge for their WWE SmackDown Tag Team titles on tonight’s edition of SmackDown. As it turned out, Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura were the ones to take them up on the challenge. This made for a pretty good, if sadly brief match.
But to no one’s surprise, the titles did not change hands here.
The New Day retained the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships over the team of Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro.
Kofi hit the Trouble In Paradise on Cesaro for the pin, immediately after manager Sami Zayn was ejected.
You can see an excerpt of my recap of the match below:
Kofi dumps Cesaro to the floor, E launches Kofi over the top rope for a pescado but Cesaro clips him out of the air with an uppercut! And then one for E! Takes Kofi into the ring, Shinsuke wants the Kinsasha, Kofi counters with a roll-up for 2. Dragon Whip, driving knee, E breaks up the pin. Cesaro drives E into the ring post, then asks for a tag. Gets it, and in he comes to drag Kofi to his feet. Pummels him in the corner. Kofi counters with a Shuriken, goes in for the Trouble In Paradise but Cesaro catches him! Hot Shot! Cesaro grinds Kofi’s neck into the middle rope. Cesaro distracts the ref as Sami comes in with the New Day’s pancake platter, but the ref turns in time to catch him! And now Sami’s been ejected! Big pop for this as always. Kofi ducks a shot, Trouble In Paradise and that is that!
Jordan Huie of the Overtimer here with the coverage. WWE SmackDown is almost over but still ongoing as I type this. Stay tuned with us as I am certainly seeing this through to the end with my live play by play!
