It’s Friday Night everybody! And that means another edition of WWE SmackDown! I’m Jordan Huie and you are here at the Overtimer, where every week I’m with you, bringing live recaps and results from every major WWE show! WWE SmackDown serves as the first live WWE show of 2020 and it’s been a fairly unpredictable night in many ways.
The show is nearly over, about an hour and a half in as I type this and we just saw yet another bout conclude. In Braun Strowman’s dogged pursuit of Shinsuke Nakamura’s WWE Intercontinental Championship, he found himself pitted against one of his stablemates, the Swiss Superman Cesaro here tonight!
You can see an excerpt of my recap of this match below:
Nakamura goes up to the apron to distract, right hand from Braun missed but the left knocks him to the floor! Strowman plows through Cesaro who bails. Looks out at the folks on the floor, makes his spinning gesture.
Braun escapes to the ring, and runs around the ring to smash through Cesaro and Shinsuke. Sami hides under the ring as Strowman goes through Cesaro again instead and throws him into the ring. Hoists him up for a Powerslam, Sami rushes into the ring to cause a distraction, Braun chases him and he bails, Cesaro tries to clip him from behind, hooks for the Neutralizer but Braun escapes for the Powerslam for the win!
Winner: Braun Strowman
As one would expect, Braun ended up picking up the victory, continuing to gain momentum as he gets closer to that title match with Shinsuke. However, after the match, Shinsuke Nakamura attacked Braun in a cheap shot, and Sami Zayn’s strangely still unnamed stable made their leave.
This is the third time tonight that a babyface has won but then immediately gotten jumped by a heel to keep them from celebrating.
