*SPOILERS* Smackdown taping results for April 29

[cjh]

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The April 29 edition of WWE SmackDown on FOX was taped tonight from the MVP Arena in Albany, NY. WWE taped two episodes of SmackDown tonight due to the roster being in London next Friday.

* RAW Tag Team Champions RK-Bro and SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos signed the contract for their Winners Take All Title Unification match at WrestleMania Backlash. A brawl broke out and ended with Drew McIntyre and Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns getting involved. Reigns and McIntyre fought each other and faced off

* Drew McIntyre defeated Sami Zayn in a Steel Cage match

* WWE Intercontinental Champion Ricochet retained over Shanky. A split between Jinder Mahal and Shanky was teased after the match

* Raquel Rodriguez squashed an enhancement talent

* There was a Happy Talk segment that ended with Madcap Moss and Happy Baron Corbin brawling

* WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Naomi defeated Shayna Baszler

* Xavier Woods defeated Ridge Holland. This led to the next match…

* Sheamus defeated Kofi Kingston

* I Quit Beat The Clock Challenge: Ronda Rousey defeated Shotzi

* I Quit Beat The Clock Challenge: SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Aliyah ended with the clock expiring while Flair had the Figure Four/Figure Eight applied on Aliyah

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Aliyah and Shotzi??? I hope this all leads to an inevitable feud between the two of them.

[A Platypus Rave]

Apr 23, 2022 0:57:39 GMT -5 cjh said:

A split between Jinder Mahal and Shanky was teased after the match
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Whoever wins... who cares? >_>

[asuka007]

I hate the “beat the clock challenge” things and always have. There’s zero reason, especially with a thin division as it is, to make some of them look like total goobers just to continue a feud that has little heat as it is.

Also if they feed Drew to Roman already, p**s off with that idea.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

This show sounds like a f***ing disaster tbh, like maybe the Cage Match will be fun? But everything else is a giant "YEESH" to me

Also now Jinder and Shanky are breaking up, it's beyond parody, I stand by "This is someone's fetish" statement because holy shit lmfao

Also Shayna loses, again, lovely. I would say I've never seen a company whiff so hard on someone before but... WWE loves whiffing on what makes a talent good.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Apr 23, 2022 0:57:39 GMT -5 cjh said:

* I Quit Beat The Clock Challenge: SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Aliyah ended with the clock expiring while Flair had the Figure Four/Figure Eight applied on Aliyah

Remember that ironwoman match between Charlotte and Sasha, where Sasha led by 1, and tapped out with a few seconds left? Nice to see that they're actually having the face not tap out with a few seconds left.

[A Platypus Rave]

Apr 23, 2022 1:12:07 GMT -5 asuka007 said:

I hate the “beat the clock challenge” things and always have. There’s zero reason, especially with a thin division as it is, to make some of them look like total goobers just to continue a feud that has little heat as it is.

Also if they feed Drew to Roman already, p**s off with that idea.

I really hate beat the clock challenges.

Especially cause like... if Shotzi or Aliyah wins... nothing happens... not that they WOULD but like in kayfabe there's a chance...

Also if I was on that side why would I participate?

[Instant Classic]

So is Raw and Smackdown the following week going to be in England?

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Apr 23, 2022 1:46:18 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

So is Raw and Smackdown the following week going to be in England?

No. RAW’s schedule remains as normal, it’s just that it’s mostly the SmackDown roster being sent over some time next week (first show is on 4/28 in Newcastle, last one is 5/1 in Leipzig before returning to the US in time for the 5/6 SmackDown in Long Island).

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

Apr 23, 2022 1:29:59 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Apr 23, 2022 0:57:39 GMT -5 cjh said:

* I Quit Beat The Clock Challenge: SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Aliyah ended with the clock expiring while Flair had the Figure Four/Figure Eight applied on Aliyah

Remember that ironwoman match between Charlotte and Sasha, where Sasha led by 1, and tapped out with a few seconds left? Nice to see that they're actually having the face not tap out with a few seconds left.

Aliyah tougher then Sasha Banks confirmed.

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

Apr 23, 2022 1:32:36 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Apr 23, 2022 1:12:07 GMT -5 asuka007 said:

I hate the “beat the clock challenge” things and always have. There’s zero reason, especially with a thin division as it is, to make some of them look like total goobers just to continue a feud that has little heat as it is.

Also if they feed Drew to Roman already, p**s off with that idea.

I really hate beat the clock challenges.

Especially cause like... if Shotzi or Aliyah wins... nothing happens... not that they WOULD but like in kayfabe there's a chance...

Also if I was on that side why would I participate?

To get on TV. That's something that's been very hard for Aliyah and Shotzi lately. I could see getting Molly-whopped by Ronda or Charlotte worth it to just let people know you still exist.

[theironyuppie]

Apr 23, 2022 1:29:59 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Apr 23, 2022 0:57:39 GMT -5 cjh said:

* I Quit Beat The Clock Challenge: SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Aliyah ended with the clock expiring while Flair had the Figure Four/Figure Eight applied on Aliyah

Remember that ironwoman match between Charlotte and Sasha, where Sasha led by 1, and tapped out with a few seconds left? Nice to see that they're actually having the face not tap out with a few seconds left.

It's actually the same ending as the one they did against the Riott Squad before WM 35. Ronda wins quickly over Sarah Logan, Charlotte's opponent Ruby holds on during the Figure 8. (Of course, that one then had Charlotte attack Becky but Becky still beat Ronda's time with ease.)

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

The I Quit Beat The Clock Challenges went exactly how I thought they would. I guess it kind of plays into Aliyah being lucky which was what it seemed like they were going with her before she went MIA. That's something that can work for a heel but I don't get how that's supposed to get someone over as a face.

I find it funny with The Lads that Sheamus who is the oldest and most established of three by a good bit is the only one who can get the job done and in kayfabe is single handily carrying the group on his back while the two new young guys, Holland and Butch, who needs wins to get established are both booked like incompetent boobs who always lose and can't do anything right. Holland it doesn't bother me that much as they at least kind of tried with him and he hasn't exactly been great especially with him crippling Big E. However Butch losing his first two matches is just so stupid and makes no sense at all. Leave it to WWE to dump a big bucket of cold water on the one enjoyable thing going right now. I'm just waiting for them to split within the next month with them now having this moronic and downright bizarre fetish now of wanting to break up at least one team/alliances every week.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Naomi beat Shayna via rollup.

[Deleted]

If I was the booker, Shotzi would've never quit. 

[J is Thunder Justice]

Wow, Aliyah actually didn't lose. I'll take it.

[msc]

Apr 23, 2022 1:32:36 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Apr 23, 2022 1:12:07 GMT -5 asuka007 said:

I hate the “beat the clock challenge” things and always have. There’s zero reason, especially with a thin division as it is, to make some of them look like total goobers just to continue a feud that has little heat as it is.

Also if they feed Drew to Roman already, p**s off with that idea.

I really hate beat the clock challenges.

Especially cause like... if Shotzi or Aliyah wins... nothing happens... not that they WOULD but like in kayfabe there's a chance...

Also if I was on that side why would I participate?

Remember the time they did a beat the clock challenge and had Mr Kennedy lose to Supercrazy in about 8 seconds, and then the commentary went: "Of course, Supercrazy gains nothing from this win!"

It's the most WWE thing to ever WWE.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

I remember during one Beat the Clock challenge, only one guy was eligible for it so when the other dude won (I think it was Super Crazy and Mr. Kennedy), it didn't even matter. It was really stupid.

[Deleted]

Who is excited for the Shanky face run?

... Anyone?

[HMARK Center]

There are really only a few circumstances under which you should do some kind of Beat the Clock gimmick:

-You have a series of matches where the outcomes are genuinely in doubt, but the person in charge wants to push the wrestlers to win as quickly as possible, e.g. a group of submission wrestlers or hard hitting knockout artists are pushed to prove they're the quickest on the draw for whatever kayfabe reason.

-You have a couple wrestlers fighting over who the best submission wrestlers/hardest hitter actually is (fair play, that works in a Charlotte vs. Ronda feud), but most importantly the people you have in there to lose are either pure enhancement/lower card comedy wrestlers that you can afford to job out quickly with no real repercussions or very young wrestlers who'd want the shot at the top talents in their division and can get over just by lasting x-number of minutes with the cream of the crop and putting up a decent fight.

Literally anything else and there's either no kayfabe point in doing it at all, and/or you're actively sabotaging wrestlers you have under full time contract because you just told your audience "this losing loser is here to lose as quickly as possible, there's no reason to take them seriously now or in the future."

Want to have Shotzi as a midcarder losing to main eventer Ronda? Perfectly fine. Want to have Shotzi as a midcarder but book her in a match where the entire gimmick is that she'll lose as quickly as possible to Ronda? You just buried Shotzi, and unless this will serve as a catalyst for her to make kayfabe changes so that something like this would never happen to her again there's no reason for the audience to ever take her seriously as a threat.

Given this is WWE, it doesn't bode well.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Are Shanky and Madcap Moss gonna team up to fight their former bosses?