27/08/2022
SmackDown Recap:
• Ricochet def. Happy Corbin (12:20).
Grade: B
• Backstage, Street Profits run into Hit Row. The two teams get along and walk off together.
• We get a video of Drew McIntyre speaking about his journey from Scotland to WWE.
• Karrion Kross & Scarlett appear from the crowd. Kross congratulates Drew on his story of redemption.
Kross says that at any given moment, he can put his arm through Drew's head and make his achievements mean nothing.
• Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament: Sonya Deville & Natalya def. Dana Brooke & Tamina, Shotzi & Xia Li and Doudrop & Nikki ASH (3:10).
Grade: B
Deville pins Nikki for the win.
• Sheamus is in the ring with Ridge Holland & Butch.
Sheamus says he will be the WWE’s first ultimate grand slam champion after he defeats Gunther. Gunther comes out with Ludwig Kaiser.
Kaiser speaks in German, but Sheamus tells him he doesn’t have a clue and no one in the arena has a clue what he is saying and tells him to shut up.
Sheamus tells Gunther that he calls himself the ring general but the truth is Sheamus is the real ring general.
Sheamus says he has faced the best of the best and he has beat every single one of them.
Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton, John Cena, Roman Reigns and even the king of kings, Triple H.
And nobody in this ring, this business, has had banger after banger like him and he sees a lot of himself in Gunther.
Sheamus promises that at Clash at the Castle, he will drag that title out of his lifeless body and into the belly of the red dragon.
Gunther tells Sheamus that he is a man to be respected but he is nothing like him.
He is the Intercontinental champion and to protect this title, he will teach him what violence really means.
Gunther says that in Cardiff not only he will retain the title but he will chop his chest into bloody bits.
Sheamus and Gunther are face to face as Kaiser and Butch fight. Sheamus and Gunther are still in the ring face to face.
Sheamus then grabs Butch and h