The April 9, 2021 Edition of Smackdown Live was a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE's Smackdown brand, which took place on April 1, 2021 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Summary[]
Never allowing himself to pay any mind to all the times he heard “No!” throughout his entire career, Daniel Bryan declares that “Yes!” he will walk out of The Showcase of the Immortals with the Universal Championship.
SmackDown Tag Team Title Fatal 4-Way Match: SmackDown, April 9, 202102:58 Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode retained in SmackDown Tag Team Title Fatal 4-Way Match After initiating a pre-match brawl with The Street Profits that quickly drew Otis & Chad Gable and Rey & Dominik Mysterio into the fray, SmackDown Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode ultimetaely prevailed over the three challenging tandems in an explosive Fatal 4-Way showdown.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Nia Jax collided with a potential WrestleMania opponent from Night 1’s Tag Team Turmoil Match, Tamina. Just when it looked as if Tamina may knock off The Irresistible Force, Shayna Baszler prevented the pinfall and brought an end to the match by disqualification. Nevertheless, Tamina & Natalya still walked out with momentum heading into The Show of Shows when they knocked The Queen of Spades out of the ring.
Claiming Daniel Bryan “weaseled” his way into the main event of WrestleMania and that he himself forged the very path that Roman Reigns first used to make it in WWE, an impassioned Edge said he was destined to be the next Universal Champion because, like everything else he had done in his storied career, he has dreamt it and would manifest it.
Moments after SmackDown aired footage of Sami Zayn inviting himself to Logan Paul’s Training Camp in Miami, Kevin Owens once again attacked The Master Strategist and nearly delivered the Stunner to his WrestleMania adversary before Zayn escaped.
This year’s action-packed Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal came down to Ricochet, Jey Uso, King Corbin and Shinsuke Nakamura. “Main Event” Uso endured the Kinshasa and reversed The Artist’s attempt to throw him over the top rope to emerge victorious.
Universal Champion Roman Reigns closed out the special WrestleMania edition of SmackDown by insisting that he will crush the dreams of Edge and Daniel Bryan and use their defeat as a launching point for the next great year as The Head of the Table.
Results[]
- Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
- Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode (c) defeated The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford, Rey & Dominik Mysterio and Otis & Chad Gable in a Fatal 4-Way Match to retain WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship
- Tamina (w/ Natalya) defeated Nia Jax (w/ Shayna Baszler & Reginald) by DQ (2:35)
- Jey Uso won the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal (15:45)
André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal Eliminations[]
| Elimination | Wrestler | Eliminated by |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akira Tozawa | Shelton Benjamin & Cedric Alexander |
| 2 | Tucker | Shelton Benjamin & Cedric Alexander |
| 3 | Shelton Benjamin & Cedric Alexander | |
| 4 | Erik | Elias & Jaxson Ryker |
| 5 | Drew Gulak | MACE & T-Bar |
| 6 | Humberto Carrillo | MACE & T-Bar |
| 7 | SLAPJACK | Elias & Jaxson Ryker |
| 8 | Elias & Jaxson Ryker | MACE & T-Bar |
| 9 | MACE | Mustafa Ali |
| 10 | T-Bar | Mustafa Ali |
| 11 | Kalisto | Lince Dorado |
| 12 | Lince Dorado | Gran Metalik |
| 13 | Gran Metalik | King Corbin |
| 14 | Murphy | King Corbin |
| 15 | Angel Garza | Shinsuke Nakamura |
| 16 | Mustafa Ali | Ricochet |
| 17 | Ricochet | Jey Uso |
| 18 | King Corbin | Shinsuke Nakamura |
| 19 | Shinsuke Nakamura | Jey Uso |
| 20 | Jey Uso | Winner |
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External links[]
WWE Smackdown Live #1129 at CAGEMATCH.net- WWE Smackdown Live #1129 at WWE.com
- Smackdown #1129 on WWE Network
