WWE Friday Night SmackDown Full Results (October 8th, 2021)

WWE announced that Carmella will battle Liv Morgan in kickoff match of Queen’s Crown tournament and Sami Zyan will battle Rey Mysterio in kickoff match of King of the Ring tournament. WWE also announced that Sasha Banks, Bianca Belair and SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch will sign the contract to make their SmackDown Women’s Championship match official at WWE Crown Jewel pay-per-view.

– Tonight’s SmackDown opened with Bianca Belair dancing in the ring. WWE officials Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville standing in the ring for the contract signing. Sasha Banks standing on the announce table. Pearce says they are here to make the Triple Threat for the SmackDown Women’s Title official for WWE Crown Jewel. Deville introduces SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch.

Becky Lynch takes a seat at her own table, which is set up at the entrance-way. Lynch says San Jose loves her, but who wouldn’t? She starts taunting Banks and Belair, and warns that there will be payback. Banks asks if Lynch missed her, because she knows the fans do and taunts them for her spotlight being bigger. Now, Belair interrupts and says the only conversation we should be having is Banks signing the contract. Belair goes on and says Becky wasn’t prepared at Summer Slam and brags about how every big moment in 2021 has her name on it. Belair challenges Banks and Lynch to come get in the ring now.

Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks aren’t coming. Belair seethes in the ring and starts tossing furniture out of the ring. Now, Becky Lynch brings up the 26 second win, tips her own table over, and starts going towards the ring. Now, Banks takes advantage and attacks Belair from behind. Lynch and Banks double team Belair. Now, Becky and Banks started brawling. Banks unloads on Becky with kicks but Becky turns it around.

Bianca Belair grabs Becky from behind and starts unloading. Belair goes for a double KOD on Becky and Banks, but Banks slides out of the move. Belair kicks Banks onto the table, and then puts Becky and Banks through the table with a big KOD on top of Banks. Belair celebrates as her music hits and dances around the ring now, spinning her hair, while Banks and Lynch try to recover on the mat.

– Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio are backstage and Kayla Braxton appears and asks what it would mean to win the King of the Ring tournament. Rey says other than being WWE Universal Champion, being King of the Ring is the next best thing. He goes on and says it would make him sick if Sami Zayn became King. Dominik tells Rey he’s going to stay in the back and watch the match tonight. Rey nods and heads out to the ring.

– Sami Zayn approaches Dominik Mysterio at backstage and says while Rey is a great man, it’s time for Dominik to be his own man, and if you ask Sami, he thinks Dominik is better than his father. Sami walks off towards the ring.

– Sami Zyan defeated Rey Mysterio via pinfall in King of the Ring tournament. At the closing moments, Sami exposes the turnbuckle and tries to sent Rey into it. But Dominik get into the apron to fix the exposed turnbuckle and Sami yells at him. Rey takes advantage of the distraction and nails a senton. Nowz Rey goes over to tell Dominik to stop messing with the turnbuckle cover, but Sami takes advantage of the distraction and rolls Rey up for the pin to win and advance to the second round.

After the match, Sami celebrates and goes to the stage to celebrate with the throne, cape and crown. Sami Zyan will face the winner of Finn Balor vs. Cesaro next week. Kofi Kingston vs. Jinder Mahal and Xavier Woods vs. Ricochet are the Raw matches. Rey looks disappointed with Dominik in the ring.

– Kayla Braxton is backstage with Rollins, asking if he thinks he crossed the line. Rollins says that is the narrative, but let’s review the facts. He points to how Edge has mocked, ridiculed, embarrassed and humiliated him, but he still managed to beat Edge after Summer Slam. Is Rollins celebrated or venerated for that? Of course not, he’s called a monster and demonized, but that’s fine. Rollins says from the past few weeks he’s still been the bigger man and challenging Edge to figure out once and for all who’s the bigger man but we heard nothing from Edge. 

Rollins says he told Edge he was going to his house, and he did to get an answer to his challenge. Rollins says he hasn’t crossed any lines and more importantly, he still hasn’t get an answer to his challenge. Rollins says he doesn’t even know why he’s talking to Kayla about this as she has no power to do anything about it. Rollins excuses himself so he can go find someone who does have the power.

– Zelina Vega defeated Toni Strom via pinfall in Queen’s Tournament first round match. After the match, Vega celebrates in the ring. Vega advances to the semi-finals to face the winner of Carmella vs. Liv Morgan.

– The Bloodline – WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns, SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos, and Paul Heyman make their way to the ring. Roman Reigns is in the ring now with a mic and gives a shout-out to San Jose and orders them to acknowledge him. Reigns says Heyman had one job to do on Raw and that was make sure his cousins stayed on SmackDown, and he did that.

Paul Heyman tells San Jose to acknowledge Heyman and they yell back. Reigns embraces Heyman, says he loves Heyman and Heyman tells he also loves Roman Reigns as his Tribal Chief. Reigns says The Usos also love Heyman, and Heyman also loves them. Reigns says Heyman is the wise man to The Bloodline, and right now he needs Heyman to be wise, and come clean. WWE Universe starts chanting “Suplex City!” for Lesnar now. 

Reigns says Silly San Jose, Suplex City doesn’t exist because this is the Island of Relevancy. Reigns wants Heyman to admit he’s responsible for Lesnar’s free agency. Heyman says he’s in a terrible position because no matter what he says it will sound like he’s spinning things. Heyman says he’s been with Reigns’ family for 40 years… Reigns stares him down. Heyman says Reigns chose him, rescued him and saved him, to be his counsel, because he knew Heyman is a wise man. 

Heyman has accused of many things, and is guilty of even more, but he’s never been accused of being stupid, and pulling the trigger now on a scheme to dethrone The Tribal Chief would be stupid. Why pull the trigger before Crown Jewel, wouldn’t the best thing be to stay in Reigns’ circle of trust, then leak a plan to Lesnar? Heyman goes on ranting and says only a stupid man would do that, and Reigns would never choose a stupid man to be his counsel. Heyman says Lesnar can’t stand the fact that at Crown Jewel, The Conqueror will be conquered by Roman… but Reigns stops and asks for the mic and Heyman hands it over.

👀#SmackDown @WWERomanReigns @HeymanHustle @WWEUsos pic.twitter.com/1kA4s1gv4A

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

Reigns doesn’t want Heyman to tell him, he wants Heyman to look into the camera and tell Brock. Reigns says don’t worry, he’ll protect Heyman, because he can. Fans chants “we want Lesnar!” now. Heyman addresses Lesnar and says he has to give him credit for teaching a lesson on this one. Heyman says Lesnar knows what will happen to him at Crown Jewel, they had this discussion years ago and Lesnar has met his match – Roman Reigns. Heyman goes on about how Reigns will walk out of Crown Jewel as the champion, and that’s not just a prediction, Brock, that’s a spoiler and you can believe that. Heyman tosses the mic and drops to his knees to present the Universal Title belt to Reigns. Now, Reigns raises the titlr in the air and then hands it to Heyman to carry. Reigns exits the ring as The Usos and Paul Heyman follows him.

Are you convinced of @HeymanHustle‘s allegiance to @WWERomanReigns?#SmackDown #WWECrownJewel @BrockLesnar pic.twitter.com/VD63ANRmeU

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

– Seth Rollins approaches Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville at backstage and asks them that if Edge is going to be here tonight or not. Pearce says Edge was scheduled to be here until Rollins went to his house last week. Rollins says he will be waiting in the ring at the end of the show for Edge’s answer and if Edge doesn’t show up then, this show won’t end well. Rollins says if Pearce and Deville do run into Edge before he does, he needs them to return something to him. He hands them a photo of Edge and Beth Phoenix kissing, which he lifted from their home last week. Pearce and Deville aren’t impressed. Rollins walks off laughing.

😮😮😮#SmackDown @WWERollins @EdgeRatedR @TheBethPhoenix pic.twitter.com/eO1A3gHB3P

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

– Carmella defeated Liv Morgan via pinfall in Queen’s Crown Tournament first round match. After the match, Carmella stood tall in the middle of the ring and removes her mask. Carmella vs. Vega is confirmed for the semi-finals next week.

– Kayla Braxton at backstage with MACE and asks about coming to SmackDown from Raw in the WWE Draft and about competing on the blue brand. MACE says to compete implies there is competition, and he didn’t see anyone on his level when he looked in the locker room, just prey. MACE says he’s not coming to SmackDown to compete, he’s coming to annihilate and walks off.

“I’m not coming here to compete, I’m coming here to ANNIHILATE.” – @MACEtheWRESTLER #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/ufyvUdPhJJ

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

– Happy Corbin makes his way to the ring along with Madcop Moss for another Happy Talk episode. Corbin has Moss crack another bad joke. But music quickly interrupts and out comes Kevin Owens. Moss stops Owens at ringside but Owens takes him down. Owens enters the ring and attacks Corbin. Both started brawl and Owens goes for a Stunner but Moss runs in and makes the save. Corbin and Moss double team Owens and he goes down and they start cackling. Moss drives Owens into the mat with his inverted Cutter. Corbin and Moss continue laughing, standing over Owens.

😳#SmackDown #HappyTalk @FightOwensFight @BaronCorbinWWE pic.twitter.com/KHqlkp27yA

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

– Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville are at backstage. Naomi walks in and wonders why she’s not in the Queen’s Crown Tournament. Deville says Naomi isn’t worthy, not worthy of being a queen or even on the SmackDown roster. Naomi protests and both of them have some words. Deville says she’s not done with Naomi on SmackDown and says Naomi has a match next week. Naomi asks against who, then, Deville says it’s her. Naomi says it’s on and walks off.

🚨🚨🚨@NaomiWWE vs. @SonyaDevilleWWE NEXT WEEK on #SmackDown?!?!?@ScrapDaddyAP pic.twitter.com/rVdiGcUYr0

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

– Finn Balor defeated Cesaro via pinfall in first round of King of the Ring tournament. After the match, Balor stood tall and Finn Balor vs. Sami  Zayn is confirmed for the King of the Ring semi-finals next Friday.

– Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville at backstage with SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch and she’s is ranting about how Brock Lesnar and WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns haven’t changed the game like she has. She says SmackDown is her domain, and Pearce and Deville need to put some respect on her name. Becky further says she’s not happy with Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair getting a title shot at Crown Jewel. 

She goes on about responding to every thing asked of her, and being the best. Deville gets upset, says they know how good Lynch is, and says all Lynch has to do is prove it to the rest of the world by beating them both at once, and sign the contract. Becky signs the contract and shoves it back, apparently barely hitting Pearce below the belt and storms off.

– Seth Rollins makes his way to the ring to get answer from WWE Hall of Famer Edge for his challenge. He says the time has come and starts calling Edge to the ring to answer his challenge. Rollins says Edge can name the time and place, even the stipulation. Ladder Match? Whatever you want, we can even have the match in your living room so your wife and daughters can cheer you on.

Seth Rollins tells Edge to come on. What happened to The Rated R Superstar and The Ultimate Opportunist? Rollins laughs and says he knows what happened to that guy – Rollins ended him with one stomp at Madison Square Garden, and if you won’t show up and answer the challenge, then Rollins is going to take that as an admission that Rollins is not Edge Lite, and is better than Edge is every possible way.

.@EdgeRatedR is HERE!!!#SmackDown @WWERollins pic.twitter.com/R0uwPCE6xB

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

Seth Rollins says Edge is not only disappointing him, but he’s disappointing his fans and more importantly, his family. Rollins can’t imagine what it’s like for Edge’s daughters to know he’s no longer an inspiration, he’s a coward. It must break their little hearts into tiny pieces. The big screen shows Edge arriving in parking lot. Now, music hits as Edge rushes to the ring through the backstage area. Rollins gets ready for a fight in the ring. Edge appears in the arena, then, Rollins goes to ringside and brings a steel chair in. Edge enters the ring and takes Rollins down with a Spear.

SPEAR!!!💥#SmackDown @EdgeRatedR @WWERollins pic.twitter.com/8HLgcucpGK

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2021

Seth Rollins retreats to the floor but Edge follows, beating him over the announce table and beating him around the ringside area. Rollins has the headset wires wrapped around him and Edge uses on Rollins. Edge brings Rollins in the ring, then, brings steel steps in to the ring and tries to use it with the Crossface but Rollins elbows him in the neck. 

Rollins retreats to the floor. Edge takes the mic and challenges a Hell In a Cell match against Rollins. Rollins and Edge stare each other down with Rollins looking on from the entrance. Now, announcers hype the Edge vs. Seth Rollins Hell In a Cell match but never say when or where it will take place, and SmackDown season premiere episode goes off the air with Edge staring Rollins.