WWE SmackDown New Year’s Revolution Results
January 5, 2024
Report by Lovell Porter for Wrestlezone.com
As the show begins, Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman arrive. Kayla asks Reigns about Monday Night Raw. Reigns laughs and walks away.
United States Championship Tournament Finals: Kevin Owens vs. Santos Escobar w/Angel Garza and Humberto Carrillo
Before the match starts, Logan Paul walks down the ramp and joins the commentary desk. Wilde and Del Toro hop the barricade and attacks Graza and Carrillo. All four men fight off. In the confusion, Owens superkicks Escobar and hits a cannonball in the corner. Splash by Owens. Escobar kicks out. After the break, Escobar slams Owens’ broken right hand into the ring post. Escobar focuses his vicious assault on Owens’ injured hand. Owens eventually manages to hit the Stunner for the win.
Winner and NEW Number One Contender, Kevin Owens!
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After the match, Logan Paul grabs a mic and congratulate Owens for winning the opportunity to lose to him. Paul notes a Canadian winning the United States Championship will never happen. It’s like the Canucks winning the Stanley Cup. It’s never going to happen. Paul gets in the ring and Owens clocks him upside the head with his cast.
In-Ring Segment: Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits
Lashley says 2023 was one of the toughest years of his career. Not because he didn’t put in the work, he just didn’t have the results he wanted. A highlight was hooking up with the best tag team in WWE, the Street Profits. Their resolution is simple: they are going to take everything they want in 2024. Ford adds they are going to take advantage of every opportunity they can to claim gold. Dawkins tells The Judgement Day to look out.
Lashley says in 2024 he’s going to get back to being the Almighty. He’s going to start that by officially declaring for the Royal Rumble match. The lights go out and Karrion Kross and Scarlett appear on the stage. Paul Ellering joins them. Lashley and the Street Profits square up. The Authors of Pain attacks Lashley and The Street Profits. Akum and Rezar crush Ford and Dawkins with the Supercolider. Kross hits his finish on Lashley.
WWE Women’s Championship Match: Iyo Sky (c) w/Dakota Kai vs. Michin
After a series of strikes and reversals, Sky sends Michin flying with a rana. Michin lands a dropkick. Sky lands a roll through double stomp. Sky charges in, but Michin ducks, sending Sky tumbling through the ropes. Michin lands a dive. Afte break, Michin lands a stiff kick for a near fall. Corner cannonball by Michin. Sky kicks out. Michin lands a rope assisted lung blower for a near fall. The fight spills out to the apron. Sky counters Michin’s attack with a German suplex on the apron. Springboard dropkick by Sky.
SKy tries the Over the Moonsault, but Michin gets her knees up. Dragon Suplex by Michin. Sky kicks out. Michin tries a powerbomb. Sky rolls through and lands a double knee strike for a near fall. Sky goes back up top. Michin cuts Sky off and knocks her down to the mat. Sky cuts Michin off with a shotan. Sky tries a rana off the top. Michin reverses it into a second rope Styles Clash! Sky somehow manages to get her hand on the rope to break the pin. Sky rolls out of the ring. Michin misses a dive. Sky lands two Meteoras follows by the Over the Moonsault for the win.
Winner and STILL WWE Women’s Champion, Iyo Sky!
Next up, Pretty Deadly will face Butch in a tag match. Butch had to find a partner. Who will it be?
Backstage, Damage CTRL congratulates Sky on her win. Bayley says this is all part of her plan. Next, the Kabuki Warriors will win the tag titles, and she is going to win the Royal Rumble. Bianca Belair walks in and tells Bayley to slow her roll. Bayley isn’t winning the Royal Rumble because Belair is. Belair promises to win the Rumble and take back her title from Sky. Sky says something in Japanese. Kai tells Bayley that Sky said as the leader of Damage CTRL, she has to deal with Belair.
Pretty Deadly vs. Butch and…… Tyler Bate!
Wilson and Bate start the match, Bate wrestles circles around Wilson before landing a dropkick. Bate tags in Butch, and they land a combo senton. Butch stomps on Wilson’s hand. Wilson and Prince roll out of the ring. Butch lands an Asai moonsault as Bate lands a dive. After the break, Pretty Deadly are taking turns working over Butch. Butch manages to tag in Bate. Bate clears the ring. Bate traps Wilson in an airplane spin into a slam. Rebound lariat into a German suplex by Bate and Butch. Prince breaks up the pin. Butch and Bate hit a double Tyler Driver on Prince for the win.
Winners- Butch and Tyler Bate
Backstage, Ashante “Thee” Adonis is in GM Nick Aldis’ office. Adonis says he doesn’t want Aldis to feel sorry for him, he just needs an opportunity. Adonis says he was born-ready and just needs a shot. Aldis says he doesn’t feel sorry for Adonis. Aldis knows Adonis has it in him, and he has a few ideas he thinks Adonis will like.
Number One Contender’s Match: Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles vs. LA Knight
The match started during the break, All three men are trading stikes. GM Nick Aldis is watching the match from ringside. Knight sends Styles into the corner hard. Orton sends both his opponents out of the ring. Knight blocks Orton’s attempt to slam his head into the announce desk. Knight slams Orton’s head into the desk over and over again as the crowd chants yeah. Styles tries to break it up and ends up getting his head slammed into the desk multiple times. Orton sneaks in and suplexes Knight on the desk. Orton does the same to Styles. Knight starts to stir, so Orton suplexes him on the table again, naturally.
Orton tries to suplex Styles again, but Styles reverses it and suplexes Orton on the desk. Knight is sent head first into the ring steps. Orton surprises Styles with the Orton DDT as he tries to get back in the ring. Orton calls for the RKO. Knight pulls Orton out of the ring and sends him into the steps. Styles catches Knight with a dropkick through the ropes. Everyone is down outside the ring. Knight counters the RKO with the BFT. Styles breaks up the count by grabbing the referee’s hand. Stlyes and Knight trade stikes. Styles drops Knight with a Pelé kick. Springboard 450 by Styles. Knight somehow kicks out!
Knight is busted open. Styles punches Knight in the head over and over again. Orton gets back in the ring and sent Styles into the corner. Styles tries the Phenomenal Forearm and dives right into an RKO. Knight pulls the referee out of the ring before he can count to three! Knight crawls back into the ring. Everyone is down. Roman Reigns music hits. Reigns, Heyman, Solo Sikoa, and Jimmy Uso all march to the ring. The Bloodline attacks EVERYONE. Skioa hits Orton in the head with the ring steps.
Reigns powerbomb Styles. The Bloodline assaults everyone. Outside the ring, Aldis tells Heyman to tell Reigns congratulations. Heyman asks for what? Adlis says Reigns just earned himself a fatal four-way against Orton, Knight, and Styles at Royal Rumble. Aldis walks away. Heyman looks at Reigns with a terrified look on his face.
No Contest
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