This week’s super SmackDown from Madison Square Garden featured multiple dark matches with names such as John Cena and Drew McIntyre competing in non televised matches. The first dark match took place before the show went on air. It saw Charlotte Flair retain her Raw women’s championship over Rhea Ripley. Flair won the match via submission.
The SmackDown episodes ended with Finn Balor reintroducing his demon persona and confronting Roman Reigns. This confrontation continued after the show went off air. It was a few minutes after the cameras had stopped rolling that the Bloodline left the ring. Balor was then cheering the crowd when Happy Corbin came out.
Corbin quickly backed out after entering the ring but Finn Balor chased and attacked the lone wolf. Finn put him down with a pair of slingblades. Drew McIntyre made his way out as Balor was leaving the arena. The former WWE champion faced Baron Corbin in the second dark match of the show. Though this bout ended in disqualification after Corbin hit McIntyre with a steel chair at ringside.
The duo then fought their way back into the ring. Drew McIntyre hit Corbin with the chair multiple times before ending the segment with a claymore to his opponent. The final dark main event of the night was a six man tag team match.
John Cena was part of this bout. He received one of the biggest pops of the night. The Cenation leader teamed up with Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio to face The Bloodline. Cena countered a spear of Roman Reigns into an attitude adjustment and he then delivered another AA to Jimmy Uso to end the match. You can check out some photos and videos of the unaired matches from the show below:
