Roman’s music hits and out he comes with Jimmy Uso, Solo Sikoa and Paul Heyman. Roman points at Solo and Solo gets in the ring. Solo with a right hand onto LA Knight and he throws him to the outside. Roman and Jimmy stomp onto AJ Styles and Randy Orton in the ring. Orton rolls to the outside. Solo grabs the steel steps and he hits Orton with them. Roman hits AJ with a powerbomb and he throws AJ to the outside of the ring. Jimmy and Solo throw LA Knight back into the ring. Roman hits LA Knight with a Superman Punch. Roman runs to the ropes and hits him with a spear. Jimmy throws Orton into the ring and Roman hits him with a spear and Solo with a Samoan Spike. Nick Aldis grabs Heyman and tells him congratulations because it’s a fatal four way match against the three of them at the Royal Rumble. Aldis walks away as the show fades to black.

Kofi Kingston makes his entrance. He’s soon followed by “Main Event” Jey Uso. Jey gets the crowd thumping. They’ll face Imperium next.

Tag Team Match
Kofi Kingston and “Main Event” Jey Uso vs. Imperium (Ludwig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci)

Kofi Kingston will start against Giovanni Vinci. Vinci quickly applies a hammerlock before wrenching the arm. Kingston twists out and takes him down before connecting with a big splash for a two-count. Vinci quickly knees him, but he has a whip into the ropes reversed on him. Vinci ducks a clothesline and absolutely clobbers Kingston with a running cross-body block. Vinci forearms Kingston’s chest in the corner and tags in Ludwig Kaiser. Kingston fights out of the corner, but Kaiser knees him in the midsection to keep him down. Kaiser whips Kingston to the corner, but Kingston knocks Vinci off the apron. Kingston tries to boot Kaiser, but Kaiser blocks it and attacks him. Kaiser taunts the crowd and stomps Kingston in the corner. Kaiser sends him to the opposite corner, but Kingston springboards off the middle turnbuckle with a twisting missile dropkick. Kaiser quickly rolls out of the ring to recover. Kingston hits the ropes for a dive, but Vinci sweeps the feet. Kaiser sends Kingston shoulder-first into the ring post. Vinci tags in. Imperium sandwiches Kingston in the corner with dual dropkicks.

-Commercial Break-

Picture-in-Picture Commercial Break: Vinci whips Kingston into the barricade and gets him into the ring. Kingston fights back, but Vinci shoves him into the ropes for a big spinebuster. Kaiser tags in and hits the ropes for a penalty kick. Kaiser uses his boots to rake the eyes. Kaiser taunts Jey Uso, who is watching on helplessly from the apron. Kaiser avalanches Kingston in the corner and hits a head-and-arm suplex. Kaiser dances around the ring and peppers Kingston with strikes. Kingston starts to punch back and reaches for a tag, but Kaiser holds him back. Kaiser pulls Kingston back and taunts Jey. Vinci tags in and connects with a guillotine catapult into the bottom rope for a two-count.

Back from the break, Vinci hits a few quick kicks to Kingston. Kingston fights back and reverses a whip to the corner. Vinci scales the ropes and dives for a cross-body, but Kingston dropkicks him out of mid-air. The “YEET” chants are picking up. Kingston crawls over and reaches to make the tag to Jey Uso!

Jey hits the ring, but the referee steps up to him. The bell rings to end the match!

Winners by Referee Stoppage: Kofi Kingston and “Main Event” Jey Uso

A WWE doctor is in the ring and is checking on Giovanni Vinci, who is down in the ring. Jey does not look happy. Everyone is walking around the ring, not sure what to do. Michael Cole and Wade Barrett put over the health and well-being of the WWE Superstars.

The good news is Giovanni Vinci was able to walk off under his own power. He was holding the back of his head. Replays of the dropkick out of mid-air show a boot connecting to Vinci’s jaw and a rough landing.

Jimmy Uso is backstage with Solo. He tells Solo he knows the pressure and when you are out there, you have to call an audible. Roman is sitting down and he asks Heyman who the SmackDown General Manager is and Heyman tells him Nick Aldis. Roman tells Heyman to bring Aldis to him. Heyman asks if he can have a moment of his time to brief him about Aldis. Roman tells Heyman to bring Aldis.

AJ Styles vs. Solo Sikoa

Winner: By disqualification, AJ Styles

Roman lifts AJ up but AJ lands on his feet and he hits Roman with a kick to the side of the head.

Solo Sikoa gets in the ring and he hits AJ with right hands. Randy Orton’s music hits and Randy runs down to the ring. Orton with a kick onto Solo and right hands onto Roman. In comes Jimmy Uso and he hits Randy from behind with right hands. LA Knight’s music hits and out he comes to the ring. LA Knight with a clothesline onto Jimmy and right hands to Solo and Roman. LA Knight throws Jimmy towards Orton and Orton throws Jimmy to the outside of the ring. Roman rolls to the outside. Randy Orton, AJ Styles and LA Knight stand in the middle of the ring. AJ argues with the both of them. AJ with a right hand onto LA Knight and a chop onto Orton. LA Knight hits AJ with a clothesline. Orton grabs LA Knight and LA Knight with right hands. Solo and Jimmy are about to enter the ring but Roman tells them to stop. AJ Styles with right hands onto LA Knight but LA Knight slams him into the top turnbuckle. Randy Orton with right hands onto LA Knight and SmackDown goes off the air.

Byron Saxton catches up with Jey Uso after his big win to end the year 2023. Jey Uso is pumped up and talks about Kofi Klaus coming to his aid. Kofi walks up and he and Jey show out a little. Jey tells Kofi he needs to lay off the candy canes while pointing to his stomach. Jey also points out Kofi’s butt in the Santa pants. Watch what went down in the video!

“Main Event” Jey Uso makes his way to the ring for the save. Jey ducks a clothesline and punches away at McIntyre. Jey superkicks McIntyre. Rollins and Jey then hit McIntyre with stereo superkicks to knock him out of the ring. Jey picks up the World Heavyweight Championship and hands it to Rollins. Jey celebrates big time with the crowd. A bleeding and furious McIntyre watches on.

Next week on Raw, Seth “Freakin” Rollins will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against “Main Event” Jey Uso. Drew McIntyre will also face Sami Zayn.

Backstage Segment

Randy Orton is warming up when “Main Event” Jey Uso walks up to him. Jey Uso says he wanted to find Orton before Orton found him. Jey apologizes for what happened back in the day. Cody Rhodes gave him a second chance and hopes they can leave the past in the past. Orton says he’s seen how Jey Uso has had Cody’s back. A lot of people trust him. Orton will let bygones be bygones, but he will handle some unfinished business with the Bloodline. As long as Jey Uso is out of the Bloodline, they’re good. Jey says he’s out. They shake hands.

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