Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "WWE SmackDown" on October 4, 2024, coming to you live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee!
Following weeks of tension between them, Chelsea Green and Michin look to settle their issues once and for all tonight as they collide in a Dumpster Match, with the first person to put their opponent in the dumpster and close the lid being declared the winner. Green and Michin previously met in the ring on the September 6 episode of "SmackDown" during which the former emerging victorious over the latter.
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Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa of The Bloodline will be putting the WWE Tag Team Championship on the line as they defend against Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano of #DIY and The Street Profits's Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins in a Triple Threat Ladder Match. Tonga and Loa's last title defense on television came on the August 23 edition of "SmackDown" when they retained against Ford and Dawkins.
Following a couple backstage verbal altercations last Friday on "SmackDown", Women's Money In The Bank holder Tiffany Stratton will be going head-to-head with Naomi. Naomi will surely be extra motivated to score a win tonight after losing a Number One Contenders Match for the WWE Women's Championship against Bayley last week.
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Additionally, AJ Styles will be appearing on tonight's show as he makes his first in person appearance on television in over three months. Fans will also be getting a special peek ahead of the tag team match between Roman Reigns and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and The Bloodline's Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu tomorrow night at WWE Bad Blood.
We are live! Michael Cole and Corey Graves greet audiences at home as HARDY waits in the ring to welcome fans to "SmackDown" and introduces AJ Styles. Styles then makes his way down to the ring.
Styles says he's missed fans, then says it's only fitting that he's in Nashville tonight as it's where it all started for him. He says over the course of the past couple months, he's done a lot of things he regrets, but he's not here to talk about the past. He says he wants to rebuild his legacy and says while a lot of people don't like him in the back, "SmackDown" is still the house that AJ Styles built.
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Carmelo Hayes' music hits and he makes his way out. He says he's not surprised that there's not a long line of people wanting to welcome Styles back after everything he's done, but he wanted to do so. He says he's been holding things down while Styles has been gone, then says he's a huge fan of his. He says he loves old timers like him.
Styles cuts Hayes off and says as someone who's shared a ring with LA Knight before, he knows what he's capable of. Hayes says he doesn't need Styles' advice because he doesn't take advice from quitters (referring to Styles saying "I Quit" in his Undisputed WWE Championship match against Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship at Bad Blood. Styles says Hayes isn't him as he's not United States Champion, and Hayes says Styles isn't phenomenal as he isn't Undisputed WWE Champion. Styles then challenges Hayes to a match, but Hayes declines to accept.
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LA Knight's music hits, and he makes his way out. He says he wants to talk to fans, then taunts Hayes for wanting to run away from a fight as usual. He then takes a couple shots at Styles given their history with one another, and says Hayes will get stomped out tonight whether that's him punching him in the mouth four or five times or him accepting Styles' challenge with the stipulation being that he'll give him a shot at the United States Championship should Hayes defeat Styles.
The bell rings and the two lock up. Hayes fires off strikes on Styles, but Styles fires off chops on Hayes in the corner and levels him with a dropkick. Styles catches Hayes with a back elbow and looks to land a springboard moonsault, but Hayes sees it coming and connects with a springboard crossbody. He goes for a pin, but Styles kicks out.
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Hayes lands a suplex on Styles and goes for another pin, but Styles kicks out once again. Hayes then dumps Styles out of the ring and gloats, then lands a couple right hands on him on the apron and sends him crashing into the announce desk face first as LA Knight watches from the announce desk.
Back from the break, Styles levels Hayes with a clothesline and follows it up with a forearm. He then delivers a splash in the corner and a shoulderbreaker, but the referee calls for the bell after Styles grabs onto his leg appearing to be injured. Alicia Taylor then declares Hayes as the winner of the match, but Knight surprises Hayes with a BFT.
Winner: Carmelo Hayes
Chelsea Green then makes her way down to the ring. Michin follows with a garbage can full of weapons in hand.
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The bell rings and Michin throws Green a kendo stick as she holds one of her own. Green charges at Michin with the kendo stick, but Michin lands several shots on her and connects with a tope suicida to take her down on the outside. She dumps Green back in the ring, then grabs a chair, a garbage can, and a table from under the ring.
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Green looks to fly through the ropes to level Michin, but Michin clocks her with a tray before she can and ascends to the top. She then lands a dropkick on Green and looks to put her in the dumpster, but Green prevents her from doing so and sends her crashing into the side of the dumpster. She then sends her crashing into the lid face first.
Back from the break, Michin lands a German suplex on Green and looks to follow it up with Eat Defeat. Green blocks it and hits a Canadian Destroyer, then places Michin in the dumpster and looks to close it. Michin prevents Green from doing so, then hits her repeatedly in the head with a garbage bag from the dumpster and throws another one on top of her. She then hits Green across the spine with one of the bags and looks to hit her with a tray back in the ring, but Green sees her coming and sets up for the Unprettier on top of the tray.
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Michin avoids the maneuver, then connects with Eat Defeat and places a garbage can on top of Green's head. She then ascends to the top and delivers a senton to Green before placing a table on top of the dumpster. Piper Niven then appears at ringside and attacks Michin, then lands a senton on her and looks to land a cannonball on her to sandwich her between herself and the dumpster.
Michin moves out of the way, sending Niven into the side of the dumpster. Michin and Green then begin brawling on the apron, but Michin powerbombs Green through the table set up on the dumpster. She then closes the lid to win the match.
Winner: Michin
Corey Graves then provides an update on AJ Styles, and informs fans that he's been taken to a local hospital to get his injured ankle checked on.
We then head backstage to Naomi preparing for her match later tonight. Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill approach her and hype her up, then inform her that she will be hosting Bad Blood with the two of them tomorrow night. Bayley then interrupts them and shares some words of her own with Naomi.
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