
Michael Cole: "Welcome to Friday Night Smackdown from Indianapolis, Indiana! I'm Michael Cole and along side me is my partner JBL and tonight we get to finally see who will move on to the finals of the WWE Tag-Team Championship #1 Contender Tournament to face the Big Show and Rey Mysterio!"
JBL: "... and what is probably going to be my favorite match of the night, we get to see "the Animal" Batista make his return to the ring as he takes on Jack Swagger of the Real Americans!"
Michael Cole: "Up first though, we have all three members of the Shield taking on Xavier Woods, R-Truth and Kofi Kingston! We get to see if the Shield, a once promising team that looked like they may hold every title in the company, can keep it together after some huge rifts began to appear the last couple of weeks."
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Kofi Kingston, R-Truth & Xavier Woods
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Michael Cole: "I can't believe Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose would do that near the end of the match. Seth Rollins ran to his corner to get a fresh tag in and both of them walked around and left him to fend for himself."
JBL: "They knew he could finish the job off without there help, and he did! Stop trying to make issues where there aren't any Michael!"
Michael Cole: "Oh come on!"
Michael Cole: "Wow! He's entering himself into the Rumble!"
JBL: "So we've got Lesnar, Dolph Ziggler.. and now Wade Barrett! He's got to be the favorite going in!"
Michael Cole: "Oh, give me a break."
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Sin Cara
Barrett would enter the ring and would go to work as soon as the referee called for the bell. Sin Cara had a few spots where it started to look bright for him, but Barrett was in control for a majority of the match. Barrett would throw Sin Cara to the outside, but he would land on the apron and immedietly attempt to bounce off the top rope and back into the ring, but Barrett would catch him with a huge elbow and pick up the win.
JBL: "Hahaha, what an ending Michael! That was a huge elbow he delivered to Sin Cara!"
Michael Cole: "Indeed it was John."
accompanied by Tamina
VS
Brie Bella
accompanied by Nikki Bella
AJ Lee would immedietely jump on Brie Bella, slamming her head into the mat before finally breaking after the referee demanded her to. AJ would blow a kiss to Nikki Bella on the outside before jumping back onto Brie. She'd once again break, but this time because of Nikki jumping onto the apron and yelling. AJ attempted to knock her off but she jumped down, causing her to whiff and giving Brie a chance to try and roll her up. AJ would kick out before getting back up and almost instantly hit a Shining Wizard on Briw, but instead of pinning her, she'd drag her to the middle of the ring put her in a modified Black Widow with the ref calling for the bell as Brie was obviously unresponsive.
Brie would jump into the ring and try and jump on AJ, but she was ready for it and rolled out of the ring before walking backwards up the ramp, laughing with Tamina at her side.
Michael Cole: "I just can't see anyone beating AJ. She's the craziest diva in the lockerroom!"
JBL: "Don't get too excited, Michael, Big E Langston and Mark Henry facing off against the Prime Time Players is up next!"
Mark Henry & Big E Langston
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Darren Young & Titus O'Neil
A fairly even match, Titus O'Neil seen the majority of the time in the ring due to the size seemingly being too much for Darren Young to handle against the two strongest men in the WWE, Mark Henry and Big E Langston. Titus gave Big E all he could handle, hitting him with a huge shoulder late in the match before playing towards the crowd by giving them a loud "Aragh! Aragh! Aragh!". Unfortunately, that gave Big E time to roll over to the corner and tag Mark Henry in, and he brought it to Titus. Henry would get him in the corner and deliver a few big shoulders to his gut before dropping back to the other corner before sprinting towards Titus for a huge shoulder, but he dropped out of the way! This gave him enough time to crawl over to his corner and tag in Young, who would sprint to the corner and jump on Henry, delivering a couple of punches to the back of the head before being tossed to the side. Young would jump right back up and with Henry still trying to regain his composure, he'd climb to the top rope before yelling for him. Henry would get to his feet and Young would attempt a crossbody, but Henry would catch him and slam him down with a World's Strongest Slam! He would easily pick up the pin and move his team to the finals.
JBL: "What an ending, Michael!"
Michael Cole: "That's Mark Henry showing us his strength, and I can't wait to see him and Big E Langston taking on Big Show and Rey Mysterio on Raw!"
Michael Cole: "That was a huge announcement that Vince McMahon dropped on us last week, and it's a hell of a deal! It's ALMOST as good as the WWE App!"
JBL: "That's great, but what's even better is up next, the Animal makes his in-ring return!"
accompanied by Antonio Cesaro
VS
Batista
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Batista would stand above Jack Swagger, taunting Antonio Cesaro to get into the ring to fight him. He'd pick Swagger back up and hit him with another huge powerbomb before exiting the ring, taunting towards the crowd.
Michael Cole: "Batista has not lost a step and I'd be worried if I were Randy Orton, having to face this animal for my WWE World Heavyweight title at the Royal Rumble next week."
JBL: "I'm glad I'm retired Michael. The WWE title picture would've just gotten a lot more scary for me if I weren't."
Michael Cole: "Are you insinuating that you'd be champ?!
JBL: "Damn right I am Michael!"
Michael Cole: "Well that's all we have... see you next week folks!"
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