WWE SmackDown Live Results – May 20, 2022

Poor Drew Gulak. He’s facing Gunther again. Ludwig Kaiser introduces Gunther. Gunther is very impressive. I think this entrance is really nice, but I wonder if just his music wouldn’t be more intimidating.

Well, that was short. Gulak gets destroyed. Gunther gets the win. Ol’ Drew’s going to be icing his chest.

After the match, he puts Gulak in a Boston Crab. He won’t release it until Ricochet comes down to the ring. I guess we know who the next Intercontinental Champion is. I’m here for that.

Oh geez. It’s LA Knight. NOPE. It’s Max Du…PRI. These names just get worse and worse. His name is Shawn Ricker. He was once Slate Randall. Then he was Eli Drake. Then he was LA Knight. Pick one of those. They get worse every time. Max Dupri. He’s here with his male models: Maximum Male Models. They can headline a runway in Paris and Wrestlemania. This is going to bomb.

Not on @KingRicochet's watch! 👀#SmackDown @Gunther_AUT @wwe_kaiser @DrewGulak pic.twitter.com/RMu6azIqeS

— WWE (@WWE) May 21, 2022

The only person who’s happy when this dude is talking is himself. Happy Corbin is here to host an installment of Happy Talk.

He talks about ridding the WWE of Madcap Moss last week when he dropped the Andre the Giant Trophy on a chair over Moss’s throat. Corbin has taken the trophy as a trophy to remember his violent attack. He says he was fined. Corbin shows the replay twice.

Corbin says this is a message to tell people to respect their boss. He says he paid for all of the nice things Moss has enjoyed. Apparently, you don’t do that.

This feud has seemingly gone on forever and will be continuing. After the promo, Corbin destroys the trophy and holds up the Andre bust.

"@MadcapMoss didn't appreciate every great thing that I did for him. He thought that I could be the butt of all his jokes. He called me the BIG BALD WOLF!"@BaronCorbinWWE #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/pSIxzCIK9h

— WWE (@WWE) May 21, 2022

Backstage, Sami Zayn is watching Roman’s promo. He is fired up and reacting as though he’s a member of The Bloodline. He’s wearing his Bloodline shirt and all.

Shinsuke makes his entrance as The Bloodline makes their exit. Nakamura does a little head fake as the crew passes by.

Nakamura comes out very, very aggressive. He stays on the attack for a large part of the match early on. He goes to the top rope, but Sami Zayn pushes him off. Nakamura lands hard on the back of his neck on the apron.

Nakamura hit a Kinshasa Knee Strike to the back of the head of Zayn from the middle turnbuckle. He makes the pin, but only a two count. Sami fights back and tries to get Nakamura counted out. Nakamura returns the favor and Sami barely makes it back in. When he does get back in, he immediately meets a Kinshasa. Nakamura wins.

I feel like we’ve seen these two guys face off a million times in the last year or so. However, tonight’s match was good and added a bit of a new wrinkle. Sami’s new finisher of the count out is pretty funny.

We get another Uso hype package. There is a large amount of hype being built to this main event. Everything I know about WWE and it’s booking history tells me there will be a screwy finish. However, I still grew up in an era where you didn’t hype a match like this if you weren’t sending the crowd home with some kind of decision. So, I feel like The Usos should be winning. But, it is WWE. So, we are getting a screwy finish.

Not today, Rusty!@SamiZayn #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/hbspU91x7A

— WWE (@WWE) May 21, 2022

The longest entrance in the history of WWE is Roman Reigns on SmackDown. He takes forever to come to the ring. On the positive side, it gives WWE time to do the recap package instead of having the guy in the ring introduce them awkwardly.

Roman Reigns wants the crowd to acknowledge him. He also wants them to acknowledge The Usos. Paul Heyman says tonight is the biggest night in tag team wrestling because we’re going to get the unification of the titles. Heyman runs down all the best stars in the history of wrestling, including the Rock. He says they aren’t as good as Roman.

After this, he says The Usos will be the greatest tag team in history. He says they’ll even be better than Afa and Sika. To do this they have to beat RK-Bro. If they don’t win, they are kicked off the Island of Relevancy. Heyman says The Usos are going to win. He uses the spoiler line. He usually saves that for when he means it. It’s very rare that he misses on the spoiler line.

Roman grabs the mic and addresses them directly. He says he expects them to win and gives them a hug of love. Well, that was pretty darn good. Heyman was in Heyman form. He brought it.

"Ladies and gentlemen … @WWEUsos will come home the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions or they won't come home to the Island of Relevancy at all!"

🎤 @HeymanHustle#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/6fdlAo2tnp

— WWE (@WWE) May 21, 2022