Reports indicate that the following was taped Tuesday night for the episode of WWE SmackDown set to air this Friday, Jan. 31 from Toledo, Ohio as the WWE continues to delve through the fall out of the Royal Rumble pay-per-view and gears up for the Elimination Chamber event on Feb. 23 at the Target Center in Minneapolis.
In the main event of the evening, The Shield defeated Sheamus, Rey Mysterio and Daniel Bryan in a six-man tag team match after Roman Reigns hit Mysterio with a spear. The Shield cut a promo to open the show and talked about the Royal Rumble as well as The Wyatt Family costing them a spot in the Elimination Chamber match.
After an interruption by Triple H and Vickie Guerrero, it was announced that The Shield and The Wyatts will faceoff in a six-man tag at Elimination Chamber. The Wyatts cut a promo on the screen during the main event where Luke Harper did the talking.
The field for the Elimination Chamber match was rounded out as two qualification matches took place which saw Antonio Cesaro defeat Dolph Ziggler with the Cesaro Swing and the Neutralizer and Christian defeat Jack Swagger with the frog-splash.
In tag action, Ryback and Curtis Axel defeated Titus O'Neil and Darren Young after Young was pinned and O'Neil didn't try to break up the count. Following the match, the two got into an argument and O'Neil walked out on Young. Young then asked him what he was doing, and O'Neil said he was tired of feeling like a loser and knocked out Young, breaking up the tag team.
Elsewhere on the program, Fandango defeated R-Truth while Kofi Kingston defeated Damien Sandow with the SOS.
Cody Rhodes was in action, and defeated the Road Dogg with the Disaster Kick while Goldust and Billy Gunn were at ringside.
The WWE furthered a lot of storylines on this episode of SmackDown, rounding out the Elimination Chamber field, breaking up a tag team and furthering the conflict between The Shield and The Wyatt Family.
Quick results:
--The Shield, Triple H and Vickie Guerrero did a segment.
--Antonio Cesaro w/ Zeb Colter def. Dolph Ziggler via pinfall in an Elimination Chamber qualifying match.
--Fandango w/ Summer Rae def. Xavier Woods w/ R-Truth, Cameron and Naomi.
--Ryback and Curtis Axel def. Darren Young and Titus O'Neil via pinfall. After the match, Young and O'Neil split up.
--Christian def. Jack Swagger w/ Zeb Colter via pinfall in an Elimination Chamber qualifying match.
--Kofi Kingston def. Damien Sandow via pinfall.
--Cody Rhodes w/ Goldust def. Road Dogg w/ Billy Gunn via pinfall.
--The Shield def. Daniel Bryan, Sheamus and Rey Mysterio in a six-man tag team match.
This episode of SmackDown airs 23 days before the Elimination Chamber and the card so far looks like this:
Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship:
Randy Orton (c) vs. John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus vs. Christian vs. Antonio Cesaro
Six-man Tag Match:
The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family
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