Smackdown 5/21/15 Report

According to the Authority, Roman Reigns and Randy Orton have to go to the back of the line when it comes to World Title shots. Reigns opens the show by discussing his loss at Payback before announcing that he's entering Money in the Bank. I'm glad that they aren't waiting until after Elimination Chamber to build Money in the Bank. There isn't much time. Dean Ambrose shows up, saying that he heard the word Payback, took a wrong turn and ended up in the ring. They mention that it would be cool to face each other as Champion and MITB winner. Kane comes out, saying Reigns needs to prove that he deserves to be in MITB. He also books Bray Wyatt vs. Ambrose for tonight. Our opening contest is a Fatal Four Way tag team match. New Day and Prime Time Players are on commentary as the other four teams in the Elimination Chamber do battle. The Lucha Dragons are able to defeat Los Matadores, the Ascension and Tyson Kidd and Cesaro in a really fun match. It gives me hope for the Elimination Chamber, though part of me worries it may be a bit of a clusterfuck. Also, the Lucha Dragons have some badass attire. New Day and PTP are great on commentary.

We are sent to a recap of the strange Dolph Ziggler, Lana, Rusev stuff from Raw. Dolph was interviewed backstage and said that he's used to beautiful women coming up to him and kissing him. He puts over being stuck in the Chamber with her ex-boyfriend, but turns his focus to his match tonight. He faces another man from the upcoming Chamber, King Barrett. As you would expect when it comes to these two, the match is relatively good, it's just something that we've seen a fair amount of times before. And we've really seen the result before as King Barrett eats a clean pinfall loss. The guy either gets injured while gaining momentum or gets booked like shit. Lana appears on the stage after the match to cheer on Dolph Ziggler.

After another recap, this one of Paige's return on Raw, we are actually joined by Paige. She enters and cuts a promo about returning. She caused some controversy by calling Tamina a man. It was a stupid jab and I blame the writers for it. It's just like when Roman Reigns or John Cena cut a promo and they say a dumb immature comment that ruins everything. Besides that, I didn't hate the promo, especially the mention that she's done more in a year than Naomi's entire dancing career. Of course, Naomi and Tamina interrupt. The problem is that Paige isn't great on the mic and Naomi and Tamina are absolutely dreadful at it. They end up jumping her, until Nikki Bella makes the save, only to end up standing tall alone with the Divas Title. Shortly after this, it is officially announced that it will be Nikki vs. Paige vs. Naomi for the Divas Title at Elimination Chamber. This promo is followed by a Bray Wyatt backstage promo. He is just kind of there right now, which is always how it goes after a feud for him. Moving on, we get Stardust vs. R-Truth for what has to be the 15th time in the past month. And, as always, it was Stardust who suffers the loss. I don't understand why it's not Stardust in the Chamber instead of R-Truth. Backstage, Renee Young interviews Ryback about the Chamber. It's kind of funny and he does try and share vegan recipes with Renee. We continue to fly through these segments as we are shown a recap of the Kevin Owens/John Cena confrontation on Raw. It looks as if the United States Title will not be on the line at Elimination Chamber.

The Meta Powers ame their return tonight to take on the Rock n Rose Connection. For those wondering, that is Adam Rose and Heath Slater. With the awful Rosa Mendes. Yea, she's the worst. Meta Powers win. Ho hum. Renee interviews Bo Dallas, who puts over what he did to Neville on Raw. Finally, we get to the main event. Bray and Dean had a really good match on Raw and this was solid too. Bray absolutely owns Dean, but tonight, Dean is able to beat him for only the second time ever I think. Of course it included shenanigans from J&J Security and Roman Reigns though. After his win, Dean has a staredown with Seth Rollins, who is atop the stage. Overall, a relatively solid episode of Smackdown. Three good matches featured tonight so I can't be upset about that. 6.5/10.