WWE SmackDown Live Review: Results, Analysis, and Grades for October 11

Dolph Ziggler Opens SD!

The newly crowned Intercontinental Champion is in the house. He’s showered with You Deserve It chants and drinks it in from the San Jose crowd. Ziggler says he didn’t know if Sunday would be the last time he saw the fans, got in the ring, or spray tanned Zack Ryder’s back. He says there was no way he was walking out of No Mercy without the title, and he and the fans did it!

This brings out The Miz. He and Maryse are in all black and tell the crowd to be silent to mourn the death of the Intercontinental Championship. With Ziggler’s mediocrity all over the belt, it’s prestige is now destroyed. Miz says this isn’t the ending, since the hero is always supposed to get the hero and the girl and right now he only has one.

Ziggler shows the clip of him beating Miz on Sunday and taunts Miz for crying. San Jose assists with a “You Were Crying” chant. Miz says he’s not done with him, and neither are they. They being the Spirit Squad. It’s handicap match time, next!

Dolph Ziggler vs Spirit Squad (Mikey & Kenny)

Result: Ziggler def. Spirit Squad by pinfall (Superkick)

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Kenny and Mikey get dumped to the outside real quick. The Spirit Squad get the advantage during the break, but Ziggler eventually breaks through. He nailed Kenny with a superkick, prompting Ranallo’s greatest South Park impression about how he killed Kenny. Ziggler gets the pinfall, victory.

Right after the bell rings, Miz pounces on Ziggler and hits a Skull Crushing Finale. The Spirit Squad are starting to beat on Ziggler when Rhyno & Heath Slater come out to save him. Does this mean the Spirit Squad are the next challengers to Rhyno & Slater’s tag team gold? One can hope!

Randy Orton & Kane vs Bray Wyatt & Luke Harper is announced for tonight, and Becky Lynch will defend her title on November 8^th in Glasgow, Scotland against Alexa Bliss.

Up next, Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan are talking about Survivor Series!