WWE SmackDown Live Results And Grades For July 24, 2018

Shinsuke Nakamura Promo

Shinsuke Nakamura discussed Randy Orton’s promo and vendetta against the fans, as well as his heinous assault on Jeff Hardy last week. He said, “Be careful, Randy, I bite back.” This cracked me up more than it should have, because it came off as slightly sexual. Man, #HeelShinsuke is fantastic. He’s almost as good as #HeelRandy, to be honest.

Who Will AJ Styles Face?

This is it! Paige’s big announcement! Who will AJ Styles face at SummerSlam for the WWE Championship? Will we get a tournament? Will it be Samoa Joe?

All Styles wants to hear is his opponent for SummerSlam, and Paige asks for a drum roll from the crowd before announcing…

….And she’s interrupted by James Ellsworth, who pulls out his Jeff Jarrett impression. He reminds Styles that he’s beaten him three times, inventing “fourth time’s a charm” as a saying. Paige has enough of his crap, simply stating, “James, stop it.” She calls him a joke, and then Ellsworth starts insulting her accent and skin tone. Idiot. Absolute idiot.

So you know what happened? Well, Paige had two words for that mutant! “You’re Fired!” And security threw him out after his big interruption of Paige’s announcement for SummerSlam.

While this was happening, Samoa Joe started wailing on Styles, ambushing him and putting him in the Coquina Clutch to send SmackDown Live and Styles the ultimate message.

And Styles just signed his own name on the SummerSlam contract. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a dream match, in addition to one of the greatest signings of all-time.

As Joe said, TIK TOK, CHAMP! TIK TOK!

Grade: A, Awesome. Just awesome. Joe and Ellsworth killed it here, but in very, very different ways.