WWE SmackDown Live: Results, Highlights, and Grades from September 18

Kofi Kingston vs. Cesaro

Kofi Kingston and The New Day are on the hunt, and whatever they’re looking for, they’ve found in the Swiss half of The Bar. It just shocks me that after two years of promoting Cesaro and Sheamus as a team, they still do not have a joint entrance. This will hopefully lay some great foundation for the tag-team match at Super Show-Down.

A man in a unicorn onesie LOVES the New Day entrance. If you know him, tell him I appreciate his dedication. Also, I hope I’m not the only one who questions how stale those pancakes are.

I also hope the streak in Kofi’s hair doesn’t foreshadow that he’ll be the Seth Rollins of this tag team…

Big E channeling the Crocodile Hunter is something I didn’t know I needed. It’s the absolutely perfect, most-New Day way to pump up a show in Australia. There’s not a lot of crowd reaction for The Bar at all.

Cesaro seems to have an edge on Kofi, throwing him around in and out of the ring. At least, that’s how it appears to me in the itty bitty video window while I’m forced to focus on commercials. Sheamus just took a selfie of himself and the actions; he’s a big YouTube star now, y’know, he needs the vlog footage!

Cesaro is paying a lot of attention to Kofi’s leg until Kofi lands a big tornado DDT. Kofi takes a big flip-dive out of the ring, and the momentum shifts, and Kofi nearly gets a pin with SOS. Cesaro ultimately is victorious.

Grade: B-

The match was viciously physical, mostly on the part of Cesaro, and the New Day wholly embraces Australian culture leading into Super Show-Down.