WWE SmackDown: Results, Review, and Analysis for October 30th, 2018

We’ve got ourselves a WWE Championship match right here tonight in Atlanta.

I quite frankly am too distracted explaining the situation surrounding this match and the Saudi Arabia conflict and why Daniel Bryan has a Championship match right now to my friend, so I apologize.

The match doesn’t seem to be that phenomenal (no pun intended); there’s a chop here, a dive there. It’s nothing that seems to be becoming of a championship match. A “Yes!” chant here, Yes Kicks there. AJ Styles takes advantage of an injury he inflicted onto Daniel Bryan’s left leg. Styles gets a particularly brutal kick right into Bryan’s knee.

AJ Styles now has complete control over this match. The damage he’s inflicting onto Daniel Bryan’s leg is a lot, and Bryan is seldom getting a chance to go in on offense. He gets an elbow in, but then momentum shifts back again.

Bryan finally tries to get some crowd support with a Yes chant, but AJ swiftly drop kicks him right back into reality.

Bryan gave Styles some kind of backwards suplex from the trop rope, and it honestly looked a little botched; Bryan looked like he hesitated a bit before he landed, and he hit his shoulder or neck way too hard, which is not good.

Immediately back from commercial, Daniel Bryan has AJ in a Yes Lock, but Styles gets to the rope. Bryan gets flipped backwards off the top rope and lands brutally on his bad leg. There he goes, on the floor. There he goes again, landing on the bad leg.

Bryan shoves AJ into the steps, and he’s in control when he throws AJ back in the ring. Daniel Bryan gets a big kick into Styles’ head, and there he goes with another.

Bryan goes for a hurricanrana, but Styles catches him. It’s fruitless though, and Bryan does land the hurricanrana. Again, he lands on his shoulders harshly.

Another big kick from Bryan, and Bryan’s going for a modification of the Yes Kicks on the ropes. Styles counters with a Dragon Screw on Bryan’s bad leg.

Styles goes for the Phenomenal Forearm, but Bryan gets Styles in an armbar. He lands the Yes Lock, but Styles doesn’t tap. Bryan gets Styles in another armbar. Styles counters it with a Styles Clash, immediately into a Calf Crusher. Bryan is in pain; he’s so close to the rope, but he taps. AJ Styles is still the WWE Champion.

Out of nowhere, Samoa Joe jumps in the ring to attack both Styles and Bryan.