Smackdown was taped this week from Birmingham, Alabama. It will air this Friday and hopefully do better ratings than the Smackdown 15th Anniversary Show - which surprisingly dropped viewers. Seth Rollins opened proceedings with an in-ring promo. There was major heat and Seth played it brilliantly, saying that he's the future of WWE. He commented that Dean Ambrose should be in a strait-jacket, not a Hell In A Cell. Dolph Ziggler then entered and surprised Rollins with a dropkick. We then get the opening match. Rollins (unsurprisingly) beat Ziggler with the Curb Stomp. There was good heat for it and Ambrose came out afterwards to talk about what he's going to do at Hell In A Cell. That brought out Kane who made a match for later, himself versus Ambrose. AJ Lee versus Layla was up next. Paige and Alicia Fox were at ringside for commentary and AJ won with the blackwidow. Alicia then rushed the ring, only to be flattened by AJ. However, Paige then jumped in and put the babyface down. Sheamus and The Usos teamed against Goldust, Stardust and The Miz. Sheamus got the pin after a brogue kick to Goldust. A promo and big pop for The Big Show was next. He said that at Hell In A Cell, he would become the first man to pin Rusev. He asked Mark Henry to the ring, asking him to stay out of the match. Henry agrees (blatantly setting up a heel turn). Announced for Monday Raw: John Cena and Dean Ambrose Vs Seth Rollins and Randy Orton and Kane in a street fight. Nikki Bella beat Naomi. Ambrose beat Kane in a poor main event match after Rollins interfered. Yet another screwy DQ ending to a WWE match. Afterwards, the heels attacked Ambrose. The face recovered and ended up hitting Kane a chair while Rollins ran away to the stage.
