SmackDown Hotel! - Thursday Night Smackdown recap for January 28th, 2016

The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E, Xavier Woods) starts the show. They say The Rock should be ashamed of himself, as they only wanted to enlighten him. The Miz shows up and says that The Rock has disrespected him, too, but he has no plans of being upstaged. Suddenly, The Usos (Jimmy and Jey Uso) show up. The Usos make fun of The Miz, but The New Day make fun of The Usos for not having the tag team titles and the fact that there's only two of them. The Usos have some back-up, however: Titus O'Neil and Dolph Ziggler. The four of them rush into the ring, and The Miz and The New Day retreat.



Titus O'Neil has invited honor students from three local Tampa, Florida-area schools to tonight's SmackDown as part of giving back to the community.

The Usos (Jimmy and Jey Uso), Dolph Ziggler and Titus O'Neil beat The Miz and The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E, Xavier Woods).



The WrestleMania Reading Challenge is on again!

Kalisto retains the WWE United States Championship against Neville.



It's time for Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel. Tonight's guests are Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns. Ambrose shows up with flowers. Reigns shows up with a stool to place the flowers on. Jericho asks if the main event at Fastlane will bring out animosity. They both say no. As for Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns takes him seriously due to first-hand experience, and though Ambrose hasn't fought him, he still likes his chances and says he just has to beat Roman...which Roman says he hasn't done either. Suddenly, The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan, Braun Strowman) show up and brag about what they did to Lesnar at Royal Rumble. Roman wants to fight them, but Bray tells him to be patient as he needs "the heart of a good man to aid him on his quest." He then plans to take down Ambrose, Reigns and Jericho with the help of two members of his family tonight.



The Social Outcasts (Heath Slater, Adam Rose, Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel) are in the ring. They say they should be trending, but instead, it's AJ Styles that's trending. They also mourn the end of Curtis Axel's Royal Rumble "endurance run." Curtis Axel then calls out AJ Styles, and Styles shows up.

AJ Styles beats Curtis Axel.



Charlotte beats Natalya with the Figure Eight. She applies the Figure Four on her after the match, then Becky Lynch shows up to make the save.



Goldust and R-Truth are about to go running when the pre-run stretch gets awkward...very awkward. Goldust's quest to form Golden Truth with R-Truth continues...



The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan) vs. Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Chris Jericho ends with interference from Braun Strowman. The Wyatt Family are about to attack Roman Reigns when Big Show appears and exacts revenge on The Wyatts after what happened at the Royal Rumble match. Show and Strowman stare down, but the numbers game catches up with Show until Roman Reigns shows up and tries to hit Strowman with a Superman Punch. Strowman catches him, but that's enough of a distraction to allow for Show to recover. He gets rid of Strowman, Roman Reigns hits a Superman Punch on Wyatt, and Ambrose and Jericho toss Rowan out of the ring. Big Show tosses Harper into a Roman Reigns Spear to end the show.

Generation NXT -NXT Recap for January 28, 2015

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Wesley Blake and Buddy Murphy make a blind tag to trick Kalisto into pinning the wrong guy to take advantage, beat The Lucha Dragons (Sin Cara and Kalisto) and become the new NXT Tag Team Champions!

Bayley and Charlotte butt heads over last week's stunt by Bayley in the locker room before their tag team match tonight.

The ring entrances by Adrian Neville and Tyson Kidd are hacked briefly. The name "Solomon" briefly appears during this hack.

Adrian Neville beats Tyson Kidd to advance to the next round of the NXT Championship #1 Contender's Tournament. After the match, Neville tells the NXT Universe that he will rise to the top again and win this tournament.

Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch plan to win tonight, but Sasha has another thing coming if she thinks Becky will let her win the NXT Women's Championship.

Wesley Blake and Buddy Murphy are ecstatic to win the NXT Tag Team Championships.

Bayley and Charlotte vs Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch ends when the match gets out of control after Bayley accidentally hits Charlotte while breaking up Sasha Banks' pinfall. Bayley and Charlotte brawl, and Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch try to take advantage and attack them, causing the match to go out of control and end in a no contest. Bayley and Charlotte continue to brawl

Devin Taylor interviews Finn Balor. He and Hideo Itami go back a good amount of time, and their friendship is about to go out the window next week in the NXT Championship #1 Contender's Tournament. Hideo shows up and tells Finn that he brought him to NXT...and he can take him out.

Devin Taylor interviews Emma. She's coming back to NXT for a fresh start and a rematch with Carmella.

Baron Corbin beats Bull Dempsey to advance to the next round of the NXT Championship #1 Contender's Tournament.

Devin Taylor interviews Baron Corbin. Bull Dempsey shows up and tells him he got lucky twice, but Corbin merely shoves him away.

William Regal hosts the contract signing between Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens for the next NXT: TakeOver for February 11th. Regal introduces a no-contact clause, and threatens to cancel the match if they lay a hand on each other. Sami Zayn signs, but Kevin Owens simply stares at Zayn. Zayn says he should have seen this rivalry coming, but he didn't. Nevertheless, he plans to destroy him at TakeOver. Kevin Owens looks at the contract, and says he wants it to be an NXT Championship match. Sami Zayn asks Regal to make the match for the title, as he wants that and so does the NXT Universe. Regal makes it so, and Kevin Owens finally signs before throwing the pen in Zayn's face. Owens leaves the ring, and Regal has to hold Zayn back to keep him from laying a hand on Owens.