Updated October 7th, 2019 at 15:56 IST

WWE Recap: Rock kick-starts SmackDown with electrifying segment

The debut episode of WWE SmackDown on Fox started with Raw women's champion Becky Lynch entering the ring and welcoming the WWE universe to the debut episode.

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In this thow-back story we tale a look at how The Rock came back to WWE SmackDown and delivered a memorable moment to the million fans of WWE. The debut episode of WWE SmackDown on Fox started with Raw women's champion Becky Lynch entering the ring and welcoming the WWE Universe to the debut episode. As she was about to say something else, Baron Corbin entered the ring to interrupt Lynch. King Baron then started saying that he is the right person to start the show. It was here when The Rock made the electrifying entrance.

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WWE Universe welcomed the legendary wrestler with applause and even chanted his name. After entering the ring, he started trash-talking and revealed how he turned the word SmackDown into a show. Becky then joined The Rock and both took turns talking trash on Corbin. Both even forced the WWE Universe to frustrate the 2019 King of the Ring winner and even booed Corbin. The segment ended with the Man and The Great One laying the Smackdown on King Corbin. After delivering a Rock Bottom, The Rock chanted his famous line ‘If you smell what The Rock Is cooking’ and made his exit from the ring.

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Here’s what happened:

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The Main Event

However, that’s not the only shocking thing happened in SmackDown, the main event of the blue band show was also filled with many twist and turns. In the main event, Kofi Kingston faced Brock Lesnar to keep his WWE Championship title, but he was unable to do so. As soon as the bell rang, Lesnar caught a fully charged Kofi mid-air and delivered an F-5 to the champ to win the match in just nine seconds. Then the iconic theme song of Rey Mysterio played and the luchador arrived with former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez. Velasquez then took Lesnar down and punished him by delivering several punches to the Beast. Lesnar later fled from the ring with Paul Hayman and his WWE championship belt.

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Published October 7th, 2019 at 10:58 IST