WWE taped this week’s episode of WWE Smackdown from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO. The show will air Thursday night on SyFy.

WWE Smackdown

-Roman Reigns kicks off Smackdown to a mixed reaction. He begins to talk about Brock Lesnar but is cut off by Mark Henry, who basically puts him over as earning his respect last week, when Reigns put him on his ass. The Authority comes out and makes fun of them, and Seth Rollins teases a Money in the Bank cash-in at WrestleMania. Corporate Kane books a tag team main event – himself and Rollins against Reigns and Henry.

(1) Paige def. Brie Bella. Quick match with AJ Lee on commentary.

(2) Gauntlet Match

Dean Ambrose gets a quick victory on Stardust to start things off. R-Truth comes out and throws Stardust from the ring, but turns around into Dirty Deeds and he’s eliminated as well. Luke Harper is out as the fourth man, and he pins Dean. Daniel Bryan is next, and the two have a decent back-and-forth until he eliminates Harper by submission. Dolph Ziggler is out last and we’ve got a stand-off between the two most over people on this show. The crowd was super into the entire match, but came unglued for this. Ziggler won with the Zig-Zag, which was kind of a surprise.

-Bad News Barrett comes out with the I.C. title and hits Ziggler with it, then clocks Bryan with a microphone.

-Backstage, Seth Rollins instructs J&J Security not to let Randy Orton into the building tonight.

(3) Natalya, Cesaro & Tyson Kidd def. Los Matadores & El Torito. Seems like they had Natalya pair with Torito, which is just all kinds of sexist depending on how they did it (the connotation being that men pair with men, but the woman is basically the same as a costumed bull). Nattie pinned El Torito, and then took Tyson’s tag title belt and celebrated with it; interesting…

-Roman Reigns comes out for his main event match, but when Mark Henry’s music hits he doesn’t come out. They pan backstage where Henry is laid out.

(4) Roman Reigns def. Seth Rollins & Kane. This was a 2-on-1 beatdown for the entire match, but Reigns came back and hit the Superman Punch on Rollins, and pinned Kane after a spear.

-The Authority rushed the ring and beat down Reigns some more, until Randy Orton‘s music hit. The place went nuts for him, as they were chanting for him during the entire match. The babyfaces cleared the ring and Orton hit pretty much everyone except Rollins (who escaped) with an RKO.