WWE SmackDown 26th of January 2024

In-Ring Segment: Latin Grammy Award-Winning Artist Eladio Carrión
Carrión welcomes the crowd to the show. Carrión introduces Randy Orton. Randy Orton joins Carrión in the ring. Orton puts over Carrión. Orton says Romain Reigns has been champion for over three years. No one can stop The Bloodline… except maybe Orton. The crowd goes nuts. Orton notes that the only number that matters at the Royal Rumble is 15. When he beats Reigns, Orton will be a 15-time champion. Who will he accomplish that? With the three most dangerous letters, RKO. AJ Styles interrupts. Styles says Orton forgot that there are other people in the title match at the Rumble. Styles says Orton is overlooking him, just like everyone else. Nick Aldis gave the match Styles wanted against Solo Sikoa tonight to LA Knight.
Styles exclaims that Orton had a receipt coming after Orton RKO’d him last week. Styles vows to walk over Orton and… LA Knight’s music hits. Knight walks out on the stage and dunks on Styles for doing nothing but complaining since he returned. Knight calls Styles a dummy for thinking Knight wanted to fight Sikoa tonight. Paul Heyman must have set this up because Knight is the biggest threat to Reigns. Knight isn’t going to complain. He’s going to beat Sikoa so bad he will start doing his dad’s (Rikishi) dance moves. Knight leaves the ring. Styles drops Orton with a Pelé kick.

Carlito w/LWO vs. Santos Escobar w/Legado del Fantasma
Carlito lands a flurry of punches. Escobar is forced into the corner. Escobar gets bounced from each corner of the ring. Carlito floors Escobar with a chop. Escobar lands a kick that Carlito shrugs off. Carlito clotheslines Escobar. Escobar sends Carlito out of the ring. After a distraction from Garza and Carrillo, Escobar takes Carlito down with a dive.
After the break, Escobar works over Carlito. Carlito fires up and lands a flurry of offense. Legado tries to get involved. A huge brawl breaks out. Del Toro lands a dive that takes everyone out. In the confusion, Elektra Lopez hops the barricade and pulls Vega off the apron. Carlito gets rolled up by Escobar for the win.
Winner- Santos Escobar

Backstage, Nick Aldis is with the NXT GM Ava. Bobby Lashley and the Street Profits walk in. Lashley picks his Royal Rumble number. Legado del Fantasma walks in. Lashley and Escobar have a standoff. Lashley says they haven’t forgotten about Legado.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship Match: Kayden Carter and Kitana Chance (c) vs. The Kabuki Warriors (Kairi Sane and Asuka)
As soon as the bell rings, Carter dropkicks Asuka. Slingshot dropkick by Carter. Chance tags in and lands a series of double-team moves on Asuka. Asuka and Sane are both dumped out of the ring. Chance lands a corkscrew dive. After the break, Auska and Sane are working over Chance. Chance manages to tag in Carter, who clears the ring. Asuka kicks out of Carter’s springboard leg drop. Asuka and Sane surprise Carter with a lung-blower/blockbuster combo. Double-shinning wizards by Sane and Asuka. Chance breaks up the pin.
Sane tries the InSANE Elbow, but Carter gets her boots up. Sane manages to tag in Asuka. Carter drops Asuka with a facebuster. Chance and Carter hit the Keg Stand on Asuka. Sane breaks up the pin. Carter and Chance set up the After Party. Sane breaks it up. Sane Alabama slams Chance on the announce desk. Asuka and Sane hit a DDT/InSANE Elbow combo on Carter for the win!
Winners and NEW Women’s Tag Team Champions, The Kabuki Warriors!

Backstage, Heyman pumps Jimmy Uso up, telling him that the road to being the next Tribal Chief may start with bringing home Seth Rollins’ World Heavyweight Championship. Jimmy has to win the Royal Rumble.

In-Ring Segment: Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits
Lashley says they didn’t come to Miami to talk. The people of Miami are here to see a fight. Lashley demands that the Final Testament come to the ring right now. The Final Testament’s music hits. The group stays on the ramp while Scarlett gets in the ring. Lashley asks why they sent their lady to the ring. Dawkins and Ford call Kross and The Authors of Pain scared. Paul Ellering says there is no fear in Karrion Kross. Kross tells Lashley he isn’t in control. Kross says they have fulfilled their obligation just by coming out on the stage. They aren’t fighting tonight. Lashley says Kross is wrong. Ford and Dawkins hop out of the ring and attack AoP. Scarlett jumps on Lashley’s back and rakes his eyes. AoP leaves The Street Profits lying. Kross blasts Lashley with the Kross Hammer.

Backstage, Jimmy Uso gets his number for the Royal Rumble. He is not happy.

Austin Theory w/Grayson Waller vs. Carmelo Hayes
Theory pushes Hayes. Hayes decks Theory. Dropkick by Hayes. Hayes lights Theory up with a chop. Theory knees Hayes in the gut. Hayes lands a springboard splash. Theory rolls out of the ring. Theory sends Hayes out of the ring. Waller gets a cheap shot. After the break. Hayes lands a head-scissor facebuster. Hayes goes up top. Waller gets on the apron. Theory pulls Hayes off the top rope. Theory hits Ataxia. Hayes kicks out. Hayes escapes the ATL. Waller hops up on the apron. Hayes punches Waller. Theory rolls up Hayes and pulls the tights for the win.
Winner- Austin Theory
After the match, Theory and Waller attack Hayes. Trick Williams makes the save. Hayes tries to give Williams a pound, but Williams says nah. Williams only came out because they had to team together at Vengeance Day.

Backstage, Kayla asks Carrión who he thinks will win the title match at the Royal Rumble. Carrión says his boy, Randy Orton. Sikoa and the rest of The Bloodline walk in. Carrión says he said that with all due respect. Heyman holds Sikoa back.

LA Knight vs. Solo Sikoa w/Jimmy Uso and Paul Heyman
Sikoa beats Knight into the corner. Knight fires back and lands a slingshot shoulder block. Sikoa doesn’t go down. Knight stomps on Sikoa’s thumb. The fight spills out of the ring. Knight slams Sikoa’s hand into every surface, including the ring steps and ring post. Knight gets distracted by Jimmy. Sikoa blasts Knight out of the air with an uppercut. After the break, Knight fires up. The fight spills out of the ring. AJ Styles appears and lands a Phoenminal Forearm off the barricade. The referee calls for the bell.
Winner- LA Knight
Styles sends Knight into the ring steps. Jimmy Uso sneaks up behind Styles with a chair. Styles notices it as he’s clearing off the announce desk. Jimmy gives Styles the chair and tells him to handle his business. Sikoa steps in and screams at Styles to take out Knight. If Styles doesn’t, Sikoa will take Styles out. Styles hits Sikoa with the chair. Randy Orton’s music hits. Orton sends Styles flying out of the ring with an uppercut. Sikoa pulls Orton out of the ring and gets suplexed on the announcer’s desk. Jimmy Uso tries to run away. Orton pulls Jimmy back in the ring and hits the Orton DDT. Styles tries his forearm, but Orton avoids it and DDTs him as well. Orton RKOs Styles. Orton goes up top to celebrate. Knight catches Orton with the BFT.