Alright so the live event came about and it was a fun show. Apparently, the show on Friday was the first of their international loop, they were in China a few hours ago, and will be in Honolulu next.
Here are the results from the show:
Kevin Owens def. Andrade
R-Truth came out with the 24/7 Championship, and introduced the participants of the next match.
Chad Gable def. EC3
EC3 def. R-Truth for the 24/7 Championship (and was recognized by WWE in an article)
R-Truth def. EC3 for the 24/7 Championship
Carmella def. Mandy Rose (w/ Sonya Deville)
Shinsuke Nakamura (w/ Sami Zayn) def. Ali to retain the Intercontinental Championship
Roman Reigns def. Sami Zayn (w/ Shinsuke Nakamura)
Bayley def. Charlotte Flair to retain the Smackdown Women's Championship in a Street Fight
The Revival def. Big E and Xavier Woods to retain the Smackdown Tag Team Championships
Kofi Kingston def. Daniel Bryan to retain the WWE Championship
It was roughly a three-hour show with the crowd mostly silent for the Carmella/Mandy match. Owens opened the show to a massive pop. Nakamura is also so over here, with Sami balancing it out with his heel schticks. The Nakamura/Ali match was fantastic, with one very close near fall when Shin attempted a Kinshasa but met with a Superkick from Ali.
After the IC title match, Sami said his neck felt good and he thinks he can compete and talked trash towards the locker room for being afraid of having a match with him. Roman Reigns came out to a huge ovation, and this became the 'impromptu' match, since Reigns was originally booked to be in a street fight with Drew McIntyre.
The Revival and The New Day had a pretty entertaining match, with a funny pre-match skit on which team can hug his tag team partner better.
The street fight between Bayley and Charlotte was probably the safest street fight ever (which is understood since this was basically a house show). There's one point where Bayley went to the crowd and was immediately blocked by a kid, the kid was then put away by a massive bouncer.
The crowd chanted that they want tables so Charlotte pulls one out, but Bayley puts it back under the table every time she got Charlotte down. Bayley won by heel tactics, rolling up Charlotte after Charlotte hit her head on a chair that's leaned between the top and middle ropes. After the match, Charlotte attempted a front-flip senton on Bayley over the table, but the table didn't break. So they tried again, this time by Charlotte powerbombing Bayley to the table, but the table still didn't give. After Charlotte left, Bayley got up and hit the table several times with a kendo stick.
Kofi and Bryan's match was a 20-minute normal PPV styled match with a long mat wrestling build-up. (Bryan came out to a huge ovation with Yes! chants) It's worth pointing out that Bryan showed face tendencies during the match, with him shaking hands with Kofi every time a chain wrestling sequence ends. After the match, Bryan raised Kofi's hand in victory and shook his hand again.
Also worth pointing out that the Smackdown ring announcer Greg Hamilton, did pause every time he finished saying "the following contest is scheduled for one fall..." for the crowd to respond "ONE FALL!", something he picked up from when he ring announced in NXT Takeover in London. He carried that with him on Smackdown (and then Jojo and Mike Rome adapted it to their work on Raw) but there were reports that Vince didn't like that so they stopped doing it. I was just glad he still does that on house shows to keep the crowd engaged.
He also rung the bell in matches which I thought was funny.
Overall, it was a fun show even though there weren't enough big names. I had my hopes of Asuka and Kairi Sane coming along when I heard that Mandy and Sonya were in the lineup.