Tag Team No.1 Contenders match: Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton vs American Alpha
Orton starts the match against Jason Jordan, and they go back and forth, trying to out-wrestle one another. Orton hits a nasty elbow on Jordan’s face, but is swept twice with successive deep arm drags.
Orton tags in Bray but the Messiah of the Wyatt family is met with a double dropkick from the American Alpha. Wyatt manages to wrest control of the match against Chad Gable briefly before tagging in Orton again.
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Gable goes to work, clasping on an arm bar on Orton that he barely gets out of, but the intermittent offence is all the American Alpha can muster as Orton and Wyatt work seamlessly in tandem to keep them down.
More of the same as Orton lands a nasty Superplex on Gable. They both make the hot tag as Wyatt and Jordan resume the hostilities. Just as he looks to be wrestling control of the match away from the Wyatts, the lights go out and come back on only to reveal Harper taunting Jordan from the outside.
Jordan gets distracted long enough for Wyatt to lock in the Sister Abigail. But before he can land it, Gable runs interference, requiring Orton to hit him with an RKO! Wyatt then makes use of the aid provided by the Viper to nail Jason Jordan with a Sister Abigail and pin him!
1-2-3! The Wyatt family will challenge Heath Slater and Rhyno for the Tag Team Championships at TLC!
Results: Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton def. American Alpha via pinfall
Backstage segment with AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose
As the Tag Team Champions contemplate what it would be like to face Orton and Wyatt at TLC, AJ Styles intervenes, ribbing them about how their titles are unimportant in the face of his WWE Championship.
Who is there to save the day, but Dean Ambrose. Ambrose and Styles go at it full pelt, upsetting the props in a room backstage, as they close out SmackDown live engulfed in a brawl. This sets up their match for TLC nicely.
