Ricochet and Madcap Moss defeated Los Lotharios in the dark match before Friday night’s WWE SmackDown at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City.
The Street Profits and Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Imperium’s Ludwig Kaiser, Giovanni Vinci, and WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther in the dark main event after SmackDown ended. The finish saw Nakamura hit Kaiser with a Kinshasa.
In a related note, actor Stephen Amell sat near the announcers during Friday night’s SmackDown. While Amell was not mentioned on the FOX broadcast, he was briefly seen on a fan cam segment that aired during a commercial in the arena.
Amell, who was in Salt Lake City for the FanX Salt Lake Pop Culture & Comic Convention, thanked WWE for having him there on Twitter. In addition, he shared a video of SmackDown Women’s Champion Liv Morgan putting Lacey Evans through a table.
“Thank you to the @WWE for having me and to @YaOnlyLivvOnce for being fantastic,” he wrote.
Amell is a long-time pro wrestling fan who made his WWE debut at SummerSlam 2015, partnering with Neville (current AEW All-Atlantic & World Trios Champion PAC) to defeat Wade Barrett and Stardust (Cody Rhodes). Fans online and wrestlers backstage praised Amell’s performance. The Bullet Club (Rhodes, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks) defeated Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Flip Gordon, and Scorpio Sky in a 5-on-4 match at Survival of the Fittest 2017. Amell lost his first singles match at the All In 2018 tournament to Daniels. In 2020, Amell made his AEW debut, accompanying Rhodes to the ring for his loss to MJF at the Revolution pay-per-view. He hasn’t wrestled for WWE since that first match, but he has made a few cameos, including a “Promo School” appearance on FS1’s WWE Backstage before it was canceled.
Amell’s tweet from Friday night’s SmackDown can be found below:
Thank you to the @WWE for having me and thank you to @YaOnlyLivvOnce for being terrific. pic.twitter.com/I7XOEBaBsM
— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) September 24, 2022
