WWE SmackDown Spoilers: Complete Results and Analysis for June 4

On Monday night, Dean Ambrose again left Seth Rollins and The Authority furious over his refusal to return the WWE World Heavyweight Championship to The Architect. That continued again Tuesday night as the Lunatic Fringe and the rest of the WWE Superstars rolled into Houston for this week's SmackDown tapings.

Not only was the focus on Ambrose's impending ladder match with Rollins but the actual Money in the Bank match was heavily featured, with some of the Superstars involved in the pay-per-view contest squaring off in singles competition.

Kevin Owens put his NXT Championship on the line in an open challenge. After his victory over John Cena at Elimination Chamber, though, who would be silly enough to step inside the squared circle with the most dominant star in the company?

New No. 1 contenders to the tag team titles were crowned as the Prime Time Players, The Ascension and The Lucha Dragons battled in a Triple Threat match.

With so little time between pay-per-view extravaganzas, every segment of Thursday's show will address a feud or match that will unfold when the company presents Money in the Bank.

What can fans expect to see when they tune into SyFy network for this week's SmackDown?

Find out now, courtesy of our friends at WrestlingInc.com. 

Venue

Toyota Center in Houston

Broadcast Team

Tom Phillips, Byron Saxton and Jerry Lawler

Results

• Seth Rollins cut a promo to kick off the show. Dean Ambrose interrupted and put over their match at Money in the Bank.
• The Prime Time Players defeated The Ascension and Lucha Dragons.
• The New Day were backstage when Kane interrupted. He announced Neville vs. Kofi Kingston for the night and informed them that the Prime Time Players are the new No. 1 contenders.
• Ryback defeated Stardust.
• Renee Young interviewed Paige, who vowed to end the Bellas' twin magic.
• Eric Rowan and Luke Harper cut a promo about being family.
• Kevin Owens cut a promo before issuing an open challenge for the NXT Championship. Owens defeated Zack Ryder, then attacked him and delivered a second popup powerbomb.
• Neville defeated Kofi Kingston.
• Lana was a guest on Miz TV but was interrupted by Rusev, who begged her to come back to him. Dolph Ziggler came to Lana's aid and left with the Ravishing Russian.
• Roman Reigns defeated Sheamus via disqualification when Kane interfered. Kane delivered a big boot to Reigns and chokeslam to Sheamus before announcing himself as part of the Money in the Bank match. Seth Rollins and The Authority beat down Reigns until Ambrose made the save. Rollins was left lying to end the show.

Credit: WWE.com

Analysis

SmackDown is typically the more wrestling-heavy show of WWE's two premiere broadcasts so to see so much time devoted to talking is disappointing. Monday night's show was talk-heavy but actually featured some solid in-ring action involving Roman Reigns.

Reigns' match with Sheamus Thursday appears, on paper, to have a ton of potential to be outstanding but the disqualification finish involving Kane puts a damper on it. In fact, Kane interfering in main events is becoming a running joke across the Internet, and for good reason. It happens far too often and really hurts the flow of some superb wrestling matches.

Kevin Owens' in-ring debut on SmackDown should be something special but the choice of Zack Ryder to challenge him for the NXT Championship is questionable at best, especially since WWE Creative is suddenly asking us to take Long Island Iced Z seriously after years of jobbing him out to everyone from John Cena to Adam Rose.

The interactions between Lana, Rusev and Dolph Ziggler could make for some quality television but is hardly anything to go out of your way to watch.

Thursday nights are typically destination television for fans looking for a nice change of pace from the three-hour bore fests that Raw typically descends into. This week's show, though, looks like a skippable show, with nothing of note occurring and a major lack of in-ring competition significantly hurting it.

Check out the abbreviated YouTube highlights instead.