Kevin Owens Assaults Randy Orton, Gunther Chokes Out Cody Rhodes On WWE SmackDown

Kevin Owens gets the last laugh on Randy Orton ahead of WWE Crown Jewel.

Randy Orton and Kevin Owens have been on a collision course ahead of their match in Saudi Arabia on November 2 and Owens was able to deliver the final statement and gain added momentum heading into the match by attacking Orton with the steel chair on the November 1 episode of WWE SmackDown on USA just after Orton with Cody Rhodes to defeat Gunther and Ludwig Kaiser of Imperium.

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Cody Rhodes, who's had his own issues with Kevin Owens, was confronting the former WWE Universal Champion when he was put into a Sleeper Hold by Gunther and the show went off the air with Orton and Rhodes both at the mercy of their WWE Crown Jewel opponents.

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