Well Smackdown scriptwriters really did a bad job with this episode. As a person who watched soap operas for 20+ years and knew some background stories about RO and Shinsuke, here's how I would do this episode.

RO should have been a lot more serious and determined to win this 1on1 match, RO should have something like "I have done this for 20 years, I have suffered and gave up so much to become WWE champion, I will not lose so easily to this newbie Shinsuke, I'm da Viper~~~" Then WWE should throwback the scenes from his old days, when he was still Triple H henchman and did all those dirty stuffs to climb his way up to the place he is today, and he will act like a total evil person but with reasons.

Shinsuke should also have some scenes. A foreigner coming to the USA, chasing for the title of all, have ups and downs, and say it to the camera "I respect dedication of RO towards this game but I'm gonna do everything to honor the show as well" with full equipped face expression

Then, the match. SHOULD BE AN EPIC 30 MINUTES MATCH they should fight and fight and fight until the end, accompanied by 10000% hype crowd with "this is awesome"x1000 chants, and finally both of them collapsed, fall onto ground and have no energy left, with Shinsuke won by kinshasa.

EPIC MATCH DESIGNED FOR ONE LEGEND AND ANOTHER INCOMING SUPER LEGEND