Earlier than the WWE Superstars can stroll into WrestleMania, the ladies of Workforce Blue took a quick detour to the Wells Fargo Middle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania tonight for Friday Night time SmackDown, the place WrestleMania XL is ready to take to put on the close by Lincoln Monetary Area.
Kicking issues off on the ladies’s facet of issues was Scarlett in a vignette with The Last Testomony. She didn’t have a talking function, however their assault on Bobby Lashley final week was defined by her hubby Karrion Kross as a “lesson of humility”. The Last Testomony, represented by Kross and The Authors of Ache, and Bobby’s faction with The Avenue Earnings, The Satisfaction, will conflict head-to-head on Night time Two of WrestleMania XL on Sunday, April seventh.
Zelina Vega checked up on an injured Dragon Lee with Carlito and Cruz Del Toro of the LWO, however it was too late for Vega to do something as she needed to exit to the ring to face Elektra Lopez of Legado Del Fantasma, with Rey Mysterio by her facet. When Elektra made her entrance, she was not solely accompanied by Santos Escobar, however by Dominik Mysterio and Andrade as a nervous Zelina regarded on earlier than the industrial break.
As soon as we have been again from the break, Zelina introduced the combat to Elektra and appeared poised to win through DDT till Dominik bought up on the ropes to distract the referee, however a ensuing punch within the face bought her put away through an Electrical Shock from Lopez. After a match, the threesome of Soiled Dom, Andrade, and Santos attacked Rey whereas Elektra made Zelina watch. It rapidly led to a swerve among the many trio of hombres as Andrade turned his again on Dominik and Santos, serving to Rey up and embracing his former supervisor in Zelina.
Subsequent, Naomi and Bianca Belair made their manner out to deal with Harm CTRL lower than 24 hours earlier than their massive six-woman tag group match alongside Jade Cargill. Bianca began off by mentioning that everybody is aware of of her historical past with the group going again to the very starting 2 years in the past, combating them time and time once more to the purpose of wanting to surrender, till Naomi returned to WWE and made her understand she was not alone in her aim of ridding them as soon as and for all.
Jade Cargill was then launched, and reassured the WWE Universe that with “The Massive Three” of her, Naomi, and Bianca round, there will probably be “no Harm CTRL”; for Asuka, Kairi, and Dakota, that is no promise, merely a menace, as in Jade’s phrases, they’re now “within the eye of the storm”.
Backstage after Zelina’s match, it was revealed that Dragon Lee can be unable to compete with Rey Mysterio towards Santos and Dominik at Night time One tomorrow. Andrade nevertheless, stepped in to tag with Rey on the Grandest Stage of Them All, leaving Zelina pleased.
A victory by New Catch Republic over the group of Grayson Waller and Austin Concept was rapidly interrupted by an assault from The Judgment Day, who in fact have been accompanied by WWE Girls’s World Champion Rhea Ripley. Ms. Ripley watched on with glee as the 2 groups have been specified by the ring.
A vignette for Bayley adopted. Bayley is not any stranger to creating historical past, as clips of her being the primary ever Girls’s Tag Workforce Champion and first ever girls’s Grand Slam champion have been proven early on. Harm CTRL was her brainchild, as she wished to make one thing distinctive and groundbreaking. Her imaginative and prescient to take over WWE was shared by IYO and Dakota, as demonstrated by the success of the 2 as Girls’s Tag Workforce Champions and IYO profitable the Cash within the Financial institution contract final yr plus securing the WWE Girls’s Championship at SummerSlam.
Nevertheless, Bayley feels issues took a flip as soon as Asuka joined the group and Kairi Sane made her WWE return, as she turned the group’s outcast. Not even profitable this yr’s Royal Rumble made IYO consider in her, and getting turned on made her query whether or not or not the friendship she had with the remainder of the group was even real. Now, as the one who constructed Harm CTRL with all of her coronary heart, it should take all of her soul to interrupt what she created.
To finish issues earlier than the massive present, B-Fab appeared in a vignette with The Satisfaction. Over the previous few months, the group has continued to be the recipient of assaults by The Last Testomony, however on Sunday, they’ll be completed as there will probably be nowhere to cover from and nothing to cover behind with the Philadelphia Avenue Struggle stipulation. Scarlett and B-Fab will probably be accompanying their respective stables, and it’s inevitable that they are going to get in on the motion on Sunday.
The WrestleMania match card is as follows:
Night time One:
Becky Lynch vs Rhea Ripley (c) for the WWE Girls’s World Championship
Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, and Naomi vs. Harm CTRL (Asuka, Dakota Kai, and Kairi Sane)
Night time Two:
Bayley vs. IYO SKY (c) for the WWE Girls’s Championship
