The July 11 episode of Friday Evening SmackDown on the Bridgestone Enviornment in Nashville, Tennessee served because the go-home present to a giant weekend during which Atlanta, Georgia turns into WWE nation, and there have been a number of noteworthy issues that we liked concerning the blue model this week. We are going to take a look at this week’s present to find out all the largest positives that should be spotlighted.
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WWE placed on a giant present on the final Uncooked earlier than Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion and Evolution.
WWE is ready to host each Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion and Evolution throughout this weekend, and this episode of SmackDown featured all of the final minute construct to each of those occasions. Huge feuds continued, good matches befell, and a few of it was price shouting about.
WWE SmackDown July 11 Match Outcomes
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Alexa Bliss defeated Sol Ruca, Roxanne Perez & Kairi Sane
Deadly 4 Means
The Wyatt Sicks defeated The Road Income (c)
WWE Tag Crew Championships
Ron Killings defeated Aleister Black
Singles Match
Jimmy Uso & LA Knight defeated JC Mateo & Solo Sikoa
Tag Crew Match
The Wyatt Sicks Are The New WWE Tag Crew Champions
The Wyatt Sicks have been pursuing the WWE Tag Crew Titles on SmackDown
They bulldozed their method via the entire tag crew division
They lastly defeated The Road Income
After many weeks of terrorizing the SmackDown tag crew division, The Wyatt Sicks have been lastly handed a good and sq. WWE Tag Crew Title match with no shenanigans at play. The numbers recreation proved to be important for The Wyatt Sicks, as Erick Rowan performed a giant position at ringside as Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy went on to defeat The Road Income to turn out to be the model new WWE Tag Crew Champions.
It’s about time that The Wyatt Sicks discovered some actual success and developed momentum as soon as once more. Their return to WWE programming in 2025 has seen them run roughshod on SmackDown, and that is the end result of that. The SmackDown tag crew division continues to be stacked (and blows RAW’s division out of the water).
Alexa Bliss Received A Enjoyable Deadly 4-Means
Rivals within the girls’s tag title image confronted off on SmackDown
NXT’s Sol Ruca stood out
Alexa Bliss constructed momentum forward of Evolution
Forward of Evolution 2025 during which Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez put their Girls’s Tag Crew Titles on the road in a deadly four-way tag crew match, one competitor from every crew stepped into the ring on SmackDown to offer followers an early style of Sunday – and it was the most effective match on the entire present!
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Sol Ruca was the star of the match right here, showcasing her incredible athleticism and looking out like a pure on the principle roster in her SmackDown debut. The match was fast-paced, featured some good character moments and shenanigans, and it helped to construct a match that had little warmth heading into Evolution. Bliss picked up the win, nailing Kairi Sane with a Sister Abigail.
Aleister Black Attacked Damian Priest
R-Fact defeated Black on SmackDown
Backstage, Black attacked Damian Priest
That is the most effective he’s regarded since returning to WWE
It had been a reasonably sluggish begin to Aleister Black’s time in WWE after returning to the corporate, limping by every week with an odd lower-card storyline with Ron Killings. On SmackDown, their current warmth got here to a head, as they battled in singles motion… and Killings shockingly rolled up Black to win the match, handing Black his first singles pinfall defeat since being again.
This wasn’t a nasty determination by any means, because it has lastly unlocked the aspect of Black we’ve been desirous to see. Backstage, Damian Priest tried to calm Black down, however he obtained a vicious beatdown for his hassle. Hastily, Black regarded like a critical, harmful, and violent competitor. It isn’t clear if this was a full-blown heel flip, however both method, it was a robust a part of SmackDown as we’ve been dying for this model of Black.
Jelly Roll & Randy Orton Are Teaming Up Towards Logan Paul & Drew McIntyre
On SmackDown, Logan Paul tore down Jelly Roll
Randy Orton and Jelly Roll fashioned a partnership
Randy Orton took a Claymore from Drew McIntyre
With stories drawing some divisive response on-line over the previous week relating to Jelly Roll’s potential involvement at SummerSlam this 12 months, Friday Evening SmackDown managed to benefit from the state of affairs, and it went over properly with the reside crowd. Jelly Roll was interrupted by Logan Paul, who gave a hypocritical speech about celebrities in wrestling, which was admittedly entertaining.
This introduced out Randy Orton, who got here to assistance from the hometown Jelly Roll… solely to obtain a Claymore from an incensed and revenge-fueled Drew McIntyre, who was given an RKO by Orton final week. Logan Paul picked up the items and attacked Orton, forcing Jelly Roll to intervene and take out Paul. The viewers was scorching for each the music artist and for Orton, displaying that this section did go down as a hit.
