Conflict in Paris is 2 days away, however immediately, the WWE Superstars are in Lyon, France – the positioning of final yr’s Backlash – for tonight’s episode of Friday Night time SmackDown.
As was already introduced by normal supervisor Nick Aldis earlier, Piper Niven was unavailable and couldn’t make it to the LDLC Area for the present. Nevertheless, the Ladies’s Tag Staff Championship match was nonetheless on with Chelsea Inexperienced filling in for her to crew with Alba Fyre in opposition to Charlotte Aptitude and Alexa Bliss.
When the champions made their entrance, nevertheless, Inexperienced and Fyre made certain to assault, with the 2 groups brawling with each other. Fyre and Inexperienced focused Aptitude’s leg because the present reduce to commercials; by the point the present returned, Aptitude was carried off by officers, and the choice had been made to vary the match right into a singles match between Bliss and Inexperienced.
The bell rang and Bliss instantly pounded on Inexperienced to begin, with Fyre making an attempt to distract her early on. This led to Bliss diverting her focus and leaving the ring to comply with Fyre and assault her, ultimately getting again within the ring, the place she continued to play aggressively with Inexperienced by kicking her down, however the Canadian would take management quickly after with a giant boot to Bliss, who then took out Fyre at ringside with a cannonball. Inexperienced would then strike Bliss with a give attention to her face, slamming her face-first into the mat and throwing punches at her, persevering with the assault by hitting a missile dropkick and slamming her into the announce desk. Bliss would then begin gaining momentum with a collection of punches and clotheslines adopted by a dropkick that didn’t put Inexperienced away, with Fyre trying on nervously.
The match would finish when Bliss cornered Inexperienced, who was caught upside-down on the turnbuckles, hitting a dropkick to her abdomen. As soon as Bliss bought on the highest turnbuckle to carry out Twisted Bliss, Fyre tried her greatest to cease her, however the redheaded Slaygent was fought off, with a laid-out Inexperienced utilizing her knees to cease Twisted Bliss and reverse it into an Unprettier, however Bliss caught her in place and shifted her finisher to Sister Abigail; as Inexperienced maneuvered her approach out of the transfer, Bliss rolled her up for the win.
With Bliss profitable, Inexperienced and Fyre attacked her afterwards, however Charlotte, who was nonetheless limping a bit, got here to her rescue, however Inexperienced hit the Unprettier on Bliss and Fyre hit the Gory facebuster on Aptitude. Whereas The Inexperienced Regime could have been down one member this week, maybe the numbers benefit isn’t obligatory for them to develop into the following Ladies’s Tag Staff Champions.
Michin lastly bought her probability to show herself worthy of a Ladies’s United States Championship title shot in opposition to Giulia by going through her authorized consultant, Kiana James. The match ended rapidly with Michin rolling up James for the depend of three, however James and Giulia beat her down afterwards, with The Lovely Insanity throwing Michin into the barricade and kicking her face-first into the metal steps.
The WWE Ladies’s Champion, Tiffany Stratton was seen admiring herself in a mirror backstage when the reflection of Jade Cargill appeared behind her, having walked in. The Storm says that she spoke to Nick Aldis and he or she is the number one contender to the Ladies’s Championship as Cargill bought the win for his or her crew in final week’s important occasion in opposition to Becky Lynch and Nia Jax. The Buff Barbie tells Cargill “you’re welcome”, as a result of if it wasn’t for letting Cargill win final week, she wouldn’t be on this place. Cargill says to “reduce it” and that Stratton is strolling round like she’s some big risk as she says she’ll “snap her into two”.
Stratton bites again and tells Cargill that she will maintain speaking in regards to the end of their SummerSlam match as a result of they each know Stratton nonetheless would have received and final time she heard, she’s the one who’s been undefeated in 2025. Cargill thinks Stratton calling herself undefeated is cute, and he or she might train her a factor or two about that. When she beats Stratton, that undefeated streak dies, and the fantasy that her and Stratton are on the identical stage will too. The phase ends with Stratton having a mad look on her face as she holds onto her championship.
Conflict in Paris airs Sunday, August thirty first at 8 p.m. regionally in France. Beneath is a schedule for the present and its associated occasions for viewers in the US:
Countdown: 12 p.m. Jap Time / 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Peacock and WWE’s social media accounts
Conflict in Paris: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT on Peacock
Publish-Present: instantly following the principle occasion
Recap: will probably be obtainable Sunday evening.
Conflict in Paris may even function the next match:
Ladies’s Intercontinental Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Nikki Bella
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