Friday Evening SmackDown returned to Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah for this week’s version of the present, now solely lower than 24 hours away from Survivor Sequence: WarGames, which shall be going down contained in the Rogers Enviornment in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Following a run-down of the evening’s card, Bianca Belair, Naomi, IYO SKY, Bayley, and Rhea Ripley all made brief entrances one after the opposite on the stage, finally getting into the ring. Rhea begins off by saying that she is aware of it’s apparent that not everybody on the crew is the perfect of pals, however none of that issues as a result of tomorrow evening, all of them step into one of the harmful matches in WWE historical past: WarGames, they usually all have somebody that they need to get their arms on. Tomorrow evening, this all ends once they step into the cage, and nobody will be capable to cease them from brutalizing the opposing crew. Naomi warns Nia Jax and her “lap canine” Stratton and LeRae that they will get all the things they deserve after which some, as a result of they’ve been nothing however a ache in her and Bayley’s aspect. She guarantees that not solely will the glow be felt, nevertheless it’s going to be dealt.
Belair now interjects, including that her and Naomi each know that one in every of them took out Jade Cargill final week, and whereas she doesn’t know which one it was, tomorrow evening, all 5 of them can get a beating. Ripley takes the mic again and warns Liv Morgan that she’s going to want she by no means met her. IYO SKY says one thing on behalf of the crew: “We’ll destroy you!”
Liv Morgan’s music begins to blare within the enviornment as she walks out alongside Raquel Rodriguez, Nia Jax, Tiffany Stratton, and Candice LeRae. The Girls’s World Champion of Uncooked says that it’s humorous how assured the babyface crew is that they’re going to beat her crew. Jax questions if Bianca had a mind fart and forgot that Bayley and IYO tortured her over the previous two years whereas teaming up as Injury CTRL. Or what about Bayley, contemplating that IYO and their “pals” Kairi Sane, Asuka, and Dakota Kai ended up betraying her and kicking her out of the group earlier than WrestleMania XL early into the yr?
Jax says that regardless of the heel crew has finished doesn’t even come near the problems that the babyface crew have, and that they’re all going to implode earlier than they even make it to the ring. The ground is now Bayley’s, telling the Girls’s Champion that she’s one to speak, contemplating that she’s been manipulating Stratton all through the time that they’ve been on SmackDown collectively this yr, however is simply too naive to say it. Jax retorts and says that Bayley is an professional at having no pals, with Liv including on and declaring that they’re a united entrance, so she will cease making an attempt to govern them as she’s misplaced her contact and actually isn’t good at it anymore. Nonetheless, Morgan does suppose it’s actually fascinating how Jade will get attacked and now Bayley is on their crew. Ripley tells her to close up and cease losing all people’s time. Quickly, Liv isn’t going to have the ability to cover behind anybody as a result of when she steps into the cages, there may be nowhere to run and he or she goes to need to face Rhea. Morgan says that Ripley is correct, which is why she’s going to place her cash the place her mouth is and end the job that she began when she breaks Rhea’s face on the metal cage tomorrow evening.
Ripley laughs, calling Morgan “candy” and “naive” earlier than saying that she goes to cave Morgan’s face in so dangerous that Dominik Mysterio, the love of her life, isn’t going to even need to take a look at her. Morgan seemed upset and appeared like she wished to combat, however then stopped her crew, telling Ripley that she is aware of what she’s doing, however their crew will see all of them tomorrow evening as they’re now leaving. Ripley rapidly exclaims that she hates ready and the groups escape into an altercation on the stage and ramp, with officers dashing out to separate the commotion.
The primary spherical of the Girls’s United States Championship event continued as Piper Niven (accompanied by first spherical winner Chelsea Inexperienced) and Michin took on Lash Legend in a triple menace match. Legend changed Jade Cargill following her assault final week.
Proper off the bat, the match adopted the pattern of all three opponents making an attempt to get an early likelihood of taking management. It didn’t take lengthy for issues to start out going Michin’s approach as she hit a crossbody onto each Legend and Niven exterior the ring. Inexperienced interfered by making an attempt to kick her, which was allowed because the match was of “no disqualification” guidelines. As Inexperienced confronted a laid-out Michin, B-Fab made her approach out to even the rating, with the 2 fist-fighting into the backstage space. The three continued to strive pinning one another, with no finish to the competition in sight, not even when Legend executed a formidable chokeslam on Niven.
The match would finish as Niven tried to hit the Piper Driver on Michin from the highest turnbuckle, however Legend would punch Michin and ship her to the bottom. With the match now trying prefer it was within the bag for Legend, The Boujee Bully would benefit from a missed senton and carry Niven up for the Lash Extension, however Michin obtained up in time to hit a senton, sending Lash out of the ring and pinning Niven for the three rely.
Survivor Sequence: WarGames airs tomorrow on Peacock in the USA, and the WWE Community in every single place else. Please observe that for worldwide viewers, premium dwell occasions plus episodes of NXT and SmackDown shall be streaming on Netflix beginning in January when Uncooked begins airing on the service worldwide; for American viewers, premium dwell occasions will stay on Peacock, and NXT and SmackDown will keep on its respective houses of The CW and USA Community.
Beneath are the American time slots for the present and its associated programming on Peacock:
Survivor Sequence: WarGames Countdown: 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
Survivor Sequence: WarGames PLE: 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
The post-show will happen instantly after the present ends.
As for matches, right here’s what we’ll see tomorrow evening:
WarGames: Rhea Ripley, Bayley, Bianca Belair, IYO SKY, and Naomi vs. Liv Morgan, Candice LeRae, Nia Jax, Raquel Rodriguez, and Tiffany Stratton
Subsequent week’s version of Friday Evening SmackDown will function the next:
Naomi vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Elektra Lopez – ultimate first spherical match within the Girls’s United States Championship event
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