The Superstars of Friday Night SmackDown rocked the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C. for tonight’s edition of the blue show. WWE will be overseas in Germany next week for SmackDown on Friday, August 30th and Bash in Berlin on Saturday, August 31st.
The first woman to show up this week was Elektra Lopez. Accompanying Santos Escobar with Legado del Fantasma in his latest match against United States Champion LA Knight, the champ would be attacked just before the start of the match by Angel and Berto, who were punished by being ejected from the ring by referee Jessika Carr. Lopez took exception to her ruling, and argued briefly with Carr before she would get ejected as well; the match would end with Knight retaining his title.
The only women’s match of the evening was a six-woman tag team match, pitting the team of Women’s Tag Team Champions The Unholy Union and Blair Davenport against Jade Cargill, Naomi, and Bianca Belair. The match started with Belair and Isla Dawn squaring off, with the EST unloading much offense onto Dawn. Once the match returned from its first commercial break, the trio of Dawn, Davenport, and Alba Fyre would be targeting and teasing Belair, with Fyre once again employing the octopus hold to control her. Belair would break free of the hold and tag in Cargill, who in a very fired up state, pummeled all three members of the heel team. Naomi would finally make her presence felt and ended up gaining the victory for her team by hitting a springboard moonsault onto Davenport. With The Unholy Union coming out on the losing end yet again, does this spell trouble for their title reign?
With Bash in Berlin coming up in eight days from now, the familiar voice of Natalya narrated a video package honoring WWE’s history in Berlin, Germany.
She first spoke of the company’s tour of the area in 1996, where her uncle Bret “The Hitman” Hart would perform, and she recalled being told stories about the amazing fans that he encountered during the tour. The following year in March, Monday Night Raw would emanate from a venue outside of North America for the very first time with an episode in Berlin; her uncles Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith (The British Bulldog) would compete to determine the first ever European Champion. Pictures of local fans from more recent events were shown to finish off the vignette, with Natalya stating that their love of WWE is making history once again.
B-Fab and The Street Profits interrupted an in-ring promo by The Bloodline, with the fab female front and center. She tells Solo Sikoa off, letting him know that they don’t care who Solo’s bodyguard is because they have business to take care of. After mocking The Bloodline, Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins would face off against Tama Tonga and newly-christened champion Tonga Loa for the WWE Tag Team Championship, but B-Fab’s comrades would not walk away with the gold. DIY would make their way out following the match, attacking the champions, but would fall victim to a beating at the hands of Sikoa and Jacob Fatu.
Following commercials, Byron Saxton was backstage outside the trainer’s room, revealing that both The Street Profits and DIY were being tended to backstage. B-Fab opens the door and Saxton asks if she has an update on Ford and Dawkins, but she hurriedly says that they’re fine. Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell enter the shot running, worried about DIY. B-Fab says that they are fine, but are just pissed. The three then enter the trainer’s room with Saxton promising that he’ll continue to monitor the situation.
A vignette for Michin then airs. Destroying stuff inside what appears to be a rage room, she recalls being told many things: she was too “ugly”, too “fat”, not having “the look”, not the “it girl”, and to be nice, patient, and less ambitious. Everybody tried to limit her, and they all failed. She calls out Nia Jax, telling her that next week, it’s not going to be a street fight: she’s going to slaughter the champion.
Tiffany Stratton is backstage with Pretty Deadly as they are trying to use a glue gun to put Nia’s Queen of the Ring crown back into place after Michin’s celebration attack last week. Jax enters the room, claiming she’s in no mood. Stratton says that what Michin did was disgusting. Jax reminds Stratton that Michin destroyed the celebration that she made for her, and that Michin made a huge mistake in both touching her crown and believing that she can take the Women’s Championship away from her. She will get the beating of a lifetime next week.
Jax orders Stratton and Pretty Deadly to keep fixing her crown and they leave, but the queen shifts her attention to Chelsea Green and Piper Niven, who continue to badmouth Tiffany’s celebration decor and still hold on to their suspicions that “Tacky Time” is trying to stab Nia in the back. Jax interrupts their gossiping and warns them that she is in no mood tonight.
Here is what’s scheduled for next week’s edition of Friday Night SmackDown:
- WWE Women’s Championship: Nia Jax (c) vs Michin in a Street Fight
Women’s matches for Bash in Berlin on Saturday, August 31st are as follows:
- Women’s Tag Team Championship: The Unholy Union (Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn) (c) vs. Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill
- The Terror Twins (Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest) vs The Judgment Day (Liv Morgan and Dominik Mysterio) in a mixed tag team match
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