The women of SmackDown said “bonjour” to Lyon, France as we are only a little over half a day away from Backlash for an episode of Friday Night SmackDown.
The show opened with a star-studded 8-woman tag team match featuring the team of WWE Women’s Champion, Bayley, Naomi, Bianca Belair, and Jade Cargill against Tiffany Stratton and Dakota Kai, Asuka, and Kairi Sane of Damage CTRL. Members of both teams took equal beatings from each other early on. Near the end of the match, Tiffany Stratton rammed Bayley into Naomi and Jade to take them out of the ring. With Bianca being the only one left for the champ to tag in, expressions of hesitation between the two were present due to their acrimonious history. Jade would get up and Bayley made the decision to tag her into the match instead. The miscommunication would prove fruitful however, as Jade and Bianca took out Dakota for the pin.
The pot continued to simmer in a post-match interview where Bianca made her intentions known to Bayley that she would be the next to challenge for the WWE Women’s Championship after Backlash, promising her that she would be done with Damage CTRL for good.
Not much else happened on this show for the women, so all we have to do now is just wait for Backlash in France tomorrow. Start times are as follows:
- U.S. Eastern Time Zone: 1 pm ET
- U.S. Pacific Time Zone: 10 am PT
- UK and Ireland: 5 pm BST
- Australia: 2 am AEST (Sunday, May 5th)
The following matches are set to take place:
- Women’s Championship: Bayley (c) vs Naomi vs Tiffany Stratton
- Women’s Tag Team Championship: Damage CTRL (Asuka and Kairi Sane) (c) vs Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill.
