Friday Night SmackDown emanated this week from Cleveland, Ohio inside the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Cleveland is the same city where SummerSlam will be taking place tomorrow night.
Our first glimpse of women’s action came in the form of Byron Saxton conducting an interview with Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill. The two are very confident and are aimed at standing on business to come back for their Women’s Tag Team Championships. Belair says that they weren’t pinned at Clash at the Castle and that the Unholy Union can’t whoop them. The champs wanted the attention, so they got it. Cargill finishes off by saying that when fighting The Storm and The EST, anyone who steps up will get stepped on.
The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match took place later on. The champs tried to get a head start but were immediately taken aback by the strength of Cargill and Belair, who would dominate the match prior to the first commercial break. The show would return with them at the disadvantage, with Jade attempting to tag Bianca in before Isla took her out at ringside. The Unholy Union would then try to double team Cargill, who would reverse their intended double suplex and finally give Bianca the hot tag. Bianca would throw down with both women, almost getting a near fall, before Blair Davenport would make her presence felt by openly attacking Cargill. This would lead to a disqualification victory for the Unholy Union and resulted in a three on two attack with the tandem of Davenport, Dawn, and Fyre laying out Belair and Cargill.
After a video aired to recap Nia Jax’s Queen of the Ring victory and subsequent ascent to the championship picture, Tiffany Stratton was seen in the locker room, still upset over her destroyed Money in the Bank briefcase. Nia enters the room and unveils a new custom made briefcase, but additionally warns her that if she attempts to cash in during her Women’s Championship match with Bayley at SummerSlam, the “perfect princess” will have to answer to “the queen”. Stratton’s excitement over the briefcase sparks some jealous comments from Chelsea Green, who would have designed it much differently had she won the Money in the Bank ladder match and not “Tacky Time”. Stratton lastly responds and says that “green is definitely not your color”.
Finally, Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell made a brief cameo appearance backstage in a segment with LeRae’s son Quill right before the main event as the team of Johnny Gargano and Tomasso Ciampa (DIY) cut a promo about the town of Cleveland. They faced The Bloodline (Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga) for their Tag Team Championship, and ended up losing their championships.
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