Friday Evening SmackDown aired as a pre-taped broadcast this week from contained in the XL Middle in Hartford, Connecticut.
The ladies’s motion started with a video bundle recapping the match between Chelsea Inexperienced and Michin for the Ladies’s United States Championship at Saturday Evening’s Most important Occasion final weekend. An interview filmed after the present aired the place Chelsea Inexperienced instructed “Bryan” (Byron) Saxton that she at all times knew her championship victory was going to occur, and that whereas Byron may be stunned, she shouldn’t be, having been wrestling for the previous ten years. She labored her complete life to be an in a single day success, and that is her time as she is now within the historical past books, the place she belongs. She would have been there three years in the past, however she was launched; she would have been there in 2015, however she wasn’t employed, a reference to her stint on that 12 months’s version of Robust Sufficient alongside Sonya Deville, Mandy Rose, and others. Now’s the time, and as we noticed on her social media accounts, she spent the following day going to Disneyland.
Nia Jax and Candice LeRae are talking backstage when Tiffany Stratton walked in to want them good luck for his or her Ladies’s Tag Crew Championship match in opposition to Bianca Belair and Naomi, mentioning that she couldn’t wait to be there ringside to have their arms raised. LeRae interjects, mentioning that her and Jax assume it’s best for Stratton to remain out of the match. She does add, nonetheless, that Stratton may take some notes to see what a championship victory appears to be like like, but when she needs to assist, she may get some champagne, balloons, and streamers after LeRae and Jax win the titles. Stratton then walks off awkwardly after LeRae tells her that they should maintain strategizing.
Ladies’s Tag Crew Champion Bianca Belair and Naomi are interviewed by Byron Saxton simply earlier than the principle occasion tag staff match. Bianca states that it has been a tough couple of weeks, and whereas she is going to ultimately discover out who attacked Jade Cargill, she’s not going to permit what occurred to Jade to get her and Naomi stripped of the titles as a result of she is aware of that’s what Nia and Candice need, and he or she shouldn’t be taking place and not using a combat. Fortunately, she has Naomi, who tells her she’ll at all times have Bianca’s again. Naomi is aware of how essential the titles are to Bianca and Jade, and they’re essential to her as nicely, which is why she’s going to go on the market and do all the pieces she must with a purpose to stroll away as Ladies’s Tag Crew Champions.
The 2 groups then make their entrances and the match was on! The EST was contained in the ring for many of the match, with Jax and LeRae doing their finest to attempt to put her away all through. Naomi was ultimately tagged in to a lot fanfare, launching hits in opposition to the Irresistible Power and powerbombing her to the purpose of the Ladies’s Champion bleeding on her brow.
Tiffany Stratton would make her approach out, Cash within the Financial institution briefcase in hand, attempting to provide it to Jax, however the referee would discover and the Queen of the Ring winner was despatched onto the ground at ringside. Naomi would pin The Poison Pixie after a split-legged moonsault to get the victory and turn into Ladies’s Tag Crew Champions with Belair, and the present would finish with each girls elevating their championships within the air.
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