Friday Evening SmackDown rode into the brand new 12 months, with tonight’s episode emanating from contained in the Footprint Heart in Phoenix, Arizona for what was Crew Blue’s first three-hour episode on USA Community.
Kicking off the ladies’s motion for this week was Michin, popping out for her match towards Piper Niven after final week’s celebratory interruption involving the 2 and Niven’s good friend, Ladies’s United States Champion Chelsea Inexperienced. From the outset, Piper tried to make use of some energy strikes on Michin, however the “loopy one” threw her in for a loop with a number of hurricanranas. Niven did get some moments of offense, however couldn’t acquire an higher hand for lengthy, with Michin profitable after executing an Eat Defeat on Niven. Michin additionally debuted a brand new transfer that based on Michael Cole she calls the “Longback Assault”, together with a sluggish twerk that actually received on the nerves of Corey Graves on commentary and Inexperienced, who was watching the match from ringside in assist of Niven.
A vignette for Naomi aired. Beginning off with some clips of her dancing towards a backdrop of laser lights, the previous 2-time SmackDown Ladies’s Champion states that her glow isn’t a glance. It’s a reminder that in all of us, there’s a lightweight. We’re lovely, highly effective, and alter the world simply by being in it. Footage of her, each current and from years previous, then performed as she continued to relate. Naomi needs to be a residing reminder that we don’t need to expertise life the way in which we had been advised, that we are going to not be pushed round by the worry in our minds, however led by the desires in our hearts. She is the glow, and she or he is Naomi.
WWE Ladies’s Champion Nia Jax is backstage with Candice LeRae, with The Irresistible Drive questioning the place Tiffany Stratton may probably be as she is nowhere to be discovered. The Poison Pixie says that Stratton might be upset in regards to the issues Nia stated final week, however that she (LeRae) is right here. LeRae feels that Stratton overcomplicates issues, reminding Jax of what occurred with the Ladies’s Tag Crew Championships two weeks in the past. Jax believes that they could get one other title shot as soon as she beats Naomi tonight. Nonetheless, she needs Candice to ensure Bianca Belair stays out of her approach throughout the match. LeRae responds by saying, “Something you want”.
Ladies’s Tag Crew Champion Naomi entered the ring for her large title match with Bianca Belair by her aspect. Ladies’s Champion Jax additionally made her presence felt with LeRae in tow. The match started with excessive stakes as each tried to outmaneuver one another. The present then went to business, returning with the champion holding Naomi down, placing her in a headlock and ramming her into the ring publish. Naomi would ultimately rebound, stopping an Annihilator try and hitting a leg drop on Jax for a close to fall. Not even a double ax deal with, kick, and spectacular Samoan drop one after the opposite may put the Queen of the Ring winner out, regardless of the followers clearly rooting for The Woman with the Glow.
Naomi continued to push by means of, utilizing each surprising pin below her sleeve, but frequently failing to get a definitive pinfall on Nia. In the meantime on the skin, Candice and Bianca would get right into a brawl when Candice tried to distract the referee. At the moment, the sound of “IT’S TIFFY TIME!” reverbed all through the world.
Tiffany Stratton would run out to the ring, seemingly desirous to money in her Cash within the Financial institution contract, however as an alternative used it to strike Naomi whereas the referee was distracted, leaving Naomi specified by the ring and resulting in Jax hitting the Annihilator to place her away for good as she but once more retained the Ladies’s Championship.
Nia, Candice, and Tiffany seemingly stood tall because the three attacked Bianca, however Stratton then proceeded to assault Jax and LeRae as nicely and threw Belair out of the ring to formally money in her contract, hitting a Prettiest Moonsault on Jax to win the title to a lot fanfare from the group. Stratton celebrated as pyro went off in recognition of her victory.
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