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Xia Li Assists Damage CTRL To Retain The Women’s Tag Team Titles

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On the Dec. 16 episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Damage CTRL successfully retained their Women’s Tag Team Championships after defeating Liv Morgan and Tegan Nox. However, they did have some help, and not just from Bayley.

The match opened the show and the two teams put on a solid match but it reached its conclusion after Nox had a moment with Bayley at the time keeper area. Nox dumped Bayley over the barricade in order to remove her from the situation when a woman in a hoodie kicked Nox. The assailant would be dragged to the back by security immediately after the attack.

This allowed IYO SKY to get Nox back in the ring, deliver a moonsault, and pin her to retain the tag titles for Damage CTRL.

A little later during the show, a WWE Exclusive appeared on WWE’s social media. It would show the hooded assailant being brought to the back as Adam Pearce would reveal who it was that attacked Nox. It would end up being Xia Li. Pearce would order her to go to his office, but there was no follow-up on this for the rest of the show.

Other women from this episode includes Zelina Vega, Valhalla, and B-Fab. Much like last week, all three women were at ringside for their respective stables. There was a triple threat of Hit Row, The Vking Raiders, and Legado del Fantasma to determine the number one contenders for the men’s tag team titles.

During the match, Vega would get involved as she hit Ashante Thee Adonis with a head scissor takedown. B-Fab delivered a bicycle kick to Vega knocking her out of the ring before Valhalla kicked B-Fab in the throat. Both B-Fab and Valhalla were on the outside by commentary when Vega would launch off the second rope and lay out Valhalla.

Lastly, Raquel Rodriguez would be interviewed backstage. She confirmed that she would be in the Gauntlet match set for next week to determine the number one contender for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Shayna Baszler and current SmackDown Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey would appear and attack the already injured Rodriguez.

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WWE Women’s Tag Team Title Match Set For Dec. 16 SmackDown

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A women’s tag team title match is set for next week’s SmackDown as the champions Damage CTRL will defend against Liv Morgan & Tegan Nox. On the Dec. 9 episode of SmackDown, Morgan and Nox picked up a big win against the team of Shayna Baszler and the SmackDown Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey. This was … Read more

SmackDown Discussion Post: 12.09.22

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Tonight’s SmackDown has one match confirmed from what went down last week and Shotzi will be taking on Shayna Baszler. Last week, Baszler defeated Emma and continued the attack after the match. Shotzi and Raquel Rodriguez would come down to make the save. But will the match actually take place? Before the show, Shotzi had … Read more

Lacey Evans Goes Back To The Basics; Emma Takes On Shayna Baszler

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In April, vignettes started airing for a returning Lacey Evans. She had been out for over a year due to maternity leave. The vignettes at that time showed her emotional past and what has made her into the woman she is today. However, poor booking of her character involving moving her back and forth between … Read more

Tegan Nox Makes WWE Return On Dec. 2 SmackDown

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Tegan Nox made her WWE return on the Dec. 2 episode of Friday Night SmackDown.

Nox returned to help Liv Morgan combat Damage CTRL. The trio that includes the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions (Dakota Kai & IYO SKY) made the trip to SmackDown to call out the division. They rehashed WarGames and stated no one on SmackDown even participated.

Morgan’s music hits and she answers Bayley and the tag champs’ claims. She says it appears that they have a problem with the SmackDown women’s locker room. Morgan states that on behalf of the women’s locker room she would handle this. Showing no signs of worry, Morgan counted the three against one odds and said it sounded fair to her as she raced to the ring.

The numbers games started to get too much for Morgan which is when Nox’s music hit. Nox raced to the ring and started to battle with Damage CTRL as commentary refers to her past with Kai. With Morgan already down, it became three on one this time against Nox.

Morgan brought in a kendo stick to even the odds some as she takes out all three members of Damage CTRL, breaking the stick on Bayley. Nox delivers the Shiniest Wizard on Bayley causing the faction to retreat.

Nox has not wrestled elsewhere during her time away from WWE. She was released in November 2021. She was formerly in a tag team with Shotzi on SmackDown before the draft broke up the team and sent her to Raw where she would never make her debut before being released.

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Becky Lynch Returns, Confirmed As Final Participant For WarGames

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Becky Lynch has returned from injury and will be participating in WarGames. On the Nov. 25 episode of SmackDown, the show opened with Team Damage CTRL in the ring. Bayley took to the mic ordering the Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair to come out and stop wasting her time to announce the fifth individual for … Read more

SmackDown Discussion Post: 11.25.22

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Tonight’s SmackDown is the last stop before this weekend’s Survivor Series WarGames which will be live tomorrow on Saturday in Boston, Mass. The women’s match from SmackDown set for tomorrow’s show is Shotzi taking on Ronda Rousey for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Shotzi defeated Shayna Baszler last week to gain momentum heading into her big … Read more

Shotzi Builds Momentum With A Win On SmackDown

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Shotzi battled Shayna Baszler on the Nov. 18 episode of SmackDown just over one week away from her SmackDown Women’s Championship Match against the champ Ronda Rousey. Shotzi will challenge Rousey at Survivor Series WarGames but she had to get revenge on Baszler first after taking her out last week.

The match had a very 2-on-1 feeling as Rousey would cause distractions on numerous occasions. Every time that Shotzi would get some momentum against Baszler, Rousey was there to make sure it didn’t happen again.

Eventually, Raquel Rodriguez’s music would hit and she would make her way down to the ring to support Shotzi. This distracted Baszler while she was setting up Shotzi’s arm to stomp on. Shotzi would counter and stack up Baszler to get the victory. Shotzi and Rodriguez celebrated after the match.

Next week, a tag team match is booked as Shotzi and Rodriguez will be taking on Baszler and Rousey.

Elsewhere on SmackDown, Emma was giving a pep talk to Madcap Moss backstage before his match against Karrion Kross. Moss wanted some retribution against Kross after his loss to him recently. Scarlett would of course accompany Kross to the ring.

Scarlett’s presence throughout the match including a slap to Moss’ face would do him no favors. Kross would eventually cause Moss to go to sleep again in the Kross Jacket. Emma would rush to the ring after the match to be by the side of Moss.

On NXT Level Up, Dani Palmer had her TV debut. She faced Thea Hail in a losing effort.

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Shotzi vs. Rousey Set For Survivor Series; Sarah Logan Returns

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Shotzi is the new number-one contender for the SmackDown Women’s Championship and will be taking on Ronda Rousey at the Survivor Series WarGames event. On the Nov. 11 episode of SmackDown, a six-pack challenge took place. Shotzi would eventually win the match by delivering the Never Wake Up to Lacey Evans. Also in the match … Read more

Liv Morgan Wins No DQ Match; Xia Li Meets Emma

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The Nov. 4 edition of SmackDown kicked off with the No Disqualification Match between Liv Morgan and Sonya Deville. Deville started the match strong out of the gate with a right hand but this new extreme side of Morgan didn’t take long to fight back. Deville would start the match with a kendo stick but … Read more

Emma Returns To WWE On SmackDown, Challenges Rousey

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Emma has made her return to WWE!!

It has been five years to almost the day since Emma was released from WWE. Her last match was on Raw against Asuka just days before her release on Oct. 29 in 2017. Now, she returned to SmackDown and answered the open challenge from Ronda Rousey for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.

During the match, commentary would remind everyone of Emma’s time with the company previously including her being in the finals of the inaugural NXT Women’s Championship tournament. She is the first-ever Australian female to ever be signed to WWE during her first run. Emma put up a fight against Rousey and despite her veteran status, it would still be considered an upset if she would have achieved victory.

Despite coming close to getting that upset with a very close near fall on Rousey, it would be Rousey that would retain. After fighting away from tapping out to the ankle lock, Emma would succumb to the armbar submission after being hit with the Piper’s Pit. This was only after Rousey raked Emma eyes.

After the match, Rousey was seen backstage where Shayna Baszler approached her. She congratulated her on retaining the belt against the “new girl.” Natalya appeared and stated that Rousey was lucky because if it was her that answered the open challenge it would have been a different story. Baszler would then attack Natalya with a Kirifuda Clutch as Rousey watched with approval.

We also got some continuation between Sonya Deville and Liv Morgan. Morgan defeated Deville last week and then went extreme when she landed a superplex on chairs in the middle of the ring. This week, Deville was asked backstage if she would be answering the open challenge against Rousey. She said she knows who won’t be answering and that was Morgan adding that the former champion should never have had the title, to begin with. Morgan would jump Deville and the two would brawl as they were pulled apart by officials.

Due to their ongoing animosity towards each other, next week we will get a No Disqualification match between Morgan and Deville.

B-Fab, Zelina Vega, and Maxxine Dupri were all on this week’s show with their respective stables. Hit Row and Shinsuke Nakamura took on Legado Del Fantasma and came out victorious. Maximum Male Models took another loss to The New Day.

Lastly, another video of the presumed return of Sarah Logan aired.

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Liv Morgan Unleashes On Sonya Deville, Damage CTRL Retains

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Two matches took place on the Oct. 21 episode of Friday Night Smackdown. First, the evolution of Liv Morgan contiues as she continues to show a different side of herself. Relentless in a match that showed Sonya Deville in a light we haven’t seen her in a while had a result where both women would … Read more

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