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SmackDown: June 26th, 2024
FBW Universe Mode
Drew McIntyre puts The Bloodline in a stalemate ahead of Extreme Rules! + Imperium and The Brawling Brutes put on a clinic! Bianca Belair comes closer to a breaking point.
EXTREME RULES IS A WEEK FROM TOMORROW!
(this episode was meant to be published on September 30th but was delayed)
🔹 BACKSTAGE: A brawl erupts between tag team Shotzi & Xia Li.
Xia Li & Shotzi formed a makeshift tag team to enter the women's tag team championship tournament, only to be eliminated in a first-round match. The SmackDown broadcast kicks off with the two questioning their future together as they've been unsuccessful as a duo. The locker room has to pull the two women apart to prevent a brawl. During the segment we are informed of Tommaso Ciampa's injury, therefore DIY will not be in action against The Alpha Academy.
*coming up: Imperium and The Brutes face-off in a HUGE match + Damage CTRL is here!
🔵 Imperium vs. The Brawling Brutes - Six-Man Tag Match: 14min*
Sheamus has been on a mission to capture the United States championship from previous title holder Drew McIntyre, now the title sits in the hands of The Ring General Gunther.
Sheamus and the Brutes have been in a suspenseful feud with Imperium. The feud comes ahead tonight in an action-packed six-man tag team match.
The Brawling Brutes def. Imperium.
🔵 Karrion Kross & Scarlett send a scarring message to Drew Gulak: 7min*
Karrion Kross & Scarlett made a big return to WWE after attacking Drew McIntyre last month. Leaving a mystery as to who was behind the attack for weeks, later revealing themselves on the go-home edition of SmackDown before Drew McIntyre's big match with Roman Reigns. Since then Karion Kross made another attack after McIntyre's unsuccessful challenge, last week Karion Kross dominantly took out Drew Gulak and urged McIntyre to finish his business with the Bloodline. Kross made his intentions clear, stating that McIntyre was the wrong choice years ago, and looking to prove it with a dominant win.
Tonight, Kross lets McIntyre know that the sands of time are falling and time is running out. He will soon meet his Doomsday.
**Still to come: Johnny Gargano vs. Alpha Academy?! + Solo Sikoa and Montez Ford collide.
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Johnny Gargano hunts for a partner ahead of clash with Alpha Academy.
Johnny Gargano's ally, Tommasso Ciampa is currently suffering from an injury. Kayla Braxton looks to acquire information and Gargano's thoughts on the situation. Before Gargano can answer Drew Gulak interjects offering himself as Gargano's tag team partner, under the condition that he can prove himself in a match with Karrion Kross next week on the SmackDown season premiere.
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Shayna Baszler vows to "soften" Belair for Rousey ahead of Extreme Rules.
In an interview backstage, a lone Shayna Baszler makes it clear that her request to face Bianca Belair tonight is a favor for Ronda Rousey.
🔵 Los Lotharios vs. ma.cé & mån.sôör w/ Maxxine Dupri: 5min*
Maximum Male Models have had minor success on SmackDown. Tonight they take a big L to the lethal lovers, Angel & Humberto after taking multiple pauses to pose for the local photographer hired by Maxxine Dupri, this seemingly enrages their founder Max Dupri even more after he viscously attacked them this past Friday.
Los Lotharios def. Maximum Male Models.
🔵 Montez Ford vs. Solo Sikoa: 11min*
The Street Profits have been thorns in the side of the bloodline, most noticeably for the Usos, unsuccessfully attempting to dethrone them.
Tonight the enforcer Solo Sikoa looks to deliver a message to one-half of the charismatic tag team.
Solo Sikoa dominates the majority of the match picking up a major win with the spinning Yuranagi, also known as Spinning Solo.
Solo Sikoa w/ The Bloodline def. Montez Ford w/ Angelo Dawkins.
After Solo Sikoa's dominant win, The Scottish Warrior makes his way to the ring.
Drew McIntyre is currently engulfed in a feud with the Bloodline. At Clash At The Castle in the UK, he unsuccessfully challenged for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. It was Roman Reigns' first defense of both titles since winning the grand prize at SummerSlam, McIntyre seemingly had the victory in his pocket but The Bloodline cost him a career-defining moment, leading to McIntyre targeting Solo Sikoa who played the most enormous hand in costing him the gold in front of a home country crowd.
McIntyre stops in the middle of the ramp and challenges Solo Sikoa to a lumberjack match at Extreme Rules and also advises Karrion Kross to get a front-row seat to the consequences of messing with his business. The Scottish Warrior invites the lumberjack's out. The Bloodline stands in the ring surrounded by familiar faces such as The New Day & R-Truth and new faces and friends of McIntyre, The Brawling Brutes who put an end to their rivalry with Imperium just moments ago, The Bloodline is attacked by the lumberjacks and put out.
This marks the first time The Bloodline has backed down against McIntyre, is the Bloodline's end in sight at McIntyre's hand?
🔹 BACKSTAGE: Imperium add insult to injury as they step to Rey Mysterio.
Rey Mysterio's career seemed to be going down a dark path when his son Dominik left him, breaking his heart and joining The Judgement Day, wanting nothing to do with his father.
Rey now feels things have changed, he was in a tournament for a shot at the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, and although he failed to win the tournament, he still has a match against Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship.
The interview is interrupted by Imperium, who mocks Rey's current situation with his son, an agitated Rey Mysterio attacks Imperium, but the numbers are too much for him, and the segment ends with Gunther delivering a vicious chop to the Lucha legend.
🔵 Damage CTRL vow to end Liv Morgan in a confrontation with Bianca Belair: 9min*
Damage CTRL are in a intense rollercoaster with Liv Morgan on Monday nights, a battle that has spread to the blue brand the past couple of weeks when Bayley made it her mission to destroy the surroundings of Liv Morgan before defeating her for the Raw Women's Championship in the Fight Pit at Extreme Rules in one week from tomorrow.
First, she took out Becky Lynch, LeRae and Naomi, and then Asuka and Belair on SmackDown. However, this past Friday, Belair and Morgan teamed up to defeat Damage CTRL in the main event.
Tonight, Damage CTRL confront the SmackDown Women's Champion Bianca Belair letting her know that it's not over between them and that Liv Morgan will not survive any damage from them.
🔵 Johnny Gargano & Drew Gulak vs. Alpha Academy: 9min*
Monday Night Rollins is on SmackDown! The Visionary Seth Rollins who defeated Sheamus this past Monday on Raw in the Quarter Finals of the WWE Universal Title Opportunity Tournament looks to settle some internet heat with Sheamus' partner, Butch!
Seth Rollins defeats Butch and walks away from a brawl with The Brawling Brutes!
🔵 MAIN EVENT: Bianca Belair vs. Shayna Baszler: 11min*
Before the match, an eerie "White Rabbit" song was heard and a QR code appeared backstage.
Bianca Belair has been the SmackDown Women's Champion since Money in the Bank where she successfully dethroned Charlotte Flair. She's had great title defenses, but she faces her biggest one yet at the Extreme Rules premium live event as she defends her title against The Baddest Woman on the Planet Ronda Rousey in an Extreme Rules match!
Tonight, The EST of WWE is in action against someone who has been in every place Ronda Rousey has been in the past few weeks, but we have yet to know what the two are up to on SmackDown. That being the former SmackDown Women's Champion, Shayna Baszler. Ronda Rousey however is nowhere to be seen with Baszler.
Bianca Belair proves another day why she's on a whole different level as she knocks off Shayna Baszler!
After the match, Shayna Baszler ambushed Bianca Belair and set up a table. Belair powered out of the attack and put Baszler down with a KOD on the table! This sends a clear-cut message to Ronda Rousey that Belair isn't afraid to hit the extreme at Extreme Rules.
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