Post by Steveweiser on Mar 12, 2019 6:06:44 GMT -5
SmackDown and 205 Live are at the NUTTER CENTER in Dayton this week, and as usual, the McMahons have questions they need to answer.
Following their failure to recapture the SmackDown Tag Team Championship from The Usos, Shane McMahon proceeded to attack The Miz in his home town of Cleveland, right in front of his father. What brought all this about? Shane says he'll explain his actions tonight, and will The Miz come for vengeance? What will happen to the World Cup, which decided the Best Wrestler in the World?
The NEW Daniel Bryan retained his WWE Championship in a rearranged Triple Threat match against Kevin Owens and Mustafa Ali at Fastlane, but all the fans cared about during that match was Kofi Kingston. Kofi thought he was being added to the match when he was summoned backstage by Mr. McMahon, but the Chairman instead put Kingston in a handicap match against The Bar, which he ended up losing. Kingston will air his feelings about his treatment by Vince tonight, will he find out why The Boss has something against him going for the title?
Samoa Joe claimed the United States Championship last week, and then hastily arranged a rematch at Fastlane in which he retained the title. But in neither Fatal Four Way Match did he directly defeat the former champion R-Truth, instead defeating Andrade and Rey Mysterio respectively. Truth has challenged Joe to a one-on-one bout for the title tonight, will Truth make his "childhood hero" John Cena proud by winning the title back?
The SmackDown Tag Team division is getting competitive, and tonight, four teams will go at it in an eight man tag - fresh off challenging for the RAW Tag Team Titles, Aleister Black and Ricochet will join forces with the Hardy Boyz to take on The Bar, Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura. Which two teams will come out on top?
Asuka held on to the SmackDown Women's Championship at Fastlane against Mandy Rose, but it took an error by Sonya Deville for that to happen. Rose wasn't happy with her best friend over what went down - will Fire And Desire make amends, and will they go back after Asuka?
Two of SmackDown's biggest female names were absent from their usual trips over to RAW this week, but thanks to Ronda Rousey, both of them will be challenging the Rowdy One for the RAW Women's Championship at WrestleMania - how will Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair react?
All this and much more from 8/7c on USA - and another reminder that in the UK, the show starts at Midnight rather than 1am due to US Daylight Savings.
Then at 10/9c it's 205 Live on the WWE Network, where we're at the semi final stage of the Number One Contenders Tournament for the right to face Buddy Murphy at WrestleMania - it's Drew Gulak vs. Tony Nese, and Cedric Alexander vs. Oney Lorcan. Who moves on to the final?
Following their failure to recapture the SmackDown Tag Team Championship from The Usos, Shane McMahon proceeded to attack The Miz in his home town of Cleveland, right in front of his father. What brought all this about? Shane says he'll explain his actions tonight, and will The Miz come for vengeance? What will happen to the World Cup, which decided the Best Wrestler in the World?
The NEW Daniel Bryan retained his WWE Championship in a rearranged Triple Threat match against Kevin Owens and Mustafa Ali at Fastlane, but all the fans cared about during that match was Kofi Kingston. Kofi thought he was being added to the match when he was summoned backstage by Mr. McMahon, but the Chairman instead put Kingston in a handicap match against The Bar, which he ended up losing. Kingston will air his feelings about his treatment by Vince tonight, will he find out why The Boss has something against him going for the title?
Samoa Joe claimed the United States Championship last week, and then hastily arranged a rematch at Fastlane in which he retained the title. But in neither Fatal Four Way Match did he directly defeat the former champion R-Truth, instead defeating Andrade and Rey Mysterio respectively. Truth has challenged Joe to a one-on-one bout for the title tonight, will Truth make his "childhood hero" John Cena proud by winning the title back?
The SmackDown Tag Team division is getting competitive, and tonight, four teams will go at it in an eight man tag - fresh off challenging for the RAW Tag Team Titles, Aleister Black and Ricochet will join forces with the Hardy Boyz to take on The Bar, Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura. Which two teams will come out on top?
Asuka held on to the SmackDown Women's Championship at Fastlane against Mandy Rose, but it took an error by Sonya Deville for that to happen. Rose wasn't happy with her best friend over what went down - will Fire And Desire make amends, and will they go back after Asuka?
Two of SmackDown's biggest female names were absent from their usual trips over to RAW this week, but thanks to Ronda Rousey, both of them will be challenging the Rowdy One for the RAW Women's Championship at WrestleMania - how will Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair react?
All this and much more from 8/7c on USA - and another reminder that in the UK, the show starts at Midnight rather than 1am due to US Daylight Savings.
Then at 10/9c it's 205 Live on the WWE Network, where we're at the semi final stage of the Number One Contenders Tournament for the right to face Buddy Murphy at WrestleMania - it's Drew Gulak vs. Tony Nese, and Cedric Alexander vs. Oney Lorcan. Who moves on to the final?