Smackdown general manager arranged a tag team tournament on the show as Summerslam passed by. The New Day became the new tag team champions on the blue brand defeating the Bludgeon Brothers. They needed new challengers for the titles to defend at Hell in a Cell. So Paige chose six tag teams to give them a chance for the title shot.
They competed in this elimination kind of tournament on the last couple of weeks on Smackdown Live. The Bar was the first team to advance to the finals. They overcame the resistance of Gallows-Anderson and The Colons. Rusev Day became the second team to join the Bar. They defeated The Usos and SAnitY, last week setting up the final contender’s match.
Fans were in favor of the Rusev Day to get a shot on Smackdown for the tag team titles. But the Bar was the favorite one to go to Hell in a Cell as per the upcoming booking. The New Day is all ready to take on them at the Super Show Down event. This indicates that they are going into a feud for the next several weeks.
The tag team tournament finale on Smackdown started on this note, last night. The New Day came out to do commentary and entertain the fans during this tag team matchup. Rusev and Cesaro started things off in this match. The latter one picked up the momentums with a headlock. The scene continued until Sheamus got the tag.
He also tried to out Rusev down with headlocks. Meanwhile, Rusev delivered a big boot on Sheamus to tag in with Aiden English. He hit a swinging neckbreaker on Sheamus but failed to get the pinfall win. English also planted Sheamus with a DDT but a chaos broke out inside the ring. Sheamus gave a vicious knee on Aiden to take control of the match.
The two heels were in firm control of the matchup having Rusev in their grabs. They kicked Rusev out of the ring to keep things in their favor. English did a wise thing by digesting a Brogue Kick from Sheamus giving free space to Rusev. He delivered the Machka Kick on Sheamus from the back to pick up the big win on the show.
With that being said, Rusev Day is now the new number one contenders for Smackdown tag team championship. They will challenge The New Day in the title match at Hell in a Cell PPV. It was a wise decision by the creative team to let Rusev get a chance to compete in a PPV title match. But chances are relatively low of their win as the New Day has just won the title at Summerslam.