WWE Smackdown Announces Champion Vs Champion & Mixed Tag Match For Next Week
May 16, 2020 at 1:47 PM
The cross-brand appearances have now been made legal starting from last night’s episode of Smackdown. It started with none other than The Queen and the reigning NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair.
This appearance will now lead into a huge Champion vs Champion match, next week when she faces the Smackdown Women’s Champion. Apart from this matchup, a huge mixed tag team match having a pay-per-view caliber has also been confirmed for next week’s episode.
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NEXT WEEK it's Champion vs. Champion on #SmackDown!@itsBayleyWWE @MsCharlotteWWE pic.twitter.com/zPusZ5BQjj
— WWE (@WWE) May 16, 2020
As seen on Smackdown, Charlotte Flair came out in street clothes to cut a promo. She called herself the hardest working woman in today’s pro-wrestling business. For the record, she’s working on all three brands because ‘the numbers were crunched’ and apparently ‘people want more Flair’.
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Flair mentioned how FOX took advantage of the Brand-To-Brand Invitation to get her there, last night. She went on putting herself over until the music interrupts and Sasha Banks and SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley came out.
Charlotte Flair mentioned how things have never changed between these two ladies. Sasha Banks made Bayley relevant when she was the NXT Women’s Champion and now Banks is the only reason why Bayley is still the SmackDown Women’s Champion.
She went on to taunt how Banks has become an afterthought, these days. Bayley went irate about Flair triggering their friendship and challenged her into a match.
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The match was later confirmed by WWE for next week’s episode of Smackdown where the brand-invitation will be in effect. Apart from this main-event match, a mixed tag team match will also take place with Otis and Mandy Rose taking on Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville.
This match was originally planned for Money in the Bank that never happened. Otis competed in the men’s MITB ladder match and eventually ended up winning it.
.@otiswwe & @WWE_MandyRose battle @HEELZiggler & @SonyaDevilleWWE NEXT WEEK on #SmackDown! pic.twitter.com/cUgUW9xro4
— WWE (@WWE) May 16, 2020
As for last night’s Smackdown, Otis competed in the main event tag team match to defeat the team of The Miz and John Morrison teaming with WWE Universal Champion Braun Strowman. After the match, Otis and Mandy had a lovey-dovey time together, in the ring.
Their opponents Sonya Deville and Dolph Ziggler were seen in a backstage segment on Smackdown as they promised to humiliate their opponents, next week. Deville predicted that Rose will be barefoot in a trailer, cooking dinner for Otis with a bunch of kids one day. As per her, Rose will never have the skill or mind she does, based on which she plans to ruin Rose’s life. Deville called Rose a b—h again and blew her a kiss to end the segment.