Moving ahead of Money in the Bank, WWE Smackdown will solely focus on the biggest party of the summer. To start the builds for Summerslam, the top champion in the WWE will be on his show to comment on his scheduled title defense. The former Smackdown Women’s Champion will also be there alongside the Maximum Male Models members on the show that takes place at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
During the June 17 episode of WWE SmackDown, Brock Lesnar made his return to WWE programming for the first time since Wrestlemania 38 and attacked Roman Reigns following the champion’s successful Undisputed WWE Universal Championship defense against Riddle. Lesnar stood tall after downing The Bloodline with three F5s.
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After this, WWE officially announced that Lesnar vs. Reigns will take place at Summerslam 2022 in a Last Man Standing match with the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship hanging in the balance. Previously, Reigns defeated Lesnar in the main event of night two of WrestleMania 38 to unify the WWE and Universal Title.
Over on Raw, it was announced that Roman Reigns will be heading back to WWE Smackdown, this week to hype up his Last Man Standing match against Brock Lesnar. No update is there on what the exact plan is around the top champion but this will be the first time that we will be hearing from The Tribal Chief.
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Apart from Reigns, it was also mentioned that Ronda Rousey will be there on the show to address newly-crowned WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Liv Morgan during this week’s episode.
As seen at Money in the Bank 2022, Morgan defeated Becky Lynch, Asuka, Raquel Rodriguez, Alexa Bliss, Shotzi, and Lacey Evans to win the 2022 Women’s Money In The Bank ladder match. Later that night, Rousey defeated Natalya via submission to retain the SmackDown Women’s Title. Morgan ran out to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank briefcase.
Taking advantage of the hurt leg of Rousey, Liv kicked at those to get herself out of the ankle lock and then rolled up the former champion to secure a clean pinfall win and become the new WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion.
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Now, WWE has been advertising Rousey to appear on the blue brand for a TV appearance where she will comment on her title loss at Money in the Bank. Also, a program with Liv Morgan is likely to begin as Rousey will look forward to getting back her championship, probably in a rematch at Summerslam.
Last week’s WWE Smackdown also witnessed the debut of Max Durpi’s Maximum Male Models. Mace and Mansoor, now pronounced as mån.sôör and ma.cé. Under the management of Max Dupri (formerly LA Knight from NXT). Both men came out to pose for the cameras and their tantrums will continue as they will unveil their 2022 tennis wear collection in the post Money in the Bank episode.