WWE Smackdown will host the go-home edition of Elimination Chamber 2023 from the same venue of the pay-per-view, next week. The show to be hosted from Montreal, Canada will come with a stacked lineup. Apart from an Intercontinental Championship match, Ronda Rousey will return to action after almost six weeks while Drew McIntyre and Sheamus will also be in action.
As seen in the main event capacity of this week’s WWE Smackdown, a fatal-4-way match was hosted to determine the next challenger for the Intercontinental Championship. Rey Mysterio, Madcap Moss, Karrion Kross, and Santos Escobar fought in this match for an opportunity against the champion GUNTHER.
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As the champion and his Imperium buddies watched the match from the sky box, Moss, Kross, and Escobar also had companies in the ring in the form of Emma, Scarlett, and Zelina Vega, respectively. The closing moments of the match on WWE Smackdown witnessed Santos Escobar taking out Karrion Kross with a collision. Madcap Moss took advantage of the chaos and hit an elbow drop from the top rope on Rey Mysterio, to secure the win.
After the match, it was announced that Madcap Moss will challenge GUNTHER for the Intercontinental Championship next Friday on WWE SmackDown in Canada. Initially, the match was supposed to go down at Elimination Chamber but the match was preponed, the night prior.
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Plus, Drew McIntyre and Sheamus will take on The Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar) on the same blue brand episode. The two teams have been at war with each other over the past several weeks and it makes sense to pit them against each other in front of the raucous Canadian crowd as they could enjoy a physical fight.
Ronda Rousey returning to action
Also, to the pleasure of the WWE Universe in Canada, Ronda Rousey will return to action on WWE Smackdown after a gap of more than six weeks. She will team up with Shayna Baszler against the team of Shotzi and Natalya. This match was set up after Rousey returned to TV, this week and took out Nattie and Shotzi alongside Baszler.
WWE Smackdown February 17 episode match card
The February 17 episode of WWE Smackdown takes place at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The current match card for the show goes as follows,
– GUNTHER (c) vs. Madcap Moss – Intercontinental Championship Match
– Drew McIntyre & Sheamus vs. The Viking Raiders
– Shotzi and Natalya vs. Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler