WWE Friday Evening SmackDown comes waltzing again into our lives tonight (July 19, 2024) with a reside present emanating from the CHI Well being Heart in Omaha, Nebraska, that includes all the most recent construct to the upcoming SummerSlam premium reside occasion early subsequent month in Cleveland.
Marketed for tonight: Logan Paul returns to the present for a United States championship contract signing towards none apart from LA Knight (YEAH).
Additionally on the cardboard: WWE Champion Cody Rhodes will kick off the present to answer The Bloodline’s beating from final week, Tiffany Stratton squares off with Michin in singles motion, and Andrade and Carmelo Hayes settle their variations after kicking up an argument final week. All that and extra!
Come proper again right here at 8 pm ET when the SmackDown reside weblog kicks off as soon as the present begins on FOX. Will probably be beneath this line right here. (Word: Hyperlinks to unlawful streams are prohibited. Pics and GIFs are allowed.)
WWE SMACKDOWN RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR JULY 19
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The present opens with a recap of final week’s present, and specifically the vicious Bloodline beatdown of Cody Rhodes nad Randy Orton.
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes makes his entrance and will get on the mic.
He says Randy Orton is a good friend however earlier than that he was a mentor. Randy picked him when others discarded him, and he wouldn’t be standing right here as champion with out Orton. So think about his guilt watching this Bloodline put Randy Orton via a desk. Household is just not at all times blood, his track says “Wrestling has multiple royal household” and Randy is household, Randy is his brother.
If he had been right here he wouldn’t need Cody to wax poetic speaking about guilt and disgrace, and as a substitute of speaking about all that he’d somewhat look straight into the digicam and speak to the person accountable, Solo Sikoa. He appeared Solo within the eyes earlier than WrestleMania 39 and advised him he wasn’t prepared, and he paid him again in variety by costing him the very title he’s holding now.
Enter A-City Down Underneath, for some purpose.
Austin Idea says Cody’s spending loads of time speaking concerning the Bloodline however due to him, Jacob Fatu attacked him final week and now his cheek is swollen. Swollen! Cody asks if it wasn’t due to Grayson Waller kneeing him within the face, however Waller prevaricates about Rhodes not being prepared to come clean with his buddy getting damage.
And moreover Cody is why Randy obtained damage. They get within the ring and Rhodes begins swinging! A preventing man at ringside we had been proven throughout Cody’s entrance offers him the chair from underneath his personal butt so Rhodes can ship the heels packing!
Carmelo Hayes is getting a trim backstage and he tells Andrade that he’s going to win tonight, in so many phrases, as we go to interrupt.
Again from business, Cody Rhodes runs into Nick Aldis and asks for a match towards A-City Down Underneath.
Nick insists he discover a tag accomplice, Cody objects that he can deal with them each to ship a message to the Bloodline, however Aldis factors out that if the champ will get damage in a handicap match it’s on his head, and tells Rhodes he has till the top of the evening.
Andrade el Idolo vs. Carmelo Hayes
Quick-paced feeling out, off the ropes, Andrade has the dropdown scouted, bodyscissors pin will get a jackknife, neither go very far! Buying and selling forearms, off the ropes, Hayes clobbers him however el Idolo returns the favor with an enormous boot! Dropkick from Melo, hanging him within the ropes, Fade Away connects and we go to interrupt!
Again from business, Hayes in management, off the ropes, large lariat from Andrade! El Idolo working scorching, nook knees, cowl for 2! Melo with La Mistica for 2 of his personal, Andrade with a moonsault, land on his toes, standing moonsault connects! Again suplex, Hayes lands on his toes, leg kick will get an overhand chop and Carmelo drops him with a knee!
Depraved again elbow… MELO KICKS OUT! Andrade off the highest, countered with the Codebreaker, Hayes goes up high, no person house, roll via, el Idolo swings him round…
Andrade el Idolo wins by pinfall with The Message.
And so we go to interrupt.
Again from business, Bayley and Nia Jax do a sit-down satellite tv for pc interview with Corey Graves.
Nia says she’s not even listening and also you simply want to have a look at her and take a look at Bayley to know you must begin feeling sorry for Bayley as a result of she’s going to place her down like an previous, sick, canine. The Position Mannequin says Jax hasn’t modified in ten years and Nia protests that she must be addressed as Queen Nia.
Bayley says she’ll name her how she likes and Nia is identical heartless lady with an enormous mouth who thinks she owns the place and says Jax took her out of her SummerSlam match years in the past and he or she didn’t damage her as a result of she’s so imply and harsh, however as a result of she’s huge, clumsy, and reckless.
This will get Nia mad and he or she says she’s content material being Queen of the Ring and he or she’s coming for that title as a result of she will get to take it off of Bayley. Bayley has unhealthy information for her, and he or she doesn’t need her to take heed to what persons are saying about how a lot larger she is, and if she’s saying she’s modified a lot, properly so has Bayley, and he or she’s strolling out champion and there’s not a rattling factor Nia can do to cease her.
Jax freaks out and tears her earpiece off and storms out.
We get footage from earlier of Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill arguing with Chelsea Inexperienced and Piper Niven over who will get to speak to Nick Aldis first. Bianca says since they’ll’t determine who goes first they need to settle it within the ring.
Bianca Belair makes her entrance to ship us to interrupt.
Bianca Belair vs. Chelsea Inexperienced
Inexperienced with a slap, Belair returns it, huge German suplex dumps Chelsea on her dome! Handspring moonsault, no person house, charging in, Bianca with the backbreaker rack, Inexperienced slips out, O’Connor roll reversed…
Bianca Belair wins by pinfall with an O’Connor roll.
Submit-match, Alba Fyre and Isla Daybreak seem on the tron and speak about how they’ve all the ability however they’re going to present Bianca and Jade a tiny glimpse subsequent week, however on the subject of a rematch… we’ll see.
LA Knight is proven strolling backstage to ship us to interrupt.
Again from business, common supervisor Nick Aldis is within the ring to preside over a contract signing for america Championship.
The contract has already been signed by him and by LA Knight, so all that’s left is to get the champion’s signature.
Aldis introduces LA Knight and Logan Paul.
Paul says he’s not giving Knight a title shot however LA fires again and says each time they’ve been face-to-face he’s owned and cooked him and he retains making his case however Logan cuts him off and says Knight wants the match however he doesn’t and that’s a truth. He talks about all his extracurriculars and says LA is a gymnasium rat with a twig tan and a catchphrase cosplaying the Rock.
Knight says that’s nothing he hasn’t heard earlier than and he needs to speak about frauds, Logan is out right here pretending to be america Champion however he gained’t signal a contract. He talked about his brother? Jake jumped within the ring with Mike Tyson however Logan doesn’t have the balls to combat him now?
That will get Paul’s dander up and he says he’ll signal the contract and provides him a shot at glory. After SummerSlam, he’ll don’t have anything, and he opens the contract again up and attracts a map to the place LA can stick his desires of being WWE Champion.
Logan shoves him, LA shoves him again, Aldis will get between them nevertheless it doesn’t final and Paul lands an affordable shot! Knight manages to get fingers on him for the BFT however Logan runs away!
We get a hype reel for Tiffany Stratton.
Tiffany Stratton makes her entrance and we go to interrupt.
Again from business, Santos Escobar rolls up on LA Knight and congratulates him on lastly getting his United States Championship match.
Knight asks the place he’s going and Escobar affords a pleasant reminder, everyone is aware of if it was the 2 of them one on one he would have gained. LA says if he needs to get in contact his mother has his quantity, and Santos says a match earlier than his title shot is a foul concept but when he’s desirous to squander his alternative like that, he’ll assist.
