Throughout this week’s pre-filmed episode of “WWE SmackDown,” WWE confirmed {that a} new match has been added to the King and Queen Of The Ring premium stay occasion lineup. Particularly, Jade Cargill and Bianca Belair will defend the WWE Ladies’s Tag Workforce Championships in a pre-show bout in opposition to Candie LeRae and Indi Hartwell. With the King and Queen Of The Ring PLE going down in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, its pre-show programming will start at 11AM EST.
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For Belair and Cargill, it will mark their first protection after defeating The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) to seize the WWE Ladies’s Tag Workforce Championships at WWE Backlash earlier this month. For LeRae and Hartwell, WWE King and Queen of the Ring marks their first title shot because the 2024 Elimination Chamber kickoff present, once they unsuccessfully challenged The Kabuki Warriors.
Earlier than she and Cargill defend the WWE Ladies’s Tag Workforce Championships, Belair confronted “The Irresistible Drive” Nia Jax within the semi-finals of the Queen of the Ring match on “SmackDown,” the place the winner would go on to battle Lyra Valkyria within the respective finals at tomorrow’s eponymous premium stay occasion. WWE followers primarily based in the US will see the outcomes of this Belair-Jax semi-final matchup when “SmackDown” airs in its normal time slot (8pm EST/ 7pm CST) on FOX later tonight.Â
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Elsewhere on the “SmackDown” card, Randy Orton will tackle The Bloodline’s Tama Tonga within the semi-finals of the King of the Ring match. The victor in that match will then meet “The Ring Normal” GUNTHER in tomorrow’s finals.
