You can check out some backstage news, notes, and the producers for Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown below, courtesy of Fightful Select:
* Nick Aldis produced the Charlie Dempsey vs. Chad Gable match for WWE Speed.
* Michael Hayes and Jamie Noble produced the Paul Heyman & Cody Rhodes segment. They also produced the Rhodes & Jimmy Uso vs. Tama Tonga & Jacob Fatu match. Michael Kirshenbaum and Cristian Scovell were the writers for the segment. It is said that Scovell typically writes for Rhodes.
* Kenny Dykstra produced the Michin vs. Chelsea Green match.
* Shawn Daivari produced the Los Garza vs. Pretty Deadly match.
* Shane Helms produced the LA Knight vs. Shinsuke Nakamura match.
* Bobby Roode produced the Motor City Machine Guns vs. A-Town Down Under match.
* TJ Wilson produced the Tiffany Stratton segment. He also produced the Bayley vs. Naomi vs. Bianca Belair vs. Nia Jax match. Devyn Prieto and Sondra Lacey wrote the segment.
* WWE VP of Line Producing Brian Fadem sent a thank you to the production team for their work this past week.
* There were a lot of travel issues due to the winter storms and California wildfires.
* WWE is no longer listing those who will get involved in promos on internal rundowns.
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