Several changes were made to Friday night’s post-WWE SmackDown dark matches.
Fightful Select is reporting that the original plan for Friday’s post-show dark matches would have seen Sami Zayn face off against Ludwig Kaiser and GUNTHER defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Jay Uso and Damian Priest.
Instead, Zayn faced off against Santos Escobar with Legado Del Fantasma in his corner, while GUNTHER took on Jey Uso in a match that saw Ludwig Kaiser and Damian Priest get involved. A tag team match of Priest and Uso vs. GUNTHER and Kaiser followed that match.
It was said that the changes were made to simply send the crowd home happy.
In other news, New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the updated lineup for Capital Collision, which takes place on August 30th in Washington, DC.
You can check out the updated lineup for NJPW Capital Collision 2024 below:
* NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship Match: Mercedes Moné vs. Momo Watanabe
* NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship Match: Gabe Kidd vs. Lio Rush
* NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championship Match: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls vs. Virus & Hechicero
* NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team #1 Contenders Match: Bad Dude Tito & Robbie Eagles vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Grizzled Young Veterans
* STRONG Survivor Match: Matt Vandagriff vs. Allan Breeze
* Hiromu Takahashi vs. Mustafa Ali
* Tetsuya Naito vs. TJP
* Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Titan
* Dirty Work vs. West Coast Wrecking Crew
* Kevin Knight, Rocky Romero & YOSHI-HASHI vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs
* E Nexus V (HANAKO & Mina Shirakawa) vs. Viva Van & Trish Adora
The full card is set for #njcapital August 30!
Watanabe vs Moné in the main event!
Full preview: https://t.co/ztUVJXDZHq
Tickets:https://t.co/etMc1Ic7X4
LIVE on @njpwworld PPV!#njpw pic.twitter.com/y6bLrT0PRq
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) August 19, 2024
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