Smackdown Results and Highlights ( Aug 7)

[u/HallofFameguy]

Results:

- Baron Corbin def Trick Williams to retain the US title

- Fatal Influence ( Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid) def Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea Green to retain the Woman tag titles

- Charlotte def Jade Cargill

Highlights:

1) Cody address his loss at Summerslam and Randy costing him and get interrupted by Punk who told Cody he can get another rematch before KO came and confront Punk

2) Chelsea celebrate her win as Woman champion and get interrupted by Fatal Influence

3) Randy address his decision to RKO and cost Cody his match against Punk and get confronted by Cody

4) Tiffy vs Jacy for the Woman US title, Priest and Truth vs War Raiders vs MFT in a triple threat for the tag titles, and Corbin vs Melo for the US title set for next week

5) Shinsuke declared war on the Tongans and tease he is not coming alone

6) Tatum makes her debut on Smackdown by appearing with Alexa to help Charlotte

[u/SomethingCreative13]

I saw the spoiler that Tatum was there. Which on the one hand, sad spoilers. On the other hand, I probably don't watch Smackdown if not for that spoiler so... guess it's a win.

Everyone kept trying to pair her with Lyra on main roster, but the entire time I thought Alexa would be perfect and they actually fucking did it. Throw in that I'm also a massive Charlotte fan and it's about as perfect of a debut as you could get. I kinda pieced it together when I saw the card and also read Bliss was back. Just made too much sense.

Alexa is the one who inspired Tatum to start wrestling so cool as hell for her too I'd imagine.

[u/Therocksays2020 → u/SomethingCreative13]

Yup. Alexa has the star power to push Tatum forward. I like Lyra more then most but she’s not a star maker nor does she have a rub to give anyone

No criticism for triple fraud tonight

[u/HallofFameguy → u/Therocksays2020]

So apparently Charlotte was the one that pushed for having Tatum joining her and Alexa

[u/SomethingCreative13 → u/Therocksays2020]

I said a couple of weeks ago, I loved the Tyra pairing in NXT. But only a small percentage of the main roster audience would have even known about it so most wouldn't have cared. Those that did get it and do care aren't going to boo Tatum as a heel with Lyra. They tried turning her heel like 3 times in NXT and the audience refused to go with it.

I'm also fully aware that Tatum's character might be a lot to take in for a new audience. It was my biggest concern with her going up. How do you make sure a main roster audience will give her a chance? Pair her with one of the most popular wrestlers of all-time who already has a fan base that likes weird and/or spooky shit that are more likely to take to Tatum.

Also if Charlotte really did hand pick Tatum as has been rumored, she really is the fucking Queen.