On July 26, 2024, WWE hosted a new episode of Friday Night SmackDown from the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska on FOX.
The show was headlined by a Gauntlet Tag Match to determine the #1 Contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championships. The full results are listed below.
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WWE SmackDown (7/26/2024).
- LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar.
- Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn to appear.
- WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Gauntlet Match: Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) vs. Baron Corbin & Apollo Crews vs. The Good Brothers ("The Big LG" Luke Gallows & "The Machine Gun" Karl Anderson) vs. Pretty Deadly (Kit Wilson & Elton Prince) vs. Legado Del Fantasma (Angel Garza & Berto Carrillo) vs. The Bloodline (Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa).
- "Michin" Mia Yim & Bayley vs. Tiffany Stratton & Nia Jax.
- Cody Rhodes to respond to the Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, & Tonga Loa).
Live Coverage.
- The Bloodline (Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa & Solo Sikoa) met with Nick Aldis and said they would have to forfeit their spot in the Gauntlet match. Sikoa instead responded that Tama Tonga & Jacob Fatu would represent them in the tag match, which Aldis approved.
- Corey Graves & Wade Barrett welcomed the audience to the broadcast before transitioning into the opening match.
- Before his match, LA Knight cut a promo backstage where he promised to teach Santos Escobar some history and would teach Logan Paul how to get his ass kicked. This promo immediately led to his match against Santos Escobar.
- LA Knight def. Santos Escobar (w/ Elektra Lopez) via Pinfall (BFT).
- Logan Paul & Santos Escobar attacked LA Knight after the match, with Paul hitting a Frog Splash on Knight.
- Byron Saxton was interviewing Naomi after Blair Davenport attacked her last week; however, Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair interrupted to motivate Naomi and say she would handle Davenport the same way they would handle Unholy Union (Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn).
- Byron Saxton interviewed United States Champion Logan Paul, who said tonight was a first taste of what was happening to him on WWE SummerSlam. Paul then declared Knight was not ready for him.
- Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill came to the ring to call out Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn to get their titles back. This led to Dawn & Fyre attacking Cargill & Belair, but Belair & Cargill fought them off before Cargill tossed Dawn onto Fyre to the outside.
- There was a video recap of WWE's Tour in Japan.
- Terence Crawford met with The Pride (Montez Ford, Angelo Dawkins & B-Fab) ahead of The Street Profits participating in the Tag Team Gauntlet. Crawford wished them luck and said he would be watching.
- Tiffany Stratton & Nia Jax spoke backstage, where Stratton guaranteed Jax she would never cash in her Money in The Bank briefcase on her and be focused on getting her revenge on Bayley & “Michin” Mia Yim.
- WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Gauntlet - Match #1: Baron Corbin & Apollo Crews def. Legado Del Fantasma (Angel Garza & Berto Carrillo) via Pinfall (End of Days from Corbin on Garza).
- WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Gauntlet - Match #2: Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) (w/ B-Fab) def. Baron Corbin & Apollo Crews via Pinfall (The Revelation).
- WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Gauntlet - Match #3: Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) (w/ B-Fab) def. Pretty Deadly (Kit Wilson & Elton Prince) via Pinfall (Doomsday Blockbuster).
- WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Gauntlet - Match #4: Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) (w/ B-Fab) def. The Good Brothers (Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson) via Pinfall (Schoolboy Roll-Up from Dawkins on Gallows).
- WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Gauntlet - Match #5: The Bloodline (Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga) (w/ Tonga Loa & Solo Sikoa) def. Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) (w/ B-Fab) via Pinfall (Best Moonsault Ever from Fatu on Ford).
- A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory & Grayson Waller) came to the ring and called out Terence Crawford for causing them to lose against Cody Rhodes & Kevin Owens. Crawford confronted them, but Waller said that if he took one step, Theory would knock him out. Theory was about to ask Waller, but that led to Crawford to hit a vicious hook on Theory to knock him out cold.
- Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes cut a promo from a bar, saying he thought his road as champion, but The New Bloodline had made that difficult. Rhodes then called out Solo Sikoa for a confrontation for next week after he returns from the WWE Tour in Japan.
- Byron Saxton interviewed Andrade El Idolo, but they were interrupted by Carmelo Hayes comparing himself to LeBron James; however, Andrade responded by saying he was more like Bronny James. Hayes responded by saying the future was now and it was time to take his spot, to which Andrade responded by challenging him to a match.
- Tiffany Stratton & Nia Jax attacked "Michin" Mia Yim from behind before Bayley made the save. This attack led to the match.
- Tiffany Stratton & Nia Jax def. "Michin" Mia Yim & Bayley via Pinfall (Banzai Drop).
- The Bloodline (Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa & Solo Sikoa) had a vignette backstage, where Sikoa said he would see Cody Rhodes face-to-face next week after The Tongans (Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga) bring the tag titles back to The Bloodline and a day before he takes the title from Rhodes. Sikoa then said that if Roman Reigns had a problem with that, he knew where to find him and he would have to "acknowledge him". The Bloodline put the ones in the sky to end the broadcast.
Look out, @RealLAKnight!
— WWE (@WWE) July 27, 2024
@LoganPaul and @EscobarWWE are...working together?! --
#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/KbnLQqSjpO
.@Jade_Cargill & @BiancaBelairWWE just took out the WWE Tag Team Champions, @wwe_alba and @IslaDawn, in HEELS! ----
— WWE (@WWE) July 27, 2024
#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/lrNQuZjUpM
WHAT A NIGHTMARE!
— WWE (@WWE) July 27, 2024
Jacob Fatu is RELENTLESS! -- #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/0zjdXmPqfc
BRIEFCASE TO THE FACE!
— WWE (@WWE) July 27, 2024
@tiffstrattonwwe always has Nia Jax’s back! -- #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/AEXygWE3SI
— WWE (@WWE) July 27, 2024
Big week ahead for #TheBloodline... can they deliver what they've promised? -- #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/nn6qgw7IZd
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