3 Botches You Probably Missed This Week On SmackDown Live (August 8th)

There were a number of botches this week on SmackDown Live
There were a number of botches this week on SmackDown Live

SummerSlam is right around the corner and the card is now looking stacked since Finn Balor vs Baron Corbin was made official last night on Raw and SmackDown then responded by making Daniel Bryan's match against The Miz official for The Biggest Party of the Summer as well.

This week's SmackDown Live boasted a number of matches that would hopefully progress into much bigger matches at SummerSlam, but there were a number of strange moments throughout the show as the build-up to one of WWE's biggest events of the year intensified.

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The pressure is definitely on and some stars are feeling it much more than others since there were a number of mistakes this week on SmackDown Live that many members of the WWE Universe might not have spotted.


#3. Charlotte's Moonsault

Was that moonsault a botch?
Was that moonsault a botch?

Charlotte Flair has been added to the SmackDown Women's Championship match alongside Carmella and Becky Lynch at SummerSlam and now the two best friends are trying to force themselves to work as a team since they know that one of them could become Champion in less than two weeks time.

Lynch and Charlotte teamed up this week on SmackDown to take on The IIconics and as part of the match there are many members of the WWE Universe who are claiming that Charlotte botched the moonsault since she went straight through the middle of Peyton Royce and Billie Kay and was forced to knock the two women down with her arms.

#2. Where did the audio go?

The SmackDown tech team had a bad night tonight
The SmackDown tech team had a bad night tonight

WWE's technical team usually has a few howlers on live shows, but this week it went a step further when the company obviously forgot that they were supposed to go to an add break and continued to roll some of the matches without any audio.

The longest one was Becky Lynch and Charlotte's match against The IIconics where the action continued for a few minutes before the company finally noticed that they hadn't actually gone to an ad break, so the WWE Universe was forced to watch the action whilst it appeared that the TV was on mute.

#1. Lana and Zelina Vega

Lana and Zelina's match didn't quite go to plan
Lana and Zelina's match didn't quite go to plan

Lana and Zelina Vega faced off again this week on SmackDown Live, but this time Rusev was in Lana's corner but it didn't work out in her favour. Lana and Zelina's match was going well until Rusev was forced to neutralize Andrade 'Cien' Almas at ringside and Zelina then attempted to help her friend by kicking Rusev, a kick that quite obviously missed him completely.

Aiden English then obviously made his way down to the ring to help his friends, but his interference saw Rusev pushed into Lana who was climbing the turnbuckle and she then flipped over into position for Zelina's finisher. Lana completely oversold the hit on the turnbuckle and made the finish to the match look much cheaper than it should have been.

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