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SmackDown Live had a mountain to climb this week since the show was streamed live from Miami just hours after a successful Raw Reunion episode that gave WWE its best ratings in 2019.
This week's SmackDown Live continued the build towards next month's SummerSlam event, with Shane McMahon accepting Kevin Owens' challenge for a match, whilst Randy Orton and Kofi Kingston made the decision to collide in Toronto for the WWE Championship.
Bray Wyatt and Finn Balor rehashed their old feud as they also stated that they would face off at SummerSlam, whilst other feuds between the likes of SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley and Ember Moon, as well as the Women's Tag Team Championship picture which, could finally be heating up.
As ever, even though there were a number of talking points from this week's episode, there were also a number of mistakes.
#3 Hmm, this segment didn't make any sense
The Women's Tag Team Championships will obviously be defended at SummerSlam since The IIconics have already stepped into a feud with The Kabuki Warriors, but even though that match is all but announced, WWE has allowed Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville to step into the title picture.
Mandy Rose informed her friend Deville backstage this week on Raw that she had been able to secure them a match next week on SmackDown Live, something which Deville thought was a Women's Tag Team Championship match.
Rather than correcting her friend and informing her that their match next week is non-title and that if they win they will be handed a Women's Tag Team Championship match in the future, Rose continued with her scripted lines and the outcome was a very confusing backstage segment between the two women.
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#2 Tom, there were nine 24/7 Championship changes
It was quite the night in Tampa, Florida, and as part of the Raw Reunion, WWE obviously took advantage of the number of legends in attendance by allowing the 24/7 Championship to change hands an impressive nine times throughout the night.
First Drake Maverick won the title from R-Truth, before he then lost the Championship to Pat Patterson after he was scared by The Boogeyman, then Patterson was pinned by Gerald Brisco, who was later beaten by Kelly Kelly, who was tricked by Candice Michelle with Melina waiting in the wings as a referee.
Michelle was then attacked and forced to tap by Alundra Blayze before she attempted to put the title in the bin, but Ted DiBiase managed to buy it from her. Drake Maverick then popped up in his limousine and stole the title back, before R-Truth was able to pin Maverick once again and leave Florida with the title and the 205 General Manager's wife.
This means that in total there were 9 title changes as part of The Raw Reunion, but Tom Philips wrongly stated this week on SmackDown Live that there were just eight.
#1 A strange ending to Apollo Crews vs Shinsuke Nakamura
Apollo Crews looks to be the subject of an interesting push on SmackDown Live at present and that continued this week when he was put in a match against Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura. The match was dominated by Crews throughout, but as Champion, Nakamura was able to find a way to come out on top, which means that he's still looking for a challenger at SummerSlam.
The one sour point of this match was the fact that Nakamura was supposed to move out of the way of a splash from Apollo Crews to set up the finish to the match. It appeared that Nakamura forgot that he had to move and Crews actually hit the splash, but The Artist no-sold it and still went on to hit the Kinshasa for the win.
