{"id":119150,"date":"2023-05-18T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=119150"},"modified":"2023-05-19T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:09:18","slug":"preview-wwe-smackdown-wwe-smackdown-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/05\/18\/preview-wwe-smackdown-wwe-smackdown-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE SmackDown Tonight (5\/19\/23) \u2013 Friday Night Smackdown Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is once again almost time for WWE SmackDown<\/strong>! Isn’t 2023 just flying by? It has already been one whole week since last week’s show<\/a>! Yikes. This week’s WWE<\/strong> Friday Night SmackDown card has plenty announced already, so why not just dive right into the preview? Let’s dive right in. We’re diving right in!<\/p>\n

WWE SmackDown Tonight Full Card<\/h2>\n

LA Knight & Rick Boogs Vs. The Street Profits<\/h3>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LA Knight<\/strong> has found a common ally in the guitar virtuoso (depending on who you ask) and former Shinsuke Nakamura<\/strong> ally, Rick Boogs<\/strong>. This week, this makeshift team combines to take on the established team of The Street Profits<\/strong> (Angelo Dawkins<\/strong> & Montez Ford<\/strong>). This has the potential to be a fun match and with Knight now having an ally in his ongoing grudge against the Profits, maybe he can get some kind of payback.<\/p>\n

The Grayson Waller Effect to Premiere<\/h3>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, SmackDown and main roster debutante Grayson Waller<\/strong> has somehow convinced Adam Pearce<\/strong> to let him host his Grayson Waller Effect<\/em> talk show. His first guest is AJ Styles<\/strong>, so this will be a potentially intriguing debut. Styles will be competing against Seth Rollins<\/strong> at Night of Champions<\/em><\/strong> for the World Heavyweight Championship, so there’s plenty to discuss.<\/p>\n

The Brawling Brutes Vs. Pretty Deadly<\/h3>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Butch<\/strong> and Ridge Holland<\/strong> of the Brawling Brutes<\/strong> will square off against the debuting Elton Prince<\/strong> and Kit Wilson<\/strong> of Pretty Deadly<\/strong>. Pretty Deadly, as a fresh tag team on SmackDown, will be looking to immediately send a message to the rest of the tag team division. What better way to do that than by securing an upset over the Brawling Brutes?<\/p>\n

Rey Mysterio & Santos Escobar Vs. The Usos<\/h3>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, this is the first SmackDown since the heavily billed return of Roman Reigns<\/strong> last week, so the Tribal Chief is going to naturally want to see The Usos<\/strong> return to form. In fact, with Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa<\/strong> now teaming to take on Sami Zayn<\/strong> & Kevin Owens<\/strong> for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship at Night of Champions<\/em>, The Usos should have something of a chip on their shoulder. With how the Latino World Order<\/strong> (LWO<\/strong>) recently mocked The Usos’ misfortune, we can expect Jimmy<\/strong> & Jey Uso<\/strong> to fire back this week. Rey Mysterio<\/strong> and Santos Escobar<\/strong> better bring their A game.<\/p>\n

Roman Reigns & Solo Sikoa Come Face-to-Face with Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn on WWE SmackDown<\/h3>\n
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As we just mentioned, Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa – not The Usos – will face Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn for the WWE Undisputed Tag Team Championship at Night of Champions<\/em>. In the eyes of Reigns, Jimmy & Jey have simply had too many chances – now the Tribal Chief needs to take matters into his (and Solo’s) own hands. This Friday, he and Solo come face-t0-face with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn once more. What might this segment bring? Tune into WWE Friday Night SmackDown to find out what happens here and on the rest of the card this Friday on FOX!<\/p>\n

More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n

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It is once again almost time for WWE SmackDown! Isn’t 2023 just flying by? It has already been one whole week since last week’s show! Yikes. This week’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown card has plenty announced already, so why not just dive right into the preview? Let’s dive right in. We’re diving right in! WWE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":119152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[73,7482,886,3041,77,106,8343,153],"class_list":["post-119150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe","tag-kevin-owens","tag-la-knight","tag-rey-mysterio","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-roman-reigns","tag-sami-zayn","tag-solo-sikoa","tag-the-usos"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}