{"id":126272,"date":"2024-08-06T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=126272"},"modified":"2024-08-06T00:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:40:40","slug":"preview-wwe-smackdown-8-9-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/08\/06\/preview-wwe-smackdown-8-9-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE SmackDown (8\/9\/24) &#8211; Fallout from SummerSlam + Roman Reigns Returns to Friday Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>WWE SmackDown<\/strong><\/em> will be a sight to behold as it deals with the fallout from\u00a0<em><strong>SummerSlam<\/strong><\/em>. We saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/08\/03\/andnew-wwe-summerslam-2024-crowns-three-new-champions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">crowning of new champions<\/a> in the form of <strong>LA Knight\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Nia Jax<\/strong>. Plus, the return of the &#8220;Original Tribal Chief&#8221; in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p>On this edition of\u00a0<em><strong>WWE Friday Night SmackDown<\/strong><\/em>, we will see the return of the &#8216;Phenomenal One.&#8217; Plus,\u00a0<strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong> speaks for the first time in almost five months. Let&#8217;s not put this off any further for the\u00a0<strong>WWE<\/strong> Universe. Here&#8217;s a preview of the latest installment of\u00a0<em>WWE SmackDown<\/em>. Let&#8217;s run it down.<\/p>\n<h3>Announced for WWE SmackDown:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Roman Reigns Will Be Appearing Live on WWE SmackDown<\/li>\n<li>AJ Styles Will Be Appearing Live on WWE SmackDown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Day of Reemergence<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ugIz9IhaUho?si=M2NI_5Qtdf-tMfew\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This Friday night, we have two major returns to\u00a0<em>WWE SmackDown<\/em>. First is <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong>. The last time we Styles was when he &#8216;quit&#8221; in his I Quit Match against\u00a0<strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong> for the Undisputed WWE Championship at\u00a0<em><strong>Clash at the Castle: Scotland<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>AJ fought valiantly to secure another World Title reign. Unfortunately, Rhodes was too much for him to handle on that night.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, AJ Styles will return after a nearly two-month layoff to make his presence felt on the Blue brand. What will the &#8216;Phenomenal&#8217; AJ Styles have to say to the WWE Universe?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cIcCBPOyHo?si=QSJPWaHsdnVaioOl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of returns, the biggest star in professional wrestling is back with a vengeance. The last time we saw <strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong>\u00a0was at\u00a0<strong><em>WrestleMania XL<\/em><\/strong>, where he had one of the biggest main events in the history of the &#8216;Showcase of Immortals&#8217; against the very man who made AJ Styles quit, Cody Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>Since he took his sabbatical, the WWE has been in a completely different state, with his now former cohort <strong>Solo Sikoa<\/strong> assuming control of\u00a0<strong>The Bloodline<\/strong> without his consent. As expected, Reigns was not at all happy about this unintentional transfer of power and battered Sikoa to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/08\/03\/roman-reigns-returns-wwe-summerslam-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">end his Undisputed WWE Championship dreams at\u00a0<em>SummerSlam<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With his thoughts out in the open, what is the next step for Roman Reigns? Will he want to wrestle away The Bloodline from Solo Sikoa,\u00a0<strong>Tama Tonga<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Tonga Loa<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Jacob Fatu<\/strong>? Or does he have something else in store for the faction?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gonna be an exciting\u00a0<em>WWE SmackDown<\/em> this Friday night fight night, and you can catch it all unfold only on\u00a0<strong>Fox<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Network<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Peacock<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s\u00a0WWE SmackDown will be a sight to behold as it deals with the fallout from\u00a0SummerSlam. 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On this edition of\u00a0WWE Friday Night SmackDown, we will see the return of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":126275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[6,2192,26,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","category-wrestling","category-smackdown","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126272","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\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}