{"id":70405,"date":"2020-06-11T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=70405"},"modified":"2020-06-11T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:18:52","slug":"preview-friday-night-smackdown-6-12-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/11\/preview-friday-night-smackdown-6-12-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Friday Night SmackDown (6\/12\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again.\u00a0 As the weeks continue to fly by, these Friday Night SmackDown<\/strong> shows continue to come quick and fast.\u00a0 The past few weeks have seen WWE<\/strong>‘s blue brand hit a noticeable run of form.\u00a0 Two weeks removed from an excellent-though-controversial episode of SmackDown, which saw real life matters played out on the screen, hopefully this week’s can keep up the pace.\u00a0 Additionally, with NXT<\/strong> and UFC<\/strong> alumni Matt Riddle<\/strong> poised to debut soon, there is much to be excited about.\u00a0 Speaking of things to be excited about, the single segment\/match advertised in advance of this week’s SmackDown promises<\/em> to deliver.\u00a0 Don’t believe me? Take a look.<\/p>\n

WWE Intercontinental Championship: Daniel Bryan vs AJ Styles<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This match was actually recorded a number of weeks ago.\u00a0 With Sami Zayn<\/strong> unable to compete during the on-going COVID-19 epidemic, his Intercontinental Championship was stripped from him.\u00a0 Because of this, over the past month, we have had a tournament to crown a new Intercontinental Champion.\u00a0 Challengers have come and gone, leaving us with just two: Daniel Bryan<\/strong> and AJ Styles<\/strong>.\u00a0 We recently took an in-depth look at this match<\/a>, assessing the two opponents and who we think should win.\u00a0 Accounts from those who were in attendance for the match during recording have cited that it was “brilliant”.\u00a0 A potential Match of the Year contender, it has been claimed.\u00a0 Therefore, it has much hype to live up to.\u00a0 Both Styles and Bryan are two of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time; certainly of the 21st century.\u00a0 If anyone can live up to the hype and deliver a stellar, championship worthy performance under the current circumstances, it’s them.\u00a0 Don’t miss this match on Friday Night SmackDown.<\/p>\n

Expected But Not Announced for SmackDown<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2013 Follow up on\u00a0Jeff Hardy<\/strong>\u2018s feud with Sheamus<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Will King Corbin<\/strong> be looking to avenge his DQ loss to Otis<\/strong> last week?<\/p>\n

\u2013 Will Sasha Banks<\/strong> and Bayley<\/strong> defend their Women’s Tag Team titles?<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to the\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\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.\u00a0<\/em>WWE fan? You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0WWE Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again.\u00a0 As the weeks continue to fly by, these Friday Night SmackDown shows continue to come quick and fast.\u00a0 The past few weeks have seen WWE‘s blue brand hit a noticeable run of form.\u00a0 Two weeks removed from an excellent-though-controversial episode of SmackDown, which saw real life matters played out on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":70298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2,26,3],"tags":[145,255,1775,124,5675,1752,5380,6521,52,47],"class_list":["post-70405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe","tag-aj-styles","tag-braun-strowman","tag-elias","tag-jeff-hardy","tag-king-corbin","tag-mandy-rose","tag-otis","tag-sheamus-daniel-bryan","tag-smackdown","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405","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=70405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}