{"id":99847,"date":"2021-09-03T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=99847"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:53:15","slug":"wwe-smackdown-roman-reigns-finn-balor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/03\/wwe-smackdown-roman-reigns-finn-balor\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE SmackDown (9\/3\/21) \u2013 Roman Reigns Vs. Finn Balor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it goes without saying that it is Friday once more. Friday Night SmackDown<\/strong> has arrived. In typical WWE<\/strong> fashion, we have just one<\/em> match announced for tonight’s show: a WWE Universal Championship match between Roman Reigns<\/strong> and Finn Balor<\/strong>. We are used to just the one match being announced and, at this point, are experts<\/em> at predicting these cards. Just ignore all the times we have been wrong – like last week, when we thought Brock Lesnar<\/strong> would appear and, in Brock fashion, he no-showed. Thanks, Beast. Anyway, let’s dive in to the preview!<\/p>\n

WWE Universal Championship Match: Roman Reigns (c) Vs. Finn Balor<\/h3>\n

\"Roman<\/p>\n

Whereas big championship changes have happened on SmackDown in the past (think AJ Styles<\/strong> and Jinder Mahal<\/strong>), we can’t see history repeating itself here. In fact, this one might get – to quote an announcer for another<\/em> wrestling promotion – “bowling shoe ugly”. Finn Balor was originally penciled (within storyline) in to be Roman Reigns’ opponent at SummerSlam 2021<\/em><\/strong>. You may remember that, during his contract signing, he was attacked by the increasingly desperate Baron Corbin<\/strong>, who was then attacked by John Cena<\/strong> – who went on to sign the contract in Balor’s absence. The man was robbed, plain and simple. Whereas he has a chance to rectify things tonight, it is unlikely; Roman Reigns and The Bloodline<\/strong> (Paul Heyman<\/strong>, Jimmy<\/strong> and Jey Uso<\/strong>)will see to that. The next PPV is Extreme Rules<\/strong><\/em> and with Brock Lesnar likely to be facing Reigns at the upcoming Saudi Crown Jewel<\/em><\/strong> event, Balor might just carry this feud on until Extreme Rules<\/em> on September 26th. Expect Reigns to retain tonight but under questionable, feud prolonging circumstances.<\/p>\n

Not Announced But Expected For Tonight’s SmackDown<\/h3>\n

\"Sasha<\/p>\n

– Sasha Banks<\/strong> is locally advertised for the show. Could we see her return, after her title shot was given to new SmackDown Women’s Champion, Becky Lynch<\/strong>, at SummerSlam<\/em>? Regardless, expect Bianca Belair<\/strong> and the seemingly heel Becky to continue their feud.<\/p>\n

– Happy Baron Corbin<\/strong> is here! Rejoice! Will he be continuing his feud with Big E<\/strong>? The newly minted former King was trying out his newfound luck to purchase Big E’s Money in the Bank<\/em><\/strong> briefcase. Could his attempts continue tonight?<\/p>\n

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Well, it goes without saying that it is Friday once more. Friday Night SmackDown has arrived. In typical WWE fashion, we have just one match announced for tonight’s show: a WWE Universal Championship match between Roman Reigns and Finn Balor. We are used to just the one match being announced and, at this point, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":99848,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[359,163,1445,552,111,77,159],"class_list":["post-99847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe","tag-baron-corbin","tag-becky-lynch","tag-bianca-belair","tag-big-e","tag-finn-balor","tag-roman-reigns","tag-sasha-banks"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99847","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=99847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}