Spoilers have emerged on matches and segments set to air on the upcoming edition of Friday Night SmackDown, ahead of Crown Jewel.
With Crown Jewel still set to emanate from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, November 7, the the November 6 edition of SmackDown has been pre-taped.
Matches and segments for the show were filmed following the live broadcast of Monday Night Raw, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Many notable names were in action, including CM Punk, Kevin Owens, Damian Priest, and Women’s Tag Team Champions B-Fab & Michin.
Spoilers are on the next page, so only click ahead if you want to know what is planned for this week’s SmackDown episode.
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The SmackDown taping was headlined by a CM Punk vs Kevin Owens No Holds Barred match.
Owens was ultimately victorious, using a chain to defeat Punk in their second ever one-on-one encounter.
Full spoilers for Friday Night SmackDown can be found below (courtesy of F4WOnline‘s Jake Jeremy):
Normal/non-demon Finn Balor lays out the Ring General in their segment
Shinsuke Nakamura def. Tama Tonga
B-Fab and Michin (c) vs Fallon Henley & Lainey Reid ends in DQ/no-contest – Women’s Tag Team Championship
Damian Priest def. Nathan Frazer
– Match is called off after Nathan Frazer gets whacked off the announcer’s table. Priest is declared the winner. Priest attacks Axiom before leaving.
Sami cuts a promo about the Roman Reigns match at Crown Jewel. Jimmy Uso appears to confront him. Uso is unhappy about Zayn attacking Reigns on RAW. Zayn tries to explain to Jimmy why he had to attack Roman. Zayn says that Uso pulled the trigger to kick him out of the Bloodline. Jimmy says at Crown Jewel that Sami will get his ass beat. Sami wants 100% focused Roman at Crown Jewel, and he’ll probably get him.
946 – with Cruz Montana – attack Jimmy Uso. A conflicted Sami Zayn watches and then walks off.
Kevin Owens def. CM Punk
An update recently emerged on CM Punk and Kevin Owens’ absences from the lineup for Crown Jewel, with it previously being speculated that the duo had refused to travel to Saudi Arabia.
Dave Meltzer confirmed that this was NOT the case, stating on Wrestling Observer Radio that this is “absolutely not true”, and that “nobody refused to go”.
Interestingly, CM Punk is set for a major championship match following the filming of his bout against Kevin Owens, and before that match airs on SmackDown.
Punk will challenge for Grayson Waller’s NXT Championship on Wednesday’s NXT episode, a show which will go head-to-head with AEW Dynamite: Blood & Guts.
The likes of John Cena and Cody Rhodes will also appear on that NXT episode, click here for a list of every name confirmed for this show.
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