‘Twas the night before Money in the Bank, and all through the house … er, Footprint Center, not a creature was stirring, except for six of the women in the women’s ladder match on Saturday. Yep, one of tonight’s announced matches for SmackDown is a six-woman tag team match with all but one of the women who will be battling for the briefcase Saturday night.
The one who isn’t in this bout? Why, Becky Lynch, of course. Probably figures she’s above such things. In any way, it should be interesting, especially since not really any of the women involved are heels. Does Shotzi count? And perhaps it remains to be seen with Lacey Evans, but WWE sure seems to have positioned her as a face so far.
Fightful Select reports that we’ll find out who the last combatant in the men’s ladder match is as well, considering there is still one spot remaining. The original plan was to have it up for grabs between Ezekiel and Kevin Owens on Raw, but when K.O. was forced to miss the show, that obviously changed things.
The other match that WWE has promoted for this episode of SmackDown is New Day vs. Viking Raiders. The Raiders returned to WWE programming last week and left zero doubts that they’d be heels this time around when they destroyed New Day and Shanky … and to mess up the old Don Henley song, all they wanted to do was dance. We’re guessing there will be no dancing tonight as Erik and Ivar look to reacquaint themselves with the WWE Universe.
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