Big Names Involved In Pre And Post SmackDown Live Dark Matches

You have to start well and end better. There’s a lot going on at a WWE TV taping with a bunch of stuff that you don’t see on the broadcasts. With so many people running around and all those things to take care of, sometimes you forget about all the matches you get to see. Most of the time though you get a pair of bonus matches that the TV audience doesn’t get, which was the case on Tuesday.

According to Wrestlinginc.com, there was a dark match both before and after last night’s SmackDown Live tapings. Before the show went on the air, Ricochet and Heavy Machinery teamed up to defeat Sanity. After the show was over, Becky Lynch defeated Charlotte by submission. Lynch and Charlotte were both on SmackDown Live where they brawled as guests on the Kevin Owens Show.

And now, the brawl. Check out Lynch and Charlotte going at it on SmackDown Live:

Opinion: Starting the night off with people like Heavy Machinery and Ricochet is a good idea as you have three people that the fans are going to react to. It lets you get off to a good start and sets things up for the rest of the night. Lynch and Charlotte have one of the most high profile feuds in WWE at the moment and that’s a smart way to wrap up the night, especially after they didn’t wrestle on the show.

Which of these matches sound best? What will these people be doing at WrestleMania? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 2000 Monday Nitro and Thunder Reviews Part 1.

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