What Happened Before And After This Week's SmackDown Live?

Double your SmackDown pleasure. Every week, you’re almost guaranteed to see some good dark matches from WWE. While some of them are going to be repetitive, they’re still matches that are worth seeing at least once. It helps if the match is a solid pairing in the first place, but there is also fun to be had in a match that you haven’t seen before. Both were true in this week’s offerings.

Make sure to check out what happened between the dark matches with our full SmackDown Live results.

According to Wrestlinginc.com, there was a match both before and after this week’s SmackDown Live and 205 Live tapings. Before the show went on the air, the Usos defeated the Bar in a rematch from two weeks ago during the Tag Team Title Tournament, which the Bar won. After the show was over, AJ Styles teamed up with Luke Gallows/Karl Anderson to defeat Samoa Joe/Randy Orton/Shinsuke Nakamura when Styles hit a Styles Clash on Nakamura after about three and a half minutes.

Here’s the original first match.

The Usos vs. The Bar: SmackDown LIVE, July 31, 2018

Opinion: There are some things that work and the pre-show match was one of the things that always will. The Usos vs. the Bar in a power vs. speed match is something that works no matter what they do and the matches are always worth seeing. On the other hand you have three friends getting back together against a big name trio, which is one of those cool matches you only get in situations like this.

Which of these matches interests you more? Do you think the Club will reunite on WWE TV? 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 2003 Monday Night Raw Reviews.

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