One For The History Books. Title Change Takes Place On SmackDown Live.

Change things up a bit. This week’s edition of SmackDown Live was a special one with the 1000th episode of the series. The show was focused on nostalgia, along with some storyline advancement as well. With such a big show it was clear that there was going to be something interesting, as tends to be the case on shows like this. That was indeed the case, with some titles changing hands.
This week on SmackDown Live, the Bar defeated New Day to become the new SmackDown Tag Team Champions. The ending of the match saw the Big Show make a surprise appearance to chokeslam Kofi Kingston through the announcers’ table after Kingston broke up a pinfall attempt with feet on the ropes. After the match, Big Show posed with the new champions. This win marks the fifth Tag Team Title reign for the Bar.

How did they win the titles?

The New Day vs. The Bar - SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match: SmackDown 1000, Oct. 16, 2018

Opinion: There’s nothing wrong with the Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff title change for the sake of making a big show seem like something more important. The SmackDown Live tag team division isn’t the strongest in the world anyway so this title change was pretty long overdue The match was certainly entertaining enough and the teams have enough chemistry to make it work. That’s all the match needed to be and it did that just fine.

Do you like the title change? How long will the Bar hold the titles? 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 Smackdown Reviews.

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