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When the important holidays arrive, namely Christmas and WWE start of the year, the Stamford-based company usually goes to register the episodes of the weekly tapings in advance, freeing its wrestlers and professionals, who can thus attend the various dinners and Christmas and holiday lunches, staying at home with your family.
Also this year, obviously, the WWE has seen fit to go and record the episode of Friday Night Smackdown which falls on the 24th of December, immediately after this week's episode, going to make it clear to the various fans waiting in the public, what will happen already in a week, in the next episode of the blue show.
If already in the past few hours it's been reported that Sami Zayn has thought about winning the Gauntlet match valid for the No. 1 Contender at the Intercontinental title of Shinsuke Nakamura, now more news arrives on what the WWE recorded in advance and that we will see in less than seven days, but that we can already read well in advance thanks to the company of McMahons.
Latest news on SmackDown
As reported by numerous overseas sources who had information from fans and insiders present at the SmackDown episode just over 24 hours ago, this is the lineup of what would have emerged from the early recordings of the show's episode blue of 24 December: - Sami Zayn wins a 12 Days Christmas Gauntlet match and qualifies for an Intercontinental title match against Shinsuke Nakamura at Day One; - Charlotte Flair beats Toni Storm and defends the Smackdown Women's Championship; - Drew McIntyre and New Day beat Usos and Madcap Moss in a Christmas Eve Street Fight.
McIntyre back Madcap after his Claymore. Obviously, during the evening there were also many promos and segments in the backstage and outside the ring, which the insiders and the fans in the public could not see, because the WWE tried to keep at least those quite secret, with the storylines that will go on like this also in the evening dedicated to Christmas.
WWE SmackDown decided to put two top rivalries of the women's division in one match to kick off the action. Toni Storm teamed up with Sasha Banks to compete in a tag team match against Shotzi and SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair.
Shotzi went after Storm early and dominated her. The latter took down her opponent into the mat as they both targeted each other's arms.