Episode
WWE Friday Night SmackDown: August 21, 2018 (Brooklyn, NY)
Overview
The Bludgeon Brothers and The New Day squared off in a hard-hitting and explosive No Disqualification rematch from SummerSlam with the SmackDown Tag Team Titles on the line. Elsewhere, tempers boiled over further between Daniel Bryan and The Miz in a way that no one could have possibly seen coming.
Details
- Series
- WWE Friday Night SmackDown
- Season
- Season 20
- Episode
- Episode 34
- Air date
- 2018-08-21
- Runtime
- 85 min
Episode context
August 21, 2018 (Brooklyn, NY) is Episode 34 in Season 20 of WWE Friday Night SmackDown. It aired on 2018-08-21. The runtime is 85 min.
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WWE Champion AJ Styles arrived at SmackDown LIVE hoping to break out of his vicious mental cycle caused by Samoa Joe over the past several weeks, but his SummerSlam challenger had one last trick up his sleeve that may have driven The Phenomenal One off the deep end just five days before their title clash at The Biggest Event of Summer.
Episode 35: August 28, 2018 (Toronto, ON)
Charlotte Flair might have repelled the challenge of Carmella in a thrilling SmackDown Women’s Championship main event, but she could not escape an Irish Lass Kicking from her former best friend, Becky Lynch, who challenged The Queen to a title clash at the WWE Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event on Sunday, Sept. 16!
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Episode 36: September 4, 2018 (Detroit, MI)
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Episode 31: July 31, 2018 (Tampa, FL)
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Episode 37: September 11, 2018 (Lafayette, LA)
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Episode 38: September 18, 2018 (Tulsa, OK)
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Episode 29: July 17, 2018 (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
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Episode 39: September 25, 2018 (Denver, CO)
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Episode 28: July 10, 2018 (Manchester, NH)
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Episode 40: October 2, 2018 (Portland, OR)
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