WWE has announced the first match for next week’s episode of SmackDown Live.
Rusev and Aiden English will take on The Bar as part of the mini-tournament to determine the new #1 contenders for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles.
As seen on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live in Detroit, MI at the Little Caesars Arena on the USA Network, Rusev Day beat The Usos and Sanity to advance while last week, The Bar (Sheamus & Cesaro) beat Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and The Colons.
The winners of next week’s match will challenge The New Day for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles at the upcoming Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event that goes down on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in San Antonio, Texas at the AT&T Center and will air on the WWE Network.
WWE holds next week’s show in Lafayette, LA at the Cajundome. As of this writing, no other matches for SmackDown has been announced.
The New Day won the titles from The Bludgeon Brothers (Luke Harper & Erick Rowan) on an August episode of SmackDown Live in Brooklyn, NY. The reason for the title change is due to Rowan suffering an injury at SummerSlam and having to undergo surgery to fix it.