{"id":128138,"date":"2021-10-08T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=128138"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:18:11","slug":"wwe-friday-night-smackdown-primer-10-8-season-premiere-king-of-the-ring-and-queens-crown-tournaments-begin-contract-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/08\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown-primer-10-8-season-premiere-king-of-the-ring-and-queens-crown-tournaments-begin-contract-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN PRIMER 10\/8:  Season Premiere, King of the Ring and Queen\u2019s Crown Tournaments Begin, Contract Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1578951298\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>WWE FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN PRIMER<br \/>\nOCTOBER 8, 2021<br \/>\nSAN JOSE, CA. AT THE SAP CENTER<br \/>\nAIRS ON FOX NETWORK, 8:00 p.m. EDT<br \/>\nBY FRANK PETEANI (@FrankPeteani), PWTORCH.COM CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>Announcers: Michael Cole and Pat McAfee<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Match Results, Key Segments and Exclusives from Last Week<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Night one of the Draft took place. See the Raw primer for results. Night two listed below.<\/li>\n<li>Universal Champion Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar had a face to face after round one of the Draft was announced. A brawl ensued with Smackdown Tag Team Champions the Usos getting involved.<\/li>\n<li>Happy Corbin (w\/Madcap Moss) defeated Kevin Owens. Owens was drafted to Raw on night two.<\/li>\n<li>New Smackdown draftee Drew McIntyre said his goal is to go after the Universal Championship.<\/li>\n<li>New Raw draftee Edge appeared, answering Seth Rollins from a week before. Rollins appeared on the Titan Tron and revealed he was at Edge\u2019s house. He made himself at home while Edge ran to the back in a panic and called his wife, Beth Phoenix. Rollins himself is now on Raw.<\/li>\n<li>Carmella vs. Liv Morgan never got started. Carmella wore an ugly mask. Who cares? Both women are now on Raw.<\/li>\n<li>New Smackdown draftees New Day (Kofi Kingston &amp; Xavier Woods) and the Street Profits (Montez Ford &amp; Angelo Dawkins) defeated Dolph Ziggler &amp; Robert Roode and the Alpha Academy (Otis &amp; Chad Gable). All three other teams are now on Raw.<\/li>\n<li>Sasha Banks defeated Bianca Belair. New Smackdown draftee and Raw Women\u2019s Champion (how stupid is that) Charlotte Flair attacked both women after the match. Bianca is now on Raw.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Naomi is happy to be appreciated: SmackDown Exclusive, Oct. 1, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FEu5keJ5fAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hit Row is hyped to be a part of SmackDown: SmackDown Exclusive, Oct. 1, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64HwmF4MX9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Draft Night Two Results<\/h4>\n<h4>New to Smackdown:<\/h4>\n<p>Sheamus<br \/>\nShayna Baszler<br \/>\nXia Li (from NXT)<br \/>\nThe Viking Raiders (Erik &amp; Ivar)<br \/>\nRicochet<br \/>\nHumberto Carrillo &amp; Angel Garza<br \/>\nRidge Holland (from NXT)<br \/>\nJinder Mahal &amp; Shanky<\/p>\n<h4>New to Raw<\/h4>\n<p>Smackdown Women\u2019s Champion Becky Lynch<br \/>\nSeth Rollins<br \/>\nKevin Owens<br \/>\nThe Street Profits (Montez Ford &amp; Angelo Dawkins)<br \/>\nFinn Balor<br \/>\nCarmella<br \/>\nGable Steveson (Olympic Gold Medalist and recent signing)<br \/>\nDolph Ziggler &amp; Robert Roode<br \/>\nLiv Morgan<br \/>\nMia Yim<br \/>\nTamina<br \/>\nTegan Nox<\/p>\n<h4>Arena<\/h4>\n<p>WWE returns to the SAP Center in San Jose, CA. for the first time since February of 2020. The arena opened its doors in 1993 and is hope to the NHL\u2019s San Jose Sharks, who played their first season that year. WWE has been running events here since 1998 beginning with that year\u2019s Royal Rumble, and in terms of PPVs most recently ran the December 2018 TLC event.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s episode of Smackdown is being billed as the \u201cseason premiere,\u201d however the new rosters don\u2019t take effect until October 22, one day after Crown Jewel.<\/p>\n<h4>Advertised Matches &amp; Segments<\/h4>\n<h4>Rey Mysterio vs. Sami Zayn in a King of the Ring Match<\/h4>\n<p>Rey Mysterio will go one-on-one in the first match of the King of the Ring tournament. The tournament, which goes all the way back to the late 1980s and became a PPV in 1993, was announced on Smackdown last week. Happy Corbin who went by Baron Corbin at the time, won the last tournament that took place in 2019 and held the crown until losing it to Shinsuke Nakamura, who is now the Intercontinental Champion and goes by King Nakamura.<\/p>\n<p>Rey and his son Dominik have been involved with Sami Zayn recently with Dominik losing multiple matches. Sami has tried to get in the ear of Dominik recently saying he should listen to himself and not his father as much. Rey and Dominik are on their way to Raw, with Sami remaining on Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p>No other matches have been announced for the tournament as of the posting of this article.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2496342196\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: Call me old fashioned, but if a tournament is coming up, I would like to know the participants and brackets. Yeah, yeah, I know, tournaments don\u2019t bode well for ratings. Well then don\u2019t do a damn tournament then. You have a \u201cnew\u201d king in Nakamura. What\u2019s the point \u2026 oh right, Crown Jewel is on October 21. Never mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Carmella vs. Liv Morgan in a Queens Crown Tournament Match<\/h4>\n<p>Raw-bound Carmella and Liv Morgan will go one-on-one in a Queens Crown match. They were to have a match last week, but Carmella attacked Liv and wore a mask to protect her face. The match never started. WWE didn\u2019t explain why, but, what\u2019s the point. Liv holds a few wins over Carmella around the time of Money in the Bank and she recently paired with Toni Storm to defeat Carmella &amp; Zelina Vega. Toni is remaining on Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Again, no other participants have been announced nor is there a bracket.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: I\u2019d like to be into this, and maybe once it gets started, I\u2019ll be pleasantly surprised, but I\u2019ve seen these women wrestle (it feels like) 100 times and again why can\u2019t they announce the participants and brackets? What\u2019s the mystery? I don\u2019t get it.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Contract Signing: Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, and Sasha Banks sign for Smackdown Women\u2019s Championship Match at Crown Jewel<\/h4>\n<p>Raw-bound Smackdown Women\u2019s Champion Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair (also Raw-bound), and Sasha Banks will make it official and sign the contract for their triple threat match for the title at Crown Jewel. In the short history of going to Saudi Arabia, this will be the third women\u2019s match (maybe it\u2019s the fourth but who really gives a crap) to take place at these shows.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos has ruled the land with these women in the past week. Smackdown-bound Raw Women\u2019s Champion Charlotte Flair attacked both Sasha and Bianca after their match last week with Becky on guest commentary. On Raw, Becky attacked Bianca in her match with Charlotte causing a DQ. Sasha made an appearance on Raw and attacked Becky to close out the show.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: We can only expect chaos tonight folks, what is going to happen? (Eye roll). I\u2019ve previewed these WWE shows for three and a half years and I think they do like one contract signing per month. I\u2019ve probably previewed approximately 30-40 of these things. I get why they like to do them, but when you do them so often, they lose their value. I remember Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant signing the contract for their match at WrestleMania 3, and that felt like a big deal. They did them sporadically through the years and it was cool because you knew something was going to happen and you don\u2019t see it often. Now I legit feel like they do it to fill TV time and create this idea of excitement and unpredictability. When you do it so often, the fans become desensitized because it doesn\u2019t feel special anymore and they know either a table is going to get flipped, there\u2019ll be a slap and a brawl, etc. etc. etc. Maybe it\u2019ll be cool, and the elements are there, but I can\u2019t say I\u2019m waiting with bated breath.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow Frank on Twitter @FrankPeteani. 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