UPDATED: Smackdown Notes, Julia Hart, WWE-Fanatics, ID Deals (Patreon)

Notes

• The Dudley Boyz did a signing for Fanatics before this week’s NXT at the ECW Arena.
  
• Several in AEW are hopeful Julia Hart is on the road to recovery from her injury
  
•  We’re told a number of the WWE ID deals had been worked on for quite some time.
  
• The internal word within WWE is that they are opening up Saturday Night's Main Event tickets to give the show a more retro feel and a 360 environment.
  
• A source at Fanatics was putting over Jey Uso for strong merchandise sales to us recently.
  
• We have a new Discord channel discussing nominations for the Fightful Awards https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-join-102146416
  
• We do not have a traditional Smackdown Scoops Thread tonight, but planned segments are below.
  

Planned segments and notes (not in order)

• The Smackdown roster flew from Europe over to Buffalo yesterday, and are fresh off the European tour.
  
• Motor City Machine Guns on Grayson Waller Effect
  
• Sami Zayn is planned for the show.
  
• Cody Rhodes is advertised for the show.
  
• There is a Tribal Chief Acknowledgement Ceremony that was planned for today.
  
• Paul Heyman is at the show, which isn't a rarity, but is something many fans noticed.
  
• We'll update this as we get more info
  
  Incomplete order:
  

LOODLINE kicks off the show

Bayley vs. Candice LeRae

Randy Orton- Kevin Owens segment

Pre-Smackdown dark match:

Apollo Crews def. Giovanni Vinci

DIY vs. Pretty Deadly

Bianca and Jade vs. Nia and Tiffany

A Town Down Under vs. MCMG

Nick Aldis WOMENS TITLE announcment

MCMG- Street Profits backstage

Solo Sikoa celebratiom

Dark match: Sami zayn vs Ludwig kaiser

Dark: Jey Uso vs. Bron breakker

Speed taping match:

Dragon Lee def Akira Tozawa, becomes Andrade's next challenger for the Speed title.