WWE News: Paige Announces Series Of Matches To Determine #1 Contenders

Last Sunday, SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bludgeon Brothers successfully defended their titles against the reunited Team Hell No at Extreme Rules. It wasn’t all “on the up” however, as Harper and Rowan ambushed their challengers backstage earlier in the evening, which left Kane wounded and Daniel Bryan left to fend for himself against the two monsters for the majority of the match.

Of course, we all know the reason for the angle now was due to Kane having a legitimate injury to his left foot (for more on that go here), meaning Bryan will go back into singles competition with speculation being he will face longtime rival The Miz at SummerSlam on August 19th. So where does this leave the champions?

SmackDown Live General Manager Paige took to Twitter today with the following video, announcing a series of matches to determine the next challengers at SummerSlam:

Finished dog mom responsibilities and got an idea for the tag team division of #SDLive. That’s right, I’m always working for you! pic.twitter.com/4OejvimYkJ

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) July 21, 2018

EA’s Take: Pretty short and to the point by the GM here, not giving us any indication as to who will be involved. Just looking at SmackDown Live’s Tag Team Division, you would have to think The Usos and The Bar are givens. Especially since The Bar has been up to a whole lot of nothing for a few weeks now. As far as I know, Epico Colon is still on the mend which means The Colons are out and after already coming up short in multiple chances last month, I’d say Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are probably out as well. That leaves Rusev Day, The New Day and SAnitY and since Rusev Day seems to have their own little possible breakup angle going, I’d think the way to go here would be New Day and SAnitY to meet in the “finals” to see who goes to SummerSlam. On the other hand, WWE could throw a total curveball.

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