Featured Columnist IVAugust 3, 2024
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Bloodline members Tama Tonga and Jacob Fatu defeated DIY on Friday evening’s episode of SmackDown to win the WWE Tag Workforce Championships.
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Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa lastly achieved their goals of changing into WWE tag workforce champions by beating A-City Down Beneath on the July 5 episode of SmackDown, however they did not get to take pleasure in it for lengthy.
After DIY beat Austin Idea and Grayson Waller in a rematch on the July 12 SmackDown, basic supervisor Nick Aldis moved rapidly to seek out new challengers for the champs.
On the July 26 version of SmackDown, a gauntlet match was held to find out the No. 1 contenders for the WWE Tag Workforce Championships with six of the blue manufacturers prime tandems competing.
It initially appeared as if The Bloodline wouldn’t be concerned since Tonga Loa suffered an eye fixed harm throughout a brawl with Kevin Owens, however Fatu stepped up and established himself as Tama Tonga’s associate.
The Avenue Earnings had a formidable efficiency within the gauntlet, outlasting the likes of Legado del Fantasma, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, Baron Corbin and Apollo Crews, and Fairly Lethal, however The Bloodline had the good thing about being the final entrants.
Fatu and Tonga took benefit of that distinction, beating the weary Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins to earn a title alternative.
With that, Aldis made DIY vs. The Bloodline official for the go-home episode of SmackDown one evening earlier than SummerSlam.
DIY have been the clear sentimental favorites Friday evening since SmackDown passed off in Gargano’s hometown of Cleveland, that means it was basically a street recreation for Fatu and Tonga.
Regardless of that, The Bloodline rose to the event by profitable the WWE tag workforce titles and ending DIY’s reign after lower than a month.
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