WWE Friday Night Smackdown results (11/24): Barnett’s review of Damian Priest and Finn Balor vs. The Street Profits for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Titles, Kevin Owens on the Grayson Waller Effect – Pro Wrestling Dot Net

By Jake Barnett, ProWrestling.net Co-Senior Staffer (@barnettjake)

WWE Friday Night Smackdown (Episode 1,267)
Chicago, Illinois at Allstate Arena
Aired live November 24, 2023 on FS1

A video recap went through last week’s story of the formation of the Women’s WarGames match and the teams involved, culminating with Becky Lynch joining as the final member of Bianca and Charlotte’s team in the Main Event segment. Corey Graves returned and joined Kevin Patrick and Michael Cole on commentary. 

A “I Mizzed in my pants” sign was shown in the crowd as the show started. I’m sure some internal conversations will result from that. Becky Lynch’s music hit and she made her entrance with Bianca, Charlotte, and Shotzi. The stage setup is different tonight due to being the same building as Survivor Series tomorrow. The WarGames cage hovered above the ring. A Becky chant broke out and she said it’s been a while since she’s come around to Friday Night Smackdown. 

She addressed the elephant in the room and said she’s teaming with who she’s teaming with because she’d never pass up an opportunity to slap the head off of Damage Ctrl. Bianca spoke up and said it was time for all of them to get their lick back because now they had four members and a solid team. Shotzi screamed at nothing and said that Damage Ctrl had made her unbreakable and she couldn’t wait to unleash her frenzy of madness on them. It was a very manic and insane delivery. 

Charlotte said tomorrow is a new beginning for us (looking at Becky) and said it would be the end of Damage Ctrl. This brought out Bayley, who said she’s never see the day where Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair were back together fighting the good fight. Bayley tried to sow dissent by recalling personal conversations between them where Charlotte and Becky had taken shots at each other behind the others back. She instructed Bianca to be careful what kind of teammates she chose for herself. 

Bayley went on to say that motherhood had made Becky soft, and that Damage Ctrl was the only real team with cohesion heading into Wargames. Charlotte responded that she was out there by herself, and asked where the rest of her squad was. Becky then said she didn’t come to Chicago to talk, she came to fight, and challenged two members of Damage Ctrl to take on her and Charlotte in the Main Event. Bayley accepted and quipped that things would implode faster than she thought.

After the segment concluded the announce team introduced a video package that highlighted the return of Randy Orton. Judgement Day members Damien Priest and Finn Balor made their entrance for the Tag Team Title match with Rhea Ripley…[c]

My Take: A solid opening segment that focused on Charlotte and Becky’s past issues, and Bayley’s overconfidence about the cohesion of her own team. Lots of directions they can go in the Main Event to create problems heading into WarGames for both squads. Shotzi was uh…..not good.

1. Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins “The Street Profits vs. Damien Priest and Finn Balor “Judgement Day” for the WWE Unified Tag Team Championships: Priest and Dawkins started the match. Priest landed a kick to the gut and tagged in Balor. The Profits returned fire with a dropkick off of a blind tag from Montez Ford. Both teams traded offense and made some tags, resulting in Ford and Priest being active in the ring. B-Fab and Bobby Lashley watched the match on a screen backstage. Ford sent Priest to ringside and then splashed Finn Balor on the floor. Priest ran from around the corner and sent Ford flying into the announce table with a body block…[c]

Ford traded strikes with Priest and lost the exchange. Priest tried to follow up with a corner splash, but ate the post instead. Balor was able to tag in, but Ford eluded him and tagged Dawkins soon after. He cleaned up on both men and then tagged in Ford, and they landed a double team Doomsday Blockbuster on Balor for a near fall. Ford and Balor battled inside the ring, and Priest took down Dawkins on the floor. Priest tagged in and landed a double team suplex and leg drop on Ford. Dawkins rushed in to break up the pin. 

Priest attempted a South of Heaven, but Dawkins avoided it. The Profits attempted the revelation, but it went poorly because of Priest’s height. Ford cleared Balor from the ring and went for a top rope splash, but interference from Ripley allowed Balor to recover and push Ford off the ropes. Balor then landed a double stomp from the top rope on Ford and got the win. 

Judgement Day defeated The Street Profits at 9:47

Backstage, Charlotte and Becky got into an argument backstage about their plans for the main event and whether or not they trusted each other. Bianca tried to play peacemaker but it went poorly. Becky got upset when Bianca made it clear that she was the one who told Charlotte to make the call, and left while saying that she was going to go prepare to fight.

My Take: I was hoping for a title change there, but this seemed like the most likely outcome going into WarGames. I think the idea for the main event is that neither team is going to be on the same page, which makes sense given the context.