Rewind-A-SmackDown 7/31/20: WWE Q2, Mark Rollerball Rocco, SmackDown

Originally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2020/08/01/rewind-a-smackdown-7-31-20-wwe-q2-mark-rollerball-rocco-smackdown/

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John Pollock and Wai Ting review this week’s WWE SmackDown featuring Bayley vs. Nikki Cross for the SD Women’s Championship and AJ Styles vs. Gran Metalik for the Intercontinental Championship.

NEWS OF THE DAY

  • Mark “Rollerball” Rocco passes away
  • WWE Q2 2020 Earnings Report
  • AEW and NXT ratings from this past Wednesday night
  • WWE Payback scheduled for August 30
  • AEW announces the signing of Eddie Kingston
  • NJPW Strong debuts next Friday with New Japan Cup USA tournament

SmackDown featured a rematch for the SmackDown women’s title with Bayley defending against Nikki Cross, as well as an Intercontinental title match between AJ Styles and Gran Metalik. Plus, the return of Otis and Mandy Rose, Big E sets out on his singles run with a match against The Miz, King Corbin enlists Shorty G to go after Matt Riddle and a rematch between Naomi and Lacey Evans.

Plus, your feedback and calls on this live edition of Rewind-A-SmackDown.

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Apparently, Rusev was banned from Twitch because Lana appeared in a bikini.

I think Twitch felt they had to do something about some female streamers just using sex appeal as a way to increase viewers as they didn’t want it to be that sort of platform and also because it made things difficult for regular female streamers who didn’t want to go down that road.

Don’t know if this was a case of “wear a bikini it’ll get more views” or if it was just that she just happened to be in a bikini.

Lana and Rusev are known to like being scantily clad.