Disclaimer: The below contains spoilers for the WWE Tag Team Championship match on SmackDown, which aired live at 3PM ET. Read at your own risk.
People like to say there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and insert whatever thing they are trying to make a point about here. Well, in WWE, there used to be guarantees as well and one of them was infrequency of title changes between February and April, aka the Road to WrestleMania. Once cards were set, they were set and the road was all about building those matches for the Showcase of the Immortals. But the Triple H era has thrown that on its head as the new guarantee is that in 2025, titles will change hands before ‘Mania, and they will do so quite frequently. Perhaps no title is safe as we’ve already seen the women’s championship, women’s tag team championship, and men’s United States championship all change hands in recent weeks. And on Friday’s SmackDown, we can add one of the men’s tag team championships to that list as well.
AndNEW: Street Profits Bring the Swag to Defeat #DIY for WWE Tag Team Championship
SmackDown’s tag team division is all over the place, messy in the best kind of way. Things all came to a head a few weeks ago when a massive brawl erupted involving all of the key players. After that, the Street Profits won a match to become the new number one contenders to #DIY’s titles. Pretty Deadly won a match to become the contenders after that.
On Friday in Spain, the Profits got their turn and they did not let it go to waste. The newly focused Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford had one thing on their mind and it was winning the gold. The two utilized precision and their tag team acumen to get it done, in a match that was a great showcase for all four men and both teams involved. The end came when Dawkins was able to escape Meet in the Middle, leaving Johnny Gargano to accidentally superkick Tommaso Ciampa instead. Let’s hope Ciampa, being the reasonable man he is, lets this one go…Anywho, the move left Gargano dazed at what he did to his partner and Ciampa down for the count. Dawkins took advantage and after taking down Gargano, made the tag to Ford who hit his Seven Stars Splash to pin Ciampa for the victory.
The Street Profits are back on top, but for how long? Earlier in the night, the Motor City Machine Guns talked up to #DIY saying they still had unfinished business and before the match, we saw Pretty Deadly watching the action on the monitors. They are up next and while ordinarily, it would seem all too unlikely that these titles change hands again, Pretty Deadly may get their opportunity in London, their hometown. And if the goal is to hot potato these titles into some sort of chaotic multi-tag ladder match or what have you at WrestleMania, the idea of Pretty Deadly getting the win during their title match seems, dare I say, more likely than not.
Street Profits may be bringing the swag but retaining those titles against Pretty Deadly doesn’t seem as in the bag as they probably hope.
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