4 Ups & 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (July 25)
3. Celebrations? Not Tonight
We didn’t get much from SmackDown’s tag team division last night. Breezango were nowhere to be found after seemingly solving their ongoing case at Battleground, and there were no big matches. We were supposed to get a victory celebration from The New Day, who became champions at Battleground, but The Usos weren’t having it.
Jimmy and Jey attacked the popular trio during their entrance. They beat the tar out of their foes, with Kofi Kingston taking the brunt of it after being tossed into the LED board, then dragged to the ring. Big E tried to save him, but ate a superkick for his troubles, completing the former champs’ revenge.
The “new champions’ victory speech” is an overused WWE cliché, so it was good to see the company flip it on its head this time. These things inevitably end with the champs’ promo being interrupted by their enemies, but the company accomplished the same end result in a fraction of the time here. The Usos couldn’t wait to get their hands on The New Day, trashed them as soon as they hit the stage, and created SmackDown’s most time-efficient segment.