As we put together to witness the fallout from SummerSlam happen on tonight’s episode of “WWE SmackDown,” a brand new match has been added to the cardboard. WWE introduced Friday afternoon that Charlotte Aptitude will tackle Asuka in a singles match, six days faraway from their triple menace championship contest eventually Saturday’s premium reside occasion, wherein neither lady emerged triumphant.
That is removed from the primary singles contest between the 2 multi-time former girls’s champions, who met for the primary time at WrestleMania 34, the evening Aptitude ended Asuka’s years-long undefeated streak. Tonight’s “SmackDown” match will, actually, be their thirteenth televised singles encounter. Of the earlier 12 contests, Aptitude has received six (together with one victory by disqualification and one other by count-out) whereas Asuka has received 5 (with one DQ victory). Their most up-to-date encounter, which befell on the June 30 episode of “SmackDown” whereas Asuka was nonetheless WWE Girls’s Champion, led to a no contest because of the interference of Bianca Belair. It was Belair who finally received the SummerSlam triple menace match and the championship — earlier than instantly dropping the title to IYO SKY after the latter cashed in her Cash within the Financial institution briefcase.
Aptitude vs. Asuka joins two different introduced matches — AJ Types vs. Karrion Kross and a United States Championship match between Austin Principle and Santos Escobar — in addition to a phase that may see Jimmy Uso return to “SmackDown” after betraying his brother Jey at SummerSlam, kicking off the most recent chapter within the ongoing saga of The Bloodline.