{"id":880602,"date":"2026-09-05T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880602\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:28:12","slug":"wwe-smackdown-winners-live-grades-reaction-and-highlights-before-sunday-nights-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880602\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE SmackDown Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights Before Sunday Night&#8217;s Main Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Gunther tried to open the show with a promo, but he was quickly interrupted by Sami Zayn. Finn Balor joined, and so did Kevin Owens. This led to KO chasing Zayn out of the building while Balor sent Gunther out of the ring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The first match of the night saw Flair and Paxley take on Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid in a non-title match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">This was a pretty energetic match. It might not have had much structure, but it allowed Paxley to shine in her first real outing on the main roster. Her crossbody from the ring post to the floor was an especially memorable moment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">She ended up scoring the win for her team, which could put them in line for a tag title shot down the line. This wasn&#8217;t bad, but it felt too short. Cargill and The Baddies attacked Flair, Bliss and Paxley after the match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Result:\u00a0Paxley and Flair defeated Henley and Reid<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Notable Moments and Observations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gunther tried to open the show with a promo, but he was quickly interrupted by Sami Zayn. Finn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-880602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}