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FLAIR VS. RHEA & MORE: LIVE NOTES & RESULTS FROM SMACKDOWN AT MSG

We are live at Madison Square Garden for the WWE Super Smackdown taping and will be updating as needed over the course of the taping.  A big thank you to those I ran into tonight at the show.

The show is 100% sold out.  WWE even sold out the upper deck bridge, which they normally do not sell.  This was the biggest crowd for the company inside MSG in a long time.

They are selling an exclusive New York Knicks-branded WWE in New York t-shirt as well as a  "The Man is Back in New York" t-shirt for Becky Lynch.  The former is an exclusive here in MSG that will not be sold online by the company.

The taping opened with a long music video of WWE highlights ending with a "Welcome Back" message.

The opening match is WWE Raw Women's Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley.  This was a very good Back and forth bout including some fighting on the floor. Ripley went for Riptide but Flai reversed into a inverted DDT.  Ripley nailed a delayed vertical suplex.  Flair scored the submission with the Figure 8 clean in the center.  Quality bout.  WWE only taped it with their hard cameras.

WWE then introduced the announcing team, Michael Cole and Pat McAfee.

Smackdown live is coming up.  Richard Trionfo will cover that aspect of the evening.

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