{"id":988307,"date":"2026-08-08T05:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/988307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:31:15","slug":"alexa-bliss-returns-tatum-paxley-debuts-on-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/988307\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Bliss returns, Tatum Paxley debuts on SmackDown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rumors initially indicated Charlotte Flair vs. Jade Cargill would be a feud over the women\u2019s championship coming out of SummerSlam. Instead, Chelsea Green won the title and certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/467102\/whats-next-chelsea-green-tiffany-stratton-wwe-smackdown-womens-united-states-championship-jacy-jayne-nia-jax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appears to be<\/a> off to duke it out with Nia Jax. Flair and Cargill, meanwhile, are still fighting amongst themselves, they just aren\u2019t doing it for a championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And it turns out, the headlining segment they were given on Friday Night SmackDown in Philadelphia this week was about more than the two of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Indeed, after putting together a relatively decent television main event match, the two were interrupted by Michin &amp; B-Fab, who interfered to ensure Cargill could get out of the Figure Eight. That\u2019s when we got surprise one \u2014 Alexa Bliss making her return, complete with her doll Lilly. Then the lights went out and when they came back up, we got surprise number two \u2014 Tatum Paxley making her main roster debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Paxley, who spent years working her way up the card in NXT, hit a huge splash from the top rope to Michin &amp; Fab on the outside. Bliss, it should be noted, is still wearing a brace on her arm. Paxley did all the physical work for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After, Bliss, Flair, and Paxley celebrated in the ring to close the show. A new faction? Or just a few friends looking out for each other while giving one hell of a rub to a debuting hopeful?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Get complete SmackDown results and coverage of this week\u2019s entire episode by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/467053\/wwe-smackdown-results-live-discussion-aug-7-2026-kevin-owens-is-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumors initially indicated Charlotte Flair vs. Jade Cargill would be a feud over the women\u2019s championship coming out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":988308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,67,132,68,188,64804,2202],"class_list":["post-988307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-nxt","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117058252951512846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}