New champions showed off their prizes and focused challengers emerged to chase them on the first WWE SmackDown after Backlash.
AJ Styles, Becky Lynch and Heath Slater all had plenty to celebrate on Sunday's pay-per-view. They each won gold that night. Tuesday's SmackDown kicked off each titleholder's reign.
And each time, a rival stepped up with intentions to end it.
In the early stages of building the card for the No Mercy PPV on Oct. 9, the blue brand delivered an up-and-down night. The catalyst for the event's headline bout was stellar. A lot of the rest of the show was sluggish.
Fans got peeks at how the SmackDown roster is set to shift, but it came with mixed results.
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