— With tonight’s Smackdown undergoing a major shakeup due to travel issues for talent leaving Saudi Arabia yesterday, WWE has announced a Smackdown women’s title match with Bayley defending her belt against Nikki Cross.
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— Additionally, it appears as if WWE is flying in several NXT talent to Buffalo – the site of tonight’s Friday Night Smackdown. The show figures to heavily feature the women’s division and probably NXT as only a handful of regular roster talent are available, basically those who never went to Saudi Arabia. Brock Lesnar is perhaps the one exception as he was able to make it back to North America on his private jet, but it’s not known if he was even booked for Smackdown and if he wasn’t originally, if WWE will change things to have him there.
— Most of the talent and production crew were not expected to even leave Saudi Arabia until this afternoon and it is a roughly 12-13 hour flight.