{"id":61816,"date":"2019-09-17T19:36:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=61816"},"modified":"2019-09-17T19:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:36:54","slug":"big-title-match-announced-for-the-wwe-smackdown-premiere-on-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2019\/09\/17\/big-title-match-announced-for-the-wwe-smackdown-premiere-on-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Big title match announced for the WWE Smackdown premiere on Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-4071574708\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Kingston vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship will be the featured match of Smackdown&#8217;s October 4 premiere on Fox. Lesnar and Paul Heyman made an unadvertised appearance on Tuesday&#8217;s Smackdown to issue the title match challenge, which Kingston accepted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Powell&#8217;s POV:<\/strong><\/span> Lesnar challenging Kingston feels so much fresher than anything the company could have done with Lesnar and the WWE Universal Championship. While nothing is official until the draft is complete, I will be shocked if Lesnar doesn&#8217;t end up on the Smackdown brand.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-641542887\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[107,2169,428,174,101,3028,31],"class_list":["post-61816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsticker","category-wwe_news","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-fox","tag-kofi-kingston","tag-paul-heyman","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-on-fox","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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