WWE SmackDown Live 23rd August 2016: 5 Points to Note

4: New titles

The new titles were unveiled.

Smackdown finally took a major step forward for its women’s and tag team divisions by their respective debuting titles belts .The tag teams will face each other in a tournament to determine the new champions and the women will face each other in a 6 pack challenge at Backlash to crown the queen of the Blue Brand. Please to note that Becky Lynch is hugely favored. Will be quite apt if she wins this title since she’s the only one of the Four Horsewomen who hasn’t won the NXT Women’s Championship. She came close to winning the Women’s title but that was never to be as well. Nikki Bella is the one being rumoured to be the first woman to hold the belt with a short and transitional reign in the works.

Slater was back on SmackDown and he had to find a tag team partner to be in the tag title tournament and he needs to win the tournament to get a contract. Rhyno finally agreed to be the tag partner.

Now for the championship! Slater is just too entertaining and this has been some great storytelling to invest you in Slater and his quest for that elusive contract.