– Fightful Select has details on the producers and writers for last Friday’s WWE SmackDown and Speed TV tapings. Here are the producers for last Friday’s episode:
* Nick Aldis produced a dark match featuring Apollo Crews vs. Giovanni Vinci.
* Nick Aldis also produced a WWE Speed match featuring Dragon Lee vs. Akira Tozawa.
* Petey Williams produced Bayley vs. Candice LeRae.
* Jamie Noble produced the Randy Orton and Kevin Owens segment.
* DIY vs. Pretty Deadly was produced by Shane Helms.
* Jason Jordan produced Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill vs. Nia Jax and Tiffany Stratton.
* Robert Roode produced The Motor City Machine Guns vs. A-Town Down Under.
* The Solo Sikoa ceremony segment was produced by Jamie Noble.
* The six-man tag team dark main event match was produced by Jason Jordan. It featured Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, and Sami Zayn vs. Bron Breakker, Carmelo Hayes, and Ludwig Kaiser.
– As for the writers for the latest WWE SmackDown, Michael Kirshenbaum with Colin Clark wrote the promo with The OG Bloodline. The Randy Orton and Kevin Owens segment was written by Chad Barbash.
– Fightful Select reports that there were some changes in the dark matches that took place last Friday on WWE SmackDown. WWE originally scheduled dark matches featuring Sami Zayn vs. Ludwig Kaiser and Bron Breakker vs. Jey Uso, with Jason Jordan assigned to produce them. However, the dark matches were ultimately changed to Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, and Sami Zayn vs. Bron Breakker, Carmelo Hayes, and Ludwig Kaiser.
– As noted, Paul Heyman was backstage at the TV taping. Fightful Select notes that this is something that normally happens with SmackDown.
