— William Regal spoke with Daily Record about Drew McIntyre’s WWE return. Regal said of McIntyre, “You can only do so much for so long. Drew came into the WWE very young, he did quite a lot of stuff, but he had to reinvent himself. He completely changed the game for himself and a lot of other people. Every company he went to, he made the company better by him being there.”
— American Alpha, Tye Dillinger, Luke Harper and Mojo Rawley defeated The Colons, The Ascension and Aiden English in the pre-SmackDown Live! dark match.
— Tom Phillips confirmed last night on SmackDown Live! that the show will feature picture in picture commercial breaks going forward.
— Erick Rowan posted the following video to his Twitter account as SmackDown Live! came on the air last night: