Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Women’s World Cup kicks Roman

Reigns & SmackDown to cable

We’re used to AEW programming getting moved around

the television schedule due to the various sports that air on the Turner networks.

It doesn’t happen to WWE as often as it used to

(shout out to anyone else who ever tuned in for Raw and ended up watching more of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show than they ever thought they would),

but it still happens.

These days

it’s usually SmackDown that gets bumped from broadcast to cable when

FOX has something like the World Series or a big college football game on a Friday night

(although the Olympics will be back next summer to mess with Raw).

And it looks like that’s what will happen next week

when the United States plays their first game of the

FIFA Women’s World Cup against Vietnam on July 21.

With Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe & company kicking off

their campaign for a fifth World Cup at 9pm ET

SmackDown will air on FS1 at its regular time.

It’s a move WWE probably isn’t thrilled with

both because its one of the last episodes before SummerSlam,

and because the July 21 show in Orlando is one of the dates Universal champion Roman Reigns is working this month.