WWE Battleground 2017 Live Results: Highlights, Analysis, and Grades

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SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match
The Usos (c) vs. The New Day

Result: The New Day defeat The Usos via pinfall to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

This is the second PPV installment of The Usos vs. New Day for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. At Money in the Bank, Jimmy and Jey walked away for a countout, so would they do this again?

New Day notably left Big E out of the match, who usually plays a part in the team’s title matches. When he’s out, it usually means Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston take the pin.

The match had a quick, frenetic pace to it when Woods and Kingston hit some quick, high-flying offense. It lasted two minutes, though, as the match went back to the slow, WWE style for most of the rest of the in-ring showing.

Things picked up in the final minutes of the match, with The Usos laying out New Day at ringside, only for Woods to rebound with a big comeback. That was until Woods got superkicked to SummerSlam, getting clocked in his face:

Seriously, how did he survive that?

Well, Woods lived long enough to get the successful pinfall, hitting a flying elbow drop across the ring. It gave New Day the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.

That was a terrific match out of these teams and an awesome way to start Battleground, a show with arguably little anticipation. They had the crowd red-hot for the action, with plenty of near-falls and finishers kicked out of, to add suspense.

For New Day, they became the first-ever tag team to hold the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships. It only added to their legacy, which was grand with the longest-reigning tag title run in WWE history.

Look for a rematch at SummerSlam between these teams. It may not be head-to-head (that could come on SmackDown Live), but in a multi-team bout.