WWE SmackDown

August 5, 2022
Summary
DateAug 5Total matches5
Men's matches4Women's matches1
Singles matches4Tag Team matches1
Trio Matches0Other Matches0

This episode of SmackDown took place on August 5, 2022 and featured 5 matches on the card.  All of the matches ended by pinfall, submission, or the rules stipulated by the match.  No championships were defended on the card.

The matches featured 16 wrestlers and 2 tag teams, highlighted by Kofi Kingston, Ivar, Erik, Shayna Baszler and Shinsuke Nakamura.

Predictability

100
100
◂40

Unpredictable
(2 of 5 Matches)

Competitions

▾ 3
100
▴ 4
▾ 1
100
▴ 1

More Singles
Usual Tag

Diversity

▾ 3
100
▴ 4
▾ 2
100
▴ 1

More Mens
Less Womens

Balance of Power

100
▴+1 FACES

Faces won the card with 3 wins (of 5 matches).
(Heels won 2 matches)

Matches
Top of the Card
Men's Singles
Kofi Kingston
2-4 (Overall: 7-12-1, Last 5: 2-2-1)
Win Probability: 42.1%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Erik
0-2 (Overall: 7-5-2, Last 5: 4-1)
Win Probability: 57.9%
  • Underdog win! Kofi Kingston won the match with a Wrazzlin win probability of 42.1%!
  • This was the 4th main event singles match of 2022 that Kofi Kingston has participated in.
  • This was the 1st time Kofi Kingston and Erik have competed 1-on-1 in a singles match in WWE.
Men's Tag Team (Squash)
Ivar and Erik
The Viking Raiders
6-3-1 (Last 5: 4-0-1)
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Tommy Gibson and Jim Mulkey
  • With this win, Ivar and Erik have now won 4 tag matches in a row.
Middle of the Card
Women's Singles
Gauntlet Match
Shayna Baszler
2-5 (Overall: 3-10-1, Last 5: 1-4)
Win Probability: 13.8%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Sonya Deville
0-9 (Overall: 0-13, Last 5: 0-5)
Win Probability: 11.5%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Aliyah
3-5-3 (Overall: 3-5-3, Last 5: 0-3-2)
Win Probability: 17.2%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Raquel Rodriguez
5-4 (Overall: 7-5, Last 5: 2-3)
Win Probability: 27.6%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Shotzi Blackheart
2-7 (Overall: 2-8, Last 5: 2-3)
Win Probability: 9.2%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Xia Li
1-4 (Overall: 1-4, Last 5: 1-4)
Win Probability: 13.8%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Natalya
2-8 (Overall: 3-15-1, Last 5: 0-5)
Win Probability: 6.9%
  • Over the past year, Natalya has lost the 4th most number of matches in WWE Women's singles competition (11 losses).
  • Prior to this match it had been 39 days since Shayna Baszler and 39 days since Xia Li had competed in a WWE match.
Men's Singles
Shinsuke Nakamura
5-4 (Overall: 8-7, Last 5: 2-3)
Win Probability: 45.0%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Ludwig Kaiser
1-2 (Overall: 2-2, Last 5: 2-2)
Win Probability: 55.0%
Bottom of the Card
Men's Singles
Ricochet
8-7 (Overall: 8-11, Last 5: 2-3)
Win Probability: 55.6%
━━━━━━━━━━┥   vs   ┝━━━━━━━━━━
Baron Corbin
3-7 (Overall: 4-10-1, Last 5: 1-4)
Win Probability: 44.4%
  • This was the 4th opening singles match of 2022 that Ricochet has participated in.
  • This was the 2nd time Ricochet and Baron Corbin have competed 1-on-1 in a singles match in WWE. The series is tied 1-1. The most recent match was 1180 days ago at Monday Night RAW on May 13, 2019 where Baron Corbin won.
  • With this win, Ricochet has a win percentage at or above 50% (8-7) in 2022 singles matches.
  • Prior to this match it had been 42 days since Ricochet had competed in a WWE match.
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