WWE: One New Match & New Segments Announced for 7/19 SmackDown Show, Ludwig Kaiser on His Broken Ribs Injury, Money in the Bank 2024 PPV Buys Update

Jul 19, 2024

One New Match & New Segments Announced for Friday’s WWE SmackDown Show

WWE announced one new match and two new segments for tonight’s WWE SmackDown show in Omaha, Nebraska.

In regards to the new match, this was announced to be a singles match of Tiffany Stratton vs. Michin.

In regards to the new segments, the first new segment announced was a Cody Rhodes promo segment to kick off the show.

The second new segment announced was an United States Championship match contract signing segment with LA Knight and Logan Paul.

.@RealNickAldis previews everything you need to know for tonight's #SmackDown including @CodyRhodes kicking off the show LIVE from Omaha!

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— WWE (@WWE) July 19, 2024

Current card for July 19th WWE SmackDown show:

Carmelo Hayes vs. Andrade
Tiffany Stratton vs. Michin
Cody Rhodes to speak
LA Knight & Logan Pail WWE United States Championship match contract signing

Ludwig Kaiser Broken Ribs Injury Status Update

As noted before, Ludwig Kaiser has been out of action for WWE since this past June due to him suffering a broken ribs injury.

Metro UK held a recent interview with Kaiser. One of the topics discussed included Kaiser’s thoughts about the process that led to his broken ribs injury and working through the injury to finish his match against Bron Breakker.

“It was one of the rougher weekends, it was a dark [match] on Friday on SmackDown, the next two days I did live matches and then the Raw match.I was a little banged up before, I had a little bit of a problem with my rib before. And yeah, very, very early in the match – actually, I think like the first minute or the second, I landed, and I felt right away that my rib was broken. I couldn’t breathe anymore really, couldn’t really move anymore. Yeah, that was the situation.”

WWE Money in the Bank 2024 PPV Buys Update

WWE’s Money in the Bank 2024 event earlier this month reportedly generated around 6,900 pay-per-view buys based on updated late buys purchases, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that Money in the Bank 2024’s PPV buys are currently up 53.6% compared to this past June’s Clash at the Castle 2024 event based on the same number of days after the event.