Sami Zayn has been transferred from Raw to SmackDown.
Solo Sikoa and the MFTs opened Friday’s episode of SmackDown, United States Champion Sikoa bragging how the MFTs took out Zayn on this past Monday’s Raw. Solo then issued a challenge for anyone in the locker room to come out and confront the MFTs. Zayn answered the call. Zayn told Sikoa thank you for what he did on Raw, saying that all he thought about was the World Heavyweight Championship and nothing else. Zayn then told went on to say that now that he is liberated, he is announced that he is newest member of SmackDown and is going to defeat Sikoa for the United States Championship.
Sikoa went after Zayn, as it was a three on one advantage, but Jimmy Uso and former US Champion Jacob Fatu came down to make the save, which then saw SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis come out and make a six-man tag team match for later in the show.