WWE Confirms Change to Women’s Tag Title Tournament Match For Smackdown

It is official: Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark are out of their WWE Women’s Tag Title Tournament match tonight, and Toxic Attraction are in their place. As reported earlier today, Stark is suffering from an injury after her match at NXT Heatwave and Lyons is said to not be at Smackdown. In a video posted to Twitter, Shawn Michaels announced that Stark suffered an injury and Lyons is “medically unavailable.” As a result, Gigi Dolan and Jacy Jayne will compete against Sonya Deville and Natalya on tonight’s Smackdown in the quarterfinal match.

PWInsider has a few more details on Lyons, noting that the wording of the NXT star being “medically unavailable” is correct but that she is not injured and that an injury didn’t result in her being pulled from the match. The decision was made yesterday to have Lyons not travel in and to use Toxic Attraction instead.

An update on the @WWE #WomensTagTitles tournament for this evening at #Smackdown. pic.twitter.com/6lHX5OPUY4

— Shawn Michaels (@ShawnMichaels) August 19, 2022

BREAKING: As announced by @ShawnMichaels, #ToxicAttraction's @gigidolin_wwe & @jacyjaynewwe will battle @NatbyNature & @SonyaDevilleWWE in the WWE Women’s Tag Team Title Tournament tonight on #SmackDown! pic.twitter.com/06veMgnbvh

— WWE (@WWE) August 19, 2022