With John Cena's retirement quickly approaching, WWE used Friday night's episode of SmackDown to begin preparing conflicts for the future of the undisputed WWE championship. Cody

"WWE SmackDown" finished off the company's week in Pittsburgh with some Fourth of July fireworks. This show was all about tag-team action, as it exclusively featured multi-person matches. It feels like quite some time since that occurred, but considering the outcomes, it worked out. Drew McIntyre is back. But in somewhat of a lackluster fashion.

Drew McIntyre and Trish Stratus both returned to SmackDown Friday night to set up major matches for next week's takeover of Atlanta.