MFT Storm SmackDown, Leave Both Sets Of Tag Champions Laid Out

A highly anticipated title-versus-title showdown on SmackDown never reached a finish, as The MFT crashed the party and left both sets of tag team champions flattened.

The Viking Raiders, who hold the AAA Tag Team Championships, squared off against WWE Tag Team Champions Damian Priest and R Truth in a winner-take-all bout with both belts on the line. Before the match could be decided in the ring, The MFT stormed out, prompting the referee to call for a disqualification. WWE legend Haku led the charge alongside his sons Tama Tonga and Talla Tonga, and the trio made quick work of both teams. When the smoke cleared, Tama and Talla stood over the wreckage holding the WWE and AAA Tag Team Championships while Haku looked on approvingly.

The attack had context. Earlier in the broadcast, Haku appeared in a backstage vignette with his sons, delivering a message about never forgetting where they come from — a moment that in hindsight was clearly setting the stage for their destructive arrival later in the show.

The title match itself had been building for weeks after the Viking Raiders called out Priest and R Truth for a champion-versus-champion clash. Priest accepted, though WWE didn’t officially confirm the stipulation — both the WWE and AAA Tag Team Championships on the line — until just hours before SmackDown went on the air. That last-minute confirmation only added to the sense that something unpredictable was in store.

The Viking Raiders have held the AAA Tag Team Championships for 62 days, having won them from Pagano and Psycho Clown at AAA’s Noche de los Grandes in May. Priest and R Truth, meanwhile, captured the WWE Tag Team Championships back in March by defeating Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga — meaning Tama has now been on both sides of this rivalry, first losing the WWE titles and now helping strip both belts from their current holders.

This is the kind of angle that instantly reshapes two tag divisions at once. With The MFT positioning themselves as legitimate threats to gold in both WWE and AAA, the connective tissue between the two promotions’ tag scenes — already unusual given the cross-brand nature of this championship pairing — just got a lot more tangled. Haku’s involvement adds a layer of old-school gravitas to a faction built around Tonga family legacy, and it signals WWE creative wants Tama and Talla positioned as a dominant force rather than just comedy heavies.

The bigger question now is what happens to the two existing championships. A no-contest doesn’t settle anything, so expect Priest and R Truth, along with the Viking Raiders, to look for retribution — possibly setting up a multi-team scramble that pulls The MFT directly into the title picture. Given the cross-promotional stakes with AAA also in play, how WWE chooses to resolve this could say a lot about how seriously the promotion is investing in that AAA relationship going forward.

For now, The MFT have made their statement in the most emphatic way possible, and both tag divisions are left picking up the pieces.

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— False Finish (@FalseFinishHQ) August 1, 2026