Why Nia Jax and Logan Paul’s SmackDown Segments Had a Black Screen Explained

Next week, WWE will return to Canada, this time to celebrate a new edition of Money in the Bank, one of the much-awaited WWE paid live events. Fans love to see WWE superstars fight it out for a chance at winning the briefcase. In order to choose the participants for the matchup, the WWE is holding qualifier matchups on the Red and Blue brands. On the women’s side, there have been three qualifiers so far. But on tonight’s edition of Friday Night SmackDown, we had two more.

And the first one was where Tiffany Stratton beat Candice LeRae and Jade Cargill to enter the Money in the Bank ladder match. It was the first of two women’s matches of the night. Jade Cargill was dominating the match. But Stratton took advantage of the interventions of Nia Jax and Indi Hartwell to take the win. Cargill ran after Hartwell, and Stratton took advantage of this to hit the prettiest moonsault ever on LeRae to take the victory by the count of three. While the match was truly a high-adrenaline spectacle, it was ruined by the screen going black for the viewers at home.

The same occurred during Logan Paul‘s appearance on the Blue brand. Many thought that it had to do something to do with the Wyatt Sick6. The sinister faction is known for their hijacking of the shows. However, it seems like it had something to do with FOX instead. So what happened? Well, actually, it was an action done by a kid in the audience that led to the issue.

The finger of doom on Friday Night SmackDown

The issue of the black screen only occurred for the fans in the USA, and that too specifically for the ones watching it on FOX, as it was due to one of the violations of the Fox rules. So what actually happened is that a kid in the front row of the audience decided to flip off WWE superstars Nia Jax and Logan Paul. Something that goes against the rules set by FOX in the $200 million-a-year deal between the network and the WWE.

It isn’t the first time that the WWE has faced such issues. In many segments that WWE has produced on television on both RAW and SmackDown, there have been problems with the choice of words of some superstars or the chants made by the audience in the arenas, since the television network in question censored certain words or phrases by muting the broadcast or even leaving the screen black when there were some fan banners or gestures that were considered inappropriate, like the one mentioned above.

However, this is going to change very soon. Triple H has confirmed on Pat McAfee’s show that WWE will have no censorship issues once it airs on Netflix in January 2025. Outside of the United States and with the exception of a few countries, WWE will broadcast on Netflix each and every one of its shows, including PLE. So this surely would bring a sense of freedom within the WWE creatives as well as the roster. Taking the show back to the days of the attitude era and before, a time many consider to be the golden period of the promotion, What do you think? Should the WWE go back to using expletives on their shows? Let us know in the comments.