Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano set the perfect trap for the Motor City Machine Guns

It was a night for significant announcements and a major title change Friday on SmackDown.

Michael Cole kicked off the show with an unfortunate update on three Superstars who will be out of action for the foreseeable future after they were injured inside of WarGames this past weekend at Survivor Series.

Chad Gable then made a surprise appearance in his hometown of Minneapolis by interrupting WWE Champion Cody Rhodes.

American Made are currently signed to Monday Night Raw, but that may not be the case for much longer. Gable announced that the transfer window in WWE is opening up for the first time ever ahead of Raw's move to Netflix on January 6.

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The General Managers of Raw, SmackDown and NXT will be discussing potential talent swaps in the weeks leading up to the Netflix debut.

Friday night's main event acted as an appetizer of what may be ahead in the near future as Chad Gable took on The American Nightmare in one-on-one action.

The Motor City Machine Guns put their WWE Tag Team Championships on the line, but not against the team they were expecting to face. Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin fell right into a trap set by DIY and lost their titles because of it.

The semi-finals of the Women's United States Championship tournament are also now set as Miss Money in the Bank Tiffany Stratton kept her history making hopes alive. Here's everything that happened on Friday Night SmackDown:

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