Braun Strowman returned to the ring during a dark match taped at Smackdown after a month and a half out of action.

Strowman was the surprise third man in an impormptu six-man tag match which originally had Finn Balor and JD McDonagh vs Dragon Lee and Rey Mysterio. Carlito kept interfering, which prompted Strowman to come out to even the odds and the match turned into a six-man match.

The monster among men suffered a torn groin during his last monster standing match against Bronson Reed on the September 30 episode of Raw. He later revealed that he felt the tear two minutes after the match started but powered through the rest of the match, which he won.