Producers From This Week’s WWE SmackDown Revealed, Backstage Notes (3/10/2023)

The list of producers as well as some backstage news from this week’s WWE SmackDown in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been made available by Fightful Select.

* Jason Jordan & Kenny Dykstra produced the Xavier Woods vs. Sheamus vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Karrion Kross vs. LA Knight match. Dykstra also produced the pre-show dark match between Raquel Rodriguez & Liv Morgan vs. Xia Li & Sonya Deville, while Jordan produced the dark matches of GUNTHER vs. Butch and Bianca Belair vs. Bayley.

* Shane “Hurricane” Helms produced the Rey Mysterio segment with Legado del Fantasma and the subsequent six-man tag team match against The Judgment Day.

* Adam Pearce produced the Braun Strowman & Ricochet vs. The Viking Raiders match.

* Petey Williams produced Charlotte Flair vs. Shotzi and the Rhea Ripley promo. The Ripley/Flair portion turned out to be different than intended but it’s unknown how.

* Michael Hayes produced the main event segment featuring The Usos, Cody Rhodes & Sami Zayn.

* Kofi Kingston was absent following his injury last week.

* A number of RAW wrestlers are expected to appear on SmackDown leading up to WrestleMania 39.

* The show was the highest-grossing episode of WWE SmackDown in Pittsburgh, PA in WWE history.