The February 20 episode of WWE SmackDown took place at the Amerant Bank Arena in Florida. The show featured some important backstage segments and also set up next week’s go-home episode before Elimination Chamber in Chicago. One of those backstage segments involved the rising dominant superstar Oba Femi.
WWE is heading to the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, for the next week’s SmackDown, and one of the potential matches will be none other than Oba Femi vs. The Miz.
Backstage Exchange Leads to Potential Match for Oba Femi
Earlier in today’s episode, Femi dominated Kit Wilson. Before the match, Wilson tried to joke around by reading a funny poem. Femi even seemed amused at first. But when Wilson ended the poem with a shot at him, Femi’s mood changed. He tossed Wilson into the ring, hit two big running uppercuts, and finished him with Fall From Grace for an easy win.
The possible match with The Miz started during a backstage segment. After Femi’s strong performance, the former WWE Champion walked up to him and acted like he wanted to mentor him.
Miz said that Femi is a WrestleMania main event waiting to happen, and as the “locker room leader,” it was his job to guide new talent and offer to “show him the ropes.”
Femi calmly replied, “How about showing me the ropes next week. I’ll go and talk to Aldis about it.”
Miz looked happy at first, but then realized Femi wasn’t asking for advice; he wanted a fight. His facial expression changed as he realized what Femi was going to do. “Wait..why is he talking to Aldis? Wait No! Not a match!” Miz screamed.
The Miz offers his services to Oba Femi backstage
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Oba instead goes to Nick Aldis to get a match with Miz pic.twitter.com/K1AoX6ydYX
The segment once again showed the funny side of Miz and his role of pushing young talents lately.
After vacating the NXT title and joining SmackDown, Femi has been on the rise. At Royal Rumble 2026, he entered at number one, lasted more than 40 minutes, and eliminated five wrestlers.
If the match with Miz becomes official, next week’s SmackDown could kick off an exciting new rivalry heading into Elimination Chamber.
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