Smackdown live was a decent show that provided a consisted build to extreme rules. Why you may ask? Well i'm gonna tell you what's good, what's ok and what's bad in non chronological order. Now on with the review.
WHAT'S GOOD
Rusev's promo after the opening match
That promo was AMAZING and it's not only because i'm a fan of his ok. But it's because he gave the sense of intensity and seriousness at the same time. It's not fun and games when there's a WWE title feud going on. Now i know some will ask "Where's Aj styles?" Well the champion doesn't have to appear on every show. Kinda like NXT and how they handle their main champion.
Becky lynch is on a roll as of late
Tom Phillips on commentary brought up an interesting observation that becky lynch beat Charlotte clean, beat billie kay (which doesn't mean anything to me) and sonya deville tonight. In other words, becky lynch has momentum and i hope WWE maintains the momentum she's having as of late. If asuka beats carmella at extreme rules then, i would LOVE to see a match between asuka and becky for the championship at summerslam.
WHAT'S OK
Lana and naomi met the cast of GLOW (except kharma aka awesome kong)
The segment was ok. Didn't piss me off or anything like that but i'm FUCKING excited for GLOW season 2 next week. I'm definitely going to binge watch the show. If you haven't seen the show, do yourself a favour and watch it. It's only 25 to 30 minutes per episode so you can binge it less than a day really.
The opening segment
The segment was ok. Miz was great as usual on the microphone and yes the feud with daniel and the bludgoen brother's is nothing intriguing or special but it gives something for luke harper and erick rowan to do rather than not been used on TV. Now speaking of the bludgeon brothers.........
Daniel bryan vs luke harper
The match was decent but if they went further, it would've been a pretty good match. Would've love to see this match later down the road. Now what do i think about the return of team hell no? Well on one hand, the tag team division is in direr need of quality tag teams and team hell no were a great tag team. On the other hand, WWE needs to explain why Kane is on smackdown now considering that he was on RAW roster before but they didn't explain why kane came back from smackdown to RAW several months ago so i don't see WWE explaining or acknowledging the fact that kane was on RAW before.
James ellsworth calls out asuka
So the rumours were kinda true. What do you mean by that you ask? Well according to Bryan Alvarez of the wrestling observer, he speculated that an intergender match was going to happen at extreme rules. Here's what he said and transcript is from ringside news:
“It’s not official yet but that’s certainly the rumor […] We’ve seen mixed tags, we had one at WrestleMania. We just can’t have the men beat up the women. The women can beat up the men. So basically you have to do a match where Asuka beats up James Ellsworth but he doesn’t lay a hand on her and Asuka and Carmella beat each other up and then somehow you do a finish."
So a match is in place. Asuka vs james ellsworth next week. The segment itself was fine but i really liked paige in this especially and i didn't i mentioned that paige has been a FANTASTIC general manager of smackdown live so far?
WHAT'S BAD
The six man tag match
Now the match itself was actually pretty entertaining. However, the reason why it is on what's bad is because sanity lost in their main roster debut match. I mean they should look at least somewhat dominate but even WWE creative could do that aspect right. Hoping they can pick up from this considering that the tag team division on both brands is pretty thin in my opinion.
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