Worst #2 – The Absences This Week
I understand that Smackdown Live is only a two-hour show and not everybody will make air. It felt like to me this week that there were more absences than usual on the show.
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Some of the key things that didn’t happen:
– No Fashion Files segment
– No Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch (for the 2nd week in a row).
– No Shelton Benjamin & Chad Gable after their big win last week.
– No Rusev
– No Tamina and Lana after WWE started building up Tamina last week.
Very hard to fit everybody in a 2 hour show, but #SDLive missed Breezango, Shelton/Gable, Harper (still) Becky, Charlotte among others.
— Ty (@Ty2J_) September 6, 2017
Thumbs down on time management this week.
BEST #2 – Shinsuke Nakamura vs Randy Orton
The main event of Smackdown Live this week was a match between Shinsuke Nakamura and Randy Orton. This had a lot on the line as the winner would go on to face Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship at Hell in a Cell.
The match was won by Nakamura after hitting the Kinsasha. I thought the match was a lot of fun and a great effort from both guys. I would say that this was Nakamura’s best match so far as a member of the WWE main roster. He seemed to click really well with Orton in the ring.
The RKO reversal into an armbar was a thing of beauty:
RK-NO! pic.twitter.com/dMZEB6gkGb
— TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) September 6, 2017
This left me wanting to see a rematch on a bigger stage. Hopefully this isn’t the last time that we see them face off. Thumbs up to Orton and Nakamura this week.
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