On this week’s SmackDown, the match was booked after Styles interfered in a No. 1 contender match for the title. That being said, at least this feud isn’t getting rushed to an ending. It felt like they were skipping a few weeks in the booking, but with a few weeks before the show and then the match itself, this feud between Owens and Zayn with Styles will get a proper sendoff instead of being rushed through for the sake of sending all three men onto different things. Charlotte beat Liv Morgan I think part of the difference is simple: Raw has three hours and SmackDown has two. So, it’s easier for Raw to run more multi-layered storylines with its women. But that shouldn’t be an excuse. SmackDown should be able to do the same thing, but maybe focusing on one feud at a time instead of two. The Bludgeon Brothers beat a local tag team The Bludgeon brothers continue to, well, bludgeon people. This was a really physical squash match with the heels going over very strong. The Usos vs. Bludgeon Brothers is going to be an interesting match once it happened. I’m not convinced it will be good, but it will be interesting. If nothing else, I’m intrigued what WWE does with the Bludgeon Brothers. Do they try to elevate them the way they did Ryback and Braun Strowman — they’re being built in a similar way, just as a tag team — or does WWE try to relegate the team as quickly as possible to the mid card with a loss to the Usos? Daniel Bryan debuts the Top-10 List OK, go ahead and email me if I’m wrong, but what was the point of this? Is it a ranking system? If so, why are the champions included? I have no idea what this was supposed to represent, and that’s a problem for WWE. It made it very hard to care about anything going on. Bobby Roode beat Rusev Granted there were commercial breaks, but I thought this match went a lot longer than expected. Chad Gable & Shelton Benjamin beat The Ascension At least the right team won … This was an excellent main event between two guys who have a lot of chemistry. I thought that this match felt different than the matches they had in the past, which was a good thing, but also because of the development in their characters.
