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SmackDown Live this week was the final stop for WWE on the road to Extreme Rules this weekend and once again it was dominated by Shane McMahon and his bid to exact revenge on Roman Reigns.
Monday Night Raw didn't go to plan for The Best in the World since Cedric Alexander decided to pop up and help Reigns to get even with Shane and Drew McIntyre. This week on SmackDown Live, Reigns was pushed into the main event after McMahon removed Kevin Owens from the building so that Ziggler could take on The Big Dog instead.
Once again, Shane's plan failed, but whilst all of the focus was on the main event of the night, there were a number of other interesting things going on with the Women's Division and the Tag Team Division ahead of this weekend's pay-per-view which made way for a number of mistakes that many members of the WWE Universe picked up on.
#3 Rowan's kick
Daniel Bryan and Rowan defend their SmackDown Tag Team Championships this weekend at Extreme Rules in a triple threat match that also includes Heavy Machinery and The New Day. This week on SmackDown Live, the final build-up to the show saw Otis take on Bryan and Xavier Woods in a triple threat match where all of their partners were at ringside.
Of course, chaos ensued when the three stars outside decided to brawl and this was when Rowan looked to be about to boot Tucker, but instead, he hit his elbow with his leg and tripped over him. This was WWE's way of moving the focus ahead of the ad break so that the match could then be restarted, which seems to be the standard practice now that Vince McMahon doesn't want any wrestling going on whilst there are ad breaks.
#2. The New Day's Music botch
Last week on SmackDown Live, the WWE production crew had an absolute nightmare since Shane McMahon's music played when it shouldn't have and there were a number of risky camera shots that didn't work out.
The botches have continued this week but this time it was The New Day's theme that played before Big E was able to do their usual introduction so the music was then cut and restarted. Shelton Benjamin was backstage showing off his new strange gimmick but this time all he had to say was "well." Obviously, it didn't work out for Benjamin because his mic was too low so the audience were unable to hear.
The production team will definitely have a talking to after tonight's show so that these issues are ironed out in the future.
#1. Roman Reigns vs Dolph Ziggler
The main event for this week's SmackDown Live should have been a singles match, but Shane McMahon decided to come out to ringside and bring Elias and Drew McIntyre out with him. The addition of more bodies always means that the chances of a botch go up, which could be why there were two interesting ones this week.
Roman Reigns hit Dolph Ziggler with a big boot as part of his comeback in the latter stages of the match which was miles away, but he bumped it anyway, before Elias and Drew McIntyre involved themselves in the match in the hopes of denying Reigns the victory.
Reigns dived to the outside to take out all three men, but he looked as though he misjudged the distance and landed square on his head at the bottom of the entrance ramp.
