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SmackDown Live was the subject of a lot of speculation last night before the show even went live when it was reported by numerous news outlets that Vince McMahon was not happy with the original script for the show so he forced his creative team to re-write the show throughout the day.
This was made evident by the fact that The New Day's match was changed three times before it was decided that AJ Styles and Kofi Kingston would clash in a Champion vs Champion match which ended up headlining the show.
Interestingly, this could be one of the reasons why there were so many odd additions to the show, the women's tag team match was missing despite being promoted last week whilst Roman Reigns was shockingly taken out by some staging equipment backstage even though it was obvious that it didn't actually touch him.
There were a number of interesting botches and mistakes this week on SmackDown Live, here are just a few that you probably didn't spot.
#4. Pop up powerbomb?
Kevin Owens kicked off SmackDown Live this week after it was made clear that Shane McMahon wasn't in the building but his absence led to a match between Owens and Drew McIntyre which was the highlight of the night.
Owens and McIntyre have had their issues over the past few weeks since The Scottish Psychopath has been in McMahon's corner throughout their feud. Owens was able to defeat McIntyre this week on SmackDown Live to build towards his match at SummerSlam where he will be forced to quit the company if he loses to Shane McMahon.
The only sour point of the match was when Owens was looking to hit the Pop-up Powerbomb on McIntyre, but the former NXT Champion was unable to get the height he needed so the two men were forced to give up and try again, but interestingly the move hit much better the second time around.
#3. Nikki Cross is too small to tag in
Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss made their way over to SmackDown Live again this week to take on the team of Ember Moon and Bayley ahead of their Women's Championship match next Sunday night.
Bliss and Cross were able to pick up the victory over the miss-matched team but there was a funny moment in the middle of the match where Alexa Bliss tried to tag out of the match and the commentary team even stated that it was a tag but it wasn't because Nikki Cross couldn't reach her partner.
Bliss and Cross are perhaps the smallest women in the division and they learned last night on SmackDown Live that they are unable to tag in and out of the ring over the ropes in tag team matches because they are both too short.
#2. Why isn't the referee counting?
Kofi Kingston's match against AJ Styles last night on SmackDown Live was a last-minute change to the original show since it was supposed to be a six-man tag team match. The match was still a fantastic showdown between two of the best athletes that WWE has at present, but the referee once again let the two men down.
Towards the end of the match, Kingston was going for the victory when Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson dragged Styles out of the ring to avoid the pin. The referee saw that he was on the outside and Kingston later followed, but didn't count. This is a normal one-on-one match which means that the count-out rule still applies, but the referee decided to stand and watch the action instead and didn't once try to count to force the two men to get back inside the ring.
#1. What did we just witness?
What was the ending of this week's show? Roman Reigns was heading to Kayla Braxton to make an announcement regarding his SummerSlam match when suddenly the set decided to land on top of him.
The set wobbled before it fell which meant that the former World Champion could have moved out of the way and avoided contact with it all together before it was then made clear that the gap between the set and the floor was big enough that it didn't touch The Big Dog anyway.
The strangest part of the whole segment was Braxton running around screaming when Reigns had already crawled out and was sitting over the other side of the structure telling the medical staff that he was absolutely fine.
Will this now turn into a huge whodunnit storyline? Hopefully not.
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