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The SmackDown roster presents the final WWE pay-per-view of 2017 this weekend, when Clash of Champions takes place live from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Clash of Champions already has seven matches announced for the show, which will be just the second annual event under this name. The first WWE Clash of Champions event back in 2016 was a Raw-exclusive show, which means for many WWE stars, this is will be their first performance at the event.
Even though there have only been two shows under this name and current format, there are still a number of facts that the WWE Universe are unaware of when it comes to this highly anticipated event.
#5. Charlotte's Championship dominance
Charlotte has been able to make a lot of history throughout her two years on the main roster and it seems that the facts speak for themselves when it comes to the debate of who the best female wrestler in WWE is currently.
Charlotte is just one of the six superstars who were on the Raw roster and part of Clash of Champions last year and is the only one of these stars, who is set to walk into her second Clash of Champions event as the Women's Champion.
Last year, Charlotte successfully defended her Raw Women's Championship against Sasha Banks and Bayley, whilst she walks into this year's event with the SmackDown Women's Championship ahead of her title defence against Natalya. Will the history repeat itself in the first ever Lumberjill match in Clash of Champions history?
#4. Mojo's pre-show problems
Mojo Rawley may have won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royale back at WrestleMania 33, but it seems that the win has failed to catapult him into the spotlight that he desired.
Instead, it seems that Mojo has been a star who has been attempting to remain relevant over the past few months without Zack Ryder by his side. Now, that the duo has split, it could cause Mojo a lot more problems. Ryder was out of action for around seven months and during that time Mojo was only able to have one singles match on pay-per-view and that was on the Elimination Chamber kick-off shock back in February.
Mojo's second singles match on pay-per-view is this weekend at Clash of Champions and once again he has been pushed onto the kickoff show to battle his former friend and partner, could a trend be forming here?
#3. Jinder's incredible year
Jinder Mahal is a former WWE Champion and he battles AJ Styles this weekend, in the hopes that he can win back his Championship. Incredibly, because Clash of Champions took place in September last year, Jinder was locked in a feud with Darren Young and the duo was trading wins and losses on Main Event and Superstars.
Somehow over the past year, Jinder has been able to work his way up from not even being able to appear on Monday Night Raw, to be the main champion on the SmackDown brand and now being part of one of the most anticipated rematches set for this weekend.
Jinder's rise to power in WWE has definitely been an interesting one, but to put it into context, Jinder wasn't even considered to be part of the Clash of Champions event last year even though he was part of the Raw brand and now he's in one of the biggest matches on Sunday night. What a difference a year makes.
#2. Kevin Owens main events his second consecutive event
Clash of Champions 2016 took place back in September, which means that Kevin Owens walked into the event as the Universal Champion less than a month after Triple H had helped him to win the Championship in the fatal four-way match on Raw.
Seth Rollins was the superstar who was on the receiving end that day, which allowed the two men to battle in the main event of the first-ever WWE Clash of Champions, with Owens coming out on top. This year, Owens is set for the main event for the second time as he teams with his longtime friend Sami Zayn against Shinsuke Nakamura and Randy Orton with both Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon as the special guest referees.
It seems that this year's main event has many more combustible elements than last years.
#1. WCW event
Clash of Champions may have debuted in WWE back in 2016, but long-time wrestling fans will know that WCW once had an event with the same name.
Clash of The Champions under the WCW banner ran from 1988 until 1997, it seems that before WWE debuted their version of the show, they had to buy the rights for the name and with it they were able to purchase all 35 episodes of NWA: Clash of The Champions, which are all now available to view on the WWE Network.
There have been some interesting matches and title changed over the past few decades at this event, so it would be worth catching up on the entire story before this weekend's second annual event.
