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A few days ago, Paige announced that a mini-tournament consisting of six tag teams will take place to determine the new challengers for the Smackdown Live Tag Team Championships. The tournament would consist of two triple threat tag team matches and the winning teams from both matches would square off in the finals.
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The first triple threat tag team match would take place tonight on Smackdown. The match will feature The Bar, The Good Brothers (Gallows and Anderson) and the returning Colons (Primo and Epico). Participants for the second match haven’t been announced yet.
The second triple threat match will supposedly take place next week and likely feature The Usos, Sanity and one other team. The third team may be revealed on tonight’s episode of Smackdown or the reveal could be postponed until the actual match next week.
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Here are five potential choices for the mysterious third team in the second triple threat tag team match. The winner of this mini-tournament would go on to face The New Day for the Tag Team Championships at Hell in a Cell.
#5 The Bar
It may sound crazy as The Bar is already in the first triple threat tag team match so it makes no sense for them to be included in the second one too but Sheamus and Cesaro are heels who could do anything to reach to the top of the mountain.
If the Bar ends up losing their match tonight, chances are that they would try to insert themselves into the 2nd one either by hook or by crook.
Sheamus and Cesaro have been lost in the shuffle ever since their arrival on Smackdown earlier this year so to find their way into the title picture must be their top priority. If The Bar wins tonight, they would get one step closer to challenging for the Tag titles, but even if they lose, don’t count them out.
#4 Tye Dillinger and R-Truth
Tye Dillinger and R-Truth have been involved in a lot of backstage segments this year. This was mainly due to the fact that R-Truth was injured.
He got cleared a few weeks back and has faced Samoa Joe and Shinsuke Nakamura since then.
A possible alliance has been brewing between Dillinger and Truth and although Dillinger has denied Truth’s request of forming a tag team in order to focus on his singles career, he hasn’t done anything special as a solo competitor either.
So expect R-Truth and Dillinger to finally team up next week on Smackdown. R-Truth and Tye Dillinger won’t be winning the triple threat match for sure but if they could co-exist as a team, maybe they will get a future shot at the Tag Team Gold and a chance to thrive on Smackdown Live.
#3 NXT Call-ups
If the purpose of the mysterious third team is just to spice things up during the match and let The Usos walk away with the victory, expect an NXT tag team getting called-up for one night only or as a regular fixture on the Smackdown roster. Various teams in NXT are ready to be called up to the main roster.
If the call-up is just a one-night special, expect The Street Profits or The Mustache Mountain to be revealed as the third team. Either of these teams would put on an amazing match against The Usos and Sanity.
If the call-up is permanent, however, expect Heavy Machinery or Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch to be the third team. Again, either of these teams would put on an excellent match and would also be a welcome addition to the Smackdown roster.
#2 Rusev Day
After weeks of misunderstandings, Rusev and Aiden English finally seem to be back together.
If that really is the case, expect Rusev and English to be revealed as The Third Team next week and not only would they be a part of the match, they would have a strong chance of winning too, not just the match but the tournament as a whole.
Rusev and English are incredibly over with the WWE Universe. The two will likely break up and feud with each other sooner than later but before that, they deserve a short run as the Tag Team Champions or at least as a legitimate threat to the Champions.
Their in-ring chemistry is really great and their gimmick is pretty fun too so a run as one of the top teams on the Smackdown roster is long overdue for Rusev Day.
#1 Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper
The Bludgeon Brothers tag team run as monster heels was cut short last week when Rowan suffered an injury. Rowan’s injury could also harm Harper.
Harper is an extraordinarily talented Superstar and his potential shouldn’t be wasted. Creative must book Harper as a vengeful beast who would do anything to haunt The New Day for injuring Rowan even if it requires the assistance of Bray Wyatt.
Wyatt and Matt Hardy’s tag team run was cut short too when Hardy hinted at retiring from in-ring action.
Matt Hardy’s absence leaves Bray Wyatt as a solo competitor on Raw once again. Bray wouldn’t be able to thrive on Raw as there are already enough upper mid-card and top superstars to run the show.
So, a move to Smackdown for the Eater of the Worlds seems quite logical. There, he could reunite with Harper in his battle against The New Day.
This would be a fresh and twisted take on The Wyatt Family as Harper would no longer be Bray’s child or servant, and would just be teaming up with Bray to achieve his own goals.
