5 things that could happen on smackdown live next week

#4 Rusev defeats Big E

Rusev and Aiden English — Rusev Claus and Snowman English celebrate too early before falling to The New Day

After he flapped the wrong jacks this week on SmackDown Live, Rusev has certainly raised the ire of The New Day’s muscle, Big E. The big man wasn’t a part of the tag match this week that saw Kofi and Xavier defeat English and Rusev, but I think they’re going to keep this pairing of teams together for a little while longer.

They may meet again in a backstage segment that leads to the match, or it will just be announced as a regular match at the top of the show, followed by New Day interrupting an early New Year’s song from Aiden English.

Rusev and Big E actually had a few really good matches early on in Rusev’s career on the main roster, back when Rusev was a big deal and completely unstoppable. Nobody really came close to giving Rusev a challenging match, but along came Big E, who did just that at Payback and Money in the Bank in 2014.

Big E didn’t win either of those matches, but they were really good and the crowd really thought he had a shot. Both men are now big stars and even better wrestlers and if given some time could put on a really great show.

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I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.

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