5 things that could happen on SmackDown Live next week

#1 Nakamura and Owens go one-on-one

There’s not a lot to do right now when it comes to the main event storyline. Bryan and McMahon are continuing to have their disagreements, AJ is the ultimate good guy who just wants to do what’s right and Owens and Zayn are the bad guys who will do anything to get ahead.

Nakamura and Orton are the side players because they are big stars that WWE doesn’t have anything to do with right now, but have to stay on television.

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That said, I still expect to see Orton turn heel soon. It won’t be this week, but he will probably be in Nakamura’s corner to counteract Zayn’s presence. Orton and Nakamura have just been too buddy-buddy for something to not happen between them.

I think that if they are having SmackDown Live talent show up on the big 25th Anniversary of RAW, Orton will turn on him there, otherwise it will happen the next night on the final show before the PPV. Until then, one more week of holding pattern it is.

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