5 things that could happen on SmackDown Live next week

#1 Kevin Owens helps Sami Zayn defeat Nakamura

kevin owens, sami zayn — Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, Best Friends

Shinsuke Nakamura and Randy Orton have been loosely affiliated with one another for the past few months, and have been squaring off with Owens and Zayn since the former enemies became friends again. This week’s episode of SmackDown Live saw Randy Orton fall to Kevin Owens in a No DQ match after Zayn interfered, and I have a feeling that Zayn will be put into a match with Orton’s recent counterpart on next week’s episode.

In their continued quest to rule SmackDown Live, Owens and Zayn will surely find a way to continue their winning ways, and it will probably continue unhindered for quite a while as they build momentum against the perceived injustices against them. Nakamura hasn’t been featured on SDL in a while and it’s a shame that he’ll have to return to the ring with a loss, but he and Orton will gain their comeuppance soon enough.

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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.

I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav