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WWE Clash of Champions, a Smackdown Live exclusive pay per view is going to be the last PPV for the year, as we prepare for Royal Rumble, which will be the first PPV of 2018.
The card for the PPV is already out, with the main event being either Jinder Mahal vs AJ Styles for the WWE Championship, or Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn with double special guest referees Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan. The latter is far more likely and is going to be treated as the main event for this post.
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The dynamic between Daniel and Shane has become quite intriguing over the last few weeks and is arguably the best storyline on Smackdown right now. Shane and Daniel have been going behind each other's backs for some weeks now. Shane wanted to fire Owens and Zayn, but Daniel changed it to a match. This week, Daniel introduced himself as the second referee for the match. The mutual differences between the two have weaved around the storyline, giving is multiple ways this storyline can pan out at Clash of Champions.
What are the possibilities? Let's take a look.
#1 Daniel Bryan turns on Shane McMahon and the heels go over
Daniel has been getting increasingly frustrated with the way Shane is using his authority as the commissioner of Smackdown Live to fuel his personal vendetta against the duo of Zayn and Owens. Daniel is having flashbacks of when the Authority did everything their power to keep him from rising to the top. Shane's behavior has been very egotistic and narcissistic over the past few weeks, and Clash of Champions is the breaking point for Bryan.
How can it happen?
During the match, Owens hits Shane by mistake when Nakamura ducks his offense. Shane is infuriated and is about to disqualify the match when Bryan stops him. Shane tells Daniel who the boss is, and that he is not to be questioned. Bryan takes offense to this, and clocks Shane in the head to become the sole referee for the rest of the match. Zayn and Owens use this distraction to their advantage, taking out Nakamura and finishing Orton in the ring with a pop-up powerbomb and a Helluva kick.
#2 Shane McMahon fires Daniel Bryan during the match
Shane does not appreciate how Bryan has been handling the situation with Zayn and Owens for the past few weeks. First, Bryan interrupted him firing the duo, only to reveal in a backstage segment later that he never intended to fire the duo in the first place. In his absence, Daniel inserted himself into the match, which Shane sees as an insulting gesture and goes against his plan of destroying Owens and Zayn at Clash of Champions.
How could it happen?
Daniel and Shane keep crossing paths during the match. They disagree various times over things like corner times and count outs outside the rope. The tension brews through the match and breaks through when Daniel interrupts Shane trying to pin Sami because he saw Sami's foot on the rope. An infuriated Shane asks Daniel to leave the ring immediately. He calmly says it's an administrative order and Daniel denies. As Daniel turns around to administer the match, Shane pulls Daniel by the collar, looks him straight in the eye, and says the two magic words to Bryan's face.
Daniel is in shock, as Shane orders him to get out of the ring. Security escorts Daniel to the back of the arena, as the match continues.
