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SmackDown was a mixed Up-Up-Down-Down this week as a few segments feel apart, while the main event of the night gave the fans what they’d been begging for.
The New Day opened up the night talking about how they were even thinking about leaving the company before Vince made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
Asuka lost her SmackDown Women’s Championship to her WrestleMania 34 opponent in a shocking turn of events, similar to what WWE pulled off with AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan before Survivor Series last year.
The Miz cut a brilliant promo that helped build on his match against Shane McMahon for the grand stage, while Randy Orton’s actions sent the fans home unhappy.
Throughout the night, WWE made three very big mistakes which they could have avoided and made the show even better with a focus on WrestleMania.
Take a look at these mistakes below, and share your favorite moments from the show in the comments section!
#3 Gave The New Day the opportunity
Kofi Kingston deserves to be in the WWE Championship match at WrestleMania 35 no matter what. Even if it involves having The New Day disband.
Last week, Kofi made history by overcoming his originally scheduled match and coming out as the victor against all his opponents before Vince added Daniel Bryan as his last opponent and ruining the party.
This week, Vince gave Big E and Xavier Woods a chance to get their buddy a shot at the championship. While this makes a great story, especially keeping in mind how much Big E and Xavier want to see Kofi as the WWE Champion, it does injustice to Kofi himself.
Kofi rightfully earned a chance to challenge for the championship last week before getting swindled, and with The New Day earning him the chance this week, the story kind of falls apart again as Kofi will be getting the shot only thanks to his two teammates and not himself.
#2 Wasted Angle vs Styles
41-year-old AJ Styles vs 50-year-old Kurt Angle? Take my money! 91-year old Styles vs 100-year-old Angle? Still, take my money!
This could have possibly been the best match of Kurt Angle’s farewell tour had WWE had the sanity to go ahead with it.
Instead, they decided to let Randy Orton attack Styles and cause a disqualification, handing Styles the victory. This does nothing much to further Orton and Styles’ feud while leaving fans utterly disappointed.
If the result of this disqualification was going to be Styles vs Angle at WrestleMania, then we would have taken the result this week happily, however, that will not be the case.
Angle vs Styles could have been one of Angle’s better matches, keeping in mind both men’s talent, and would have given fans something to look forward from Kurt Angle at WrestleMania.
Ruining the party only makes Angle look bad without doing anything for Orton and Styles’ feud.
#1 Handed Charlotte the Championship
If WWE had to hand Charlotte the Women’s Championship and disrespect Asuka once again, at least they should have waited till WrestleMania.
The match between Charlotte and Asuka on SmackDown last night was top notch. There wasn’t much that should have changed, except for the result.
Instead, WWE could have made a greater storyline by putting Charlotte into the number one contender’s match and making her win that. Then Charlotte could have battled Asuka at WrestleMania 35 under the stipulation that if Charlotte wins the title, she will be taken out of the Raw Women’s Championship match.
This could have helped WWE pull off a surprise for the fans and given then Becky Lynch vs Ronda Rousey one-on-one for the Raw Women’s Championship in the main event.
WWE surely missed a trick there which could have allowed them to crown Charlotte the champion once again and given the fans what they want.
