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#5 WWE SmackDown tag team title match added to the Royal Rumble card

This would be an interesting addition to the Royal Rumble match card

Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode won the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships earlier this month. They have only focused on The Street Profits, but we have recently seen them in altercations with Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura. The latter quietly turned to a babyface a few weeks ago, and we could see them eyeing the tag team gold on the Road to WrestleMania.

That said, we can’t completely rule out Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins from the equation. While the creative might not want to take the titles away from Ziggler and Roode so soon, it is possible that the SmackDown Tag Team Champions will have to defend their gold at Royal Rumble. Could we see a triple-threat tag team match added to the pay-per-view card?

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So far, WWE has only confirmed three matches for Royal Rumble, apart from the titular matches. On the final episode of WWE SmackDown, we expect to see new bouts added into the mix. Somehow, WWE has not kept a lot of things about Royal Rumble as a surprise. Thus, we may see more of these jaw-dropping moments on Friday night itself.

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