SmackDown Preview: Champion to suffer humiliation, huge new title challengers

If RAW is anything to go by, then we're pretty much in for a great episode of SmackDown Live this week. Last week's SmackDown was quite a good episode, with the most significant happening, of course, being the return of Big E.

He successfully reunited the New Day and topped it off with a win. The trio even appeared on RAW last night and handily defeated the trio of Baron Corbin, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a 2-out-of-3 falls match.

Last week, Shane McMahon jumped The Miz on Miz TV and The A-Lister was handily defeated by Drew McIntyre thanks to interference from his former tag team partner. Heavy Machinery took one step closer to the tag team championships. Bayley defeated Nikki Cross as well after back-to-back defeats the prior week

We're now on the go-home episode of SmackDown before the WWE PPV Stomping Grounds and things are going to start heating up. Here's what you need to look forward to tonight!

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#4. Will Bryan & Rowan accept Heavy Machinery's challenge?

Will they accept the challenge?

Bryan and Rowan haven't exactly been on a roll as SmackDown Tag Team Champions. Sure, they beat The Usos to win the vacant titles, but they didn't even defend it on PPV and the last time they faced The Usos on the Kickoff show of Money in the Bank, Bryan was pinned.

So far, Heavy Machinery have been on their tails, constantly challenging them for the title. Though Bryan & Rowan have done nothing but mock the powerful duo, they're going to be forced into a corner tonight by Heavy Machinery, who seem to be the defacto number one contenders for the tag team championship.

Will Bryan and Rowan finally accept their challenge tonight or will they try to find a way to deny them?

#3. A Moment of Bliss with Bayley

Deja Vu for Bayley?

Bayley is not going to be happy about this. Once again, she's going to be a guest on "A Moment of Bliss" with her title challenger on Sunday - Alexa Bliss. Bayley is more than likely dreading the segment, knowing exactly what happened the last time she was in a rivalry with Alexa Bliss.

In case you don't, let's refresh your memory from a couple of years ago - Bayley was running strong as RAW Women's Champion until the newly drafted Alexa Bliss swooped in.

She humiliated Bayley at every given opportunity and ended up beating her for the Women's title in her hometown of San Jose, California. To top it all off, Bayley never once got a moment of redemption in the entire thing and only recovered from it last month with her MITB win and SmackDown Women's title victory.

However, we fully expect Bayley to suffer a major humiliation prior to Sunday.

#2. Dolph Ziggler vs Xavier Woods

Will Xavier Woods be able to dispatch Ziggler?

Xavier Woods has a score to settle with Dolph Ziggler. Ever since Ziggler randomly returned to SmackDown to challenge Kofi Kingston for the WWE Championship, he has constantly been on The New Day's trail, even taking out Big E prior.

However, he's had little to no success recently against Kingston or The New Day, having lost to Kingston at Saudi Arabia and also in a tag team match last week. With little to no luck, Ziggler is going to try and regain his momentum heading into WWE Stomping Grounds 2019.

He's set to take Kingston on in a steel cage match, but if he isn't able to put Xavier Woods away, what will his chances be come Stomping Grounds? We believe that Ziggler will, in fact, defeat Xavier Woods and make a big statement to the WWE Champion.

#1. Will Roman Reigns suffer the repercussions of the RAW attack?

A big statement

The Roman Reigns-Shane McMahon rivalry took a whole new turn on WWE RAW when Reigns invaded Shane McMahon's VIP room to assault him and McIntyre. When he was in the ring, Shane McMahon had the camera in his room and bragged about being the best in the world, as usual.

Reigns had no patience this time on RAW and decided to take matters into his own hands, invading backstage and attacking RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival before invading McMahon's room.

He put McIntyre through a table and almost decimated Shane McMahon, who ran away to ringside. Tonight on SmackDown Live, you can fully expect McMahon and his crew of four lackeys to lay the smackdown on The Big Dog.

We're almost certain to see a 4-on-1 mugging on SmackDown tonight. Will The Usos come to save their cousin?