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From Erick Rowan lashing out against Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan to the 24/7 championship changing hands 3 times in a chaotic shuffle on the same night, this week's edition of WWE SmackDown Live (3rd September 2019) featured a lot of contrasting moments.
After an entertaining episode from the blue brand, it finally seems as if we have several interesting takeaways from the episode itself. Most events that took place last night left us with something to look forward to next week, which is a good indication of things to come when the show debuts on FOX soon.
Here are a few interesting observations from this week's edition of SmackDown Live:
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#3 Why the R-Truth/Drake Maverick plot is the 24/7 title's main attraction
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As much as I'd hoped in the past, Elias' run as 24/7 champion was quite disappointing, to say the least.
The 24/7 title sequences started to fade away from mainstream attention recently, that is, until last night, where Drake Maverick was robbed of the 24/7 championship in the boiler room. A bunch of funny sequences resulted in Bo Dallas capturing the title at last, but that is not where it all ended.
After Shinsuke Nakamura crushed an enhancement talent in the ring, 24/7 title chaos ensued as The B-Team (Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel) were chased by a bunch of locker room talent.
Drake Maverick won his title back, but before anyone could predict, R-Truth became a 14-time 24/7 champion after revealing himself from a King of the Ring themed disguise near the stage.
This ever-lasting conflict between Truth and Maverick never ceases to amaze. Maverick wants to consummate his marriage, but at this point, Truth cannot live without his 'baby' (24/7 title) safe in his hands.
That is why this particular sub-plot is and always will be the 24/7 championship's main attraction in the foreseeable future.
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#2 Why Chad Gable is primed to win this year's KOTR Tournament
Chad Gable is currently going through a new phase in his WWE career. A bunch of detrimental remarks and silly jokes against Gable launched an underdog campaign for the man himself. Nobody had thought that Gable would make it so far in this year's King of the Ring Tournament.
But after last night's show, it looks like Gable might have a real shot at winning this tournament after all. He needs to defeat Elias in the semi-finals next week, and it seems like Elias' purpose in the entire tournament was to be a huge roadblock in Gable's path to the finals.
After all, why else would you have Elias go over Ali in their King of the Ring matchup last night?
Whatever the case may be, it looks like Chad Gable will leave a mark during this year's KOTR Tournament, and let us hope that his career picks up steam after everything is said and done.
#1 WWE ran out of twists for Roman Reigns' current angle
After weeks of buildup, it looks like Rowan was the culprit who attacked Roman Reigns all along.
Rowan's outburst last night was perhaps some of the best work he has ever done in his WWE career so far. But when you look at it from a larger perspective, did we need to build so much suspense every week to see Rowan face Roman Reigns at Clash of Champions?
Did this angle hurt or build Buddy Murphy's potential as a popular star in the company?
There are lots of questions which don't have a definite answer, but the most obvious conclusion here is that WWE ran out of twist endings to throw at us at the end of SmackDown Live every week.
Sure, they put together a somewhat cohesive premise in the end, but that still doesn't explain why Rowan would go out of his way to almost murder Roman Reigns in the first place, that too, all by himself.
However, all of this does leave us with another pressing question: What happens to Daniel Bryan now?
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