3 Moments you may have missed on SmackDown Live this week (December 18, 2018)

This week's edition of WWE SmackDown Live (18th December 2018) saw a lot of contrasting moments, from Mustafa Ali pinning the WWE Champion to Naomi getting an opportunity by facing the current SmackDown Live Womens' Champion, Asuka.

However, there are always a few subtle moments that the audiences might overlook due to WWE's weekly schedule of programming.

Make sure to send in your thoughts in the comments section below if you want to point out other obscure and interesting moments from this week's SmackDown Live.

With TLC 2018 well past us at this point in time, here are a few moments that you might have missed from the 18th December 2018 edition of WWE SmackDown Live...

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#3 Big E during Shane McMahon's opening speech backstage

Big E cracked viewers up at home when people noticed his antics during the start of the show

Believe it or not, Paige is no longer the SmackDown Live General Manager, a situation that has been previously discussed after Vince McMahon's huge announcement on Monday Night RAW.

In honor of her duties as SmackDown Live General Manager, most of the roster was assembled backstage at the start of the show, including Shane McMahon, who also talked about how things are going to be changing on SmackDown Live as well.

Putting this conversation aside, all you had to do was pay close attention to what Big E was doing during Shane McMahon's speech. As evident by the picture posted above, Big E was eating a steak, staring at Daniel Bryan as the latter was engrossed in listening to Shane's words.

The biggest joke here was that the NEW Daniel Bryan has voiced his opinions against mindless consumption, and also the fact that he is vegan just shows us why Big E chose to stare at the WWE Champion while eating a giant steak.

Well done, Big E, well done...

#2: SPOILER ALERT: New champion crowned during tapings for next week's SmackDown Live episode

A title change occurred during TV tapings for next week's show

In case you didn't know, WWE filmed next week’s episodes of Raw and SmackDown early this week to accommodate for Christmas and Christmas Eve.

Just to remind our readers once again, this is your final warning for a huge spoiler regarding next week's SmackDown Live episode.

Rusev became a three-time United States Champion by defeating Shinsuke Nakamura during a taping for a Christmas themed edition of SmackDown Live.

As noted, we witnessed segments between Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura during last night's episode, where the latter criticized the Bulgarian Brute by showing Total Divas clips of an unfiltered Rusev.

One of the main reasons behind this title change could be the fact that Nakamura has had a lackluster run as United States Champion, and what else could be better than crowning a new babyface champion just before the year ends?

#1 Daniel Bryan might have been injured during the main event

Did Mustafa Ali accidentally injure the WWE Champion?

The feud between AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan doesn't quite seems to have ended as of yet, as both were involved in a tag team match on last night's show during the main event, which also featured Mustafa Ali and Andrade Cien Almas.

Mustafa Ali has struck the headlines by pinning the WWE Champion. Unfortunately, that is not the only reason why he has been trending on social media right after the show ended.

Ali hit Bryan with the 045 Splash in the end, and it looks like his knee hit Daniel Bryan's throat amidst the process.

This definitely looked like a painful accident. Hope Daniel isn’t too hurt because of it. pic.twitter.com/isnEOJIScx

— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) December 19, 2018

The former could also be heard apologizing to the WWE Champion right after the unfortunate incident occurred.

Nevertheless, now that Mustafa Ali has been announced as a permanent member of the SmackDown Live roster, let us hope that Daniel Bryan turns out okay despite this unexpected botch.

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