5 Biggest news stories from WWE SmackDown (August 7, 2020)

#1: Braun Strowman challenged The Fiend to a SummerSlam match as "The Monster"

.@BraunStrowman has a message of his own for #TheFiend @WWEBrayWyatt on #SmackDown! pic.twitter.com/y0t1vcmsIp

— WWE (@WWE) August 8, 2020

As the biggest self-proclaimed Bray Wyatt fan, I still wouldn't call the follow-up to last week's cliffhanger "satisfactory". To me, this WWE segment was a tale of two parts.

Alexa Bliss and The Fiend's "Beauty and the Beast" dynamic was intriguing. Maybe they're going forward with a Stockholm Syndrome angle or perhaps it was just an interesting display of how a creature of evil like The Fiend can't stand Alexa's empathetic gesture.

So I do think that this particular dynamic was a positive outcome that has some potential to be built upon.

However, everything about Braun Strowman completely derailed the momentum of this segment on WWE SmackDown.

He overdid the character's deep or creepy voice to a point where it just became goofy. Strowman may not be the best actor in WWE, but even his character traits felt out of place this week.

Strowman claims he doesn't care for Alexa's well-being, which sounds completely uncharacteristic of him. Maybe his character is in the process of changing. But if Strowman didn't care for Bliss, either way, he did challenge The Fiend to a match at SummerSlam. Isn't that exactly what The Fiend wanted in the first place?

Strowman acts as if he's superior to Bray Wyatt's tricks, but from an overarching perspective, The Fiend is still controlling the narrative here.

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— Lexi Kaufman (@AlexaBliss_WWE) August 8, 2020