Clash of Champions 2017: 5 reasons why Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Randy Orton should main event 

#1 You can’t follow it

This triple threat match could be a good one, but nobody would care about it after the big tag match

This match simply cannot be followed. Even if it turns out that one, or even all of the matches for that matter, are better than this one, that’s not the main point. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn could get fired as a result of this match, and a moment like that can’t happen somewhere in the middle of the show, especially with the low profile of the other scheduled matches.

If they don’t lose their jobs, the match will still result in a very significant development for the SmackDown Live brand as a whole. The two main antagonists along with the General Manager and Commissioner are involved, and that’s a big deal. Plus, it’s the first time Daniel Bryan will be inside a ring as a sanctioned part of a match since his retirement.

Sure, he’s only one of two referees, but having him in a match, even in that capacity, is an extremely big deal. Not only that, but he’s arguably still the most over guy on the whole SmackDown Live roster.

Nothing can be done in any of the other matches scheduled for Sunday night that can be as noteworthy as what’s going to happen in this match. The only thing I think I could see being bigger, and the only thing that I would think that could happen that this match couldn’t follow would be if Daniel Bryan were to call out AJ Styles and challenge him for a one-on-one title match in the future. That would be something you end a show on.

That won’t be happening, and none of the other matches have anything to offer, either. The storylines are all very generic and pedestrian, so they will pale in comparison to Owens & Zayn vs. Nakamura & Orton. Any match that comes after this one would feel like a post-show exhibition match instead of a main event championship match.