5 Takeaways from this week's WWE SmackDown Live (26 June 2018)

#4 Don’t expect TV title matches to end fairly

Jeff Hardy teamed with The Usos against SAnitY

As ironic as this might sound, given that this article is essentially a review of the key moments from SmackDown Live, it is feeling less and less important for WWE fans to tune into every Raw and SmackDown match on a weekly basis.

With most rivalries progressing and/or culminating at PPVs, the only time there is something major at stake on Monday and Tuesday nights is when there is a title on the line, yet both championship matches this week have ended in disqualifications (Dolph Ziggler vs. Seth Rollins on Raw and Jeff Hardy vs. Eric Young on SmackDown).

It’s only natural, from WWE’s perspective, that their emphasis should be on PPVs, but NXT does a good job of filling time between their TakeOver events by having competitive, clean finishes to title matches, so why can’t the main-roster shows do the same?