5 things that could happen on Smackdown Live next week

#1 Daniel Bryan Tries To Convince Shane McMahon To Let Him Be The Referee

The Commissioner and General Manager continue to be at odds

It is continuing to be very contentious between the SmackDown Live Commissioner and General Manager, as Daniel Bryan clearly does not agree with the vengeance that Shane McMahon is trying to bestow upon Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens. After Shane McMahon put the careers of Owens and Zayn directly in his hands this week by announcing himself as the special guest referee for the match between Owens and Zayn and the team of Shinsuke Nakamura and Randy Orton, he went one step further by stating that Owens and Zayn would be fired from all of WWE, not just SD Live, if they lost. Bryan was not happy about that.

Next week will see Bryan try to reason with Shane ‘O Mac, but his pleas will fall on deaf ears. He’ll try to compromise with Shane by agreeing that Owens and Zayn’s careers can still be on the line (Shane will refuse to budge on that one) but that Bryan will take the refereeing duties instead of McMahon. I don’t expect that it will actually happen, but I do expect that Bryan gets involved in the match next weekend in a way that inadvertently helps Owens and Zayn win the match and keep their jobs. Maybe it won’t be an accident at all, but we’ll have to wait and see.

If Bryan does end up convincing Shane to allow him to be the ref, it will say a lot about how close Daniel Bryan actually is to being cleared to compete. There’s no way they will let him be an active part of a match unless they are leaning toward the idea that he will be allowed to wrestle some time in 2018.

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