Top SmackDown Rumors: Details about Reigns' reported heat with former World Champion, veteran ignored by Aleister Black, Cena return (23rd May) 

#2 Aleister Black ignored SmackDown's Paul Heyman for 7 months

SmackDown's Paul Heyman revealed on Talking Smack that former NXT Champion Aleister Black ghosted him for the past seven months. Heyman said that despite trying multiple times to get in touch with Black since October last year, he was unable to do so as Black was seemingly ignoring him:

“This thing about ignoring Aleister’s involvement… bulls***,” Heyman said. “I’ll tell you why. I’m envious, and the reason why I’m envious is because I’ve been reaching out for Aleister Black for six, seven months now. I had ideas for Aleister Black, I had plans for Aleister Black. Ghosted me, couldn’t reach him. Disappeared, poof, thin air.”

Aleister Black finally returned to SmackDown this week and attacked Big E, setting up a feud between the two men.

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#1 Reason why SmackDown's Roman Reigns vs Cesaro main-evented WrestleMania Backlash

SmackDown's Roman Reigns and Cesaro had a spectacular match at WrestleMania Backlash for the Universal Championship. Reigns was able to beat Cesaro cleanly and retain his World Championship.

Interestingly, as per Dave Meltzer of WON, the original plan was for the WWE Championship match to main-event the show. It was a last-minute call by management to have Roman Reigns main-event the show as he is considered to be the biggest attraction in WWE today:

''The original idea was for the three-way for the Raw title to be the main event. The three-way Raw women’s title match wasn’t scheduled to open either. There was a push on the day of the show with the idea that Reigns is the only franchise player on the roster, and as such, he should either go first or last.''

The report also said that the WWE did not want the audience to feel burnt out for the main event if Reigns and Cesaro went first.