WWE Smackdown - Grading tonight’s show (2nd July 2019)

#7 - Owens babyface turn?

"This is MY SHOW!" @FightOwensFight sends a message to @HEELZiggler in STUNNING fashion! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/dCCE2iOu3o

— WWE (@WWE) July 3, 2019

That brings us to the main event match between Heavy Machinery and the odd couple tag team of Kevin Owens and Dolph Ziggler.

Big E and Xavier Woods, as well as Daniel Bryan and Rowan, were out for guest commentary. Not for long though, as the four men would soon begin to brawl at ringside, resulting in Rowan putting Woods through a commentator table.

The referee restarted the match after ejecting the guest commentators from ringside. I don’t know why it needed to be restarted; I guess that’s just what happens now.

Owens and Ziggler actually worked together pretty well in this match and went back and forth with Heavy Machinery in a fairly decent match.

That was until a slight misstep from Ziggler resulted in him accidentally catching Owens with a superkick, this allowed Otis and Tucker to take advantage, hitting their finisher on Owens and picking up the victory.

This means that Heavy Machinery have now been added to the Smackdown Tag Team Championship match at Extreme Rules, and it will now be a triple threat between themselves, Xavier Woods & Big E and Daniel Bryan & Rowan.

After the match, Owens hit a stunner on Dolph Ziggler to close the show, seemingly turning face in the process.

Grade: C

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While there was nothing actively bad on this week’s Smackdown, there was also nothing of note that you need to go out of your way to see.

This was a tedious, run-of-the-mill show that came as a disappointment following the renewed optimism around WWE following last night’s Raw.

Overall grade: C-