WWE Smackdown Live September 6th: Reading Between the Lines of Each Segment

The Miz vs Apollo Crews, Dolph Ziggler Confrontation:

Main Point: This feud hasn’t been built up very well, but to be fair they’ve only really had two weeks to try and make the match at Backlash feel significant.

This was a decent match between Crews (who is amazing in the ring, just doesn’t have a compelling personality) and Miz (who is an underrated wrestler), and was a much better match than their Summerslam contest.

Crews was allowed to look dominant for most parts of the match, and Miz only picked up the win due to miscommunication between Dolph and Apollo. The post-match segment between Ziggler and Miz did well to tease a physical confrontation, but instead Maryse retrieved the IC Title for Miz, playing up the coward factor that has been present in this story throughout.