And for the Second Course, SmackDown Has Some 1st Round King of the Ring Action...

A Tantalizing Tuesday to You, Enthusiasts!

Why tantalizing, you ask?  Well, to close this week’s WWE action, we have SmackDown offering what could be quite a match with Buddy Murphy continuing to serve as an example of what happens to “snitches” as he faces Daniel Bryan tonight.  This should be a good one or at least, somewhat competitive as Bryan is some Hippie Heel and Murphy has shit to prove.  We’ll see how they spin this one.  Go ahead and prepare yourself for some sort of “no contest” finish.  As much as this could be a great match, I doubt they’ll waste implications at this time.  Treat this as an experiment.  We’ll see how these fellows match up and if we’re pleasantly surprised with an actual decision, we can go to bed with some sort of peace.  Ideally, this could set up some Clash of Champions action.

Tonight, we can rest a little easy because RAW was solid last night.  Smackdown just has to bring it in, so to speak.  Slight miss here and there, but that comes with this territory.  I didn’t really have too much of a problem with it.  Though, about the social medias and on the internets, people don’t appear to be feeling this union between Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins.  I’m fairly indifferent but I see why this may not be landing.  It’s the whole “arbitrariness” thing.  And for shits & giggles, we’ll throw these 2 together… I get it.  We’ll have to see if the WWE cares to patch up these sort of holes because at the same time, we do know how this train rolls.  Sometimes, shit just happens because it’s just like it looks.  Let’s see how these 2 or these guys work together.  I’m not sure how much they care to streamline in this degree.  We must admit a lot of the charm of this industry is that sort of “by the seat of your pants” mentality.  Somehow, by the Grace of God, a show is performed to completion.  We’ll have to see if they produce good enough action for us to “let it go” or rather, “not think” on these sort of plot holes.  So, if Rollins and Strowman can sell it, they can sell it.  That may be the test here.

As for Smackdown’s action for us, besides the Bryan vs. Murphy throwdown, we got more King of the Ring play which should shape up to be a lot of fun.  Samoa Joe and Cedric Alexander are through to the next round.  This time around, we’ll see if Apollo Crews can pull a Cedric Alexander and earn himself some street-cred against Andrade as Kevin Owens sees if he can stuff Elias’ push for the crown.   Looks to me that the Owens vs. Elias match will be the interesting one because that’s one that could very well go either way, especially depending on what the Creative angle is.  I could very easily accept an Elias upset over Owens for Owens' response alone.  You know this would set Owens on a bit of a rampage, an “Owens Rampage” but a rampage nonetheless.  Only thing is that dinged-danged arbitrariness.  The bust up would have to lead to something entertaining and/or compelling.  We’ll see what they’ll do.

Also, somewhere in all this, Kofi Kingston is going to have to come up with a rebuttal for the hurt Randy Orton put on him with an assist from The Revival last night.  This pseudo-rivalry didn’t grab my attention at first but I like what they’ve done with it.  Not sure how much it’s got left in terms of holding interest but hopefully they’re figuring it out. Not sure we’ll care if they wait until Clash of Champions to settle this but if they toss in some intrigue, we may be willing to keep giving it a look.  As is the theme now, we shall see.  Funny tweets get retweeted and as for Likes/Favorites, well we have to keep a watchful eye but we don’t want to stifle the fun.  Be discerning but not stingy.  We’re open to some experimentation.

See You in a Bit,

-Nicole Alexis (^_~)