SmackDown Has to Take Care of Some Business Before TLC...

Happy Friday, Enthusiasts!

Is it treating you well?  I gotta tell ya, this is about all I can do tonight.  I am spent!  Anyway, so RAW did its job this past Monday as Seth Rollins solidified his heel turn.  Yes there were some title matches but since the titles didn’t change hands, that could easily be viewed as a nod to the viewers without the WWE Network.  So, who knows what exactly we’ll see come Sunday.  This is why I’m focusing on the heel turn.  There is a lot of potential here, especially since Rollins is beginning to demonstrate a “pattern”.

His recruiting of the Authors of Pain could be viewed as a blatant attempt to recreate some sort of SHIELD faction.  He feels most confident being “The Architect”.  The potential for drama is quite prevalent here.  Will Roman Reigns have anything to say about this?  Will Rollins ever seek out his support?  Will Reigns oblige?  And there’s always hope for the future.  We all know that for the foreseeable one, Jon Moxley will remain that incarnation over at AEW but that doesn’t mean we’ll never see Dean Ambrose again.  To be honest, I hope there are WWE/AEW collaborations in the future but whether they will take shape is hard to say with conviction presently.  Yet, I think if both promotions are wise, they’ll leave a pathway for this to happen.  You know, when the time is right.  As for now, the point I’m making will more than likely be addressed by any of Rollins’ opponents.  They’ll point out how he has a problem with moving on.  Rollins will say the WWE Universe made him do it and we’ll see if they can keep this angle interesting.  Hopefully, they’ll have fun with it.  It could go in a lot of different directions quite entertainingly.

In any case, tonight the only tidbit we have is that Reigns goes full loco, which is understandable given the dog food facial and hair treatment Dolph Ziggler and Baron Corbin served up to him last week.  Payback is to be expected.  So in this instance, that’s all we need to see.  Reigns has to go plum loco but you know, in a fun way.  He’s got to leave a big ole mess with these fools and do so effectively.  I don’t doubt he can do it, it’s a matter of will he.  The thing with this industry is that it’s basically professional rough housing.  You gotta kick someone’s ass without kicking someone’s ass.  He’s gotta sell the beatdown and everyone still has to be able to go come Sunday.  Will he pull it off?  That is the test.  We’ll be watching.  Funny tweets get retweeted and as for Likes/Favorites, well this is a Go-Home Show.  They have to leave us hungry for TLC and it being the last PPV of the year, there’s a sense of finality to it so, that lends one to feel a need to close things out in a way.  I hope everyone takes this as full clearance to leave it all out there.  Within reason of course, there’s a show Sunday 😉

See You in a Bit,

-Nicole Alexis (^_~)