OFFICIAL SmackDown! LIVE thread 3/28 - WWE Champion Bray Wyatt will battle former follower Luke Harper tonight
 

PLUS:
• WrestleMania contract signing for AJ Styles vs. Shane McMahon tonight

• "Miz TV" to present the finale of the "lost" Total Bellas footage

• Who will step-up end route to the SmackDown! Women's Title free-for-all at The Show of Shows?

All that, 205 LIVE and Talking Smack, tonight on the final SmackDown! LIVE speed bump before WrestleMania 33!

Hope sheep guy returns and the Wyatts reunite to destroy Randy on Sunday.

Who knows...I just hope it's not like a lot of other SD! shows pre-WM in recent years where we get SO MUCH WrestleMania Axxess "behind-the-scenes" filler, especially now that it's live and not pre-taped.

No Mauro again?

My concern is at DEFCON 2

I miss the days when they didn't require a contract signing segment for every major PPV match.

Heh. Shane gets a so-so reaction.

Watch the crowd go nuts for Styles.

SD LIVE: Murder your maker.

T-minus 10 minutes before that table gets smashed ... or maybe politely moved to the side

I don't like that new P1 shirt.

Kind of makes sense since AJ was fired right?

Its been said he's feeling better and has been told to rest up.

I'm trying to figure out what that tabletop is made out of? Stainless steel? Chrome? Wood with a bad paint job?

Ugly with all those swirls in it.

Shane, you don't have a chance.

Yeah. With this and next week being the most hectic weeks in the year for the WWE, best for his health to be out till after it.

Oh. Daniel Bryan is still in the ring.

Usually he bails on this stuff.

They should have an in ring contract signing for each SDL match on the card.

Rare time a contract signing doesn't end in a beating or something getting smashed.

I like that

I love that the crowd booed Shane and cheered AJ.

The objective is to not be like Raw.

3 hours 4 matches last night. Let's see if Smackdown can go above & beyond with just 2 hours.

....that is fucking gross

I hope when the Spring Roster Purge rolls around Ellsworth is gone.

This gag has gone on for far too long.

Better women's match and overall segment than RAW last night.

Micke/Alexa not annoying on commentary like wrestlers usually are.

So don't start off with a womens tag match then?

Raw's women's segment took more than half an hour. And it opened the show.

LOL Alexa yelling at Ellsworth is the greatest.

WHy do they keep going to commercial in the middle of this match!?

ok that was really fucking cool

I like Naomi

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Surprised Naomi actually healed in time for Mania. Just like Rollins, horrible idea to rush her recovery though.

It really feels like everyone but Finn Balor is being rushed back from injury

THATS TRANSPHOBIC!

:lol: Breezella again

Jobber Tag Match! God damn this is how you build for the biggest event of the year.

Kane looked legit intimidating back in the day

Did the WWE get the year wrong for that Mania recap?

1997 wasn't in Boston.

The first WWE event I went to was back in 2010, when Pete Rose was the guest host on the final Raw before Wrestlemania.

I'm pretty sure he got Tombstoned then too.

:lol:

This is actually funny

OMG didn't think they could top Miz as Cena but they found a way with Mizel Bryan

"No longer than three seconds but no less than four seconds" :lol:

I was hoping Miz's facsimile of Daniel Bryan would be either a goat, or the actual Daniel Bryan asking what he's doing here.

I am home

Was the women's match like a half hour long or something

I would've lost it if Daniel Bryan actually showed up.

STOP with these awfully timed commercial breaks.

If you would have told me a year ago that Miz would become one of my favorite things in WWE I would have thought you were crazy as a beaver!

Yeah but it was split into 2 matches.

Can legit see Nikki being the one doing the kneeling for the Mania proposal

I love The Miz and Maryse

Miz needs to go to RAW in the draft and win the title. He is so good. Maryse makes him look even better.

Maryse is so fucking boner inducing.

The Miz gets to have sex with her all the time. He really should have the male locker room carrying him around on their shoulders.

Whoa! The Miz giving me a confusing boner.

The stuff about Nikki is actually true although it was more about a Mania apperance.

:lol: at that Cena dig to Maryse

John Cena is the best when hes just telling the truth

this seems boring and stupid and long imo

Best build for Mania...middle of the card mixed tag!

"ur not married!"

"u don't have kids!"

ok

Lol Cena said pussy

Even if the match is probably going to suck, this mixed tag build has been one of the best for Road to Mania this year.

Ehhh. Why is Miz getting completly buried tonight when he is getting buried again on Sunday.

CENA NEEDS TO BE A STAR

Fucking hell, this is pretty damn good.

Why was that so much more intense than any feud on Raw?

Because that's how most promo wars go against Cena right before a ppv?

smh, no smackdown tag match then I guess

I know Smackdown barely has what qualifies as a tag team championship scene, but why are the only wrestlers in that scene in the battle royale?

My favourite thing about SmackDown is how organized everything seems.

There are 5 SmackDown matches at WrestleMania and the battle royal. Assuming there is an Ambrose/Corbin segment next, there will prob be 6 coinciding segments tonight to build each match.

Maybe the trophy gets split into 2 if a tag team wins the match.

Or they get 2 mini-Andre statues sort of like Slammys.

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Not a good night for Breeze. First got rejected for being in the women's title match as Breezella, then called a waste of space by Cena, and now pinned by Mojo.

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Mike Dalton would be a good addition to New Japan's Jr. Heavyweight Division, btw.

The Harper/Wyatt split has been completely overshadowed by Orton. A real shame.

:eek: Big Cass finally realized he's been spelling "soft" wrong the whole time in that Snickers ad.

That was by design. :mad:

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Luke Harper theme seems incredibly generic

Catching up...this Miz skit is hilarious

I really wanna see Miz beat Cena at WM again

Miz has been the loser of pretty much every altercation between the two. Cena winning would be a burial really.

I think we know what will happen.

:lol: at Harper's suicide dives just being him pushing Bray to the table.

Harper looks Jacked and can move

Matches like these are exactly why SmackDown! IS the A show.

I always thought Harper had the look and talent to really be a big deal, but the guy is already 37. How long would he realistically ever have at the top?

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The graphic shows exactly 30 superstars in the battle royal (with the obvious final 2 being front and center).

It's very possible Luke Harper and Samoa Joe won't be on WrestleMania at all as opposed to just being tossed in this as extras.

The hell was that finish?

Pretty cool ending to Smackdown.

Unless you're a cheese or a wine, age ain't nothin' but a number IMHO.

Samoa Joe is 38 and Styles turns 40 in June. It would have to be soon though, I agree

Those two had at least been built to main event status prior to the WWE though.

I am guessing that Harper will have a roll in Orton/Wyatt. Maybe a Harper/Rowan aligning with Orton deal? Double turn?

Samoa Joe will definitely be involved in HHH/Rollins. It will have lots of run ins I'm sure, to protect him.

Akira "Tina Belcher" Tozawa wrestling...why...why do they torment us with his stupid screams? :'(

And Luke Harper might have a factor in Orton v. Wyatt such as a distraction or on commentary maybe...

Funny how in his first run Daivari was Khosrow Daivari and now he's "Ariya" Daivari...which is it? Can't have it both ways...

Will probably never happen but if R-Truth and Rich Swann ever formed a team they should call themselves "Can You Handle The Truth?".

Ariya is Shawn/Khosrow Daivari's brother.

They don't really look anything alike at this point.

Ummm I don't think that's how perfume works Alicia.

I figured as much. But it's still a damn shame that those two couldn't have had an actual match on the biggest PPV of the year.

I'd have liked a Braun/Luke inter promotional match somehow, and they'd have some semblance of a back story. Then let Joe suplex bitches in the battle royal.