Welcome to this week ‘s edition of Best and Worst of SmackDown. We’re just two weeks away from the biggest show of the year and WWE pulled out all the stops on SmackDown this week.
Several games have been added to the WrestleMania 37 card and there are some interesting ones from SmackDown. Even without online titles, these matches could steal the show on every night (or even both) of WrestleMania.
Special thanks to Riju Dasgupta, who allowed me to take over his “Best and Worst” series without him. It will resume the series starting from RAW this coming Monday.
Back to SmackDown, let’s start with an old combat that will reshape WrestleMania 37:
# 3. Best: The intriguing dynamic Kevin Owens-Sami Zayn on SmackDown
Although some WWE fans have dubbed the card WrestleMania 37 a “subliminal” name, the perception is slowly changing. It’s a card that doesn’t have part-time employees, less than Edge and Shane McMahon. There are a lot of games that can steal the show, and Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn could be one of them.
Owens vs Zayn was made official on SmackDown this week after the former Universal Champion invited his best old friend and rival to the Kevin Owens Show. While Zayn was excited to announce that Logan Paul’s YouTube sensation will appear on SmackDown next week, Owens didn’t seem to care. He put Sami Zayn back in the corner and challenged him to a game at WrestleMania 37 – and it ‘s now official.
The interesting thing is that Owens came off as heels in this area but Zayn, for all his faults, looked more like the baby. In fact, Owens bullied him in a game at WrestleMania, and he looked capable of a double turn.
It is now a few years since we saw Sami Zayn as babies. It’s hard to believe that a longer portion of his WWE run has been like heels. Either way, a double turn didn’t happen in time, and would have been a perfect place to take it off, despite Zayn’s inability to conspire with his conspiracy theories.