Smackdown Live! Preview, 2 Confirmed Matches

Tonight’s episode of Smackdown Live! Will emanate from the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix Arizona. The same venue hosted Raw last night.

Only 2 matches for the show have been announced thus far, however many of the segments should build to potential matches at Fastlane. The last Smackdown-specific PPV (of this brand-split era) will take place March 11th, 2018 from Columbus, OH.

Smackdown Live! Matches and Segments

• New Day vs. Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin
  • Due to Gable and Benjamin again having a beef with the referee’s decision from last week, Gable and Benjamin will get another crack at New Day.
  • Gable explained his beef with the refs call last week which cost them a match against the same team they will face tonight.

A: A serious tag team making a legal and legitimate tag.

B: The referee playing ha-ha with a guy who wasn’t even in the match.

C: Big E, out of sight, but completely wrecked from my suplex.

I’m sick of getting screwed over and over. Something must be done.

Attn: @WWE pic.twitter.com/MeXWkEjFAh

— Chad Gable (@WWEGable) February 16, 2018

• Charlotte Flair, Naomi, & Becky Lynch vs. the Riott Squad
  • Flair has defeated Liv Morgan and Sarah Morgan in successive weeks on Smackdown. This week the Riott Squad challenged her to find 2 partners to take part in a 6-person tag.
  • Flair picked Becky and Naomi to team with her.
  • We still don’t have a championship challenger for Flair’s title at Fastlane. Perhaps something will happen tonight to change that.
• AJ Styles Reacts to the 5-Way Match at Fastlane
  • Last week two more challengers were added to the championship match at the upcoming pay-per-view. Tonight WWE is advertising that the WWE champion will have something to say about this.
  • Zayn, Owens, Ziggler, and Corbin will probably also have something to say.
• Bobby Roode’s US Championship Segment
  • Last week, Roode appeared to express his desire to face Randy Orton face-to-face but Jinder Mahal interrupted and interjected himself into the title situation. Orton had given Roode an RKO (seemingly from out of nowhere) the previous week.
  • Roode does not yet have a challenger for the Fastlane pay-per-view. WWE is advertising he could have something to say to his potential challengers tonight
• The Bludgeon Brothers Targetting the Usos
  • Last week, the Bludgeon Brothers Took their hammers to a television monitor which was playing a promo by the tag team champions, the Usos. This week, Harper and Rowen might be looking to do the same thing, only not to a television screen.