5 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Oct 10)
Downs...
3. A Doomed Repackaging
Luke Harper and Erick Rowan belong together.
It was abundantly clear that WWE were never going to push the former as a singles act, and the latter's skillset is too limited for him to prosper as anything other than a henchman. Their reunion makes sense, it's great to see them back on television, and their old-school power-brawling style will make them nice additions to the tag division.
The gimmick sucks, though.
Clad like low-rent Fallout Raiders, Harper & Rowan appeared with a couple of goofy, Thor-esque war hammers last night and cut a corny call-and-response promo, promising "broken bones" and "severed spines." It felt like another lame 1980s throwback on a show that's already full of them, and while it'd be wrong to totally dismiss the act before it truly gets off the ground, the duo didn't make a good start last night. "Bludgeon Brothers?" Give us a break...