10 Ways SmackDown Live! Can Recover Before 2018

10. All The Marbles

AJ Styles reopened the 'United States Championship Open Challenge' on SmackDown Live!, taking on Tye Dillinger despite Baron Corbin's best efforts to ruin the match before it even began. Ultimately, 'The Phenomenal One' was successful in the match, and then again in the post-match aggro with 'The Lone Wolf', and it's hard to see him coming up short in their eventual pay-per-view clash.

Meanwhile, Jinder Mahal trundles on as possibly one of the most boring WWE Champions of all time. Drained of the controversy that may have originally come along with his surprising victory, 'The Maharaja' has barely managed an enjoyable contest since dethroning Randy Orton way back in May.

'Barely', because the one time he did look like an actual headliner was unsurprisingly against AJ Styles.

Styles, in his role effectively as the best wrestler in the world, did everything he could to make Jinder look like the star he's supposed to be. Neither Randy Orton nor Shinsuke Nakamura have proven quite so capable, and it may be worth considering offering a Title vs Title clash as a SmackDown Live! equivalent to some of the amazing main events Monday Night Raw currently seems to have at its disposal.