5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (10 July - Results & Review)
1. We’re Doing Solo & Jacob AGAIN!
WWE is vastly overestimating how much general interest there is in this sort of feud.
Solo Sikoa vs. Jacob Fatu is old ground, and casting Solo as some sort of vigilante trying to take down The Bloodline has zero legs. Here, the match between Jimmy Uso and Royce Keys was pretty dull too. Yeah, a lot would need to change for your reviewer to get invested here, being brutally upfront. Sikoa will be at Raw on Monday, apparently. Thrilling.
Sorry to be such a downer about all of this, but it feels like a repeat with the best bits edited out. The Bloodline has a 'been there, done that' vibe to it overall, and there are still concerns that WWE's writers will have Solo put together his own clunky squad to face Roman and company. Woe betide anyone on creative who thinks that has the potential to enter WarGames. They'd need to be crazy!
This week, Jacob went to smash Solo's teeth in with a steel chair in the corner, but stopped and read the riot act on him instead. In other words, it was a warning from Reigns. Sikoa has to play nice and fall in line, or he'll get what's coming to him. As aforementioned, none of this is hitting with the thump that WWE wants it to. If they're trying to put sympathy on Solo, then they're failing miserably. If they're not, then what is the point anyway?
We're just chewing through content for the sake of content, and it's making everyone feel less over than they should be.