5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (May 15)
3. Next Week’s Show
It feels kinda' weird to use an 'Up' on next week's SmackDown, admittedly.
That card is stacked though. WWE has lined up a 'Champion vs. Champion' match between Charlotte Flair and Bayley (which should be fun and will again further Sasha Banks' inevitable turn) and a mixed tag pitting Otis and Mandy Rose against Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville.
Then, there will be another two matches in the Intercontinental Title Tournament - Jeff Hardy will work Sheamus and AJ Styles collides with Shinsuke Nakamura. If one looks at that lineup without prejudice over how WWE might book it, then it's pretty damn strong. There's some serious star power on tap come Friday.
Fingers crossed the writers don't make a balls-up of things. Sasha needs to accidentally cost Bayley again, Jeff Hardy needs to advance and AJ must progress past Nakamura. In the mixed tag, Sonya has to keep making Mandy's life a misery too.