10 Shocks WWE Could Pull At The Greatest Royal Rumble
8. Friday Night Takeaway
Reasoned complaints were made after the post-WrestleMania Superstar Shake-up, noting that various trades and seemingly ill-thought-out switches between shows had brutally hijacked any sense of tension in some of the awkwardly-positioned Greatest Royal Rumble midcard clashes.
Seth Rollins finds himself in a fatal four-way Intercontinental Title battle featuring two opponents that wouldn't even be around to give him a rematch if he lost. Meanwhile, Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt are required to crab-walk into the King Abdullah International Arena and save Raw's tag titles from certain SmackDown Live! status if pinched by Sheamus and Cesaro.
Triple H was obviously right yet again - Kurt Angle is an idiot. Or the company are more than happy to let him be considered one, anyway.
The booking might bail him out yet - it's unlikely the belts will migrate permanently, with them all proving so vital on both shows since the original 2016 split. The company does have another pay-per-view just a week or so removed from the event itself though, and could potentially make use of the calendrical quirk to shock a few people. As a card, Backlash is a B-show in more than moniker alone, and will require the tension extracted from the The Bar and The Miz scarpering with the straps in Saudi.