10 Things We Learned From The Post-WrestleMania Smackdown Live!
8. Family Matters
New WWE Champion Randy Orton opened Smackdown Live! to a mixed response from the Orlando post-WrestleMania faithful, surprising viewers with the unusual on-screen appearance of both a beaming grin and a pair of trousers.
If that sounds facetious, it's only because he had very little of note to say having comfortably completed his months-long plan with an easy victory against the overmatched Bray Wyatt the prior Sunday.
None of this is Randy's fault of course, but for the company to deliver the finish and match they did on Sunday and then expect rampant anticipation for a rematch is short-sighted in the extreme.
The conflict hobbled on nonetheless, with Bray challenging Orton to an as-yet-unspecified 'House of Horrors' match then the inevitable fisticuffs leading to a surprise return of Bray's last family member Erick Rowan.
Ignoring whatever ludicrous idea WWE poach from TNA's gimmick box marked 'Abyss 2006-2009' for the match itself, the reunion of Rowan and Wyatt ixnayed Randy's apparent destruction of the entire family but gave him somebody new to pin (more on that later) as the story trundles on.
Luke Harper joined proceedings to set up a tag team main event later in the show that will hopefully mark his final involvement with these characters ahead of the 'superstar shake-up'.