20 WTF Moments From WWE SmackDown Live (August 23)
6. This Made Very Little Sense, Dan
Daniel Bryan came out to make a main event match for this week's SmackDown that didn't make too much sense.
AJ Styles was booked to take on Dolph Ziggler. If AJ won, he got a singles championship match against Dean Ambrose at Backlash. If Dolph won, he'd be added to the match to make it a Triple Threat. So no matter the result, AJ was guaranteed a place in the main event of SmackDown's first exclusive PPV. He might as well have taken the night off. Presumably, if he was DQd, he'd still be in the match anyway.
It seemed that Bryan turned heel on us by stacking the deck in favour of heel Styles so much that Ziggles didn't really have a chance.
If only Daniel had made it clear that The Phenominal One was going to be in the main event whatever the weather, then he wouldn't have looked so DAMN stupid!