4 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Feb 3)

Ups...

4. Gel! Gel! Gel!

Normally, seeing two guys pushed together randomly to win a tag-team tournament would suck, but Braun Strowman and Ricochet deserve a ton of credit. They've shown some solid chemistry in recent weeks, and they do represent fresh speed-bump challengers for The Usos next week.

Sure, the whole tourney was strange. That's undeniable, and yet Braun/Rico vs. Ludwig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci was a really good opener for SmackDown. Fans were into it (few play babyface in peril before launching a comeback as well as Ricochet), and the heels bounced around for Strowman as expected.

Those Imperium lads better get a title reign later in the year. Just saying.

It's genuinely hard to argue with this kind of tag-team fare. The big man/little man dynamic the faces have going on works, and the Kaiser/Vinci duo know how to play their roles to a tee. Now, WWE have a question to answer about Jey Uso's involvement next week, which is one hell of a hook.