5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Oct 20 - Results & Review)

1. What Was This?!

Grayson Waller Austin Theory
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WWE shouted from the rooftops about Dragon Lee for approx two weeks.

That was it. That was the man's lot. On Friday, the same company conspired to make Lee and partner Cameron Grimes look like lowly jobbers against Grayson Waller and Austin Theory. Look, Waller and Theory have real potential as a team, but this was not the way to showcase their skills.

If anything, it was counterproductive. Waller and Theory gained nothing by beating Lee and Grimes, and the babyface duo came across as two scrubs shoved together for next-to-no-reason. The match was criminally low on time and overall fan interest, which is proper worrying.

It's rather dazzling that WWE managed to book a heel win which didn't help the bad guys whilst simultaneously gutting the face pair at the same time. That's puzzling, but it happened here. Now, it looks like Grayson and Austin will be feuding with KO? Why?!

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