6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (8 Nov - Results & Review)

2. The Piledriver Could’ve Looked Better

Time to (maybe) ruffle a few feathers and then don a cunning disguise to avoid hate mail.

In all seriousness, a lot of people are going to hate on this point and that's fine. It didn't fully detract from the segment Kevin Owens and Randy Orton worked on Friday, but...two things can be true at once. The angle was top class, but that piledriver KO gave Randy could've looked better than it did. It certainly could've looked more vicious, and WWE could've done a niftier job protecting both guys.

Safety should always be paramount, agreed, but WWE's camera angles on the replays did nothing for this spot. It was pretty crystal clear in some of them that the move was too gentle looking considering Owens is supposed to be some out of control renegade who's going too far. Does that sound weird? Perhaps that sounds weird, and harsh, but yours truly has re-watched the thing over and over again to be sure before laying in.

"Laying is" would be too strong anyway - this isn't meant as some takedown of Kev or the angle overall. Instead, it's someone wishing the move had looked more devastating, because their feud deserves that and so does Orton's world class selling in the aftermath. Nobody's saying that KO should've been ultra careless with his peer here. Not at all.

If anything, WWE's production team should've had a better understanding of the need for precaution and shot this in a way that masked the surprising lack of impact. Again, this could well be someone looking too deeply into things in the heat of the moment.