7 Ups & 2 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Nov 27)

4. Big E Finally Getting A Feud?

Big E Sami Zayn
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This is where things get rather strange, 'cause WWE are busily setting up not one but two IC Title feuds for Sami Zayn on SmackDown. His issues with Daniel Bryan are simmering away nicely, and now he has beef with kinda'/sorta'/definitely lost New Day singleton Big E.

He and Sam had a showdown backstage that will presumably lead to E dethroning Zayn for the belt in the future. That might crap all over the already-fun Bryan challenge, but both these combinations are awesome and will birth great matches so who really cares? This is way better than what E was doing previously anyway.

His goofy backstage skits could only take him so far, and the gyrating pancake t*sser (an admittedly weird line out of context) hasn't done much since that hard-hitting mini-rivalry with Sheamus came to an end. WWE needed to follow up on that quicker than they did, but this is a good start.

E could eventually do what Bryan couldn't.

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