Which Other WWE Raw Star Appeared On Last Night's SmackDown?

Two Raw stars appeared on last night's episode of WWE SmackDown.

Braun Strowman made his return to close the show, but it was AJ Styles who bounced onto Friday nights first by confronting old foe Daniel Bryan. He interrupted Dan's opening promo about the Royal Rumble and then faced Bryan one-on-one later.

Their match then turned into big show-ending 10-man tag bout - Braun made his presence felt following that.

Fans on social media greeted AJ's one-night invasion as a surprise treat. WWE's brand-to-brand invitational idea can be annoying, but it sometimes works out well, and nobody was going to complain about more AJ Styles last night.

Strangely though, AJ described the invitational gimmick as "quarterly". That's not something the company had laid out before. Talent can seemingly only jump ship as a one-off once per quarter? Yeah, WWE are not going to stick to that.

Some on Twitter believe the promotion should just do away with the brand split completely and stop pretending that talent are locked by ironclad contracts for each brand. Then, they could do as they pleased without these half-arsed excuses.

Still, AJ vs. Bryan is never going to be an overwhelming negative.