WWE SummerSlam 2017: Assessing The Potential Quality Of All 12 Matches

7. The New Day Vs. The Usos - SmackDown Tag Team Title Match

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Many PPV rivalries in WWE follow a rule of three.

The first match often ends inconclusively to justify a second outing. That's what happened at Money In The Bank, at which The Usos took a cheap count-out win. The second is sometimes conclusive, sometimes not. It was at Battleground, at which Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods captured the SmackDown Tag Team Titles.

Big things are expected of the rubber. The four/five men share great chemistry within their own units and with each other, having honed their respective acts over years and shown the talent and longevity to hush the naysayers and their protests of monotony. Their match was by some distance the best thing at Battleground - brilliantly calibrated and performed to yield a raucous audience reaction. They are pros. Here's hoping they're not let down by amateurish booking.

Entertaining angles and awesome heel work on the part of the Usos have allowed fans to invest in this sleeper choice for WWE feud of the year, and you'd hope the decision-makers recognise this, and allocate a good fifteen minutes for what is virtually guaranteed to be very, very good match.

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