AJ Styles Turning Face? HUGE WWE Main Roster Debuts! | WWE Smackdown Live, April 4, 2017 Review

Both Shinsuke Nakamura and Tye Dillinger made their main roster debuts!
AJ Styles looks like he’s turning face.
And shut the fridge door, the biggest WWE return of the week happened with BIG RED EVERYTHING
Erick Rowan!
I’m Oli Davis, and this is the 4th April 2017 edition of Smackdown Live...in about
4 minutes.
Randy Orton Promo The new WWE Champion Randy Orton came out
to open the show, boasting about his masterplan to destroy the Wyatts.
I feel like everyone’s a heel here.
Bray appeared on the Titan Tron to challenge The Viper to a House of Horrors bout.
Which I’m pretty sure is where both men have to watch their own Wrestlemania match.
Randy accepted and then Bray appeared behind him - ironically from OUTTA NOWHERE - with
the returning BIG RED EVERYTHING Erick Rowan!
Who was wearing a terrifying asthmatic sheep mask.
Luke Harper came down to even the odds, and a tag match was made for later that night,
playas.
Naomi beat Alexa Bliss Naomi successfully defended her newly won
Women’s Championship against Alexa Bliss, in a really good match.
Even though Naomi was selling her bad leg, she still did the rave celebration - which
kind of made her look like a dancing pirate.
Tye Dillinger beat Curt Hawkins Capitalising on his Royal Rumble entrance
two months ago, Tye Dillinger answered Curt Hawkins’ open challenge.
The crowd were super into him, yelling 10 for every move he did.
This was a good squash match to get Tye over on his full main roster debut.
Total Bellas Call-Up The Miz and Maryse came out dressed as John
Cena and Nikki Bella, to make fun of the newly engaged couple for leaving WWE.
Then a violinist started playing at the top of the ramp.
Just a few chords in, and it was already better than Pitbull.
This was, of course, Shinsuke Nakamura’s main roster debut, who got a five minute rockstar
entrance to a very hot crowd.
Unfortunately, that’s all that happened.
He just stood in the ring, did his strange dance moves and then walked out.
This was a missed opportunity.
Miz should’ve started running down Nakamura for interrupting his segment, and then Shinsuke
should’ve kicked his head off - subconsciously putting Nakamura on John Cena’s level in
viewers’ minds.
Baron Corbin beat Dean Ambrose Baron Corbin beat Dean Ambrose in a really
fun street fight, with chairs, straps and tables - which probably means their Intercontinental
Title feud isn’t over.
Shane McMahon Talks The “Superstar Shake-Up” Shane McMahon managed to talk about next week’s
“Superstar shake-up” thingy while not actually revealing anything about it.
Probably because he doesn’t know either.
AJ Styles came down to confront him, sporting a black eye from one of Shane’s potato punches
on Sunday night, but shockingly cut a babyface promo - saying he doesn’t want to go anywhere
and shook hands with McMahon.
Seeing that Nakamura is now on the same promotion as Styles, I don’t want AJ to go anywhere
either.
Randy Orton & Luke Harper beat Bray Wyatt & Erick Rowan
The main event tag match, unfortunately, failed to connect.
Orton and Wyatt’s feud hasn’t recovered from the house-burning reveal, and their Wrestlemania
match dud hurt them even further.
Wyatt teleported away to avoid an RKO, leaving Rowan to get one from outta somewhere.
Bray loses again, in an anticlimactic close to the show.
So that was this week’s Smackdown Live review, here’s the usual ratings recap: SmackDamn,
Smacktastic, Smack Bang In The Middle, Ellsworthy and Raw.
This week’s Smackdown is Smacktastic.
That bottom Raw rating doesn’t work so much this week.
The Tye Dillinger and Shinsuke Nakamura call-ups were enough to give this episode an above
average rating, and - of course - the huge return of BIG RED EVERYTHING Erick Rowan.
But Nakamura’s debut missed out on a much-needed physical interaction and the Wyatt/Orton feud
no longer interests me.
What did you all think?
Let me know in the comments down below, and make sure to vote in the poll above my head
to give it your own rating.
I’ll announce the results on tomorrow’s WrestleTalk News.
Raw was better than Smackdown for a change!
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AJ Styles Turning Face? HUGE WWE Main Roster Debuts! | WWE Smackdown Live, April 4, 2017 Review

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