WWE Friday Night Smackdown Open Discussion Thread (11/1/19)

Tonight, on the With Spandex WWE Friday Night Smackdown open discussion thread:

More than 175 Superstars, production crew and employees boarded a 747 charter flight back to the United States on Thursday. After the door closed, due to several aircraft problems including mechanical issues, all passengers sat on the tarmac for more than six hours. With SmackDown set to emanate live from Buffalo, N.Y., several Superstars felt so strongly that they arranged for their own separate charter in order to make it back to the U.S. for the show. Due to unforeseen issues, that charter will not land until after the live broadcast on FOX.

The remainder of WWE’s Superstars, staff and crew will depart on a charter set to depart Saudi Arabia later tonight.
As always with WWE, the show must go on. Live at 8/7 CT on FOX, SmackDown will feature Superstars, such as Daniel Bryan, The Miz, Carmella, Nikki Cross, Dana Brooke — plus, additional surprises. (via WWE.com, more on the whole situation over here.)

Our five-point preview:

1. Since Daniel Bryan was not in Saudi Arabia, he’ll be around and have a chance to finally let us know whether he’s bringing back the Yes Movement or not, and Sami Zayn will probably be around to react, even if Shinsuke’s not with him. This would also be a great time for a promo about how right he was to refuse to go to Crown Jewel, but in WWE that would be a heel promo, so he probably can’t do it if he is turning face.

2. Bayley wasn’t mentioned in the WWE update about tonight’s show, but she’s the only Smackdown champion who wasn’t at Crown Jewel, so it seems likely they’ll find something for her to do! Maybe they’ll go ahead and give Nikki Cross her title shot. This would be the perfect opportunity to give it lots of time and let both women remind us of the kind of stuff they used to do in NXT.

3. The Miz is around, so he might have a match, but he’s much more likely to host a talk show. In fact, he was originally supposed to have Bray Wyatt on tonight, but he’s going to need a new guest. Maybe he can have Aleister Black on, and ask how things are going in that dark room backstage.

4. Sonya Deville is one Smackdown roster member who will never be invited to Saudi Arabia no matter how many women’s matches they have, so it would be nice if she got some TV time tonight, I’m just saying.

5. If things get really dire, maybe we’ll get some surprise appearances from NXT people? WWE seems like they’d fly Keith Lee or Matt Riddle up to wrestle a match before they’d let Sami Zayn compete in a ring in 2019.

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