SmackDown pulled a 1.3 million viewers last week — one of the year’s ugliest numbers — and the blue brand is hemorrhaging momentum heading into tonight. The Bronson Reed return injected some intrigue into The Vision faction storyline, but that’s table scraps when your weekly audience is tanking. WWE needs to give fans a reason to tune in, and the card needs to deliver on that promise immediately.
Rematch energy here after Reed’s chair-shot intervention last week, but the real story is whether Bron’s Vision backing holds or if Femi finds a way to escape the numbers game. Don’t sleep on this getting messy again.
WAW Pick: Bron takes it via Vision interference, but Femi eats the loss with more credibility than he should.
Dominik Mysterio Appearance/Segment
Dirty Dom’s been running his mouth about Aalyah joining the Performance Center and his potential as WWE Champion — expect some form of in-ring promo or confrontation tonight. The guy’s threading the needle between being booed and being irresistible, and WWE knows it.
WAW Pick: Dom cuts a promo, gets interrupted, something breaks down into a brawl.
The “Iron Built” trademark filing from this week could be getting activated tonight. WWE doesn’t file marks without a plan, and if there’s a debut or surprise name reveal happening on SmackDown, it would make sense to push it on a show this desperate for eyeballs.
