Tribute To The Troops Spoilers (Complete)

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

From various Twitter sources:

*Roman Reigns out first to cut a promo. He is interrupted by Kevin Owens first, then Rusev, who both heel out on the US. They go the ring and corner Reigns, but Big Cass makes the save. Tag match made for later by Mick Foley, Reigns/Cass v Owens/Rusev.
*Sheamus and Cesaro win a Fatal 4-Way tag team match over The Club, The Shining Stars and The Golden Truth to get a title shot against The New Day on Sunday.
*The Miz out next. He puts out a non-title open challenge, which is accepted by Apollo Crews, who has Gabriel Iglesias with him. Crews wins the match when Iglesias distracts Miz.
*The Wyatt Family defeat Dolph Ziggler and American Alpha with the "as-sister-ed" RKO.
*Bayley defeats Dana Brooke. Charlotte Flair was in Brooke's corner for the match.
*Rich Swann, TJ Perkins and Jack Gallagher defeat The Brian Kendrick, Tony Nese and Drew Gulak with Swann's roundhouse kick.
*Backstage segment with The New Day, who are confronted by the full Club, who are then confronted by the former Shield. Big pop for that.
*Roman Reigns and Big Cass defeat Kevin Owens and Rusev with a Spear to Rusev.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

[Error]

Dean next to Seth and not in a murderous rage is just not right.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 13, 2016 22:07:22 GMT -5 Error said:

Dean next to Seth and not in a murderous rage is just not right.

The assumption is they literally don't exist outside of the TV show. I guess Rollins could have apologised at any time, and Reigns is with him all the time so he'd be a reliable second opinion on the matter.

*shrug*

[Perd]

That camera angle makes it look like the Shield is towering over everyone else. It's like WWE's booking summed up in one photo.

[Error]

The 6 person tag with Ziggler and Alpha vs. Wyatt Family was originally supposed to have Hype Bros. teaming with Ziggler but Ryder's injury forced a change.

[Deleted]

Dec 13, 2016 22:10:24 GMT -5 Perd said:

That camera angle makes it look like the Shield is towering over everyone else. It's like WWE's booking summed up in one photo.

Well that's pretty accurate on all fronts.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

The most shocking thing about this is that a Honor the Troops result is canon. Sheamus and Cesaro winning the #1 Contenderships will actually be referenced on Sunday.

[JCBaggee]

Dec 13, 2016 23:28:27 GMT -5 Error said:

The 6 person tag with Ziggler and Alpha vs. Wyatt Family was originally supposed to have Hype Bros. teaming with Ziggler but Ryder's injury forced a change.

I can't figure out the booking for American Alpha, a team who were hyped to no end for their TV debut, are presented as perhaps the strongest tag team on the Smackdown brand and yet exist solely to fluke their way into losses during big matches.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Dec 13, 2016 22:10:16 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 13, 2016 22:07:22 GMT -5 Error said:

Dean next to Seth and not in a murderous rage is just not right.

The assumption is they literally don't exist outside of the TV show. I guess Rollins could have apologised at any time, and Reigns is with him all the time so he'd be a reliable second opinion on the matter.

*shrug*

We did see them work together without issue at Survivor Series before. My guess is that Dean and Roman had Seth do some wacky shit to make up for the past.

[Error]

Dec 13, 2016 23:51:24 GMT -5 JCBaggee said:

Dec 13, 2016 23:28:27 GMT -5 Error said:

The 6 person tag with Ziggler and Alpha vs. Wyatt Family was originally supposed to have Hype Bros. teaming with Ziggler but Ryder's injury forced a change.

I can't figure out the booking for American Alpha, a team who were hyped to no end for their TV debut, are presented as perhaps the strongest tag team on the Smackdown brand and yet exist solely to fluke their way into losses during big matches.

They fell victim to Slater catching fire and SDL having a small tag division. They need a strong heel team and the Wyatt Family seems perfect for them to face but they just lost to them so it makes no sense to go right back to it. They really need another team or 2 added to the division so they can have a better role.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 13, 2016 23:55:11 GMT -5 Error said:

Dec 13, 2016 23:51:24 GMT -5 JCBaggee said:

I can't figure out the booking for American Alpha, a team who were hyped to no end for their TV debut, are presented as perhaps the strongest tag team on the Smackdown brand and yet exist solely to fluke their way into losses during big matches.

They fell victim to Slater catching fire and SDL having a small tag division. They need a strong heel team and the Wyatt Family seems perfect for them to face but they just lost to them so it makes no sense to go right back to it. They really need another team or 2 added to the division so they can have a better role.

Same issue that Bayley and Jax ran into on RAW... Divisions are too small for them to just rack up win after win over the rest of the division, but instantly giving them the belts would have been just as much of a disservice, so they're just kind of spinning their wheels waiting for a feud to sink their teeth into.

[Urethra Franklin]

Dec 14, 2016 0:01:23 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 13, 2016 23:55:11 GMT -5 Error said:

They fell victim to Slater catching fire and SDL having a small tag division. They need a strong heel team and the Wyatt Family seems perfect for them to face but they just lost to them so it makes no sense to go right back to it. They really need another team or 2 added to the division so they can have a better role.

Same issue that Bayley and Jax ran into on RAW... Divisions are too small for them to just rack up win after win over the rest of the division, but instantly giving them the belts would have been just as much of a disservice, so they're just kind of spinning their wheels waiting for a feud to sink their teeth into.

Which goes to show you the danger of calling up somebody without a long term plan for them. This has killed Apollo Crews.

The guy would have been so much better off in NXT (probably in a title program) than floundering aimlessly on SD.

Don't call guys up just for the sake of it.

[Deleted]

Dec 13, 2016 22:07:22 GMT -5 Error said:

Dean next to Seth and not in a murderous rage is just not right.

It's close to Christmas, Ill allow it.
(Christmas episodes and stuff like this tend not to be canon in the long run anyway. )

[Deleted]

I'm sure with American Alpha they're wanting to have them get the tag titles sooner rather than later, but they kind of fell victim to some poor planning around them. Really should've had the Usos beat Rhyno and Slater at No Mercy, do the Survivor Series stall thing they did, then have the Usos win again at TLC, then move into properly doing the feud with AA they've been half-and-halfing for months on end now. It would've felt predictable and kind of flat probably, but was really the more logical route to go in, then you could use Orton and Wyatt actually in the main event scene where really they're pretty needed at the moment, and ideally in the background of that they could be building the other heel teams to be AA's challengers once they actually won the feud... though heavy emphasis on 'ideally' with that one given how SmackDown seems to be going out of it's way to not build heel teams up.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Dec 13, 2016 23:55:11 GMT -5 Error said:

Dec 13, 2016 23:51:24 GMT -5 JCBaggee said:

I can't figure out the booking for American Alpha, a team who were hyped to no end for their TV debut, are presented as perhaps the strongest tag team on the Smackdown brand and yet exist solely to fluke their way into losses during big matches.

They fell victim to Slater catching fire and SDL having a small tag division. They need a strong heel team and the Wyatt Family seems perfect for them to face but they just lost to them so it makes no sense to go right back to it. They really need another team or 2 added to the division so they can have a better role.

I think they're waiting till Mania to give American Alpha the belts. They'll build Wyatts as unbeatable till Alpha dethrones them at Mania.

[Deleted]

Dec 14, 2016 2:10:02 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Dec 13, 2016 23:55:11 GMT -5 Error said:

They fell victim to Slater catching fire and SDL having a small tag division. They need a strong heel team and the Wyatt Family seems perfect for them to face but they just lost to them so it makes no sense to go right back to it. They really need another team or 2 added to the division so they can have a better role.

I think they're waiting till Mania to give American Alpha the belts. They'll build Wyatts as unbeatable till Alpha dethrones them at Mania.

Honestly I figure they'll drop them before that point and it'll be Orton / Wyatt at Mania. Which I think'd be the better route, not everything needs to happen at Mania and really I don't consider AA to be a big enough deal to sink that much time or spotlight into on the usually cluttered Mania card when you consider all the other people likely to be shunted off to the Andre purgatory.

On another note, I have no idea what to expect out of the title match at Roadblock. On one hand it makes no sense for New Day to drop the tag titles in a match not even announced on a show of consequence and it'd kind of undercut the significance of the achievement to have them drop the things literally the first chance that arises afterward, on the other Sheamus and Cesaro are going to look like chumps if they yet again fail to take the belts.

[Gerard Gerard]

Dec 13, 2016 23:52:55 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

Dec 13, 2016 22:10:16 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

The assumption is they literally don't exist outside of the TV show. I guess Rollins could have apologised at any time, and Reigns is with him all the time so he'd be a reliable second opinion on the matter.

*shrug*

We did see them work together without issue at Survivor Series before. My guess is that Dean and Roman had Seth do some wacky shit to make up for the past.

Given Seth destroyed The Shield for what was essentially a free MitB win, I like to think that Ambrose considered his revenge exacted when he finally made good on his promise to prevent Seth from holding the title whilst also utilizing the very briefcase that Seth betrayed The Shield to attain. Everybody's moved on.

Or, you know, it's because The Shield together is a cool visual.

[Nic Nemeth]

How many heels does Smackdown have now?

It feels like they have a million.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Why are Apollo Crews and Gabriel Iglesias suddenly hanging out now? Like did I miss something here?? I didn't even hear Gabriel advertised for Smackdown unless he was advertised for the Troops Show and just did a segment but man... it's just random regardless...