Hello and welcome to the SmackDown preview I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture joined by

one of the dadly boys Michael Sidduick from WhatCulture here to look ahead to tonight's episode

of Friday Night SmackDown. But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing,

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round of a week complete. With the money, of course, on WrestleCulture, as I said, joined by Michael

Sidduick, Michael Hamlet, still enjoying that. Well earned four nights off, but we're here to look

ahead to SmackDown tonight. And a major match, the Universal Championship on the line,

Rowan Reigns versus Finn Balor. What did you make of the set-up to this last week and how do you

see it playing out tonight? The set-up was bog standard elevated by Finn Balor's incredible

kudegro. It looked like he'd caved that bogger's ribcage in. It was great. Finn Balor's great.

Rowan Reigns is great in this role. My worry is that we are not going to get a finish.

Yep, you can see the cogs of the storytelling just gradually rolling in the way that these

things do in WWE. We know that Brock Lesnar is more likely to work Rowan Reigns in Saudi Arabia.

We know that WWE has an upcoming pay-be-view entitled Extreme Rules. We know that WWE tends to

build rematches by doing matches. Not angles or promos. Is there anything cool that builds

anticipation and doesn't give the game away, but they build matches via matches. And when there's a

plunder, notice qualification, match of that kind of ilk, we will see a non-finish. We will

see an interference from the Usos. An in theory, it's boring. But in theory, it also puts

over the idea that Finn Balor is such a threat to Roman Reigns that he's going to rely on the Usos

to help him out. And I know I've got an expect, like Sonia DeVille and what's the other one?

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