Official WWE “Smackdown Live” Preview – April 3, 2018

There’s one more to go. After what feels like months of waiting and preparing, it’s finally time to send things off to New Orleans for “Wrestlemania XXXIV”. Last night saw the go home edition of “Monday Night Raw” and tonight will see the same thing for “Smackdown Live”. Most of the show is already set but there are still two hours with which WWE can either put together a few more things or just polish up the last little bit of the build.

Need a recap? Here are last week’s results.

WWE.com has released its full preview for this week’s episode of “Smackdown Live”. This week’s show will focus on the final push towards “Wrestlemania XXXIV” and is likely to be talking heavy rather than a show based around wrestling. There are only four stories listed this week for the show, which is about average at times but it has been five several times in recent weeks. The top story this week looks at AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura teaming together against Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin in a followup from the ending of last week’s show. Here are this week’s featured stories.

AJ Styles & Shinsuke Nakamura to face Chad Gable & Shinsuke Nakamura

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Shelton Benjamin: SmackDown LIVE, March 27, 2018

Rusev battles Jinder Mahal days before U.S. Title Fatal 4-Way

Randy Orton & Bobby Roode vs. Jinder Mahal & Rusev: SmackDown LIVE, March 27, 2018

Charlotte Flair faces Natalya in a rematch from two weeks ago

Charlotte Flair vs. Natalya: SmackDown LIVE, March 20, 2018

Shane McMahon to return ahead of WrestleMania

Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn brutally attack Shane McMahon: SmackDown LIVE, March 13, 2018

Opinion: This is one of those rare shows where you know what to expect but at the same time you don’t know what to expect. You know they’re going to put the finishing touches on “Wrestlemania XXXIV” but how are they going to go about doing that? There are several ways you could go with a lot of the matches and that could make for a fun evening. It should be cool to see some of the final touches and hopefully that means a few more names being added to the battle royals.

Which of these stories interests you most? What do you want to see added to “Wrestlemania”? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the WWE Grab Bag.

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