Two Matches Announced for Next Week’s “Smackdown Live”

Two for the price of free. A positive trend over the last few weeks has been matches being announced upwards of a week in advance. It’s very tiresome having a match being announced one night and then taking place later in the same show. Thankfully WWE has been a bit better about announcing things in advance and they’re doing it again for next week.

This week on “Smackdown Live”, two matches were announced for next week’s show: Randy Orton vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the #1 contendership to the Smackdown World Title and Natalya vs. Carmella in a non-title match. To build the respective matches, Orton gave Nakamura an RKO to end tonight’s show and Carmella teased cashing in her Money in the Bank briefcase.

Here’s a tag match to set up the #1 contender’s match.

Randy Orton & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Jinder Mahal & Rusev: SmackDown LIVE, Aug. 29, 2017

And some trash talk from Natalya and Carmella.

When is Naomi getting her SmackDown Women's Title rematch?: SmackDown LIVE, Aug. 29, 2017

Opinion: The women’s match isn’t all that interesting but having a World Title match being ready upwards of a month in advance (assuming the title match takes place at “Hell in a Cell 2017” in October) is a nice change of pace. Let us know what we’re in for if we watch and let it feel more important. Why is that so complicated?

Which of these matches interests you more? Who do you think wins both of them? Let us know in the comments below.