Smackdown Live started its journey in 2019 from last week onwards. It came up with a big episode that crowned a new number one contender for the WWE Championship. None other than AJ Styles secured the spot to renew his rivalry against Daniel Bryan. The storyline should pick up from this week onwards. We will also get another number contender for the women’s title, tonight.
Charlotte Flair, Asuka, and Carmella will battle it out to set up another championship match at Royal Rumble. This triple threat will be the main event of tonight’s show. Additionally, the Smackdown tag team championships will also be on the line on the show that takes place at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida.
Asuka became the Smackdown women’s champion at WWE TLC. Becky Lynch should have received the automatic rematch since she was the former champion. But the McMahons removed this mandatory rematch clause that leads us to this triple threat contest on tonight. This should be the main event of the night with the winner receiving a title shot at Royal Rumble.
WWE.com confirmed the match with the following comments,
“Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, and Carmella all staked their claims as to why they would be most deserving to face off against SmackDown Women’s Champion Asuka at Royal Rumble last week. All three Superstars will now get their chance as they’ll square off in a Triple Threat Match this Tuesday night on SmackDown LIVE and the winner will move on to face Asuka for the title in Phoenix, Arizona on Jan. 27.”
At present, it’s really tough to predict who’d be the winner. Becky Lynch should be a clear-cut winner since she is the hottest property of the pro-wrestling universe. But winning this match might not allow her to enter the Royal Rumble match and go on to Wrestlemania. Also, Charlotte already beat Asuka last year which leaves Carmella as the most valid challenger for Smackdown women’s championship.
AJ Styles won the contender’s match last week to earn a title shot against Daniel Bryan. Now he will look forward to renewing the title feud with the WWE Champion. It will be interesting to see whether Vince McMahon gets involved in this or not. He is trying to fire up AJ Styles for the past couple of weeks for some unknown reasons. Bringing the Animal out of AJ might work in favor while taking on the meanest heel on Smackdown.
A championship match is also official to take place on the show. Smackdown tag team championships will be on the line when The Bar defends it against The Usos. It was the Good Brothers who pinned the champions two weeks ago. So they should have received the title opportunity. The Bar vs. The Usos is a repeated lineup that should not produce any title change for now.
Rusev will look out for retribution after Nakamura assaulted him from the back, last week. This will set up a United States Championship rematch at Royal Rumble. We might get this contest officially at the upcoming PPV. Naomi and Mandy Rose are in the middle of a feud that involved Naomi’s husband, Jimmy Uso. Mandy is trying to woo Jimmy with numerous tricks for the last few weeks and getting the upper hand. Can Naomi fire back tonight? We will get to see when the show airs from Jacksonville.