{"id":41614,"date":"2017-04-25T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=41614"},"modified":"2017-04-25T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:05:23","slug":"smackdown-primer-charlotte-challenges-become-queen-smackdown-nakamura-message-beat-clock-jinder-mah-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/25\/smackdown-primer-charlotte-challenges-become-queen-smackdown-nakamura-message-beat-clock-jinder-mah-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"SMACKDOWN PRIMER: Charlotte challenges to become Queen of Smackdown, Nakamura has a message, Beat the Clock, Jinder Mah-huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2211177021\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>SMACKDOWN PREVIEW<br \/>\nAPRIL 25, 2017<br \/>\nDES MOINES, IOWA, AT WELLS FARGO CENTER<br \/>\nBy Joey Galizia (@RamJam89), PWTORCH SPECIALIST<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><strong><i>\u201cQUEEN PRIVILEGE\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a lackluster few weeks since the show of shows, WWE is aiming big for the upcoming summer season. Charlotte Flair, the epitome of greatness, has already taken such strides in making her presence on SD Live important. Tonight in Iowa, she challenges for yet again for the top women\u2019s prize, this time against a resurged Naomi. The Nature Girl has already proven that she can defeat the champ in a non-title affair, but will the rest of the blue brand women\u2019s division just let Charlotte stroll onto their show and take the top spot? Someone better stop her because that\u2019s exactly what she\u2019ll do. Shenanigans or not, I look forward to this matchup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<i>THE ARTIST\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shinsuke Nakamura has also been an effective tool for Tuesday nights. Besides his charismatic entrance during the show, WWE has been booking the King of Strong Style in dark matches following 205 Live. While the television audience at home is counting the days until we get to see him wrestle, this is a smart strategy at giving the live crowd a taste of Shinsuke\u2019s swagger. (Not to mention keeping said audience in their seats for 205 live.) Swagsuke is opening the show, so does his feud with Ziggler get cemented for <i>Backlash<\/i>? If not tonight, then soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<i>OUTTA NOWHERE\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The big story all week has been the sudden push of one Jinder Mahal. A couple weeks ago Jinder\u2019s name was circulating the inter-webs because he was suspected of giving Finn Balor a concussion after a VERY STIFF MISTIMED ELBOW. Last week in Louisville, he made headlines for a different reason: by becoming #1 contender for the world championship. Regardless of the reasoning, Mahal and the Bollywood Boyz will need to ride this momentum as far as they can, because opportunities like this don\u2019t come around very often. The champ Randy Orton immediately confronted his next challenger, but merely brushed him off, fully focusing on his House of Horrors match against Bray Wyatt this Sunday. However, this is a SD show, and so we must focus on the SD storylines. I expect, or at least hope, that the title match at <i>Backlash<\/i> gets some build tonight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<i>ROUND 2\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main event last week pitted A.J. Styles against the phenomenally underrated Lone Wolf Baron Corbin which saw the latter counted out. With the two eyeballing the United States Championship (and it\u2019s owner the face of America) these two will clash yet again tonight in Des Moines which is not only fine by me, but a testament at how vital both of these dudes are to SD. #teamblue<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2534216391\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201c<i>BACK ON TRACK\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-The &#8220;Perfect 10&#8221; scored a massive victory over Eric Young in his farewell match for NXT. Now that Tye is main roster 4 life, can he be given a feud of some sort?<\/p>\n<p>-Commissioner Shane McMahon has announced a \u201cBeat the Clock\u201d challenge to determine who will be the next opponents for the Tag Champion Usos. Jason Jordan &amp; Chad\u00a0Gable will be involved, but will they get another shot so soon?<\/p>\n<p>-Becky Lynch has been campaigning for a matchup against the death of wrestling aka James Ellsworth. I\u2019M GAME.<\/p>\n<p>-Only thing announced for 205 as of now is Gallagher versus Neville. These two always deliver!<\/p>\n<p>Tuning in?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S ARTICLE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/18\/smackdown-primer-six-pack-challenge-main-event-preview-winner-getting-world-title-shot-owens-feel-flow-tye-usos-corbin\/\">SMACKDOWN PRIMER: Six-Pack Challenge main event preview with winner getting World Title shot, Owens, Feel The Flow, Tye, Usos, Corbin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1750454519\"><div id=\"pwtor-1974729180\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>SMACKDOWN PREVIEW APRIL 25, 2017 DES MOINES, IOWA, AT WELLS FARGO CENTER By Joey Galizia (@RamJam89), PWTORCH SPECIALIST \u201cQUEEN PRIVILEGE\u201d Despite a lackluster few weeks since the show of shows, WWE is aiming big for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/25\/smackdown-primer-charlotte-challenges-become-queen-smackdown-nakamura-message-beat-clock-jinder-mah-huh\/\" title=\"SMACKDOWN PRIMER: Charlotte challenges to become Queen of Smackdown, Nakamura has a message, Beat the Clock, Jinder Mah-huh?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,52,4403,27],"tags":[467,5016,3810,73,308,1620],"class_list":["post-41614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-opnionandanalysis","category-smackdown-primer","category-specialists","tag-charlotte","tag-house-of-horrors","tag-jinder-mahal","tag-randy-orton","tag-shinsuke-nakamura","tag-tye-dillinger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Charlotteside_3x2Lunn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41615,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41614\/revisions\/41615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}