With the card already set for Sunday's WWE Clash of Champions pay-per-view, the go-home edition of SmackDown was less about building to the card and more keeping things in order two days out from the event.
In the show-closing segment, Roman Reigns and Jey Uso stood face-to-face in the ring ahead of Uso's challenge for Reigns' universal title and the champion tried to put his cousin in his place.
Despite being told that Reigns is their family's "provider," Uso refused to back down, instead asking, "Why not me?".
Early in the show, Jey Uso came to the ring and said he wouldn't need anyone to interview him and that Roman Reigns had some questions to answer about what happened after their tag match last week.
Heyman walked out of Reigns' dressing room and said that the WWE Universe deserves to hear what Reigns has to say to Uso's face, but that it will happen when Reigns' schedule accommodates it.
At the end of the show, Reigns and Uso got in the ring together and Reigns said he'd give Uso the title if he could, but Uso wouldn't know what to do with it.
Uso, Reigns said, doesn't understand the weight and pressures that come with being on top because he's a twin, who has depended on someone else his whole life.
Reigns said that Uso is one half of the greatest tag team of all time and he's proud of his cousin for that, but the family depends on him, not Uso and it will never be Uso.
With that, Reigns dropped the mic and left the ring.
Uso then drove home his point by saying that after he beats Reigns at Clash of Champions, people won't ask, "Which one are you?" They'll know, he said, because he'll be the man that took the title from Roman Reigns.
Reigns told Uso he provides for a whole family, so take his payday and accept that he'll never take a place at the head of the table.
There's not much drama to who is going to win at Clash of Champions on Sunday, but the journey to the finish is worth it.
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Styles took out both men with the ladder after the match, before climbing to retrieve both titles in a symbolic moment ahead of Clash of Champions.
Bayley cut a promo about her plans for Nikki Cross at Clash of Champions.
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