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WWE Smackdown Live results and observations (6/13/17): Lana did a wrestling move

This latest episode of Smackdown Live came and went Tuesday night, as it didn't do much to increase the anticipation level for Sunday's Money in the Bank pay-per-view.

The show wasn't bad overall. However, it was woefully uneventful, especially considering it was the final installment heading into one of WWE's more intriguing pay-per-view events.

Before I dig into the few things that did occur Tuesday, here are the full match results from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans:

- The New Day & Breezango def. The Usos & The Colons

- Naomi def. Tamina

- Charlotte Flair def. Natalya

- AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura & Sami Zayn def. Kevin Owens, Baron Corbin & Dolph Ziggler

Not much happened

As I mentioned earlier, Smackdown Live was largely uneventful this week.

Sure, the show featured some decent wrestling and a couple of okay angles, but the show did nothing to increase my appetite for Money in the Bank.

The show ended with the expected angle with the participants in the men's Money in the Bank ladder match fighting each other with ladders, Randy Orton landed an RKO on WWE champion Jinder Mahal and Lana showcased some wrestling prowess after Naomi's victory over Tamina.

Other than that and the usual fun involving Breezango and The New Day, there wasn't much to remember about this particular edition of Smackdown Live.

Lana did a wrestling move

As I alluded to earlier, Lana showed the world that she can indeed perform at least one wrestling move when she delivered what I'll describe as a sit-out spine buster on Smackdown Women's champion, Naomi.

Lana has had matches in the past, but almost all of them took place on untelevised live events. Tuesday night, however, was the first time the majority of wrestling fans — myself included — have ever seen Lana perform an actual wrestling move.

And to be honest, it looked pretty good. Obviously, one successful move doesn't mean Lana is capable of having even a passable match on television, let alone pay-per-view, but for the sample size we saw Tuesday, it was encouraging.

Zack Ryder is back

The fact that Ryder has been cleared to return from injury is not really the big news to me. What I am most interested in is what his return could do to his partnership with Mojo Rawley.

Maybe it's just me, but I could definitely see Rawley not wanting to return to the tag team ranks and turning on Ryder. That may seem farfetched to some, but this is wrestling and one person betraying another is one of the storyline troupes that has made the sport so popular to begin with.

WWE could obviously have Rawley and Ryder return to being the Hype Bros, which wouldn't be a bad decision being as though Smackdown Live is lacking depth in the tag team division, but I could also see WWE wanting to shake things up.

Part of that shake up could be Rawley turning on Ryder, who I believe could be very easy to get sympathy on. On the flip side, I think it would be cool to see Rawley take a more serious turn with his character.

I liked the backstage segment he had with Smackdown Live commissioner Shane McMahon a couple of weeks ago, where he toned down his hype-ness quite a bit. It actually made me want to see more of Rawley's serious side.

Time will tell.

Vaughn Johnson has a podcast with Nick Piccone called the Straight Shooters on WildfireRadio.com. Check it out here HERE.