SmackDown airs tonight (Dec. 12) with a live show emanating from Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This is the second episode of SmackDown during the nine week build to Royal Rumble, which takes place on January 31 in Saudi Arabia.

Damian Priest hasn’t fared very well in his feud with Aleister Black, which goes all the way back to the summer months. Priest wasn’t booked like a former world champion and lost most of his momentum in WWE. But tonight’s show could be a turning point for Damian, because he figured out one surefire way to gets fans to care about him again, and that’s by teaming up with the super popular Rhea Ripley. The Terror Twins are reuniting tonight on SmackDown in a tag team match against Aleister Black and Zelina Vega. This is Priest and Ripley’s first match together in over one full year, and they plan to demolish their foes. Or as Ripley put it last week, “Nobody survives the Terror Twins.”

To their credit, Black and Zelina don’t seem a slight bit intimidated. Black thinks Priest is a tragic man who is drowning with his head above water. Zelina referred to Ripley as a succubus who will leave Priest in the sad state she found him in. After weeks of toying with Tommaso Ciampa, United States Champion Ilja Dragunov finally puts the gold on the line tonight against that jackass. The fun and games came to an end last week when Ciampa ruined the end of Dragunov’s title defense against Carmelo Hayes. Dragunov plans to close the book on Ciampa’s title chase tonight, while also hoping he doesn’t get any more creepy backstage visits from Tama Tonga.