WWE SmackDown: Spoiler-Free Preview for October 17

The lineup for the Oct. 17 edition of WWE SmackDown looks awfully familiar. A number of rematches occur as Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler and The Usos invade the BJCC Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

After one of the better installments of Raw in a long while, can SmackDown deliver as much quality action? A short match list suggests that Ziggler and company will at least have a good amount of time to accomplish that.

WWE taped all the action on Tuesday in the Heart of Dixie. It won't air until Friday at 8 p.m. ET on Syfy.

Until then, the spoilers await the curious on the Internet. Otherwise, check out the following preview of all the bouts on tap with the results omitted.

Dolph Ziggler vs. Seth Rollins

A pair of athletes who work really well together get to do so once more.

It may be a bout fans have seen several times over in the last few months, but with how good those past collisions have been, it's hard to complain. Expect quickness and fluidity in this SmackDown's best match on paper.

The questions going into it include those about whether or not Ziggler is headed for a showdown with Cesaro at Hell in a Cell. We could see The King of Swing sit in on commentary, as he has done recently with Ziggler's matches, or interfere with the action.

Is there another non-title loss on the horizon for The Showoff? The intercontinental champ lost to Randy Orton on Monday's Raw and fell to Rusev on last week's SmackDown.

He'll be looking to reverse that trend against a man in search of momentum before a huge pay-per-view battle against Ambrose.

AJ Lee vs. Layla

AJ's list of enemies keeps growing.

Layla was supposed to be her tag team partner on Monday's Raw. She instead abandoned the Divas champ mid-match.

Count on AJ having no shortage of motivation when she gets her chance to make Layla pay for that bit of backstabbing.

Whether or not AJ will defend the Divas Championship at Hell in a Cell is still up in the air. Should Layla win, it would be a sign that WWE is leaning toward inserting her into the title picture along with Paige.

Sheamus and The Usos vs. Stardust, Goldust and The Miz

Championship rivalries are set to overlap.

The Miz outsmarted Sheamus on Monday's Raw to get a count-out victory. The Usos and their face-painted rivals met as part of a Triple Threat tag match that same night. WWE mashes those feuds together, meaning that the rivalry for the tag titles is still ongoing and fans are assured more of Damien Sandow's amusing antics.

Sheamus is no stranger to tagging with The Usos. They have joined forces to take on The Wyatt Family as well as Cesaro with Goldust and Stardust.

There is a lot of talent involved here, but not much to get excited about. The feud between brother teams has become lethargic after Night of Champions.

Sandow is consistently the highlight of the battles between Sheamus and The Miz.

Naomi vs. Nikki Bella

Nikki is officially set to face her sister at Hell in a Cell, as announced on WWE.com. She first gets a big challenge as a warm-up.

The company has presented Naomi as a tough out over the last two years. Her winning percentages in 2014 and 2013 are .797 and .805 respectively, per CageMatch.net.

Naomi, though, is without a storyline at the moment, so she'll be the underdog here. It's Nikki who stands in the spotlight and needs a win to charge into the upcoming pay-per-view.

Fans of the former Funkadactyl will be hoping that she derails Nikki's plans and locks her in the Slay-Mission hold.

Dean Ambrose vs. Kane

Ambrose earned the right to face Rollins at Hell in a Cell with his win on Monday's Raw. In the meantime, he gets to slug it out with another member of The Authority.

The Lunatic Fringe will have to keep his eyes open for Randy Orton, Rollins and maybe even Triple H. He'll go into this battle as the lone wolf up against a pack of hyenas.

As for what the in-ring action will look like, fans have a good idea of what to expect. These two have met several times as of late.

Kane and Ambrose don't have the great chemistry that Ziggler and Rollins do, but have put on solid matches in the past. This promises to be more about continuing the narrative that is Rollins and Ambrose's intense rivalry.

Ambrose's instability, Sandow's goofiness and Ziggler and Rollins's chemistry should be fun, but there's little on Friday's SmackDown that screams "must-watch."