3-Hour SD Returns: WWE SmackDown 1/2/26 Review | RASD
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Wai Ting review the first WWE show of the year as Drew McIntyre names the stipulations for “3 Stages of Hell”, Chelsea Green defends her title, and Damian Priest faces Aleister Black in an Ambulance match. Plus, surprise returns and NXT call-ups.
XL: John & Wai discuss TNA Impact and title matches confirmed for its AMC debut, NOAH’s follow-up to its New Year event, Madison Rayne’s retirement, and what WWE & AEW’s biggest matches of 2026 could be.
The XL Edition continues at POSTwrestlingCafe.com with News of the Day and Feedback, ad-free.
- TNA Impact report and matches for AMC debut
- Ulka Sasaki is going to the U.S.
- NOAH Legacy Rise card on Jan. 11
- Madison Rayne retires
- What are the biggest matches for WWE & AEW in 2026?
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- Saturday: Collision Course
- Sunday: Wrestle Kingdom 20 with John & Wai
- Friday: Rewind-A-SmackDown
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a Raw, |
| 0:06.2 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com, $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.6 | As if they don't have too much on their place, the Kings of Combat sports podcast John and Wade, |
| 0:22.9 | they talk about the things they did that day. |
| 0:25.6 | The land and left the work of Triple H. |
| 0:28.0 | Ruan to Smackdown, |
| 0:29.2 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:30.5 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:32.0 | we want to Smackdown, |
| 0:34.5 | we want to Smackdown, |
| 0:34.7 | we want to Smackdown, |
| 0:35.7 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:37.2 | we want to smackdown We want to smackdown We want to smackdown We want to smackdown |
| 0:38.3 | Rewind a three-hour smackdown. |
| 0:45.4 | So when our downloads go through the roof |
| 0:47.3 | Because I know most of you are not clinging |
| 0:49.2 | To the three-hour era of Smackdown. |
| 0:52.0 | This is when like you you pop the tape into like the tape |
| 0:56.4 | rewinder and you just wait forever and ever and ever before you return the video back to the |
| 1:02.0 | store. Yeah, that's a that's a technique that portion of our audience has probably never experienced |
| 1:08.3 | the long weight of a tape rewind. |
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