Final SD Before Mania: SmackDown 4/17/26 Review | RASD
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Wai Ting and Neal Flanagan review the last WWE SmackDown before WrestleMania as champions Cody Rhodes and CM Punk share the stage before their title defences. Plus, Trick Williams calls out Sami Zayn, The Wyatt Sicks vs MFTs in a Street Fight, and the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.
NOTE: No XL edition of the show tonight, but an ad-free edition will be available afterwards for all patrons. John & Wai will be back tomorrow at 1pm ET for our final Mania Week Bonus podcast. Check out this week’s bonus coverage: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1446721
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- Saturday: WrestleMania 42 Night 1 Review
- Sunday: WrestleMania 42 Night 2 Review
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| 0:34.5 | Neil. |
| 0:36.1 | They'll talk about the things they did that day. |
| 0:38.3 | They're learning like the work of Triple H. |
| 0:40.3 | Rwanda Smackdown. |
| 0:42.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:43.3 | Rwanda Smackdown. |
| 0:44.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:45.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:47.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:48.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:49.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:50.3 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello and welcome everybody to what is a free and public edition of Rewind a Smackdown, free in public, at least even live for everybody that might be tuning in right now at YouTube.com slash post wrestling. |
| 1:07.4 | My name is Wei Ting and I am joined here for our continuation of |
| 1:12.3 | WrestleMania week coverage with our man Neil Flanagan. Hello, Neil. It is |
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