Gingerbread Man's Funeral: SmackDown 5/8/26 Review | RASD
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Wai Ting and Neal Flanagan review WWE SmackDown as Trick Williams hosts a funeral for the Gingerbread Man, Gunther officially signs with SmackDown, Fatal Influence takes on Charlotte/Alexa/Rhea, and Jacob Fatu sends a final message to Roman Reigns ahead of Backlash.
XL: Wai & Neal discuss stories involving Raja Jackson, Dana White, Nick Khan and Dark Side of the Ring Season 7. Plus, their full preview/predictions for WWE Backlash Tampa.
The XL Edition continues at POSTwrestlingCafe.com with News of the Day and Feedback, ad-free.
- Raja Jackson cuts plea deal
- Dana White asked about altercation with wife
- Nick Khan says DOJ looked into sex trafficking allegations
- Dark Side of the Ring Season 7
- WWE Backlash Tampa Preview & Predictions
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| 0:00.0 | as if they don't have too much on their place the kings of combat sports podcast neil |
| 0:04.9 | and wait to talk about the things they did that day the land and let the work of triple |
| 0:10.6 | h we want to smack down we want to smack down we want to smack down we want to smack down |
| 0:16.3 | we want to smack down we want to smack down we want to smack down we want to smack down hello YouTube hello Rewa Smackdown, Rewa to Smackdown, Rewa Smackdown, Rewa Smackdown. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, YouTube, hello, free audio podcast listeners. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to tonight's edition of Rewind a Smackdown. |
| 0:29.3 | I am here joined by appropriately dressed in black, Neil Flanagan. |
| 0:35.2 | How are you doing? |
| 0:35.8 | Indeed. |
| 0:36.3 | Yes, I'm in my morning attire tonight. |
| 0:39.0 | It's actually just cold in the house at this time of night, so I'm a nice woolly sweater. |
| 0:42.9 | But yeah, feeling the pain. Yeah, we are here to talk about, well, we just talked about |
| 0:48.4 | 23 minutes of news talking about everything from Roger Jackson cutting his plea deal. |
| 0:53.3 | Dana White being asked about his altercation with his wife on the breakfast club, Nick Kahn, and what he said about the DOJ looking into sex trafficking allegations into Vince McMahon and, of course, Dark Side of the Ring. Season seven topics. This extended edition, of course, is available all in the Post Wrestlingusset cafe of which later on as we extend the show |
| 1:13.0 | into the end of so towards the end towards feedback neil and i will actually be giving our |
| 1:18.5 | backlash preview and predictions as well but with all that said neal let's talk about tonight's edition |
| 1:23.7 | of wwe smackdown this is from jacksonville at the, what is the name of this venue? |
| 1:30.3 | It's the Vistar Veterans Memorial Arena. Russell Ticks has this at about 7,340 tickets out. |
| 1:37.6 | Now, this is not as low as last week was, at about 6,000 something, but still definitely low compared |
| 1:43.9 | to the last time they were here when they sold about 10,000 something, but still definitely low compared to the last time they were here |
| 1:45.0 | when they sold about 10,093, I believe in about 2004. And the capacity for the venue is |
| 1:52.3 | currently set for 13,50068. So way off target of what they probably wanted for this arena. |
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