Jacob Fatu Returns; Drew McIntyre Is WWE Champion! | WWE Smackdown 1/9/25 Show Review & Highlights

Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Fightful, Inc.

Sports, Wrestling

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Kate (@MissKatefabe) and Cresta (@CrestaTheeStarr) discuss tonight's episode of Smackdown, January 9, 2026, including: -Undisputed WWE Championship Three Stages of Hell Match: Cody Rhodes vs. Drew McIntyre. Fall One: Regular Match. Fall Two: Falls Count Anywhere. Fall Three: Steel Cage. -Trick Williams vs. Rey Fenix -The Wyatt Sicks vs. The MFTs -US Title Match: Giulia vs. Alexa Bliss Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to http://nordvpn.com/fightful to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + a Bonus Gift! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fightful Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! If you want to bet on Wrestling, or any other sport, check out our new partner where we get ALL of our odds! https://mybookie.website/joinwithFIGHTFUL and use the promo code FIGHTFUL. Deposit $100, get $50. Go in with $200, and they’ll make it $100! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Hello and thank you so much for joining us for your Smackdown Post Show,
0:26.4	dinnertime edition. We love that for us. We are here with Sean Ross Sapp and Cresta, and I am
0:34.7	very, very tall. Don't listen to Sean.
0:37.7	He's not 6 foot 8.
0:39.7	I am.
0:40.5	They are all 4 foot 8 today.
0:43.3	We might have discovered that we all have standing desks and had a little bit of fun,
0:49.2	but some fun to be had on this episode of Smackdown.
0:52.0	We are joined by Sean Rasef at the start of the show to review some Fightful Select
0:58.0	for you.
0:59.0	Lots of happening at Fightful Select all week and especially today on our the debunk-a-thon, which also just had like a lot of other reports in it too as well. But the beautiful Cresta is here. Sean is here. He's very pretty too. Hi, Sean. How are you? What's up you guys? Had a busy day on Fightfulselect.com. I know a lot of you say, well, I pay for wrestling news. Well, if you like this kind of thing, for watching this show, pretty good idea why I'm about to answer my, do my Q&A show as well. But today we had a lot of stuff there. I want to shout out Viper who helped me out with the rundown today. We had that ahead of time. We had the debunkathon as well, where we addressed a report
1:47.0	from Body Slam, which was very accurate, obviously. There was a big push internally for Drew McIntyre
1:52.3	to win this title match. I had heard this a couple days ago. I was very happy to hear that Body Slam
1:57.2	heard the same thing. But from what I understood, Cody was on board, Drew was on board, and fortunately, for them,
2:05.9	the right people were also on board.
2:08.4	We're going to have some more details on Fightful Select this weekend about what some of the
2:12.3	plans are moving forward.
2:14.5	But you boys also reported that Jacob Fattu was backstage. So we had a lot today. But you boys also reported that Jacob Fatt, too, was backstage.
2:19.4	So we had a lot today.
2:20.6	But one of the things I was hearing within the company about this Drew McIntyre title win
2:27.8	was that a lot of people felt like he needed to win this title match.
2:33.3	They felt like in order to take him seriously as a top guy moving forward,
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