Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to be 2026 first and foremost welcome to fightful smackdown post show review we have a bunch of special guests here we've got the beautiful the illustrious lead rest investigator no that's my job Sean Rossap is here and And we have the special, talented, beautiful, and his beard connects.

Jordan Lawrence is here.

Thank you guys so much for joining us.

Sean has all the scoops for SmackDown.

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Sean Ross Sapp, Take it away. Man, there was a lot that happened today. First, I want to welcome Jordan on. Kate is sidelined right now. We brought Jordan onto our team a couple months ago. This is going to be his first podcast with us. Of course, we want to wish him luck here. And by the way, Kress, I'm just dropping this on you. I told Kate, I was like, listen, if you guys want to cover the show based on the international

feed next week, you all are more than welcome to doing that show earlier. So you're not doing

an 11 p.m. host show, but that, that's TBD.

That's TBD right now.

What isn't TBD, a bunch of the returns, bunch of the debuts.

Now, yeah, boys, at Fightfulselect.com, specifically wrestle votes reported today,

Brock Lesnar, Chad Gable, Randy Orton, Dominic Mysterio, Jacob Fattu, all scheduled to be in Saudi Arabia for Royal Rumble Week.

That's not it.

Randy Orton popped back up tonight, a nice little bump for the Smackdown three hours.

I've had a lot of people asking me, like, oh, where has he been?

Like, is he about to retire? Is he hurt?

Listen, the man's like 432 years old. He's not on the same schedule that he used to be on.

And that's okay. But somebody who is back on the schedule, Matt Cardona, it looks like he's back there.

I have not got 100% confirmation that he's signed. Of course, I said, are you signed?

He said, always ready with a Z and then said, I'm not finished. If I know him the way that I think I know him,

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