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On today's wrestling news, we've got a big return on WWE Smackdown,

Uncle Howdy appears in more detail.

AW announced a title eliminated tournament, and we've got two new AW signings.

Are you ready? Are you ready for the news time?

My name is Phil Chambers, and I am on my own in the studio today because both Gareth and

Simon Miller and Edison Ryan have all left me alone to do the entire day's work on my own.

Let's get right into it, so ever appeared on WWE Smackdown last night for the first time in five

years. In fact, it was exactly five years to the day since she was released from WWE

back in 2017, now she answered Ronda Rousey's open challenge.

So she came out to challenge the Smackdown Women's Champion, and it was a pretty decent

like back and forth match, like she had a really good showing in it until the very end

obviously because Ronda Rousey still won, but they did it in a way that sort of cemented

Ronda Rousey's heel turn whilst also protecting Emma at the same time.

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