Royce Keys' Big Win; Orton, Punk & Cody Appear | WWE Smackdown 4/17/2026 Show Review & Highlights

Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Fightful, Inc.

Sports, Wrestling

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Kate (@MissKatefabe) and Cresta (@CrestaTheeStarr) discuss tonight's episode of Smackdown April 17, 2026, including: - Cody Rhodes speaks to Randy Orton - Jacob Fatu responds to Drew McIntyre - No. 1 Contender's Match for the Women's U.S. Championship: Tiffany Stratton vs. Jordynne - Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley and Lyra Valkyria - Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal (participants TBD) - The MFTs vs. The Wyatt Sicks in an 8-Man Tag Team Street Fight EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fightful Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A MUST HAVE for wrestling fans! Watch all WWE shows with one Netflix subscription, and save HUNDREDS on AEW PPV events with a MYAEW subscription! 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 Go Home to WrestleMania SmackDown Post Show.
0:28.3	It is April 17th and we have so much news for you on Fifele Select OMG.
0:34.8	Coming up this weekend, but we're going to talk about Smackdown. Sean is in Las Vegas, which means you got more of me coming up this weekend and you got more of Cresta coming up this weekend. Not together, though. We're going to have Joel Pearl and Cresta on the main. You're going to have me and Alex Polowski on FIFEL Select for an alternative post show. More on that in a little bit. But get in your super chads and get in your humper chats. We're going to talk about all of what happened on this go home, which shouldn't be hard because it wasn't a ton. But we're going to cover it all. I know the Hall of Fame's going on right now, too. So if you're joining us live, thank you so much for that. If you're watching on delay, let us know in the comments what you thought of this episode, what you're looking forward to
1:14.2	most going into WrestleMania for me. It's all Obafemi and Brock Lesnar. I feel like they have
1:19.7	an opportunity to do something really special with Obafemi. Will they? We will find out. But I am
1:25.4	joined by the beautiful, the delightful, the wonderful, the back to
1:30.1	investigating, Ms. Cresta, Star Cresta. How are you doing tonight? You know, let me get my
1:37.6	Mr. Kennedy mic so people can hear me because it's by Stan and Mr. Kennedy. You know, I, I didn't
1:44.1	hate this Smackdown as much as everybody else did.
1:47.4	I see the comments.
1:49.0	I'm off of Twitter.
1:50.4	I'm this close to deactivating my accounts.
1:52.2	I don't get spoiled for Rupal's drag race.
1:55.6	But I didn't think it was that terrible, considering this is exactly what I thought it was going to be.
2:01.3	I'm not busing a move the night before the Olympics.
2:05.5	You know what I mean?
2:06.3	I understand.
2:07.4	I understand.
2:09.0	It was exactly what I expected.
2:11.3	I was most kind of disappointed about was just like what we went home on, and I put this poll in the chat.
2:18.7	I feel like CM Punk and Cody are in love, and I think that's great.
2:22.6	But I just, that's not like what I was expecting to go home to WrestleMania with.
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