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Rumble Go-Home: WWE SmackDown 1/31/25 Review | RASD

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock & Wai Ting review the final WWE SmackDown before Royal Rumble as CM Punk confronts Kevin Owens.

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0:00.0

This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a Raw,

0:06.2

rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions

0:11.1

and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com, $6 gets you in the door.

0:17.6

As if they don't have too much on their place, the Kings of Combat Sports podcast, John and Wade, they'll talk about the things they did that day, the land I let the work of Triple H.

0:28.0

We want to Smackdown, you want to Smackdown, you want to Smackdown, we want to Smackdown, we want to Smackdown, we want to Smackdown, We want to Smackdown. We want to Smackdown.

0:40.7

And now we go into Smackdown from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

0:46.4

12,209 tickets out from Russell Ticks.

0:49.7

And we have Michael Cole opening the show at the Ochreland position and brings out Pat McAfee, who puts over

0:57.3

Indianapolis, calls the fans the greatest on earth and throws to Joe Tessitore in the ring.

1:02.9

So we got the Saturday night's main event set up for tonight's show, basically.

1:07.1

Yeah, I found it interesting.

1:08.7

I mean, they're not usually here on SmackDown, but obviously with everybody in town, they decided to add an extra element to the show, not to mention the first hour being commercial free.

1:19.4

So just throwing in all the gimmicks, maybe just because, you know, it's Roll Rumble weekend.

1:26.0

I certainly thought it was effective.

1:35.1

I mean, so many of my complaints last week were that this addition of Smackdown just did not feel big, did not feel important enough. And I think simply having like a new type of intro with the Pat McAfee attached to it already made a big difference.

1:43.0

I thought so too.

1:43.6

I think that this should be

1:44.8

the format for your, when you have the pay-per-view weekends and you're in the city on the Friday,

1:50.4

this is what they should do. Like, load up the show and give it that last big push for the show the

1:56.6

next day because I thought this had a much bigger feel to it overall. Joe Tessator is in the ring and he

2:02.0

brings out Kevin Owens who feels he has been misrepresented and Owens accuses Joe of being Cody Rhodes fanboy and he

2:10.4

does not accept Tessitore's apology for their coverage being lacking of Kevin Owens. Owens takes down

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