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Hello everyone, it's time for Whatculture here and I just have to do a little bit of housekeeping

because throughout this episode of SmackDown Ups and Downs, you may hear some weird noises

that is because I am on foreign ground right now and I think aliens may be attacking but I do

apologize. Otherwise, if you did indeed tune into this WWE Friday Night Extravaganza,

you would have noticed a couple of things. One, we were calling the WWE Universe fans and we

were calling the product we were seeing in the ring wrestling. For a while, I was kind of like

this because where is the branding gone? And of course, we know the answer, but still,

if you were like me, you would have been sat there all bug-eyed because the future is now.

Otherwise, yes, thank you very much for joining me as always. We have just had the

episode of SmackDown which also just happened to be the go-home show of SmackDown. No,

for SmackDown, for some a spam, the premium live event, was it any good or did it suck? Let's

sum those down. As ever, we don't know how much of this show was written by Vince McMahon. Maybe

it was written by Triple H, maybe it was written by Kevin Dunn, maybe it was written by Bruce

...