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So I thought a nice way to start this week's episode of SmackDown ups and downs given that we do

do a lot of these videos, was to take my phone, just going to unlock it, and I'm just going to

load up a random tweet and we're going to read it out. Because Mike123 says, Simon, you bought a

whole, I hope you die and your family never wants to speak to you again. This was a terrible idea.

It was a thing that's my dad's account, but hello, my name is Simon from Whatculture,

welcome to SmackDown ups and downs, which I'm already done, but I'm doing it again. The point is

WWE did have a show, so was it good, or did it absolutely suck? Let's find out with this,

the finger of power, and up those doubts.

Oh, can Paul open up SmackDown after he's been teased all day that he was going to do so?

And surprise, surprise, he got boot. I do not understand why WWE is deciding to pursue all of this,

because I will tell you right now on this day in September 2022, it's not going to work.

This is even more crazy because his next opponent, if you can believe it, is going to be Roman

Reigns at the Saudi Arabia show. Now, even at Clash the Castle in Wales, some people decided to

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