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Ups & Downs: WWE Smackdown Review (Apr 4)

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:

0:00 CM Punk & Paul Heyman

3:19 Rey Fenix Debut

5:44 Legado Del Fantasma

6:03 Drew McIntyre Promo

7:14 LA Knight vs Tama Tonga

8:51 Paul Heyman & Seth Rollins backstage

9:23 Mystery Vignette

9:45 Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton Go Off Script

13:30 Women's Tag Team Championship Gauntlet announcement

14:55 DIY vs Motor City Machine Guns

16:48 Mix, Carmella Hayes and Pretty Deadly

17:35 Naomi vs B-Fab

18:40 Damien Priest Promo

18:52 Kevin Owens Injured

20:38 Jacob Fatu vs Braun Strowman

22:05 What Is CM Punk's Favour?


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0:00.0

Smackdown was in Chicago this week as the WW European tour came to an end.

0:05.0

That was actually very clever because people in Chicago, where they're always super duper loud,

0:10.0

and that we have just become accustomed to it.

0:12.0

Also, like my friends, welcome to Ups and Downs, and my gosh, we are on the road to WrestleMania.

0:16.0

And given what culture shall be at WrestleMania, I can start teasing that we are going to have a very

0:20.8

special episode of ups and downs. Now, it is going to be live, but it may not be outside the

0:25.8

arena, and we may actually have a venue for it, and that venue may be free of charge, and we're

0:30.7

going to be given a load of stuff away. Now, because I'd like to be a big teased Terry or a

0:35.4

teary tease, whatever that means, I shall reveal all on Monday.

0:39.7

Actually, the information is already out there.

0:41.8

If you want to be a detective Darren, we've now got on too long,

0:45.6

let's take the finger of power and give the good bits and up and the bad bits of down

0:49.0

for WW Smackerdown.

0:51.0

We weren't messing around either because I think WW knew we have to send CM Punk out there instantly.

0:56.1

Otherwise, they're just going to continue to chart his name.

0:58.7

So that's exactly what we did, Big Pop.

1:00.6

Now he stole the camera because for some reason he wanted to be a cameraman, but he wanted to shoot his hometown crowd,

1:05.9

which is when the gravitational pull of the WrestleMania sign kicked into gear,

1:10.2

because Punk couldn't help but

1:11.2

pointed it and that's because he is main eventing the show.

1:14.3

It really is an amazing story which CM Punk talked about because he was always told

1:17.7

that it's never going to happen, but he believed in himself and he climbed that ladder.

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