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Ups & Downs: WWE Smackdown Review (Aug 22)

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Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:

0:00 Becky Lynch promo

3:35 The Miz & Carmelo Hayes vs. Motor City Machine Guns

5:12 Sami Zayn & Jimmy Uso

5:55 Piper Niven Vs. Charlotte Flair

7:11 Giulia & Michin

7:45 John Cena & Logan Paul promo

10:50 The Street Profits va. JC Mateo & Tonga Loa

12:54 Damien Priest attacks Aleister Black

14:01 Randy Orton attacks Drew McIntyre

15:00 Tiffany Stratton & Jade Cargill vs. Nia Jax & Becky Lynch

16:09 Logan Paul attacks John Cena


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0:00.0

So Becky Lynch had her big Irish return to kick off this week's episode of Smackdown and all

0:03.7

things considered. It's probably some of the best hill work she's ever done because she had 10,000 people who absolutely loved her and by the end of it, well, they were pretty damn mad. Also, my friends, world of ops and downs. The only wrestling view show you need because I watch wrestling so you don't have to. We are going to focus on smacker down. My throat may go throughout all of this

0:21.8

because somebody may have shouted too much yesterday at the riot cabaret show,

0:26.4

where I was a special guest referee in a normal match and they annoyed me to such a degree.

0:32.0

I put myself in the thing and it became a triple threat. Goofy wrestling for life.

0:36.6

Becky did get a mega reaction though and it kind of made me go,

0:39.1

man, if she had our old theme, maybe she'd get an even bigger pop, which is probably why she changed it. When she was all like, oh man, it's so good to be back home, I remember coming to a live show here in Dublin. I looked round the yore and in the eye and he looked me in the eye, and then I thought we were going to fall in love and get married.

0:36.2

She didn't say that.

0:36.9

That would have been pretty weird.

0:38.0

It's also such a wonderful dream because, of course, now she is a WW superstar and it is the first proper life show in Dublin, but isn't it a shame that I have to perform in front of all, you idiots, you're a bunch of undeserving numpties, honestly. Even though this was like basic Hillwork 101, it worked.

1:12.4

These individuals were so damn mad and they just started swearing at Becky Lynch. I swear at

1:17.1

one point she had to try to smile. She was having the time of my life. She also said that they

1:20.8

all have faces for TV so I can only presume that she surveyed every single one of them. So imagine

1:25.9

you were John Travolta or Nicholas Cage. When Becky got mad that there was no media coverage for her, and these fans actually started chanting the liar of Alcaria. Now, I probably would have just sent Lyra out here, even though that feud is done, we didn't do it. At one point, they even chanted CM Punker her, so Becky went, man, nobody wants to see that old guy's ass. I was like,

1:44.4

oh man, she's on fire right now. When I had a moment, it's like, wait a minute, she's the raw women's intercontinental champion. Where is the Smackdown US champion? But don't worry, folks. Julia would be on the show later for all of eight seconds. I'm just going to give it a down. I'm not going to go over it again.

2:01.4

You know how I feel about this. I do not understand what we're doing with that belt. Tiffany Strand did interrupt and she just basically kissed the fans' ass because she was like, shut up, Becky Lynch, nobody wants to hear from you and you've had your time and now it's time for Tiffy time. So it's time for you to leave or maybe it's time to kick you in the bat. Bajax then walked in too because she just glued to Tiffany Stratton these days.

2:00.2

And she said, listen, Becky, I don it's time to kick you in the bat. But Jackson walked in, too, because she just glued to Tiffany Stratton these days.

2:19.2

And she said, listen, Becky, I don't like you. But you are right. These fans are a bunch of point dexter's. Tiffany Stratton, I also don't like you. Then they had a big old fight. It was, of course, Jake Cargill who came out to make the save, and that made me face palm because again we've talked about this too. I do not understand why sometimes

2:17.7

W.W. And they didn too. I do not understand why.

2:35.1

Sometimes WWE, and they didn't used to do this last year, so while they've gone back to I don't know,

2:39.2

where it's like, well, your baby faces as you can get on and your heels so you can get on,

2:42.8

even though Jade and Tiffany were arguing last week.

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