Ups & Downs: WWE Smackdown Review (Aug 29)
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
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Summary
Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:
0:00 Logan Paul and John Cena promo
4:15 Street Profits and Bo Dallas
5:51 Alexa Bliss vs. Chelsea Green
6:49 Backstage Promos
7:37 Michin vs. Kiana James
8:46 Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre
10:51 Backstage promos
11:50 The Street Profits vs. Carmelo Hayes & The Miz
13:23 Tiffany Stratton & Jade Cargill
14:27 Sami Zayn vs. Solo Sikoa
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| 0:34.6 | workout, play some tunes and celebrate your new personal best? The new Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is the ultimate health coach powered by AI. Save 114-pound with Galaxy Watch 8 at Vodafone on a 24-month connectivity plan ordered by the 2nd of September. Busy your local Kensington High Street Vodafone store today. Saving against connectivity and device, eligibility credit checks in terms apply apply. Compatible smartphone, Vodafone airtime plan, Samsung account and health app required. Intended for general wellness and fitness only. Logan Paul stepped out of limo to start this week's episode of Smackdown. He walked right to the ring when he got on a microphone and said, listen to me, France, I am no parasite, |
| 1:15.5 | which of course is what John Sina called him last week. I've got the definition of parasite right here, and it is an organism that lives in or an organism or another species, its host and benefits |
| 1:21.9 | by deriving nutrients at the other's expense. And I'm sorry, every time I look at Logan Paul, |
| 1:27.2 | he is always, what was the word, deriving nutrients. |
| 1:30.1 | So John Cena was right. He was then all like, ha, I'm American, so I'm not going to speak French, even though later on he spoke French. And listen, Logan Paul is very good at what he does in the rest of the ring, but I thought that was a terrible line. Also, my friends, welcome to ups and downs, the only wrestling review show you need. |
| 1:27.2 | I watch sports entertainment so you don't have to, and given that we did just have the go home smacker down for Clash in Paris, and we were in France, I thought I would take the finger of power, which is just my hand that wiggles around, and if it's good, it gives it up, and if it's bad, it gets it down. It's nice and simple. Unlike my hairline, let's do it. Anyway, back to Logan Paul, he was also all like, oh, TKO, you should be thanking me and ESPN, because I was responsible for that merger, when he went on to say, it should be called WW me. And I actually said out loud, which is weird because I watch wrestling by myself. |
| 2:18.4 | What are you? 12, grow up. Here's the things that scene represents the old garden. If you do not change, you will get left behind. And Logan Paul is the new breed. Shouldn't have said that. If you know, you know. Listen, once again, I'm going to go back to what I just said. Logan does know what he's doing on a microphone. but I think some of the insults or lines he has just need to have a little bit more bite. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say I'm going to do the thing. It was a little bit like it was written by AI. And so yes, I went and used AI to see what it could come up with and I know AI sucks, right? But since my brain is like, oh my gosh, it could be funny. And it actually wrote, |
| 2:51.8 | yo, WW Universe, I hear y'all loud and clear. Boom me, cheer me, tweet me, it doesn't matter, |
| 2:58.2 | because at the end of the day, you're still talking about Logan Paul. I didn't come here to play |
| 3:03.0 | wrestler. I didn't come here to collect a paycheck. I came here to do my entire've done my entire career takeover. I want to be that guy. Now I'm starting to think that Logan Paul actually uses AI. John Sina, of course, then interrupted to a massive evasion, mostly because Logan Paul had said his name a lot, so it is wrestling rule 14.8. And he was like, listen to me, you absolute goober, although he called him a dickhead. You have to be on the fan's side, or at least listen to them, because without those dudes, you got names. Paul also keeps talking about raising the game, but he doesn't even understand what wrestling is to begin with, and if you want to talk about the original disruptor, where you're looking to him right now, I even had some brass knucks, but they said word life on them, but I was changing titles and I was doing things my own way. And what was the old guy saying to me? He doesn't get it and I almost lost my job, but look at me now. Sina then really cooked him because he was like, oh, by the way, you can't even do influencing right anymore. Because I saw a big list the other day of the top 25 influencers in the world and your boy, I Show Speed was on there, but do you know who wasn't you? I was like, man, Logan Paul is having a bad day. He went further as well because he said you keep making headlines, but every time I read the news story, it's always negative news, when he wanted to teach him about respect when he actually left the ring and he found that kid |
| 4:15.2 | who he insulted in Belgium and was like, I'm just going to admit it, I was having a bad day, |
| 4:20.0 | so thanks for having my back. Now two things made me laugh here. One, you have never seen |
| 4:24.0 | anyone more desperate to record an interaction on their mobile phone. This child went crazy. |
| 4:28.8 | And also two, I don't think you can insult someone. And then six months later, I'm sorry, I was just having a bad day. If they didn't forgive you, I totally understand. He then finished that Logan Paul had 24 hours to get in the best shape of his life with John Senor's going to wreck him. Honestly, this made me laugh out loud. The camera zoomed into Logan Paul and they look like a sad puppy dog. |
| 4:49.6 | Probably for real, because he just experienced the John Sena's fine speech. |
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