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Ups & Downs: WWE Smackdown Review (Jan 16)

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🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:

0:00 Randy Orton and Jacob Fatu crash Drew McIntyre's celebration

2:21 Randy Orton vs. The Miz

3:17 Backstage promos

4:00 Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss vs. Giulia & Kiana James

5:56 Cody Rhodes promo

8:33 Trick Williams vs. Matt Cardona

10:42 Damian Priest def. Solo Sikoa

12:43 Carmelo Hayes vs. Leon Slater

14:21 Jordynne Grace vs. Chelsea Green

15:52 Sami Zayn vs. Ilja Dragunov


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0:00.0

That's right, my friend, Smackin' Down last night was in London United Kingdom. Don't know why I said it like that, and you may be going, Simon, why weren't you there? It's very simple. I am actually wrestling myself this weekend, so I have to be here, there, and everywhere come Saturday morning. Actually, that was an argument on the internet the other day, which means I can continue to do my show because I do wrestle. Don't you love the madness of social media? But thank you for joining me as always.

0:23.2

We did just get a three-hour episode. show because I do wrestle. Don't you love the madness of social media? But thank you for joining me

0:22.7

as always. We did just get a three-hour episode of WW's Friday night show, but was it any good

0:27.6

or did it suck balls? Shouldn't have said that? Let's suck those downs. Now Drew McIntyre,

0:32.4

of course, kicked things off our brand new WW champion and given where we were, hence why

0:37.1

I wanted to talk about the location,

0:39.0

he got such a baby face reaction and my goodness did he lean into it. And do not forget, when Drew

0:44.7

was championed a few years ago, he wasn't able to have this due to the pandemic. So if this

0:49.3

didn't make you feel warm and fuzzling your tum-tum, you may be dead inside and you should go to a doctor. Of course he turned on the fans instantly and said,

0:56.0

Screw you. Because where were you and all this bad stuff was happening to me? He mentioned Roman Rains, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, keep that in your brain. He mentioned the bloodline. And he even mentioned CM Punk. Now listen, Drew was right to do this, But it was a little bit hand-fisted in the sense, Drew.

1:10.5

I understand you want to be a heel.

1:12.2

It ain't going to happen here, pal.

1:13.6

People love you.

1:14.6

However... Drew was right to do this, but it was a little bit ham-fisted in the sense, Drew. I understand you

1:11.1

want to be a heel. It ain't going to happen here, pal. People love you. However, he also had a big revelation because he was like, I changed the contract last week, Cody. You're an American and you didn't read it. And it says, you'll get no rematch. So good night. Back of the line. Randi Orne soon interrupted because he wanted to tell Drew that I'm not here to celebrate you.

1:29.6

That only works if you are Scottish and Randy Orton is not Scottish. But the whole point was Randy was letting him know, I'm going to win this match later on, then go into the four way and win that and then be your component at the Raw Rumble, where Jacob Fetoo also interrupted. He wanted to kill Drew McIntyre and man, fair play to Drew, he acted like, I must leave right now, I don't want to die. This was when the miss snuck in as well and he laid out Randy on with the skull-crushing finale, because of course they were round one, if you want to call it that, in this tournament, end segment. So it's perfectly fine and really this was just to give

2:01.0

Drew McIntyre his flowers to give its 2026 language, so of course I'm going to give it an up. I get, once again, he wanted to lean into the character, but it was so nice to see and have everybody on the WW roster to use that parsee term, he totally deserved it. He was the do that helped W.W. in the pandemic. He had to get

2:18.7

this pat on the head. I thought it was lovely. When of course we got the Miz versus Randy Orton

2:22.9

and the Miss lost. It was perfectly fine. It was exactly what you would expect. If there's a real

2:27.7

issue and maybe we should keep an arm on this throughout 2006 is that the Miz hit Randy up with the

2:33.0

skull crashing finale and nobody bought it as the finish. Now there's two reasons for this. One, it's barely a finish anymore because doesn't beat anybody, which ties into number two. I don't think the miss has beaten anybody on the main roster in a singles match for about two years. I mean, it's a long old time, which begs the question, how the hell did he get into this match to begin with?

2:51.9

I am going to give it a tiny down as much as I love the miss. I still think he's underappreciated. Ryan, joined the hit with the RKO. He got the one, two, three. He is going to satellite's main event. I'll give that an up. Like, it was the most obvious, is that the right word? That's probably not fair, but the most expected WW match that you would expect.

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