Ups & Downs: WWE Smackdown Review (Jan 23)
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
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Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:
0:00 Sami Zayn, Trick Williams and Damian Priest promo
2:21 Carmelo Hayes def. Ilja Dragunov
4:02 Cody Rhodes and Jacob Fatu interview
6:12 Jade Cargill def. Chelsea Green
8:18 The MFTs def. The Wyatt Sicks
9:27 AJ Styles backstage
10:53 Nathan Frazer def. Johnny Gargano
12:14 Drew McIntyre promo
13:51 Giulia & Kiana James def. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss and Nia Jax & Lash Legend
15:36 Backstage promos
16:31 Damian Priest vs. Trick Williams
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for the Smackdown was in Montreal this week. |
| 0:02.4 | Out came Sammy Zane to his hometown hero pop. And I was like, oh my gosh, Sammy Zane. I kind of felt like this was WWE telling you. We do have a Saturday's night at the main event coming up on Saturday. Sammy Zane's in a full way and he's probably going to win. But Trick Williams in like that. So he came out to interrupt because that's just what he does ever since he's come to the main roster. Also, like my friends, Wob's and Downs, the only wrestling review show you need because I, Simon Mell will watch wrestling, so you don't have to, but I'll tell you if I think it's good, if I think it's bad, if you disagree with me, we can just sit there and shake hands. You don't need to go on social media and yell, because there's a waste of time. One day we're going to be dead. However, let's not worry about that for now. |
| 0:39.1 | I will take the finger of power, give the good |
| 0:41.1 | bit of it up, the bare bits of down for smack her down in Canada. Now, Drick kind of made me laugh |
| 0:45.5 | because it sounded like his promo came from Chat GPT because he was like, like Sammy Zane, |
| 0:49.3 | you should be called Mr Too Many Chances, so that doesn't make any sense, but his whole point was, I am brand new to the main roster. |
| 0:55.9 | I get one chance, which is a Sunday night, and this is the Royal Rumble, and I'm going to walk away |
| 1:00.1 | the WW champion. Samu's all like you are great and maybe we'll go on to do great things, |
| 1:04.5 | but in five years time, you ain't going to be near my level because I'm Samuel Zane and I rule. |
| 1:08.9 | Tricky even mention the elimination from 2023 when Sammy failed. I was like, I kind of feel like we're over it. And when Zane was yelling at him, at one point, a bit of accidental spit hit trick right in the face, and he sold this like it was acid. It made me laugh. Trigg was then all like, no, no, no, you're not going to do this when Damien Priest came out because he wanted to say, ha ha, I shall win at Saturday's main event. When, of course, he said, |
| 1:31.7 | oh, by the way, Trick Williams, we're going to fight later and I'm going to whoop your ass. He called Trigger-a-big coward too, so Williams was like, I'm no coward when he sucker-pumped Sammy Zane. I was like, well, now you look like a coward, Trip Williams. |
| 1:41.6 | And essentially, they just had a massive brawl. |
| 1:44.1 | Well, Randy Orton never came out. |
| 1:46.2 | Then we cut backstage. |
| 1:47.2 | He was like, I'm not. like a coward trip Williams and essentially they just had a massive brawl where randy |
| 1:44.6 | Orton never came out then we cut backstage he was like i'm not getting involved in that |
| 1:49.4 | it is the year of the viper and i'm going to become the champion due to three words in the dictionary |
| 1:54.2 | rk oh i was like you do say that a lot randy aughton and by the way we are going to talk about |
| 1:59.0 | this later i think randy is the guy that attacked jacobato So really, this was just one massive advert for Sandlight's main event, which they had to do, because it was coming up in 24 hours after this show. And it was fine, like it was basically what WW would do on most shows, when they did have a four-way. But I'd give it an up. I do think Trick Williams has been used very well. And I actually would have had him win the main event, but we'll talk about it when we get there. But up. But nowhere. We then saw Carmela Hayes and Ilya Dragonov being like, well, hello, my friend, would you like a title shot? And I would love a title shot, even though I had been a loser recently, and wasn't able to qualify for this four way. So put a one of the Geese title counter. |
| 2:34.7 | When the Miz was there, he was essentially like, there's not enough hate in the world. |
| 2:38.3 | And Carmela Hayes, you should hate him, but you don't. And Hayes was like, I tell you, I do hate you, |
| 2:42.6 | and he walked off. So everybody's mean. It also meant we got another match between Carmela Hayes and |
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