Ups & Downs: WWE SmackDown Review (Jul 24)
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🗓️ 25 July 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So Nick Aldous and Gunther actually sat down and signed their contracts for SummerSlam as Smackdown did begin. Of course we went on a bit of a roller coaster here because Nick Aldis does have to resign as the general manager, but I kind of feel like WWW. We left it open-ended. Also like my friends, welcome to Robs & Downs. It's the only rescue vote show you need. And yes, look, I'm in a magical hotel room. I probably have an annoying echoy voice, but actually fair play to this hotel, because I have all this wonderful area. But I can dance in, if you're wondering what I am doing. I am traveling around the United Kingdom, being a professional wrestler, because that's right. Not only do I, for some reason, up those downs. When it comes to pro wrestling, but I wrestle myself. What a crazy nutcase I am. Let's talk smackdown. But yes, Adam Pearson was watching over this contract signing made it very clear to Nick Aldish. You cannot be a professional wrestler and be a general manager at the same time, even though we have seen that plenty of times in the past. I mean, Vincent Mann was the owner of the company and that didn't matter, although I guess if you are in charge, you can do whatever the flub you want. And while Nick Aldis did sign the deal while saying, I understand, I can't be the GM anymore, the only slight issue, and I will wait and see with this, is so many times WW has taken a stipulation and thrown it out the window. There's every chance after SummerSlam, they just go, well, you know what, Nick, if you don't want to be arrested anymore now you can just take back your |
| 1:10.9 | position so there was no stakes to begin with now at the same time if nick alice does want to become an active roster member why the flub not he could always do it for a couple of years and then resume his old job you already get one life man and you've got to ride the wave now good feels like all of this is a waste of time because he should be going after the world championship and he was searching for the truth and he did find it. |
| 1:29.3 | The only reason Nikki Alders feels like all of this is a waste of time because he should be going after the World Championship and he was searching for the truth and he did find it. The only reason Nicky Allen was all upset about this is because he did, used to be a former NWA champion, he used to be a professional wrestler and now you look at me, Gunther, the Ring General, and you see how much success I have had in the WWE, whereas you have been a massive failure and nobody likes you. Goodfair basically threw the mic at him, so Nick Alice decided to say, no, none of that is true, |
| 1:47.6 | and come to the pay-per-view, which Ryan said it must be true, you're going to be very, very upset because this boss is going to make you look like a bitch. So good to essentially grab them and power bobbed in through a table. Now that is very interesting because again, you know the wrestling tropes Usually, if they heal does something bad on the show before SummerSlam, the other guy's going to win, then I realize that SummerSlam is not this weekend, so Nick Alders can get his revenge next week, and then yes, good they should win at SummerSlam, but I tell you, I just enjoy this. It does kind of tie into my own professional wrestling career, because if you don't know when I debut for Progress Wrestling, who I'm wrestling for tomorrow, by the way, in London, come on down. I accepted a job, if that's the right word, as the host. So I was the guy that got in there between matches like, let's do this, which is something Progress always used to do. And that's because in the back of my head, I was like, well, if this is all I do, that's fine, but I wanted to become a professional wrestler in progress, which I've been doing for the last few years. |
| 2:37.1 | So I get it. I do understand. And even Nick Owliss only gets one match in WWE. That's pretty damn good. So I am invested in this. I still think Gunther should win. I'm still a little perturbed because I think this stipulation is just going to be chucked out the window. But on this day, not Edge's theme, I am going to give it an up. WWE is real being. And then man did WWE take me on a roller coaster because Sammy Zane interrupted Kathy Kelly. And this dude is the absolute best. He got an amazing promo about how he's been screwed over by WWE and seeing Punk and Coe Rhodes go for the |
| 3:07.6 | WWE championship, but the former champion has totally been ignored. It's all about the delivery. What he was saying was very good too, but he came across genuine like he wasn't an unhinged maniac. Although the long and the short of it was he bumped into Adam Pearce. Alan Pierce was like, you need to keep your ears open. you shall be completing at SummerSlam |
| 3:24.0 | and you will be taking on the winner |
| 3:25.6 | of a fatal four way that's happening tonight. What? The four people in that too were Royce Keys, Finn Baller, Damian Priest and somebody else who I've forgotten now, Trick Williams. I can't handle that for two reasons. One, you know my pet peeve, not saying it's good, not saying it's bad. But if somebody has a championship and then go for another championship, especially around |
| 3:42.9 | SummerSlam, I just think it's ridiculous. Damien Priest and Our Truth have been teasing having a match with the Raud Raiders for the last 47 years, but now we've forgotten about that again. I just think these people are too random. Now, listen, for this Sammy Zane promo, I'm giving it enough. you should go out of your way to see it. |
| 3:56.6 | But in terms of this match happening, |
| 3:58.7 | so close to SummerSlam as well, |
| 4:00.2 | with someone like Sammy Zane pro-m, I'm giving it an up. You should go out of your way to see it. But in terms of |
| 3:57.7 | this match happening, so close to SummerSlam as well, with someone like Sammy Zane is a bit like, listen, Sam, you're right, okay? We forgot. We forgot to put you on the show. You can just take on one of these people. And actually, the winner was good and the match will be good. Still giving it down down, Sammy gets it up. When it was time of |
| 4:14.4 | Bree Bella versus Laney Reed, and actually we can get through this one quite simply because it was more of an angle than anything else. Beforehand, Jacey Jane just said, oh, they think I would like a US championship shot. So she did talk about Tiffany Stratt, which makes no sense because she lost last week, and she did address that too and was like, I got screwed over, which was kind of accurate, but at accurate at the same time surely have to win some matches and i'm just going to give it down for the overall usage of that women's u.s championship because well it doesn't do anything and also yes after laney read had tried to cheat by holding the ropes pre-bedo was like oh you're slight little cat i'm a veteran and she got the most devastating move in all the sports and a damn a surprise roll-up and she got the one, two, three. That was perfectly fine, I just presume these two were going to feud over the tag team towers for a bit. But when Fettle Influis did beat up Bree Bella and Paige, and also those guys who got involved on the outside too, Nikki Bella made her return. Now this is perfectly cool, perfectly fine. I like Nikki Bella, I like the Bellas. |
| 5:04.5 | I don't think they get the respect they do deserve sometimes. |
| 5:07.3 | But they she then got on a mic and called everybody a bitch, |
| 5:09.9 | because that's what you do when you want to make a feud serious, |
| 5:12.0 | when all of a sudden we learned it's a six-person tag at SummerSlam. |
| 5:15.8 | Now one fatal influence better with this. That aspect is going to have to get it down. |
| 5:26.6 | However, I'm going to give it up for the return of Nikki Bella, because again, I like |
| 5:29.6 | the Bellas and sometimes people just get on all on their case. |
| 5:32.6 | Although, trust me, you go read about Total Bellas and Total Divas without those shows. |
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