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Ups & Downs: WWE Smackdown Review (Oct 17)

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:

0:00 Cody Rhodes Promo

2:19 Backstage promo

2:51 Alexa Bliss & Charlotte Flair vs. Sol Ruca & Zaria

5:05 Backstage promo

6:32 Ilja Dragunov vs. Sami Zayn

10:16 Backstage promo

10:49 Motor City Machine Guns vs. Los Garza

11:41 Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes


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So Nick Alde started to smack down by telling us the match between Jacob and

1:05.1

Drew McIntyre was going to be a number one contender contest and I thought we already

1:09.3

knew that, but it's nice to know. It's like when somebody tells you they love you they don't tell you once they tell you over and over again so you can feel warm and fuzzling your tum-tum I think this information then got to cody Rhodes and he was like well they better go out and cut a big promo about this because wrestling that's the only explanation or so all my friends one of the, see, I only wrestling of you show you need, and given that WW Smackdown did just go down, which is a dumb sentence to say out loud, I am going to take the finger of power and give the good bits of up, and the bad bits of down. You can get in the comments and tell me what you like and what you didn't like, and you can, you know, click like and share and subscribe, and you can go to nordvpVPN.com forward slash what culture to get yourself a deal on NordVPN.

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Sound good?

1:56.1

That's up to you.

1:57.0

Let's up those doubts.

1:57.9

Now Cody did talk about his lost to Seth Rollins at Crown Jall and was like, even though I think we should never fight again, we definitely shall fight again. But given that I have to be the top guy on SmackDown, we better talk about that. So, Jacob and for two, you do your thing. So Drew McIntyre, you do your thing. And I will see you at satellite's main event. So that's confirmed. That was basically it. I mean, Cody Rhodes is very good in this role. But I really can't tell you anything else unless you want me to stand here and read out the entire promo word for word. Nobody wants that. It'd be a little bit boring. Also, I can't really pull off being Cody Rhodes because I am bald. But look, given what was going to happen at the end of the night, I shall give it an up.

2:34.6

And really, this is the problem with Crown Jewel, you get through that pay-per-view, and all of a sudden, all of the stories that we have been telling, just die. Because again, they're fighting for the Ground True Championship. And when somebody wins that, well, full stop, it's done. But up is perfectly fine. I do have a down here though, because Randy Yorton was not on

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