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🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Our WWE SmackDown review as Simon Miller recaps:
0:00 Tiffany Stratton and Jade Cargill face off
2:12 Backstage promo
2:56 Ilja Dragunov vs. Nathan Frazer
5:18 Carmelo Hayes vs. Kit Wilson
6:27 Backstage Promos
7:33 Alexa Bliss vs. Nia Jax
9:36 Backstage Promos
12:36 Tama Tonga & JC Mateo vs. Motor City Machine Guns
14:16 Drew McIntyre & Cody Rhodes contract signing
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| 0:00.0 | I enjoyed the fact that Tiffany Stratton just walked out of the Star Smackdown with no music and was like, give me a microphone because I want to talk to Jake Cargill, because sometimes wrestling forgets this. If you do have a big turn seven days beforehand, even though wrestlers will not talk in the interim, they were still quiet until they're allowed to go on TV. It just remind you what that person did was a big deal. Also, like my friends, I'm welcome to |
| 0:21.6 | Smackdown Ups and Downs. The only rest of you show you need, but we are going to review SmackDown and give the good bits enough and the bad bits of down. It's a nice simple concept because I am stupid. And as always, thank you very much for NordvPN.com. Force. That's what culture. I mean, that's the link that you can use. There is a description down there in the link. I'm getting my words all |
| 0:38.5 | wrong. But the point is this, if you're away and you still want to watch your wrestling in a certain way, what the fluff is going on. The point is sign up. You're going to get an amazing deal. You get like four months three and it's basically less than $3 a month, and it's just going to allow you to consume even more wrestling at a fair price. Sound good? I think so. Now let's up those doubts. Tiffany Strayer mostly wanted to fight Jay Cargier right away when Nick Aldous walked out and said, we told you, Jade, you're kind of cleared but not kind of clear. He didn't call her Jade. Her name is Tiffany. Somebody hasn't gone to sleep. When Jay Cargia walked out, I am going to beat you at Saturday's night's main event. And during the bit where you see wrestlers coming into the arena, I think Jade was dressed as the Punisher, and here she was dressed as Catwoman, so she was going through a lot of costume changes. But the useless wrestling security did do their job because they didn't start to fight. Jade said she was hungry for gold. I hope she doesn't mean that literally otherwise she is going to die when she promised that come next week's pack down, she will be the women's champion. Once again, she absolutely should be. Like if you want to turn heel and then go after a title and lose, you're just going to look like a massive goober. And also, something happened later where if you do want to have Tiffany Stratt get defeated with |
| 1:45.2 | a bunch of shenanigans where you've laid the table. I think Jade also said that taffy time |
| 1:49.6 | was over so maybe she'd been eating candy all day and this was short and sweet and I actually |
| 1:54.8 | think it will work, repeat myself as long as Jay Cargill wins that championship. Also, |
| 2:00.1 | the only few that Tiffany Stratt seems to have is Jay Cargill and Niagara Jacks, |
| 2:04.6 | a little bit of Charlotte player over WrestleMania, so let's just pull the trigger, let's have some fun. |
| 2:09.6 | That's what wrestling's meant to be, giving it up, it's perfectly fine. |
| 2:12.6 | We went backstage, we saw the motorcy machine guns talking to Artruth who was dressed as as Santa Claus because of course, even though it's Halloween, our truth thought it was Christmas. I like Art Truth. He's one of my favourite wrestlers ever, but I do have to say, I feel like we can use him better than this. I just realized that it is Halloween as well. I mean, we dressed up on Raw, so we should probably dress up on SmackDown 2. That's right, I've just put a hat on. |
| 2:36.9 | It's the laziest Halloween costume ever, but anyway, So does the Cocoa found the motor seat machine guns, and he was like, ha ha, you're like Harry Potter, and Chris Saban seemed perfectly fine with this, and he started waving around a wand. They didn't do that, we didn't seem that insulted at all. The only thing he threatened to use a magic spell and because the MFTs want to be the tag team champions, |
| 2:52.2 | and the machine guns want to be a tag team champions, they're going to have a match later tonight. Before all that, though, we did have our US title open challenge when Ilya I'm going to kill you Nathan Frazier. Honestly, flood me sideways. Thank goodness it was Nathan because at one point, Tomasso Champa also walked out, and he was like, well, I got into the ring first or something when Elia became their dad and said, listen, I've already picked Nathan, you're going to have to go again. Although saying that, it would be quite funny if you did have an open challenge. And it was literally whoever gets to the ring first wins, or they did that on NXT, and they kind of did it in T&A, it's always really stupid. Don't worry about that, though, because yes, you should go and watch this. It is just 10 to 15 minutes of straight up attempted murder. At one point, I even grabbed Nathan Frazier and gave him this German superplex on the outside, and he even said, it's not personal. I was like, that's not |
| 3:41.5 | going to hold up in court. A judge is still going to be really mad, and then some of the near falls in the ring, like when Nathan Frazier hit one of his clipply-doodah moves from the top rope and got a one-two-o. The big part of me thought there's no way Nathan Fraser is going to win, which is a teeny tiny part right here. |
| 3:55.7 | My tum. I was like, oh my gosh, he got him. |
| 3:57.3 | Ilya Dragon, at one point, went for a move as well, |
| 3:59.3 | and just fell right down and |
| 4:00.9 | basically looked like he was dead. That's when Nathan Fraser was busting out Phoenix Splashes. |
| 4:05.1 | I mean, this felt nothing like your usual WW match. And that's why it stood out like a sore thumb. |
| 4:10.1 | Also fair play to Ilya Dragonov because he watched what Sammy Zane did over his eight open challenges and has gone, you know what? I can probably do better still, and at the moment he may very well just do that. Basically the end as well, they were just punching each other right in the face when Elia was able to hit a power bomb and finished Nathan off with an H-bombs. So quite clearly he's obsessed with explosive devices and he got the one, two, three. And even though they had a big huggerthon afterwards, because you would do that, Tomasso Champa was back, he whipped everybody's ass, which probably means not only will we do DIY, versus a variation of these guys, but you're probably going to do Ilyne of Dragonov versus Tomasso Champa too. Let's not pretend Champa isn't a great wrestler. That's also going to kick |
| 4:48.5 | ass. It's getting an up. It's nice and simple stuff, but the bar, the level of these things is through the roof. You should go and check it out today. We also tease future matches too because after this backstage, you did have DIY and you had Fraxium and you had Iliu Dragonov yelling at each other when Tamantonga walked in and went yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, |
| 5:06.1 | yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like he was a Tametonga had that singles run in New Japan. He was a IWGP champion, the US champion, I can't remember, but it was damn good, so we should do it. When we followed up from last week, because Carmela Hayes had decided, |
| 5:21.4 | he didn't like the fact that Kit Wilson had said he was part of the toxic masculinity problem, |
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