Ups & Downs - WWE SmackDown Review (Sept 19th)
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Simon Miller Ups Raw's Downs...
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| 1:02.1 | Hello, my friends. That's right. It's I, Simon Miller, back in my weird hotel room in Canada. |
| 1:06.4 | If you ever wanted to see a sleep-deprived ups and downs, I have just done a 10-hour round |
| 1:12.2 | trip to somewhere, the C4 wrestling, where I also got my ass kicked and threw through a table. |
| 1:18.4 | You'll be able to see that soon. However, on the way back, I did watch Smackdown because they |
| 1:22.7 | have a serious problem, even though it's now 10 to 5 in the morning. It's time to give the good bits and up, the bad bits are down. And it's like that itself started very weird because Michael Cole's all like, can you believe it? I have to do a sit-down interview with Brock Lesman, and he wants to do it right now when he got up to do the interview and brought Les's music hit and he walked to the ring. Now really, you think somebody would have gone to him and said listen Brock this is a big show lots of people are watching and we need some kind of a structure. You don't get to cool the shots barely can do it everyone. He then essentially kidnapped Michael Cole which made me laugh and he picked him up by his lapels. I was also like Brock why are you on Smackdown? You want to see John Sina you know John Sina is raw. Everybody knows John Sina is raw. Then Corey Graves decided he would be the hero. He ran into the ring and he got F5 over and over again. So Corey Graves may be dead. Brock then shouted into the camera that he is coming for John Sina tomorrow. I hope he didn't say it like that. Sounds a little bit off. |
| 2:18.0 | If you know what I'm talking about, although he did destroy the prime hydrace station. So not everything was totally terrible here. It wouldn't surprise me if the reason Corey Graves got two F5s is because Russell Paloosa is going to be in Indianapolis. So Pat McAfee is probably going to return. And they used to stress and security ran to the ring to try and stop all this. |
| 2:34.8 | So I can see what WW was trying to do here. But we still don't have the core reason as to why Brock Lesnar does want to beat up John Sina, other than people going, well, you know, John Sina versus Brock used to be a big match. So why don't we do it again? And that's fine. You can do whatever the flub you want. but just give me a little bit of story. |
| 2:51.1 | I don't need to see Brock beat up commentators, |
| 2:53.5 | especially because it wasn't that long ago that we did it with Good Town. In one point, Brock even said D-Day is coming, but D-Day for what? Maybe they can sit down and have a picnic, so I am going to give it a down, mostly because it just felt like an angle that wasn't actually situated or focus on the match that were actually trying to do a word to that effect. Like everybody once again knew that John Sina was going to be on Raw, so why did Brockton on Smackdown, as opposed from WWE going, listen, we really would like you to watch Russell Palooza. By the way, would you like us to explain how you can download it on ESPN? I'll talk about that in a minute, but down. Michael Cole then checked on his dead friend, which made me laugh, which I shouldn't have done. Especially because after this, he sat so somber on commentary like he had fallen to the Phantom Zone, when in the back had a guess who Broke Lesnar ran into? It was Paul Heyman and the Vision. Brock wanted to talk to Haman whenman when Nick Alder zoomed in and said, listen to me, Bronbreaker and Bronson Reed. I don't want you doing anything later, especially because Cody Rhodes is going to have a contract signing. I was like, why would the Vision get anything to do with Cody Rhodes? I guess we'll find out. Heyman promised that they're just there to enjoy the show. And I was like, well, it could be that, or it could be that you are contracted employees, so if you don't turn up, you won't get paid. When we didn't indeed get a women's tag team title match with Charlotte Flay and Alexa Bliss taking on the secret of hervis, and while Piper Niven doesn't need my concern, I'm a bit concerned about Piper Niven because she vanished from TV, and we haven't got an update. I hope she's alright. |
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