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WWE Smackdown 1/16/26 Review | Cody ENTERS THE RUMBLE And TNA Champion Wrestles!

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Sports, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Wrestling

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Solomonster reviews another good episode of WWE Smackdown (what's going on here?) from London, England with Drew McIntyre getting a hero's welcome, Cody Rhodes declaring for the Royal Rumble and picking a fight with Jacob Fatu, FOUR qualifying matches to decide on a new #1 contender and a current TNA champion answers the US Title Open Challenge!

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0:00.0

What is going on, guys? It is another Friday night. I am the solemn monster and another

0:05.1

international edition of SmackDown. W.W.E is in the middle of a European tour as we head

0:10.1

into the Royal Rumble. And so tonight, they were in London, England. As I am speaking, Smackdown

0:16.5

is still on the air on USA Network. But if you were an international viewer, or if you're one

0:22.9

of the cool kids with a VPN, you got to watch the show as I did a little bit earlier on

0:28.6

this afternoon. Smackdown is now over. Drew McIntyre won the WWE Championship one

0:34.6

week ago. And so tonight, he got a hero's welcome. They weren't in,

0:39.5

Scotland, but he was treated like the hometown hero as he walked into SmackDown. He got a very

0:47.2

warm reception from the audience until he basically just turned on them and said, hey, fuck off.

0:55.7

You weren't there for me when I needed you, and I sure as hell don't need you now. But what Drew McIntyre does have now

1:01.7

is a number one contender in sight. We got that much closer to finding out who is going to be

1:08.6

challenging him for the WWE championship at the Royal

1:11.6

Rumble because we now know the names of the four men who have progressed to Saturday night's

1:17.5

main event, not tomorrow, but next weekend.

1:20.6

And these four men are going to fight for the right to challenge Drew McIntyre at the

1:24.5

Rumble for the title.

1:26.7

And those four men will be Randy Orton, Damien Priest, Sammy Zane, and Trick Williams.

1:35.9

One of those four men, basically all the names that I told you were going to win last week.

1:40.8

But one of those four men will be challenging Drew McIntyre. And, you know, one of the

1:46.6

things I was watching that main event, because they had Sammy Zane and Ilya Draganov in the

1:50.6

main event. And that could be a main event on any show, as far as I'm concerned. They had a kick-ass

1:55.9

match a couple months ago, whatever it was in the U.S. title open challenge. This match was not as good

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