WWE SmackDown 1/16/26 Review | RASD
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE SmackDown with Leon Slater answering Carmelo Hayes’ US Open Challenge, champion Drew McIntyre’s UK homecoming, and four qualifying matches for SNME.
XL: John & Wai discuss the negative response to TNA Impact’s debut on AMC, the lineup for Genesis, additions to AAA’s premiere on Fox Latin America & more.
The XL Edition continues at POSTwrestlingCafe.com with News of the Day and Feedback, ad-free.
- Reaction to TNA Impact on AMC
- Updated lineup for TNA Genesis
- Jordan Oliver & Alec Price appear to be AEW-bound
- Rey Mysterio added to AAA premiere
- AEW Collision lineup
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- Saturday: TNA Genesis with John Pollock & Jack Wannan
- Saturday: Collision Course
- Friday: The N.W.A. Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a raw, |
| 0:06.2 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com, $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.5 | As if they don't have too much on their place, the Kings of Combat Sports podcast John and we, |
| 0:22.8 | they talk about the things they did that day, |
| 0:25.5 | the land and left the work of Triple H. |
| 0:27.9 | We want to Smackdown, |
| 0:29.1 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:30.3 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:31.7 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:34.4 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:34.6 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:35.7 | you want to Smackdown, |
| 0:37.0 | you want to Smackdown, Rewon to Smackdown, Rewan to Smackdown. |
| 0:41.0 | And it is Rewind to Smackdown, John Pollock and Wei Ting, going through another afternoon edition of Smackdown, another three-hour version of Smackdown from the Wembley Arena in London, England. |
| 0:54.8 | As they all will be for the next little while. |
| 0:58.5 | Yes, until they go to Canada for Smackdown next week. |
| 1:03.5 | So there's a little interruption there. |
| 1:05.4 | But then it's to Saudi Arabia for the Rumble weekend. |
| 1:08.6 | So a couple more afternoon shows. |
| 1:10.8 | We got Northern Ireland on Monday for Raw. |
| 1:13.5 | So lots of international dates coming up. |
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