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WWE Smackdown 10/17/25 Review | Jacob Fatu WRITTEN OFF TV, Star RETURNS And Wins Gold!

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Solomonster reviews another strong episode of WWE Smackdown with an impromptu match between Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre, an angle to write Jacob Fatu off TV and an idea for a wild twist when he returns, while the US Title Open Challenge brings the return of an injured star and a NEW champion crowned.  Nice to see Road Dogg learning how to use ChatGPT!

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0:00.0

Gotta get festive for the season.

0:02.2

Hey, you know what?

0:02.9

I gotta give a shout out to our good friends at Chat GPT.

0:07.2

They put together a good Smackdown tonight.

0:10.2

All hail our new AI overlords.

0:14.4

Can't be any worse than some of the Smackdowns that we've gotten earlier this year.

0:18.9

This was a good episode of Smackdown Tonight.

0:22.0

This was the second week in a row that the show had a little bit of a different feel

0:26.5

to it.

0:26.9

You could see that certain changes are being made.

0:30.5

Hopefully more changes will be made in the weeks to come.

0:33.5

There's still much work to be done.

0:36.8

But they closed tonight's show with a big angle because we had Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre in an impromptu match that was not announced coming into the show.

0:48.0

And we don't know if it was for the WWE championship or not.

0:52.6

Even the announcers were wondering, is this for the

0:55.1

WWE Championship? That was never clarified. That was by design. But what we had here was

1:01.6

supposed to be a number one contenders match between Drew McIntyre and Jacob Fattu, the winner of

1:06.5

which would go on to become the next challenger for Cody Rhodes and the WWE title.

1:12.3

And then a few days ago, unfortunately, we had a report, I believe body slam.net was first to break the news.

1:19.0

The Jacob fought too had suffered a non-wrestling injury, which is very broad, and that can mean any number of things.

1:26.6

That could be an injury, illness.

1:28.6

They said injury.

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