WWE Smackdown 12/12/25 Review | THE RULER Confronts Cody Rhodes And A SCARY Main Event!
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
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Reviewing WWE Smackdown with lots of new NXT faces making appearances ahead of Saturday Night's Main Event, Dragunov BLEEDS in a banger for the US title, a scary main event where it's a miracle Zelina didn't break her neck and the start date confirmed for THREE HOURS of Smackdown. I am in mourning.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight was the Smackdown before Saturday night's main event. |
| 0:04.9 | Only have hours left to go before John Cena's final match. |
| 0:08.5 | And actually, we have a special countdown clock here. |
| 0:11.7 | It is T-minus 21 hours until John Cena's final match on Saturday night's main event. |
| 0:19.4 | When I was putting the preview together for |
| 0:20.9 | tonight's show, they were really promoting it around the idea of this being a celebration |
| 0:24.8 | of John Cien's career. I was surprised how little focus there was on that. You had little |
| 0:30.9 | packages and inserts here and there. Not that I mind it. I mean, you know, the show must go on, |
| 0:35.7 | but the way they were promoting this, I thought we were going to get more on him than what we got. But before we get there, we had an actual show to get through tonight. It was the very middle of the road episode of Smackdown. The major plus was the focus that we had tonight on a bunch of new faces, which was really by necessity, |
| 0:57.6 | because one of the things John Cena wanted tomorrow night was not just a focus on himself. |
| 1:02.3 | He wanted there to be a focus on the future, right? |
| 1:05.1 | He wanted there to be a focus on NXT. |
| 1:07.8 | So because we have a bunch of these cross-branded matches tomorrow night, we had some |
| 1:13.2 | faces on the show tonight that you will see on Saturday night's main event. One of them is the |
| 1:17.4 | NXT champion. Obafemi, get used to it because if these people know what they're doing, |
| 1:22.9 | he'll be on SmackDown a lot sooner than maybe some people think. Actually, SmackDown could use him |
| 1:28.6 | right now. So with any hope, we won't have to wait too long into 2026 to see him every Friday. |
| 1:35.9 | Now, because Friday night is really where he should be long and be most effective, I think. |
| 1:40.6 | Raw, not that Rock couldn't use him, but my God, if anybody can use some NXT talent right now, believe me, it is SmackDown. |
| 1:47.1 | Especially because tonight we got the official announcement, which we already knew, but they themselves made it official that Smackdown is moving back to three hours. |
| 1:58.1 | On January 2nd, right at the beginning of the year, the very first Smackdown of |
| 2:01.8 | 2006, Smackdown moves back to three hours every single week. No one is more depressed about this |
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