WWE Smackdown 12/30/22 Review - JOHN CENA RETURNS + LOL CHARLOTTE WINS
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🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
Solomonster reviews the final Smackdown of 2022 for December 30th with the return of John Cena to the ring and you may be able to see him, but you can definitely HEAR him! Plus, Charlotte Flair returns and wins the Smackdown Women's Championship from Ronda Rousey, Bray Wyatt gets his Pitch Black match for the Royal Rumble and attacked by Uncle Howdy... or is it Uncle Harper?
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| 0:00.0 | I want to give a hat tip to WWE for acknowledging the passing of Don West on SmackDown tonight. |
| 0:08.0 | I saw that news earlier, broke my heart to see that. |
| 0:11.0 | I've talked about Don West on the podcast and a lot of the struggles that he's been through with Brainlim Foma going back to last year. |
| 0:20.0 | So when I saw the mic tonight tweet earlier today, it was a real bummer. |
| 0:26.0 | I was hoping he could pull through that 59 years old. |
| 0:30.0 | One of those announcers who I think at the time I didn't really appreciate how good he really was. |
| 0:36.0 | Had a certain enthusiasm and energy about him that frankly I think is missing a lot in pro wrestling these days. |
| 0:43.0 | But I thought it was very classy for WWE to have Michael Cole make reference to it tonight. |
| 0:49.0 | I heard to Don West as a man who made a true impact on the wrestling business, which I thought was a very clever line in that he did. |
| 0:59.0 | And I'll have more to say about Don West on the podcast on Sunday, but wanted to make sure I acknowledge that upfront because that was a very sad way to close out the year. |
| 1:10.0 | But this was a very big Smackdown to close out the year tonight. |
| 1:14.0 | The final Smackdown of 2022 and it was a bloody night tonight on Smackdown. |
| 1:21.0 | We had the intercontinental champion Goonther getting his head split open by Ricochet. |
| 1:27.0 | We had Sami Zayn getting his nose busted open by Kevin Owens in the main event. |
| 1:32.0 | And we had Kevin Owens by the time this show was over tonight. |
| 1:36.0 | Owens got a nasty shiner on his left eye. |
| 1:39.0 | I did not see how it happened. |
| 1:42.0 | I have to go back and see what move or what spot it was where it happened. |
| 1:46.0 | Maybe Macho Man Randy Savage got a hold of him. |
| 1:48.0 | He did to him what he did to Hulk Cody before WrestleMania 9. |
| 1:52.0 | Because that's what Owens eye looked like when that match was over. |
| 1:55.0 | The swelling was pretty bad. |
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