WWE SmackDown 4/25/25 Review | RASD
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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock & Neal Flanagan review WWE SmackDown with The Street Profits vs. DIY vs. Motor City Machine Guns in a TLC match. Also: The debut of Aleister Black, Zelina Vega wins the U.S. Championship, the Backlash main event is set, and Fraxiom arrive on SmackDown.
Plus: John & Neal review the latest episode of Hollywood Demons on The Von Erich family.
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- Living with Grief: The Story of the Von Erichs & WCCW (POST Profile) - https://www.postwrestling.com/2023/12/28/living-with-grief-the-story-of-the-von-erichs-wccw-audio/
- The Story of the Von Erichs with Irv Mushnick (Pollock & Thurston) - https://www.youtube.com/live/HGiJos8VebA?si=s5phM1GX7fIYBAD8
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| 0:00.0 | As if they don't have too much on their place, |
| 0:08.1 | the Kings of Combat Sports podcast John and we'll talk about the things they did that day. |
| 0:13.7 | The land and left the work of Triple H. |
| 0:16.1 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:17.2 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:18.8 | We want to Smackdown. |
| 0:20.1 | We want to Smackdown. We want to Smackdown. We want to Smackdown. We want to Smackdown. A theme. Rewind a Smackdown. That's right, everyone. Everyone's right everyone we're coming at you in stereo coming at |
| 0:43.0 | you with the one two punch that is john pollock and neil flanagan neil we have quite the smackdown |
| 0:48.5 | to dissect i have not had a chance to ask you yet this week, but, you know, since we spoke on night one, |
| 0:56.6 | how much of, did you consume all of night two? And sort of what, what was your wrestling threshold? |
| 1:02.0 | Were you overdosing by Monday? And how were you going into tonight's Smackdown when it came to |
| 1:08.1 | intrigue in the follow upup on the Smackdown side. |
| 1:11.9 | I was definitely overdosing by Monday, that's for sure. I did completely consume |
| 1:15.8 | WrestleMania Night 2 live and the post show afterwards live with the one-night return of Mr. Ting. |
| 1:23.8 | You couldn't miss that, you know. So my thoughts were the same as most people's. |
| 1:28.6 | So I'm not belabor that point, which is that the main event of Sunday kind of sucked. |
| 1:36.2 | And that's, yeah, that's all I'm going to really say about it. |
| 1:40.7 | By the end of Raw on Monday, my cue of wrestling from the weekend, it's kind of lapsed a little bit. |
| 1:48.8 | There was a lot that I wanted to catch up on, but I had wrestling up to the gills at that point. |
| 1:55.6 | And over on Disney plus the new series of Andor, the new Star Wars spin-off show had landed. And I thought, |
| 2:02.4 | well, let's have a change of pace and dive into that because they dropped three episodes |
| 2:06.8 | at once to begin. So yeah, I took a bit of a break from wrestling. So I was ready for SmackDown |
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