WWE Smackdown 5/5/23 Review - BAD BUNNY APPEARS AND BACKLASH 2023 PREDICTIONS
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🗓️ 6 May 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Solomonster reviews WWE Smackdown from San Juan, Puerto Rico with an electric crowd and Bad Bunny joining the LWO. He also discusses Triple H's announcement of the tournament for the new World Heavyweight Championship starting next week and has Backlash 2023 predictions.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight was the go home show for backlash in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| 0:05.3 | Tonight, SmackDown was in the very building that's backlash is going to be taking place |
| 0:09.6 | in tomorrow night. |
| 0:11.3 | And if tonight is any indication tomorrow night is going to be a lot of fun just based |
| 0:14.9 | off the energy and the atmosphere of that crowd, you know, it's one of those situations |
| 0:21.0 | where you really realize how important a lively energetic crowd can be because if this |
| 0:27.4 | were any other building, any other place in the US, any other addition of SmackDown heading |
| 0:33.4 | into a pay-per-view with your typical average crowd, this would have been a very average |
| 0:39.1 | go home episode of SmackDown. |
| 0:42.0 | But it was a lot more fun because the crowd was amped up for it and bad bunny is one |
| 0:47.4 | of the reasons why bad bunny is one of the biggest stars in the world right now. |
| 0:52.5 | He is one of the biggest really stars in general, not just musicians, which is why WWE |
| 0:57.1 | loves to work with him. |
| 0:59.4 | And he's a huge wrestling fan and this is not going to be his first match tomorrow night. |
| 1:03.8 | He's going to be going one on one with Damien Priest and a San Juan Street fight. |
| 1:08.2 | We've seen him in a tag team match before, funny enough with Damien Priest as his partner. |
| 1:12.9 | But tomorrow night at backlash, they will be rivals, they will be on opposite sides of |
| 1:17.6 | the ring. |
| 1:18.9 | But tonight bad bunny came out at the end of the show and got a massive pump. |
| 1:26.1 | And really the reason that they sold this building out weeks and weeks ago with I think |
| 1:30.2 | 17,000 people they're going to have in that Coliseum tomorrow night is because of bad |
| 1:34.1 | bunny. |
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