It's been a hot day here in New York.

Too hot.

This show was not too hot tonight, but it was the first two-hour Smackdown of the year.

I'm very happy about that.

I am not complaining about the fact that we had a two-hour smackdown tonight.

I always said the time may change the quality of the show, though, that's a different story.

Honestly, you know what this show felt like tonight?

This felt more like a 90-minute show that they stretched out to two hours.

And I'm sure part of the reason for that anyway is because they taped Raw on Monday

and then immediately taped Smackdown

because they were giving everybody off for the 4th of July holiday this weekend.

So this was a tape show.

They did two shows in one night.

So I'm sure they piped in some crowd noise.

We got some crowd sweetening, especially during that page, not page,

Bree Bella and Lainey Reed Match.

And so we ended up with the show that we ended up with here tonight.

It was not a very good show.

As is par for the course with Smackdown.

Not a good show,

but it was instantly better than every other three-hour episode because there was one hour less of it.

You see?

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