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WWE Smackdown 9/5/25 Review | AJ LEE RETURNS And Brock Lesnar SPOILS Cena's Chicago Farewell!

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Solomonster reviews an eventful Smackdown from Chicago with CM Punk and the return of AJ Lee for the first time in 10 years.  John Cena also says farewell to the city where he debuted in his FINAL Smackdown appearance and challenges Sami Zayn for the US championship before Brock Lesnar shows up unannounced to spoil the party.  Plus, a rant on the state of Giulia and the women's US title.

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0:00.0

You know what I hate?

0:01.5

I hate when they interrupt my commercials with some of this wrestling crap.

0:07.8

I don't like that.

0:09.4

Thankfully, we had plenty of commercials on tonight's show to outnumber all the minutes of wrestling that we actually got.

0:16.0

So we were in good shape.

0:18.5

We had commercial paloosa here tonight.

0:21.4

How terrified must they have been to format the show in the way that they did?

0:27.6

They were so terrified of running out of time in the end of the show for the A.J. Lee closing segment that just the way they formated this show, I cannot remember an episode, honestly, of Smackdown or of WWE television that was this bad when it came to the number of commercials and just the things they were interrupting at various points in the show, especially in that opening match that we had after the opening

0:56.1

segment.

0:57.1

But my God, in between all of those commercials, though, were a couple of great segments and

1:04.6

some not-so-great segments, unfortunately.

1:07.2

We had that as well.

1:08.2

Actually, very forgettable segments.

1:10.2

But what everybody was

1:11.2

talking about, coming into this show here tonight, was the return of AJ Lee actually going to happen?

1:19.4

There were people who didn't believe, I'll believe it when I see it, right? I mean, in 10 years,

1:23.4

this woman hasn't been back on television in 10 years. She doesn't want to come back.

1:27.9

If she wanted to come back, she would have been at Evolution. If she wanted to come back,

1:31.2

she would have been in the Royal Rumble one of these years. Leave her alone. She's done.

1:35.4

She's retired. But anybody who's been watching the television shows over the last week or two,

1:41.2

it was plain as day. This could only be leading to one possible outcome.

1:47.0

Anything else would be a disappointment. And WWE knew that, and they would have to be

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