Hello, and welcome to the SmackDown preview. I'm Adam Wilborn from What Cooled You, John

by one of the badly boys, Michael Hanflop from What Cooled You, to look ahead to tonight's

episode of Friday Night SmackDown. But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this

sort of thing, make sure you subscribe to What Cooled Wrestling on either iTunes Spotify

and let me get your podcast from for Daily Wrestling Podcast, where we're not in a review

of What Cooled You, to look ahead to SmackDown tonight, the first SmackDown of the year,

New Year, same old SmackDown, barely anything advertised. They are just front-loading the

show with Roman Reigns is medically cleared, and Brock Lesnar is going to show up and now

is WWE Champion. And to be fair, as much as I don't like it, that's a really good

sell for someone like me. Yeah, it's something, isn't it? I feel like we should offer a

bit of a disclaimer at the start of this podcast. We do our best on these previews to

analyse the ongoing storylines we use, things that have happened in the weeks prior to inform

things that have happened in the weeks ahead. This one's going to be a lot of different

ways of saying, what's next? What's the year ahead going to look like? What could possibly

be in store for? They're not giving us things other than the big thing. They used a well-regarded

and well-rated Monday Night Raw to drop a hook for tonight's SmackDown, not the hook, sadly

he's on the other side, but drop a pretty big hook in the size of Brock Lesnar. The day

one, we alluded to this, if you've listened to our raw review, or like you dare not brave

it, because it's the longest one of the week. Go back and give this a go, because I think

we kind of covered it off quite a lot of SmackDown-related stuff in the form of Brock Lesnar

and the future and all that sort of stuff going on. The make good, as is typical in WWE,

was arguably better than the original. Brock Lesnar being inserted into the fiddle

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