Hello and welcome to the SmackDown preview. I'm Michael Humphur from What Culture and I'm joined

by Phil Chambers from What Culture to look ahead to tonight's episode of Friday Night Smackdown.

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and around whether we complete with a bloody good quiz, of course, on WrestleCulture. Thank God

that is like doing the crypto-factor assault course. I love how you had to kind of thank yourself up,

like you took a little pause and you're like, okay, and here we go. He's got to switch on the back

for him to do that, you know what? He's like a poet. Yeah, he's woody from Toy Story when it comes to

that, actually, oh man, I understand. I'm joined by Phil Chambers, as you just said, the voice of

that, to look ahead to tonight's show. Phil, you're very much the big Mac of Smacky Dees

here at WhatCulture.com. A challenging episode of SmackDown last week, I thought, a bit of a

break from the norm. Before we get into previewing this week, so I just wondered like some brief

thoughts on last week's episode on what should have been, obviously their traditional fallout

from Hell in the Cell. A lot of it, other than the main event sequence, very much like felt like

there were still on pause, despite the big changes ahead. Yeah, it's a little bit weird. I think

especially coming off Hell in the Cell, like it's just, hey, telling a Cell, it should be a big blow

off to feuds and like end it and then move on. And a lot of it felt like it was just kind of there

just to get through it more than anything else. And then sort of a difficult place on TV, like even

the Roman stuff, like it felt like they kind of jumped the gun a little bit with the J.U. So stuff,

like it was one week, they were at odds and then the next week, I like the Jimmy Uso stuff going

missing to keep the bit of intrigue in, but then like J was acknowledging Roman and then they kind

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