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WWE SmackDown Preview - New WWE Champion Drew McIntyre! Who Is Heading To SNME? What Next For Cody Rhodes? A World Record Attempt?!

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Adam and Michael preview tonight's Friday Night SmackDown and discuss...


New WWE Champion Drew McIntyre!

Who is heading to SNME?

What next for Cody Rhodes?

Who will answer Carmelo Hayes' Open Challenge!

A world record attempt?!


ENJOY!


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Smackdown preview.

0:03.7

I'm Adam Wilborn from Whatcourt.

0:04.9

You're joined by another one on Dudley, Willem. I got a from Watercultures. Look ahead to this next 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 Cool Tressing on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon, music and YouTube, where we do daily wrestling podcasts, where we're not in Review Smackdown. will also m'n-la-row

0:21.2

the show

0:22.1

formerly

0:22.4

is an XT2.

0:23.8

Oh!

0:24.7

Hey, where we do daily wrestling podcast where we're not in review Smackdown and also the show formula's NXT 2 by OW. ADWDynamite, TNA Impact this week, just this week. Paperviews, premium live events we have interviews, roundtable discussions and a roundup of the week complete with the body of quiz of course on wrestle culture. As said though, joined by Michael Hamlet to look ahead to there at Wimbu!

1:03.9

Of course.

1:05.2

And...

1:05.5

Run it, run it, sold it out, completed it.

1:10.1

Big, big follow-up from last week's, obviously, monumental title change.

1:15.6

Looking ahead to Saturday night's main event and stick around because later on on this podcast,

1:22.1

and we've done it before, this one actually feels achievable.

1:25.2

Michael Hanflet could well break a world record.

1:29.6

The feature that shook the nation is back.

1:32.9

Can Hanflet, making a pig of himself on the internet, have worth.

1:36.5

I know you're thinking, with regard to this world record, what's it?

1:40.4

Well, we'll tell you a little bit later on.

1:43.7

Eagle-eyed viewers, if you're watching on YouTube, eagle-eared, if you're listening, but then

1:49.4

your ears need to be eyes, might have known that my Smackdown salute was a little

1:52.5

sterner than usual, because I was doing it almost in defiance of anybody that currently

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