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of the deadly boys Michael Hamflip from What Cool To Here to look ahead to tonight's episode

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on WrestleCulture. As I said, they're joined by Michael Hamflip to look ahead to tonight's episode

of SmackDown. I haven't had a chance to chat to you about what went down last week. Your thoughts

very quickly, Michael Hamflip, on WWE's experiment with Rolling Loud.

Oh God, well, you say experiment that implies that you do a bit of preparation, a bit of research,

a layout, your components, and your aim. You go through your aims and your objectives. That's

how an experiment is conducted. Apparently not with WWE. Massively blew an opportunity. And

by the way, it looked awesome. For longer form thoughts, you can catch. I was SmackDown

review from Monday, like wherever you've got this podcast. But in short, a stunning visual,

an amazing visual, one of millions that we've had lately in the wake of wrestling defeat in the

pandemic, 2-1 in an Iron Man match. It's just something still to say thousands upon thousands

of people, in this case, a festival environment. Imagine if you will, a hard camera set up at the

back of the Glastonbury Women's Day, and just constantly having that to look at. Glorious,

absolutely glorious. But the performers weren't prepped for this audience particularly.

Waley got them revved up at first, but I was about it. There was none of that.

Heal coming out just to wind the crowd up. Just generic stuff. Baron Corbin goes out there and

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