Hello and welcome to their SmackDown preview, I'm Adam Wilborn from What Cultured, joined

by one of Daddy Boys, my co-hampler from What Cultured 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 Cultured, resting on either iTunes, Spotify or even get

your podcasts from. For daily wrestling podcasts, we're not only review SmackDown, but also

Manin' Hour Owl, NXT Dupac- Oh, WWE Dynamite, WWE Rampage, pay-per-views, premium live events.

We have interviews around table discussions and a round of the week complete, with a bunch

of quiz, of course, on WrestleCulture. As I said, they've joined by Michael Hamlet to

look ahead to SmackDown tonight. We actually didn't have chance to review last week's

SmackDown with all the madness around AEW revolution. But yet again, it had some flashes

of brilliance, I thought.

Flash is a weird. There was one flash of brilliance in the form of Roman Reigns'

promo, which I thought was excellent for the second week in a row. And pretty much

everything he's been done from the Goldberg feud onwards has felt believable, has felt

real, has felt earned for all this time he's had the title, not all of the, well, too much

of the praise towards a lot of this Roman Reigns' run has been feigned, in my opinion.

I'm not going to get on another soapbox, I think it's been a terrible week for the rest

of media, but like, you know, you could extend that to much of this Roman Reigns' run.

Last month or so, I think he's absolutely been one of them guys, it's been worth going

out of your way to see. We know from some fantastic interactions we have with some of our

listener base on Twitter, and this doesn't count for everybody, of course. But there seems

to be a general consensus for you that a lot of people will watch WWE very much in passing

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