Hello and welcome to the SmackDown preview. I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture joined by

one of the deadly boys Michael Sitchwick from WhatCulture to look ahead to tonight's

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

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I said, though, join by Michael Sitchwick to look ahead to SmackDown tonight. And well,

this week's episode is kind of the fallout from a major incident at the end of last

week's WhatCulture, what did you make to last week's main event and Daniel Bryan being

banished from SmackDown and his contract expired, but we didn't entire podcast about that.

Indeed, yeah, you can obviously listen to that podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever

you get your podcast from, or which we go in depth about the match itself. Daniel Bryan's

position in the company, or perhaps not. But just to recap on my takes, I thought as an

episodic show, it built really well to that main event. They made it feel big time.

I was such a big fan, right, of this method of building a match. They did it with

Moxley and Hague, and WWE have done it before that, and they did it again, and all companies

should do it more often, where they get talking heads with a certain authority, picking

who's going to win, putting over the match, because basically what they are doing is

positioning people you respect as surrogates and conveying the idea. That's not just

you who really wants to watch this match, but it's a locker room sellout as well. You

hear this locker room sellout talk among wrestlers and talk about how there are certain matches

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