WWE SmackDown Preview - Will AJ Lee FINALLY Return? Clash In Paris FALLOUT! Sami Zayn Is US Champion! John Cena's Final SmackDown Appearance?!
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Adam and Michael preview tonight's Friday Night SmackDown and discuss...
Will AJ Lee FINALLY return?
Clash In Paris FALLOUT!
Sami Zayn is US Champion!
The end of The Street Profits?
John Cena's final SmackDown appearance?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Smackdown preview. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Adam Wilborn from Watkinson. Oh, God, Lordy. I'm from a Wancor J. Here's a look at 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 Cool Tressing on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon's music, on YouTube, where we do daily wrestling podcasts where we're not on Review Smackdown, but also |
| 0:00.3 | the show |
| 0:01.7 | formerly known |
| 0:02.2 | as NXT 2. |
| 0:03.5 | Oh! |
| 0:04.4 | We can be done to my A.O.B. Collision, pay-per-views, premium live events. We have interviews, roundtable discussions and a roundup of the week complete on the brusselculture. As I said, though, what, a month later? Yep. now joined by Michael Hanflett to look ahead to tonight's episode of Friday Night Smackdown. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm going to... And look how the ratings have dropped since we stopped previewing this. |
| 1:06.1 | Look, I'm glad you went there first. |
| 1:08.2 | No, I've been saluting alone the last few weeks. |
| 1:12.3 | And to be honest, it wasn't just because I was by myself with Nicholas and the producer's chair, |
| 1:17.4 | gamely trying to support me through it, that the salute didn't exactly feel earned or warranted. |
| 1:24.4 | Or is this the biggest smackdown since the last time they're in the Allstate and Punk and Cody chased off the then heel bloodline now MFTs with bats and then Drew in the garage door and punk and everything. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.5 | Uh, not, it's not been good. |
| 1:42.6 | I've missed. |
| 1:43.5 | I know I watched, I watched Dublin, watch that backstage. Yes. Not from WWE backstage, backstage in our wonderful venue. That was Becky Lynch, turn herself heel, wasn't it? Yes. It was a hot crowd. There certainly was at Switching Disco. It was, I'm going to stop banging on about it now, or just to be telling stories. It was a hot crowd. There certainly was a sweet chin disco. I'm going to stop banging on about it now or just to be telling stories. |
| 2:02.9 | It was a hot night in Dublin. |
| 2:04.9 | That was for sure. |
| 2:05.7 | But the show didn't leave many memories, I guess. |
| 2:09.1 | John Cena was form because he is now since turning baby face. |
| 2:16.1 | That's been a welcome return. |
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