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

the dadly boys of WhatCulture, Michael Hampler, and Michael Cigabick here to review everything

that happened on Friday's episode of SmackDown. But before we get into it, if you're a fan

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or let me get your podcast from for daily resting podcasts. Well, we're not only review

Raw and SmackDown, but also NXT, AWD and my pay per views. We have interviews, round table

discussions, and a round-up of the week, complete. We're going to let you get quiz, of course,

on WrestleCulture. As I said, though, joined by Hampler and Cigabick to review SmackDown.

It's been a long time since we've done this. What did you make of Friday Night Show, Michael

Hampler? Rubbish. Absolutely, Rubbish. This is not

contrary to, I think, luckily a dying discourse. This week's episode at very least,

I don't want to comment on other maybe half-decent ones. This week's episode was not a

broadly good show with a couple of duds. This was a mostly bad show with one or two half-decent

things. The best character in WWE resides on this show, and too often, for my taste, the last

three or four months. They've been quite lazy with that best character. I'd really quite enjoyed

what the best character did on this show, or the best angle. I guess best storyline and all that.

Otherwise, a really bad show. When we pick a part of some of this stuff, I don't feel like it's

going to be that different from criticising some of them from Raw. In terms of plot holes,

logic gaps, hideous WWE commentary, bad comedy, usual tropes, it's going to feel like

alarmingly similar to a Raw. One of the worst Smackdowns I've seen in a while. I'll say that.

I think there's been a lot of better episodes lately, but this was a good example of why this is not

the shining light that a lot of people maybe think Smackdown is. So this is Smackdown.

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