Are you ready? Are you ready for the SmackDown review podcast? Just my name is Phil Chambers

and I am joined as ever by Gareth Morgan to talk about all things blue brand on this

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So we're here to talk all about SmackDown and funnily enough, it's another really good show from

the blue brand. Yeah, this is again just a clear sign of how you do these. You could call them

filler shows. You really got the temptation that's going on. This is just kind of getting us

somewhere to the elimination chamber, getting us to next week when you have the big go home for it.

But SmackDown doesn't see us like, it goes, no, no, this is a week where we can add storytelling,

we can add beats, we can drag you along, we can have matches, which have actual consequences

for the pay-per-view. Who did that? All in concert. Mental. But we did start it,

the same way we've started pretty much every single SmackDown for the last two months,

and weirdly, I'm okay with it, because Roman Reigns comes out and he's got his posse

with him, he's got you, so when he's got Paul Heyman and Adam Pearce is already in the ring.

Roman basically talks about how he isn't here to wait on edge, like that's not his place,

he's talked about edge and he's like edge is so scared of him, that's why he's not agreeing to

this match at WrestleMania. So scared that he's just going to beat him up so badly that he's

going to need him to get himself a Legends contract and then he turns to Adam Pearce and he wants

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