Hello and welcome to the Smackdown review on Michael Cidrick and the absence of Adam

Wilborn. You will miss him and I'm joined by fellow Dadley Boy Michael Hamflord to discuss

everything that happened on Friday's Smackdown show. But before we get into it, if you're

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table discussions on get the table of course. But for now, Hamflord, we are reviewing Smackdown,

what your broad thoughts on the show.

So I had, although plans this weekend that meant I couldn't watch Smackdown on Saturday

as you may be, I'm a horse voice. The world is returning to a cautious normal and you

know, it's strange now that you get a Smackdown like this where we're only two weeks

in a crowd coming back and it's like, we have a crowd to come back to other things so

you can go play so you can go and do those things. And it's felt a bit guilty because like

it made it feel a little bit inessential and then when I finally got out and watched

it last night, Sunday, here in the UK, I was quietly impressed with a couple of developments.

I'd gone spoiler free because it's really easy to avoid.

Do we need conversation online now? And a couple of things I really, really liked and I'm

a sucker for the likes of the presentation with which we got a role in now, Jesus Christ.

I know those fans didn't care, but there certainly was a lot of them, wasn't there?

I just couldn't stop looking. I could not stop looking at like what an amazing visual it was.

In perfect execution, what a really cool idea, a very WCW out-of-the-box idea that I'd like

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