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I'm Adam Wilborn, not joined by Michael Hanfler or Michael Sidgwick to review this week's episode of Friday Night Smackdown.

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Friday Night Smackdown.

I'm going to be a bit of. It's weird It's weird It's weird

It's weird doing it by yourself,

It's quite strange, isn't it?

Yeah.

This is your job.

This is a strange episode of Smackdown to review.

I'm always coming in with a positivity, obviously.

I was thinking about how this review would have gone had either of the Michaels actually

bothered to show up to work today.

I know they're both enjoying quite rightly their holidays.

And I thought, Hamlet would probably say this was a good sort of table setting episode,

which is what I got from it. I enjoyed it. I thought it was one of those ones with not like

huge developments, but some furthering of stories laying the table for future episodes. Obviously

they're going big when they come to Europe this week now, I suppose. And I enjoyed what we got as well in terms of in-ring stuff.

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