WWE SmackDown Review: WWE Moving SmackDown Back 3 Hours!? Zack Ryder Returns To WWE, Drew McIntyre Joins The Vision
Off The Script w/JDfromNY
JDfromNY
4.6 • 921 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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SmackDown is already one of the worst shows on TV at 2 hours. Imagine it at 3 hours. That's what's coming AGAIN in January of 2026 as USA Network is ordering 3 hours SmackDowns for most of 2026. This is a terrible decision, and one that needs some major changes if it plans to survive on Friday nights.
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| 0:00.0 | It's out of my hands |
| 0:11.0 | But I'm still in control |
| 0:16.0 | It's out of my hand You can never take away You know, I had three days to sit with this. |
| 0:30.0 | I was actually... |
| 0:31.4 | It's funny enough, man. |
| 0:33.1 | I was in my car. |
| 0:35.4 | I was in the Mustang. |
| 0:41.5 | I was on the cross-br cross Bronx expressway, which is absolutely the worst ever. You do not want to be stuck in traffic on the cross Bronx |
| 0:48.0 | expressway. I was on my way to New Jersey in the middle of rush hour on Friday to go see Miles Kennedy and Wolfgang Vein-Halen on Friday in Montclair, New Jersey. |
| 1:02.0 | Well worth the frustration in traffic. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm sitting in traffic and, I mean, I'm at a standstill, so I'm on Twitter, |
| 1:11.1 | and then the first thing that I see is this tweet from wrestle votes. |
| 1:16.9 | Love the guys over at wrestle votes. |
| 1:19.4 | Don't love them for breaking our hearts here. |
| 1:22.7 | It's not their fault. |
| 1:24.5 | I see this tweet as I'm sitting in traffic on the cross Bronx Expressway and they are detailing that Smackdown is going back to three hours. |
| 1:35.3 | Starting January 2nd, 2006 from the Key Bank Center in Buffalo, New York, and that is going to be the first of many |
| 1:47.7 | three hour blocks of Friday night Smackdown. |
| 1:55.0 | Now, I've had a couple of days to sit with this. |
| 1:59.8 | We're going to talk about this. We're actually going to go over |
| 2:02.6 | some of what I thought of SmackDown as well because I've taken enough time away from the office. I've got to get some content out there. I'm itching to talk about some of these things. So that's exactly what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about Smackdown. We're gonna talk about why it's not good to go back to three hours |
| 2:17.7 | Why the show doesn't need to be three hours |
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