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The fan-favorite talk show hosted by former Women's Champion Bayley, Ding Dong, Hello!, will return on Smackdown tonight, WWE revealed on their website Bayley will host WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler tonight on the segment, which is like any other WWE talk show except that whenever someone appears on it,[...]

With the NBC series set to premiere on February 16, Young Rock is introducing its Vince McMahon, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and more.

The Chadster here, chiming in to share a more positive take on last night's episode of WWE Smackdown My colleague Jude Terror likes to take a very pessimistic view of WWE For example, Jude complained that Smackdown felt "thrown together at the last minute" and mocked WWE no having a full card for Elimination Chamber[...]

WWE Smackdown's ratings plummeted this week even as WWE is just a month and a half away from the biggest wrestling event of the year, WrestleMania WWE Smackdown tied for third place in the network rankings with three other shows as ranked by performance in the 18-49 demographic and had the lowest viewership of any[...]

This is about The Street Profits, who used the venue of a backstage interview recorded at WWE Smackdown to talk about the lack of logic or consistency in WWE's tag team booking strategy. The Street Profits discuss WWE booking backstage at Smackdown "Are we any closer?" said Street Profits' Montez Ford when asked if he thinks the[...]

No, I am here to talk about this backstage video from WWE Smackdown that shows Bayley involved in outright gimmick thievery! Bayley rips off Kenny Omega's gimmick backstage at Smackdown My god, comrades! They rip off everything! Haw haw haw haw! That's right, here in this footage posted to WWE's YouTube channel, Bayley can be seen stealing[...]

I have much sadder news to report: WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E is sick and tired of WWE's glacial booking that causes him to face the same opponent over and over again for months at a time. Big E complains of WWE's boring and repetitive booking in a backstage shoot interview, comrades! Big E revealed his thoughts[...]

Anyway, amigos, Sami Zayn's documentary film crew has revealed shocking footage that shows just how close Zayn came to being assaulted by Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio backstage on Smackdown last night. Rey Mysterio confronts Sami Zayn backstage at WWE Smackdown in this revealing documentary footage. In the footage, which Zayn's team released on WWE's YouTube channel,[...]

But that's better than Smackdown, which has two segments and zero matches booked, and is happening… *checks watch*… right now! Let's suffer through this together. The WWE Smackdown booking committee meets to discuss next week's PPV. WWE Smackdown Recap – February 12th, 2021 Promo: Roman Reigns Roman Reigns walks to the ring with his entourage[...]

WWE has finally booked Smackdown's Universal Championship match for the Elimination Chamber PPV, which happens one week from Sunday and had, until tonight, just three matches booked Roman Reigns will defend his title at Elimination Chamber, but not inside the match itself Instead, the winner of the Chamber match will get a title shot "on[...]

With the lack of information about exactly what's happening on WWE Smackdown tonight, The Chadster is beginning to suspect Vince McMahon may be at it again, tearing up and rewriting the script at the last minute All day, the one thing The Chadster knew would happen on Smackdown tonight was that Seth Rollins was set[...]

The big deal here are three Semi-Finals matches in the Dusty Rhodes classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUhDTWUBSLYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Three Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic semi-final matches this Wednesday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUhDTWUBSLY) There's also an ad for WWE Smackdown focused on the return of Seth Rollins, who has been out on Paternity Leave[...]

Missed out on WWE Smackdown last night? Don't worry WWE has released all the best parts of the show in the form of a bunch of YouTube clips Why, you might wonder, would you watch the full two-hour Smackdown live on Fox when you can watch a much shorter version on YouTube the next day?[...]

The Royal Rumble is in the record books, WrestleMania season has begun, and both Edge and Bianca Belair are set to appear on Smackdown and discuss (or at least try to discuss) their choices of opponents for WrestleMania Welcome to Bleeding Cool's Smackdown recap We'll try to be gentle. The official logo for WWE Friday Night[...]

Greetings, comrades! It is I, your El Presidente, here to give you a taste of what you can expect from WWE Smackdown tonight It's WWE, so it still tastes like mayonnaise, but Smackdown is the WWE mayonnaise with the slightest hint of spice Sort of like a deviled egg… you know what, comrades, I'm just[...]

But everyone handles things differently, amigos, and the bottom line is that I have to cover Chad's beat of posting the Smackdown ratings today. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. WWE Smackdown Ratings for January 29th, 2020 Here's what The Chadster wrote about the ratings last week: With Donald Trump out of the White House, things are[...]

Last night, WWE aired the final Smackdown before the Royal Rumble Normally, Chad writes these clickbait articles with the video highlights from the previous night's Smackdown, but I'm going to be honest with you people: nobody has heard from Chad since Thursday, when we had to send him home mid-article since he was clearly in[...]

The Royal Rumble is two days away and WWE has just one episode of Smackdown to sell it Well, I guess technically they don't really have to sell it anymore since they've already sold the WWE Network to Peacock Even so, old habits die hard, so welcome to the recap of the go-home Smackdown for[...]

In a conversation with The Wrap, WWE Chief Brand Officer and occasional personality Stephanie McMahon talked about how Varnado's appearance as Koska Reeves on the popular Star Wars series helped her inside the ring as Sasha Banks as the current SmackDown Women's Champion. Mercedes Varnado in Lucasfilm's THE MANDALORIAN, season two, exclusively on Disney+ © 2020[...]

Howdy folks! The Chadster here, and on this beautiful Saturday afternoon, The Chadster has just one thing in mind: getting you, The Chadster's loyal readers, to click on these videos from WWE's YouTube showing highlights from last night's episode of WWE Smackdown Why, you may ask, does The Chadster care so much? It's simple The[...]

WWE Smackdown's overnight ratings are up this week in a changing television landscape as Joe Biden took over as head booker of the United States from WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump Biden has far less experience in the wrestling business than Trump, whose association with the company dates back to the 1980s and who benefited[...]

WWE Smackdown is here to finish off the pro wrestling week with a week to go before the Royal Rumble, and as usual, we're here to recap it for you Why? We don't really know It's just something wrestling websites are supposed to do. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. WWE Smackdown Recap – January[...]

Nevertheless, Heyman will apparently wrestle Adam Pearce in the main of Smackdown tonight, a situation that developed as a result of the show's opening promo Last week on Smackdown, Adam Pearce tricked Reigns into sighing a contract for a Last Man Standing match at the Royal Rumble only to fake a knee injury and put[...]

WWE Smackdown came out on top in the network ratings wars Friday night No, technically, Smackdown didn't win the night in overall viewership, nor did it score the highest rating in the 18-49 demographic However, Smackdown absolutely crushed the National Figure Skating Championships in head-to-head competition! Yeah, figure skaters! Tell The Chadster how his ass[...]

On Smackdown last night, WWE revealed a major change to the upcoming Royal Rumble PPV Instead of Scrap Daddy Adam Pearce taking on Roman Reigns in the main event of the upcoming PPV, it will be Kevin Owens who faces Reigns in a Last Man Standing match for the Universal Championship Owens replaced Pearce after[...]

Howdy folks! The Chadster here, bringing you some video highlights from WWE Smackdown But just because you can watch this on YouTube doesn't mean you should Go and watch it on your DVR so WWE gets credit for the ratings, dang it! The Chaster has a lot riding on this emotionally. The official logo for WWE[...]

Phew, what a relief! Now I'll be in top form to make fun of Smackdown, so let's get right to it! The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Smackdown Recap – January 15th, 2020 Smackdown begins with a video recap of the saga of[...]

Just two weeks after a beautiful ratings victory that gave The Chadster hope for the new year, a spectacular, unprecedented victory that showed that WWE Smackdown is the most popular pro wrestling show of all time, WWE Smackdown has found itself ranked sixth in network ratings for the 18-49 demographic and eleventh in terms of[...]

But I'm here to tell you about updates to upcoming WWE events after last night's episode of WWE Smackdown, including a main event match set for next Monday's episode of WWE Raw and a new Universal Championship match set for the Royal Rumble later this month. Randy Orton will get another shot at Drew McIntyre on[...]

Last night's episode of WWE Smackdown was action-packed, featuring two title matches and a gauntlet to decide the next challenge for the Universal Championship The Chadster was glued to his seat all night for epic feuds such as Apollo Crews vs Big E and Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode vs The Street Profits Is there[...]