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But alas, duty calls, and Smackdown must be recapped. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Smackdown Recap for Friday, January 8th, 2021 Promo: Roman Reigns Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, and Paul Heyman head to the ring…very… slowly… to kick off Smackdown[...]

Greetings, comrades! It is I, your El Presidente, reporting to you live from a vote-counting facility in Georgia where I am programming Dominion vote-counting machines to switch votes to the Democrats with news of WWE Smackdown's latest ratings Normally, that funny little man The Chadster is the one to report on the ratings, but when[...]

WWE kicked off 2021 with a brand new episode of WWE Smackdown In case you missed the show (something The Chadster would never ever do), WWE released video clips on YouTube. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. A lot of last night's Smackdown was focused on the feud between Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens that[...]

2020 totally sucked, but it's a brand new year now and WWE Smackdown has the opportunity to set the tone for how 2021 is gonna go Oh… crap! The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Smackdown Recap for Friday, January 1st, 2021 After an[...]

Maybe the entire past ten years were like the part of the movie where George Bailey sees what it would be like if WWE got terrible ratings that just kept getting worse, and now everything is back to normal again and The Chadster gets his wings! Whatever happened, The Chadster is just happy to see[...]

Like raindrops or roses or whiskers on kittens or white claw on seltzer, an episode of WWE Smackdown on Christmas is one of The Chadster's favorite things And this year's Christmas Smackdown didn't disappoint, with four huge matches and an Intercontinental Championship win that The Chadster is gonna go ahead and say is tied for[...]

Welcome to The Shovel: Smackdown Edition, recapping Smackdown for December 25th, 2020 What could be more pathetic than watching WWE Smackdown on Christmas? Luckily, you don't have to because you've got me. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock]WWE Smackdown Recap for December[...]

Instead, I want to talk about the ratings for last week's episode of WWE Smackdown. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. I am filling in on the ratings today for Chad McMahon after his wife Keighleyanne and some of his friends and family members staged an intervention before he saw that Smackdown barely topped a[...]

Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship against Carmella And Roman Reigns defends the Universal Championship against Kevin Owens Bleeding Cool's Jude Terror had some predictions on the outcomes, which you can read here. Bray Wyatt faces Randy Orton in a Firefly Inferno match at WWE TLC. WWE TLC Results Part 7 We see our first ad for[...]

Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship against Carmella And Roman Reigns defends the Universal Championship against Kevin Owens Bleeding Cool's Jude Terror had some predictions on the outcomes, which you can read here. Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defend the Women's Tag Team Championships against Asuka and a mystery partner at WWE TLC. WWE TLC Results[...]

Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship against Carmella And Roman Reigns defends the Universal Championship against Kevin Owens Bleeding Cool's Jude Terror had some predictions on the outcomes, which you can read here. Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship against Carmella at WWE TLC. WWE TLC Results Part 3 Charly Caruso interviews Paul Heyman[...]

Sasha Banks defends the Smackdown Women's Championship against Carmella And Roman Reigns defends the Universal Championship against Kevin Owens Bleeding Cool's Jude Terror had some predictions on the outcomes, which you can read here. Daniel Bryan, Big E, Otis, and Shorty G face Baron Corbin, Cesaro, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Sami Zayn on the WWE TLC Kickoff[...]

Sami Zayn appeared on last night's special episode of Talking Smack on FS1 to register complaints about Big E stealing his final Sami Awards during Smackdown earlier in the night Sami staged his own awards as an alternative to what he feels will be a biased Slammy Awards Sammy gave himself two awards, Comeback of[...]

The smell of desperation roasting over an open fire is in the air and Smackdown is looking for a Christmas miracle. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Smackdown Recap for December 18th, 2020 Promo: Kevin Owens Kevin Owens heads to the ring to open[...]

And with the stronger Smackdown set to air on FS1 instead of Fox, it could have left the week wide open for Dynamite's first-ever victory Alas, the stars did not align for AEW this week and Vince and the Chadster live to fight another day. The official logo for AEW Dynamite on TNT AEW Dynamite Ratings and[...]

I'm here to talk about recent comments made by Eric Bischoff regarding his brief run as creative director of WWE Smackdown. Paul Heyman, Vince McMahon, and Eric Bischoff in happier times WWE announced in June 2019 that Bischoff would take over Smackdown as the show moved to Fox, but by October, he was replaced by Bruce Pritchard[...]

After CM Punk was fired by WWE, his wife, April Mendez, worked there for a year. How did it affect their marriage?

WWE Smackdown took the number one spot in the overnight network TV ratings, defeating even the mighty Shark Tank in the crucial 18-49 demographic Even so, viewership was down slightly from last week with WWE a little more than a week away from the TLC PPV The show was highlighted by the in-ring debut of[...]

The Superstars of Smackdown — well, those of them who haven't been sent back to remedial wrestling class — continue to try to build toward their matches at TLC later this month by… probably having the same or similar matches tonight WWE doesn't really have a lot of creative variation in these things I'm Jude[...]

The Superstars of Smackdown — well, those of them who haven't been sent back to remedial wrestling class — continue to try to build toward their matches at TLC later this month by… probably having the same or similar matches tonight WWE doesn't really have a lot of creative variation in these things I'm Jude[...]

The ratings are in for this week's episode of WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox, and The Chadster is here to tell you all about from the perspective of a guy who likes to put a positive spin on the news about my favorite global corporation This week, Smackdown proved more popular than Christmas itself,[...]

The card for WWE's TLC PPV, happening on Sunday, December 20th, is starting to shape up, with two more matches officially added as of last night's SmackDown Three championships are scheduled to be put on the line so far at TLC, which usually features multiple gimmick matches around the Tables, Ladders, and/or Chairs theme. Carmella vs[...]

With the enemies at the gates after AEW and Impact teamed up for a wrestling super-mega-crossover event, WWE looks to build toward the TLC PPV on WWE Smackdown tonight How will they answer the challenge? Probably by doing the same old shit they were already doing This is WWE we're talking about, after all I'm[...]

With the enemies at the gates after AEW and Impact teamed up for a wrestling super-mega-crossover event, WWE looks to build toward the TLC PPV on WWE Smackdown tonight How will they answer the challenge? Probably by doing the same old shit they were already doing This is WWE we're talking about, after all I'm[...]

Just when you thought Dave Bautista's feud with Donald Trump may have run its course, The Animal shows he still has gas in the creative tank.

According to dirt sheet mogul Dave Meltzer, the reason for Strowman's behavior was to give him an in-storyline reason to take time off because he's apparently suffering from a knee injury as WWE suspended him indefinitely for the offense. Braun Strowman appears on WWE Smackdown, where he wrestled before the most recent WWE Draft. The injury story[...]

Dave Bautista claims Donald Trump wore a diaper at WWE WrestleMania 23. Is he right? Bleeding Cool investigates the charges.

WWE Smackdown dropped below 2 million viewers last night According to the overnight ratings, the first time the number has been under 2 million since August, prior to the launch of the Thunderdome, not counting the episode on October 23rd that aired on FS1 It was an embarrassing defeat for the pro wrestling behemoth as[...]

Thanksgiving may be over, but the Turkey hangover known as WWE Smackdown goes on, and we're here to recap it for you But first: Look it's a 30 year old loser who still lives in Mama's basement hiding behind the keyboards to talk trash about some of these jealous of cuz they've had so much success[...]

Thanksgiving may be over, but the Turkey hangover known as WWE Smackdown goes on, and we're here to recap it for you But first: Look it's a 30 year old loser who still lives in Mama's basement hiding behind the keyboards to talk trash about some of these jealous of cuz they've had so much success[...]