With ratings in the gutter and nothing they throw at the wall seeming to stick, WWE has resorted to hiring a Khan to run the company.
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In a true measure of their grittiness, last night's Raw Underground segments were plagued by Kevin Dunn's trademark nonstop camera cuts.
Right before things went to hell, Raw featured an awesome match between Shayna Baszler and Sasha Banks, plus: Nia Jax took Pat Buck to school!
As a seemingly great episode of Raw continued, The Riott Squad reunited and Drew McIntyre cut an amazing promo. But soon, it would all go bad.
Those rumors about WWE "chaos" were about Vince McMahon's large adult son hosting a fight club with go-go dancers called Raw Underground.
It's been an eventful Smackdown so far, as evidenced by the fact that we've already over 2000 words about it and thus had to split this report into three parts AJ Styles successfully defended his Intercontinental Championship against Gran Metalik Baron Corbin successfully paid Shorty G to take care of his bully for him Big[...]
The overnight ratings are in for Friday Night Smackdown, and the numbers are looking good, as far as good can be expressed as a relative concept in 2020 Smackdown was the number one show for the night, tied with an hour of Shark Tank and an hour of Dateline Ratings in the 18-49 demo remained[...]
Once again, a long week of wrestling ends with WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox Like all WWE programming, Smackdown has been struggling in the ratings, though not as bad as Monday Night Raw In large part, that can be attributed to the fact that Smackdown is only two hours, and therefore a leaner and[...]
Smackdown started with a Firefly Funhouse and an Intercontinental Championship match We also saw Baron Corbin, The Ratings King of Friday Nights, attempt to manipulate Shorty G into taking out Matt Riddle for him Then we watched a recap of last week's Bar Fight, which means it's time for someone to cut a promo.
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It looks like WWE has figured out a winning ratings formula as WWE Smackdown topped the night in the key 18-49 demo according to Showbuzz Daily's overnight ratings Additionally, viewership was up from last week, provided the ratings hold steady Reruns of Magnum P.I and Shark Tank simply didn't have a chance when going up[...]
With most of an uneventful WWE Smackdown in the record books, it's just about time for the main event Will Jeff Hardy manage to stay sober while fighting Sheamus in a bar fight? Will the audience? Did the production crew? Find out now…
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WWE Smackdown 7/24/2020 Part 3
We get[...]
When we left off in Part 1 of our WWE Smackdown report, Matt Riddle was headed out to the ring The Extreme Rules fallout show continues…
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WWE Smackdown 7/24/2020 Part 2 – Matt Riddle vs Tony Nese
Matt Riddle faces Tony Nese It's a squash for Riddle to get his[...]
With The Horror Show at Extreme Rules in the books and widely panned by fans and critics, and ratings continuing to fall, WWE rests its hopes on a bar fight between Jeff Hardy and Sheamus to redeem Smackdown Will the risk of Jeff Hardy losing his sobriety be enough to draw viewers to the show?[...]
WWE responded by introducing Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, and Bayley to the main roster and then taking credit for starting a "women's revolution" and finally treating women with some measure of equality, as if finally stopping a bad thing they'd been doing for years was somehow worthy of adulation.
Two weeks ago on Smackdown,[...]
Now that Raw's viewership has hit rock bottom and rebounded, the path to success for WWE is abundantly clear. Here's what they need to do...
On WWE Raw this week, Bayley and Kairi Sane had the match of the night and The Big Show met the Legend Killer (sans Ric Flair).
On WWE Raw this week, Ruby Riott got her revenge, The Street Profits returned, and Stephanie McMahon ruined Sasha Banks and Bayley's night.
This brings us to the last match, as Bray Wyatt takes on Braun Strowman in a Wyatt Swamp Fight at WWE's The Horror Show at Extreme Rules.
Dolph Ziggler picked the stipulation for his WWE Championship match against Drew McIntyre at Extreme Rules: an Extreme Rules match?!?
Next up on our coverage of tonight's WWE The Horror Show at Extreme Rules, Raw Women's Champion Asuka takes on Sasha Banks.
Seth Rollins took on Rey Mysterio at WWE's The Horror Show at Extreme Rules in a match that could only end with one man's eyeball ripped out.
Apollo Crews didn't pass his physical due to an injury from Bobby Lashley, so no match against MVP at WWE The Horror Show at Extreme Rules.
The first hour of WWE Friday Night Smackdown saw Big E take on Cesaro, Asuka and Nikki Cross take on Sasha Banks and Bayley, and John Morrison regale us with tales of fighting Jean-Claude Van Damme on a boat Now it's time to bring it all home for Extreme Rules on Sunday with the last[...]
That means it's time for Friday Night Smackdown! Are you ready for a good time?
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WWE Friday Night Smackdown 7/17/2020 Part 1
Smackdown kicks off with a series of rapid promos, which they should do more often It's different AJ Styles talks about facing Matt Riddle tonight Yeah, Riddle beat[...]
Mojo Rawley and Naomi became your new WWE Smackdown Tag Team Champions last night on Tuesday Night Smackdown Or, at least, that's what WWE's Smackdown website would have you believe Rawley posted a screenshot to Twitter on Wednesday, showing himself and Naomi listed as the Smackdown Tag Team Champions Rawley and Naomi apparently defeated The[...]
WWE Raw viewership hit a historic low, but if the internet has taught us anything in the last week, it's that the viewership doesn't matter.
They're going to play their tribute to themselves from Smackdown Uh… do they realize that it's the same audience at both shows? An audience of paid WWE trainees who haven't sat down for 23 hours and were forced to eat in a tent outside? The Kabuki Warriors come out after the video is finished Banks[...]
On WWE Monday Night Raw last night, Seth Rollins got his comeuppance for screwing Rey Mysterio... so don't bother with that PPV then?
Following a historic Karaoke Showdown on Friday's episode of WWE Smackdown which featured four of WWE's female Superstars competing in a meaningless and borderline degrading Karaoke contest, WWE has announced plans to celebrate the anniversary of the start of the Women's Evolution all week long (some people say Stephanie McMahon started it) In an announcement[...]
However, Brooke did return to television for Friday Night Smackdown the same day the newsletter came out, competing in a Karaoke Showdown Bleeding Cool can only wish speedy recoveries to anyone in WWE who might be suffering from COVID-19.
Miroslav Barnyashev, better known to WWE fans as Rusev, has confirmed he tested positive for COVID-19[...]