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Exactly twenty-four hours from the start of tonight's SmackDown, one of the WWE's biggest and most impactful events of the year, The Royal Rumble will kick off live from St Louis  But twenty-four hours is a long time in WWE and there's still unsettled business between Raw's Seth Rollins and his former stablemate, Universal Champion Roman Reigns ahead of their title[...]

Last week on SmackDown, we saw Universal Champion Roman Reigns and the challenger for his title at next week's Royal Rumble, Seth Rollins, come face to face  They took verbal shots at one another, with each doubting the abilities and accomplishments of the other  But when Reigns' cousins, The Usos, tried to sneak attack Rollins, it was the wacky Raw star[...]

 And with so much success, Reigns has started wondering why he hasn't been honored yet for his record-setting run as Universal Champion?  Well, thanks to his cousins, the SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos, it looks like tonight on Fox, Reigns will be acknowledged for his accomplishments. Tonight on SmackDown, The Usos will honor their cousin Roman Reigns[...]

WWE SmackDown star Mustafa Ali just posted on his Twitter that he is requesting his release from WWE  This would be the latest in a string of WWE stars who have either requested their release from their contract with the company or have refused to resign with them and have taken their talents to other promotions[...]

 So with only three episodes of SmackDown left until the big event on January 29, they really need to make them count  Will they though?  Well, that remains to be seen  So far, the Women's Rumble Match is more built than the Men's, but at least the SmackDown main event match is set, as Universal Champion Roman[...]

More bad news for WWE and specifically the SmackDown brand as another of their top stars has been sidelined with a pretty serious injury  "King" Xavier Woods revealed last night that he suffered a leg injury during last week's SmackDown main event, a Street Fight Tag Team Match with Woods and his longtime teammate in The New Day, Kofi Kingston,[...]

Hey gang!  While Universal Champion Roman Reigns got to avoid putting his title on the line against eventual WWE Champion Brock Lesnar at WWE Day 1 thanks to his contracting COVID-19, he will still be forced to defend the title at the upcoming Royal Rumble and on SmackDown last week, he, along with the audience, waited to find out who his[...]

Fans were left excited after a segment on last week's SmackDown on Fox when SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair announced that not only would she be entering as one of 30 women in the Women's Royal Rumble match in two weeks, but that the match would include a number of returning big names as entrants[...]

 Well, now we have learned of even more upheaval in the backstage goings-on down in Orlando, as the creative team will be answering directly to Vince McMahon's right-hand man, Bruce Prichard and Christine Lubrano, WWE's VP of Creative Writing Operations. The official logo for NXT 2.0, courtesy of WWE. Mike Johnson of PWInsider is reporting that the NXT brand's[...]

 The SmackDown superstar will be the lead in the opening video segment for the College Football National Championship Game tonight on ESPN  The football game, which will see the number three ranked University of Georgia Bulldogs take on the number one ranked University of Alabama Crimson Tide, is sure to be a ratings juggernaut, making this a pretty big[...]

WWE just released some breaking news that one of their top SmackDown stars, multi-time Women's Champion Sasha Banks, has suffered a foot injury and will be out for the next six to eight weeks  This isn't surprising after her match with her longtime rival, SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair last Sunday night at a WWE Live event in Fayetteville, North[...]

Hey gang!  It's been quite a while since we've actually gotten a live new episode of SmackDown on Fox, seeing as last week was New Year's Eve and WWE had a "Best of 2021" on FS1, and the week before that was Christmas Eve and WWE aired a lame pre-taped show  So it's a new year[...]

 So what of his ongoing battle with Roman Reigns?  Apparently, we'll find out tonight on SmackDown. WWE Champion Brock Lesnar will confront Universal Champion Roman Reigns tonight on SmackDown, courtesy of WWE. WWE announced yesterday that Roman Reigns has been cleared to appear again and will do so tonight on SmackDown  Conveniently, newly-crowned WWE Champion Brock Lesnar announced[...]

Roman Reigns will be at Smackdown on Friday, WWE announced today Reigns has been out of action after testing positive for COVID-19 before the WWE Day 1 PPV last Saturday, causing a massive shakeup in plans that saw Brock Lesnar added to the WWE Championship Fatal Four-Way and led to Lesnar pinning Big E to[...]

 Between a neck injury to SmackDown star Drew McIntyre that will keep him out for some time and an outbreak of COVID-19 infections, the latest of which kept Universal Champion Roman Reigns out of his advertised main event title match with Brock Lesnar at WWE Day 1 this past Saturday night, WWE really can not stand to receive any more bad[...]

We have some very surprising news just breaking this afternoon that SmackDown star Toni Storm has been released by WWE  This is pretty shocking as she's only a recent addition to the SmackDown roster and over the past month has been feuding with the top woman's star in all of WWE, Charlotte Flair, over the SmackDown Women's Championship, including a match[...]

Hey gang!  On last week's edition of FOX's WWE SmackDown, Sami Zayn wanted reparations for his Universal title shot kind of being wasted and while another shot at Roman Reigns' title wasn't in the cards, he was given a consolation prize in the form of his participation in a "12 Days of Christmas" 12-Man Gauntlet Match to[...]

Hey gang! With Universal Champion Roman Reigns absent on last week's SmackDown, it was all the Brock Lesnar show and that gave way to some intriguing drama involving him and his former advocate, who is currently the special advisor for Reigns, Paul Heyman  Heyman not only revved-up Lesnar at one point, leading "The Beast" to unleash on Sami Zayn,[...]

 Well now along with Owens, SmackDown star Sami Zayn's contract with WWE was also up very soon and while most of the attention was on Owens and whether or not he would stay, it now sounds like WWE has also re-signed Zayn to keep another of their notable stars for the next couple of years. Sami Zayn has[...]

Hey gang!  So last week's episode of SmackDown on Fox was all about the ever-escalating war between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns ahead of their match for the Universal title at WWE Day 1 on New Year's Day  But there was just one problem: only Lesnar was present on the show, as we learned Reigns was on vacation and[...]

 Lesnar has been in rare form after returning to SmackDown last week, showing off an intimidatingly fun side that we've rarely if ever seen in his 20 years in WWE  Is it all to play mind games with Reigns and will it continue tonight?  Let's find out! Sorry, Seth Rollins, Brock Lesnar proved he is the true[...]

 Now that those details (and very brief number one contender Sami Zayn) are out of the way, we can assume that Lesnar won't be here tonight and that Reigns will be used sparingly, so what will they do to fill SmackDown's two hours on Fox tonight?  Well, it appears they have called in some reinforcements from Raw, as[...]

It's been reported that the WWE has released Jeff Hardy after an incident last weekend at a live show & his refusing WWE's offer of treatment.

 That's never going to happen with wrestlers going on talk shows saying "I'm so and so and I portray [INSERT WRESTLER NAME] on Raw/SmackDown" or by having a blood-thirsty feud with another wrestler on TV and then posting pictures of them vacationing together on Instagram. While it has often been used as an excuse as to[...]

Hey gang!  So SmackDown last week was a lazy offering with only two things for us to take away: that Brock Lesnar's suspension was lifted and he's returning this week and that Sami Zayn is now the number one contender for Roman Reigns' Universal title  And that brings us to now, where those are the only things we can[...]

Hey gang!  WWE superstar Brock Lesnar has been suspended from SmackDown since October 22, when he went on an absolute rampage against The Bloodline and anyone else in his way, which happened to include WWE Official Adam Pearce, who Lesnar F-5ed twice during the assault  Pearce wasted no time in suspending Lesnar indefinitely, much to the delight of The[...]

Hey gang!  So it was a pretty lousy showing for the SmackDown brand at this past Sunday's Survivor Series, with the blue brand losing all of their matches, except Shinsuke Nakamura defeating Damien Priest via disqualification on the preshow and Roman Reigns defeating Big E in the main event[...]

 We last saw the superstars of SmackDown in a special appearance on this past Monday's episode of Raw  Unfortunately, that was all dominated by the idiocy of Vince McMahon's desperate search for a stupid egg and if that doesn't tell you everything right there, then I don't know what to say[...]

WWE Survivor Series was something of a mess, leaving the audience lifeless & alluding to an appearance from The Rock that never happened.

When it comes to Raw and Smackdown, The Chadster is of the opinion that both brands are equally the best in all of sports entertainment But WWE Survivor Series is the one night a year when the superstars of Raw and the superstars of Smackdown compete to determine which brand is the best of the[...]