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 And even though it's been a pretty short and unimpressive ride, there's still one last show to make a good impression with before Sunday and that's this episode of SmackDown  Will it accomplish that?  Well, there's only one way to find out, so let's get to it! We open things tonight with the SmackDown Tag Team Champions, The Usos,[...]

 But among the releases was also the shocking final nails in the WWE coffin of the highly promising former NXT faction, Hit Row, who seemed earmarked for WWE stardom when the entire faction was surprisingly selected by SmackDown in the recent WWE Draft  Yet now, after two recent rounds of releases, every member of the group are[...]

 Sasha Banks returned on SmackDown last week for the first time since being attacked by Shotzi (looks like the Blackheart portion of her name has been dropped now)  Since the attack, we've seen an all-new vicious attitude out of Shotzi and Banks is looking to put her in her place tonight. Sasha Banks vs Shotzi tonight on SmackDown,[...]

On Thursday night, the WWE announced the releases of John Morrison, Tegan Nox, Drake Maverick, Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, and more.

 We have one more Raw and two more episodes of SmackDown (including tonight) until the event, so I guess there's still some time to get fans invested  Well, as invested as they ever get these days I suppose  Anyway, let's see how they plan to accomplish this by taking a look at SmackDown tonight! Will Roman Reigns continue his dominance over[...]

As we covered back when it happened live on TV, SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair and Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch are currently entrenched in a real-life feud that culminated in a backstage blow-up between the two after Flair went into business for herself during a live TV segment  While the incident, along with other recent questionable behavior from Flair,[...]

Hey gang!  We are only nine days away from the annual Survivor Series pay-per-view event on Sunday, November 21, yet if you've been watching SmackDown lately, you would assume the brand has no idea that it's even happening  There's been little-to-no mention of the event and even less build for it  So with just over a week[...]

Hey gang!  Last week's SmackDown… had a lot of room for improvement  It was lacking in star power, had a small number of very short matches, and didn't really do much in furthering any storylines  But, it's a new week and tonight we at least know that WWE's top star, Roman Reigns, will be back so that[...]

Hey gang!  After a truly awful episode of SmackDown last week, WWE looks to be trying to make things a tad bit better by at least having their Universal Champion and face of the company actually show up this week  "The Head of the Table" Roman Reigns is set to appear tonight and will likely have a[...]

Hey gang!  So WWE didn't promise much for this week's SmackDown aside from it airing on the cable boonies of FS1 instead of the prime network spot on Fox, so I guess that will help somewhat in that they won't be disappointing anyone with something they don't live up to  Now even with zero expectations, there[...]

Hey gang!  So last week the WWE enacted its new post-Draft roster on SmackDown, which led to both Women's Champions having to trade belts (as Becky Lynch was drafted to Raw, while Charlotte Flair was drafted to the blue brand)  The already questionable segment did not go well at all and an exclamation point was put on that when the problems[...]

It's been the talk of the wrestling world since Saturday morning that reportedly, top WWE Women's stars Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch had a heated confrontation following a very awkward (and awful) closing segment on this past Friday's SmackDown  People are quick to forget though that there was a third woman in the ring for the segment who[...]

If you watched SmackDown last night, you'll of course know that it wasn't a great show overall, but the closing segment was without question the worst part of the show  Not only was the whole situation of SmackDown Women's Champion Becky Lynch and Raw Women's Champion Charlotte Flair trading their titles as a result of the WWE Draft absolutely stupifying,[...]

Hey gang!  So on top of a number of NXT stars, I was also drafted to SmackDown and will now be doing the recaps for the blue brand in addition to NXT 2.0  So if you hated my opinions before, now you have double to worry about, you lucky duck!  Now as for the actual show itself,[...]

 Now seeing as Crown Jewel wrapped up yesterday afternoon, all eyes are now on SmackDown as tonight, we will finally see the 2021 WWE Draft come to fruition with the debut of an all-new roster tonight on Fox. A new era begins for the blue brand with the "season premiere" of SmackDown tonight at 8 pm on Fox,[...]

 Either way! "The word going around was that they would return to Saudi Arabia in the first quarter of 2022, but no official date yet." We will wait and see how things go tonight with the SmackDown roster and crew going live on FOX with little to no break from yesterday's WWE PPV on the other side of[...]

Thanks to collusion between Tony Khan, the wrestling media, Major League Baseball, and the Neilsen ratings company, The Chadster's beloved WWE Smackdown tied with AEW Rampage in the key demo last Friday when Smackdown aired on FS1 This was despite WWE adding an extra half-hour to Smackdown to bring Rampage's rating down, and despite Smackdown[...]

For years, the one major advantage Smackdown has had over WWE Raw is the fact that it an hour shorter WWE barely has enough creative juice to fill a two-hour show They definitely do not have enough for three hours But with Smackdown on FS1 this week due to a sports preemption, where they are[...]

Two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez followed fellow former UFC stars Ken Shamrock and Brock Lesnar to the world of Pro Wrestling in 2019, first competing in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide that August at TripleMania XXVII, teaming with Cody Rhodes and Psycho Clown against the trio of Texano Jr., Taurus, and Killer Kross and then again in September at Lucha Invades NY, where[...]

WWE Smackdown is getting preempted to FS1 again next week, but WWE has a trick up their sleeve to help stave off too steep a ratings drop: The Beast Brock Lesnar. Lesnar will return to Smackdown ahead of his Crown Jewel match for the Universal Championship against Roman Reigns next week. Next Friday on a SUPERSIZED #SmackDown[...]

Smackdown's latest lame-duck era kicked off this week with WWE Smackdown The rosters of WWE have been shaken to their foundations, never to be the same again… but not for a few more weeks because WWE needs to fulfill their obligations to the government of Saudi Arabia. You'll watch this boring episode of WWE Smackdown and[...]

SmackDown on Fox's Pat McAfee has quickly become WWE's most outrageous and popular current commentator  Every Friday night, he's amped-up, outspoken, and has more charisma and energy than most of the current roster  It is for all these reasons that fans are very surprised that the company has not invited McAfee to join them and take[...]

Revealed on the latest episode of Talking Smack, Retribution's Mace and T-Bar will go their separate ways, with Mace now appearing exclusively on Smackdown and T-Bar wrestling for the Raw brand The Chadster has never disagreed with any decision WWE has made in The Chadster's entire life, and he isn't going to start now, but[...]

WWE held the first night of the WWE Draft on WWE Smackdown last night, deciding what the rosters for Smackdown and WWE Raw will look like for the next year or longer The new rosters from the draft won't go into place until three weeks from now, after the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia,[...]

Night one of the WWE Draft took place on WWE Smackdown last night, kicking off a three-week lame-duck period for WWE that will prove even less interesting than usual Was the show at least watchable? Well, that depends on how you watch it… WWE Smackdown 10/1/2021 Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville opened the show by announcing that[...]

WWE Smackdown will feature the first half of the latest WWE Draft, shuffling the rosters of both WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown for at least the next year, or sooner if WWE can't make up their minds and decides to introduce a new cross-brand invitational before then Like most things in WWE, the powers that[...]

It's time to shake things up again as one of WWE's biggest annual events, the WWE Draft, is going to get rolling on this Friday's SmackDown  The WWE Draft will occur over two nights, starting on Friday and concluding on the following Monday with Raw and will serve to set the table for the next year by[...]

With Extreme Rules just two nights away, WWE Smackdown has one last chance to sell fans on the PPV WWE has felt slightly reinvigorated over the last two weeks, ever since AEW Dynamite beat Raw in the ratings Can the company continue with this momentum? Don't you just hate when you pay good money for a[...]

Yes! Keighleyanne, your time has come, baby! Overall viewership ratings chart for WWE Raw, WWE NXT, AEW Dynamite, Impact Wrestling, WWE Smackdown, and AEW Rampage AEW Dynamite Grand Slam was first place in the ratings on cable for Wednesday, with a paltry .48 in the 18-49 demographic, much lower than the .49 that The Chadster's beloved WWE[...]

WWE is ashamed of certain U.S. cities, AEW is getting a new women's title, and Cody Rhodes blasts the haters in the latest wrestling news and hot goss!