WWE begins the ESPN era tonight, and frankly, it wasn’t great.

This 6 match card was very skippable. And if you’re not in the US and watching on Netflix, you never want to watch a PLE live again.

We started with John Cena and Brock. Paul E is back in Brock’s corner again, and Brock destroys Cena.

The Usos vs the Brons with The LA Knight as special referee was a spot fest.

Stephanie Vaquer and Iyo Sky put on a hell of match. Booker T is probably reaching for a towel somewhere. The post match respect angle and Vaquer celebrating with her father was the second best thing on this show. Maybe the best thing.

CM Punk and AJ Lee took on the Pop-Tart Twins of Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins. This was an AEW tag match that made it on WWE TV. If you like tag wrestling, don’t watch this.

The highlight of the night was Undertaker announcing that he was inducting Steph McMahon into the 2026 WWE Hall of Fame was a surprising segment. I really want to see the view from the Gorilla position on this one.

The main event was Cody and Drew. Don’t worry if you missed this, they’ll be doing this match again in Australia next month.

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After the bloodletting of last week, we’re back to pick up the pieces with Smackdown.

Tonight, we get the introduction of a starky Ricky Saints… yeah that one will be hard to adjust to.

R-Truth providing Fraxiom Tax Planning Advice. We can only assume it’s how to prepare in the event of being future endeavored, and a match.

More Bloodline stuff for some reason.

Miz and Kit setting a trap for Danhausen.

Powerhouse Royce Keys squashing.

Sami Zayn in full heel mode, and an unexpected X.

Even more Bloodline stuff for some reason.

Thankfully they only have 3 hours to play with in 8 weeks.

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After a weekend in Vegas, a bunch of wrestlers went bust after TKO’s Vegas gamble didn’t pay out. The house always wins, as long as it’s not the House of Black.

WWE terminated a bunch of wrestlers on Friday.

We also had Smackdown.

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We’re in Vegas, so of course there’s a wedding.

We watched the Battle Royal.

We played a few games to prepare for Wrestlemania weekend and what might happen in the coming months.

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Smackdown was barely watchable.

Watch the Danhausen parts of it, that’s really all you need to see.

Next week we’ll give you a recap of the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royale and play everyone's favourite game, “Will Greg Watch It?” as we preview Wrestlemania.

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I laughed, I cried, and I groaned while watching SmackDown this week. Guess which happened where.

We start the night with Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes and the realization that Greg was wrong. Because we find out tonight who was counseling Randy on the phone, it wasn’t Kevin Owens. No it was Pat McAfee. This team I’m going to call the Antivirus, with N(Orton) and M(a)cAfee in his corner as faces (or heels?) going into Wrestlemania to take on Cody (who we’re still not sure if he’s a face or a heel).

Cardona jobs again.

R-Priest takes on Miz/Wilson in what was my favourite part of SmackDown with an interesting twist-hausen.

Sami took on Carmelo Hayes in the Main Event. This is looking more and more like a 3 way match for the championship with Trick at Mania.

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Jelly Rolled into Pittsburgh and was involved throughout the show.

First we get Randy Orton in a ring, to be confronted by jobber Matt Cardona, who did the only sensible thing and come out and clock Randy in the head with a microphone leading to a match to end the show.

Nick Aldis is enamoured by Tricky Williams, and tells him he has a Mania match, and tells Sami he’s on the outside looking in.

Our first match of the night is the much anticipated, definitely not skipped over, Bellas vs Alexa/Charlotte in what Joe Tessitore calls our “top heavy female tag division”. Truer words have never been spoken.

In your feel good segment of the night, RTruth is backstage with someone building the Judgement Day’s new clubhouse. Damian Priest is more confused than ever, but seems to get onboard with the plans of adding a hot tub. Truth confuses Jelly Roll with Dominik Mysterio and tells him Liv Morgan won’t be happy to see him and Rhea Ripley together…

Rhea comes to the ring, it leads to a match against B-Fab. It’s about as exciting as it sounds because it didn’t really happen. You’ll never guess what did happen, outside interference.

Miz is in the back, he’s looking more and more disheveled. He’s stepped in gum. The curse continues. Kit Wilson is now also cursed.

Jelly Roll and Kit Wilson was a fun, feel good match. In the end, this probably should have been saved for Vegas and not Pittsburgh.

Sami Zayn answers the open challenge this week and is the new US Champion. In the back he goes up to Nick and demands his match for Mania. He’s getting Trick Williams. Never saw that coming.

Remember that US Women’s Title Match they booked last week. Neither did WWE. Because we got a non title match with Giulia and Tiffy Time. With a little distraction/interference, Giulia wins.

SmackDown ends with the jobber match of the night. Randy Orton taking on Cowboy Bob I mean Matt Cardona. In the end, Orton is going to win this of course. Cody and Randy brawl after the match. Why is WWE Security so inept? And why do they put people in corners only for them to come out and continue to beat each other up?

Can we survive the road to Wrestlemania? It’s looking more and more doubtful.

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Drew quits, and Greg is seriously considering joining him.

The 1085th match involving Wyatt Sicks and MFTs happened, and just when you think we’re moving on from it, they decide to prolong it again. This needs to end.

Jade Cargill and Michin fought in a pretty decent match. But in reality, we really want to see Rhea beat her ass.

Sami “shit disturber” Zayn and Cody interact backstage.

We lost a bet somewhere as we get the Bella Twins on SmackDown. They get involved in the Women’s Tag Champ match with Nia/Lash vs Charlotte/Alexa. Next week it’s Bellas vs Champs… my guess is that the other pair will interfere… again…..

Priest and R-Truth take on Legado Del Fantasma, no wait sorry… they haven’t been that since Escobar re-signed with WWE and then went on a milk carton…. So it’s R-Priest vs Los Garza. You’ll never guess who wins.

Danhausen curses the Miz. Miz goes to ring, and his mic doesn’t work. Jelly Roll seems to be setup with Miz or Kit Wilson for Wrestlemania. My money’s on Miz and him getting a WWE win.

Tiffy took on Kiana James. Guess what happens, outside interference. It’s been 25 minutes since we’ve seen that. Tiffy wins.

Jacob Fatu takes on Trick Williams. Drew (check’s notes, sighs) interferes in the match after quitting, and there’s no security, no police. Cool. Aldis says Drew hasn’t quit and will face Fatu next week.

We finish the night with a contract signing, and Randy signs the contract and beats up Cody. Randy is the heel I guess?

These Smackdowns are not getting better as we go into Wrestlemania.

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