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AIRED LIVE ON FOX BROADCAST NETWORK Commentators: Michael Cole, Pat McAfee Ring Announcer: Greg Hamilton -They opened with a wide shot of the arena from the upper deck. -John Cena’s entrance music played and he came onto the stage to a big ovation. He talked to the camera and said, “We must be live on Fox.” The ring announcer introduced him as he ran the ropes in the ring and played to the crowd. Cena got the “augmented reality” graphics package added to his entrance. When his music s...

Winfree’s WWE Smackdown Review 7.23.21   Hello everyone, another Friday is upon us and that means another episode of WWE Smackdown. In the wake of Money in the Bank everyone’s buzzing about the potential for a feud between Seth Rollins and Edge. . . OK jokes aside the big news has obviously been the return of John Cena. Cena made his intentions clear on Monday, and tonight he will get to go face to face with The Tribal Chief, The Head of the Table, the Universal Champion Roman Re...

Commentators: Pat McAfee, Michael Cole We’re into the second week of having fans back and this time the big story is John Cena returning to Smackdown to see Roman Reigns. You can see Summerslam from here but we still need to make it official. Other than that, Carmella is getting another shot at Bianca Belair for no particular reason. Let’s get to it. We start fast this week with John Cena starting us off in a hurry. He talks about how hyped up the fans are here and knows that Roman Reigns i...

New SmackDown Tag Team Champions were crowned on tonights Money in the Bank pre-show. The Usos defeated Rey & Dominik Mysterio on tonights pre-show to win the SmackDown Tag Team titles. This is The Usos seventh Tag Team title reign in WWE. The finish of the match saw Jimmy Uso roll up Rey Mysterio while Jey Uso used his feet to give his brother extra leverage and prevent Rey from being able to kick out. Jimmy Uso has remained on WWE television despite his DUI arrest from earlier this month. On ...

Several WWE NXT Superstars Backstage At SmackDown Tonight (Photo Credit: WWE) Several WWE NXT Superstars are currently backstage for tonight’s live SmackDown on FOX from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Austin Theory, Xia Li, Odyssey Jones and Aliyah are all backstage, according to PWInsider. There’s no word yet on if any of these Superstars will appear on TV tonight, but it’s likely that they were brought in to work dark matches for officials. Theory is currently a member of The Way ...

Winfree’s WWE Smackdown Review 7.16.21   Hello everyone and welcome. Tonight is the go home show for Money in the Bank, and the first show in a while with live fans in attendance. Honestly, I haven’t missed them and am sure this crowd will remind me of why very quickly. Tonight we’ve got a Smackdown women’s title match between Bianca Belair and Carmella, this came together last week when Bayley got injured and plans had to chance rapidly. All 4 of the Smackdown entrants int...

Keep Refreshing For The Latest Results Hello everyone and welcome. Tonight is the go home show for Money in the Bank, and the first show in a while with live fans in attendance. Honestly, I haven’t missed them and am sure this crowd will remind me of why very quickly. Tonight we’ve got a Smackdown women’s title match between Bianca Belair and Carmella, this came together last week when Bayley got injured and plans had to chance rapidly. All 4 of the Smackdown entrants into the Money i...

Harry Smith Announces WWE Return, Backstage Photos Of Dark Match Competitors (Photo Credit: WWE) Harry Smith (aka Davey Boy Smith Jr., DH Smith) has announced that he is back in WWE. As noted, tonight’s Money In the Bank go-home edition of SmackDown from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas featured two pre-show dark matches with Smith and WWE NXT Superstars in action – Smith and Austin Theory vs. Odyssey Jones and Xyon Quinn, plus Aliyah vs. Xia Li. In an update, the tag team bout was won b...

); As you know by now, several WWE NXT Superstars continue to work dark matches prior to the RAW and SmackDown TV tapings. According to a report from Pwinsider, the following dark matches are scheduled to take before tonight’s WWE SmackDown broadcast: ); * Odyssey Jones vs. Robert Roode * Karrion Kross vs. Cesaro

Four NXT wrestlers, including Toni Storm and Odyssey Jones, worked dark matches prior to tonights SmackDown. Dave Meltzer has confirmed that Toni Storm, Karrion Kross, and Shotzi Blackheart worked dark matches tonight. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful was the first to report that Storm worked a dark match. PWInsider additionally reported that Storm faced Shotzi Blackheart. Odyssey Jones, real name Omari Palmer, faced Robert Roode in a singles match. He is a former football player for Syracuse Univ...