Winfree’s WWE Smackdown Review 4.16.21
It’s Friday, and that means it’s time for WWE Smackdown and of course yours truly relaying all the action. WrestleMania is in the rear view mirror and that means we need new direction. Universal champion Roman Reigns asserted his dominance once again at Mania, pinning body Edge and Daniel Bryan to retain the title and will be looking for some fresh faces. Or we’ll get some version of Edge and Bryan battling it out over the next title shot, and given what happened on RAW this week that seems rather likely. But if Edge and Bryan were to, hypothetically, feud with each other then Roman would be needing someone brand new. Someone like Cesaro, who beat Seth Rollins, or the former Intercontinental champion Big E assuming they don’t want to keep Big E and Apollo Crews going. Personally I’m quite over Big E and Crews, especially now that Crews has his own
Winfree’s WWE Smackdown Review 1.08.21
Hey everyone, welcome to 411mania’s LIVE coverage of WWE Smackdown. Tonight there will certainly be stuff happening, like Big E defending the Intercontinental title against Apollo Crews. The ongoing issue between Kevin Owens and Universal champion Roman Reigns will no doubt continue to build, and that has produced some genuinely good segments thus far. Also the recently named Dirty Dawgs (Ziggler and Roode) attacked the Street Profits last week, because there isn’t another relevant tag team on the brand to challenge them so we’re getting an endless rehash of those two. But seeing the Profits go more serious might be a welcome change of pace for them. So with that in mind, let’s all see what WWE has in store for us tonight.
WWE s Roman Reigns Threatens Adam Pearce on SmackDown
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Tonight s WWE SmackDown kicked off with Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, and Paul Heyman making their way to the ring, and it didn t take long for Reigns to start in on Kevin Owens. Let me start by saying, I like Kevin Owens. He s a pain in my ass but I respect someone like Kevin Owens, Reigns said. I didn t want anything bad to happen to him. He put me in a tough spot, and I had to do what I had to do, but I didn t want anything bad to happen to him. He then added You have to care about these people. I care about all these people, why do you think I do what I do? I m putting food on everyone s table around here.
– During today’s edition of Talking Smack, Kayla Braxton announced that The Street Profits will defend the WWE SmackDown tag team titles next week against Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler.
Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode attacked Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins on last night’s SmackDown to set up the match. Here’s the full announcement from WWE.com:
The Street Profits take on Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode in a SmackDown Tag Team Title Match
After an absolutely brutal chair assault by Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode, it was confirmed on WWE Talking Smack that the SmackDown Tag Team Champions will once again put their illustrious titles on the line against The Showoff and his “Glorious” partner.