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00:00I enjoyed the fact that Tiffany Stratton just walked out of the start of SmackDown with no music
00:03and was like, give me a microphone because I want to talk to Jay Cargill because sometimes
00:07wrestling forgets this. If you do have a big turn seven days beforehand, even though wrestlers will
00:12not talk in the interim, they will still quiet until they're allowed to go on TV. It just reminds
00:17you what that person did was a big deal. Also, my friends, I'm welcome to SmackDown Ups and Downs,
00:22the only wrestling review show you need, but we are going to review SmackDown and give the good
00:25bits an up and the bad bits a down. It's a nice, simple concept because I am stupid
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00:51even more wrestling at a fair price. Sound good? I think so. Now let's up those days.
00:56Tiffany Strayer mostly wanted to fight Jay Cargill right away when Nick Aldis walked out
01:00and said, we told you, Jade, you're kind of cleared, but not kind of clear. He didn't call her Jade.
01:05Her name is Tiffany. Somebody hasn't gone to sleep. When Jay Cargill walked out, I was all like,
01:09I am going to beat you at Saturday night's main event. And during the bit where you see wrestlers
01:15coming into the arena, I think Jade was dressed as the Punisher and here she was dressed as Catwoman.
01:20So she was going through a lot of costume changes. But the users wrestling security did do their
01:24jobs. They didn't start to fight. Jade said she was hungry for gold. I hope she doesn't mean that
01:28literally, otherwise she is going to die. When she promised that come next week's SmackDown,
01:32she will be the women's champion. And once again, she absolutely should be. Like if you aren't going
01:36to turn heel and then go after a title and lose, you're just going to look like a massive goober.
01:40And also something happened later where if you do want to have Tiffany Strayer get defeated
01:44with a bunch of shenanigans, well, you've laid the table. I think Jade also said that
01:49taffy time was over. So maybe she'd been eating candy all day. And this was short and sweet. And
01:54I actually think it will work, repeat myself, as long as Jade Cargill wins that championship.
01:59Also, the only feud that Tiffany Strayer seems to have is Jade Cargill and Nia Jax. They're a little
02:05bit of Charlotte player over WrestleMania. So let's just pull the trigger. Let's have some fun.
02:09That's what wrestling's meant to be. Give it an up. It's perfectly fine.
02:13We then went backstage. We saw the Motor City Machine Guns talking to R-Truth,
02:16who was dressed as Santa Claus. Because, of course, even though it's Halloween,
02:19R-Truth thought it was Christmas. I like R-Truth. He's one of my favorite wrestlers ever.
02:24But I do have to say, I feel like we can use him better than this.
02:27I just realized that it is Halloween as well. I mean, we dressed up on Raw,
02:31so we should probably dress up on SmackDown 2. That's right. I've just put a hat on.
02:34It's the laziest Halloween costume ever. But anyway, so there's a couple of found the Motor City
02:38Machine Guns. And he was like, ha ha, you're like Harry Potter. And Chris Saban seemed perfectly
02:43fine with this. And he started waving around a wand. He didn't do that. We didn't seem that
02:47insulted at all. They actually think he threatened to use a magic spell. And because the MFTs want
02:50to be the tag team champions, and the Machine Guns want to be a tag team champions, they're going to
02:55have a match later tonight. Before all that, though, we did have our US title open challenge
02:59when Ilya Dragunov decided, I'm going to kill you, Nathan Frazier. Honestly, flug me sideways.
03:04Thank goodness it was Nathan. Because at one point, Tommaso Ciampa also walked out. And he was like,
03:09I got into the ring first or something, when Ilya became their dad and said, listen, I've already
03:14picked Nathan. You're going to have to go again. Although saying that, it would be quite funny if
03:18you did have an open challenge. And it was literally whoever gets to the ring first wins.
03:22Or they did that on NXT. And they kind of did it in TNA. It's always really stupid. Don't worry
03:27about that, though. Because yes, you should go and watch this. It is just 10 to 15 minutes of straight
03:32up attempted murder. At one point, Ilya grabbed Nathan Frazier and gave him this German superx on the
03:37outside. And he even said, it's not personal. I was like, that's not going to hold up in court.
03:42A judge is still going to be really mad. And then some of the near falls in the ring.
03:46Like when Nathan Frazier hit one of his clippity-doo-doo-dah moves from the top rope and got a
03:50one-two-oo. The big part of me thought there's no way Nathan Frazier is going to win. But it's
03:54a teeny tiny part right here in my tum-tum. I was like, oh my gosh, he got him. Ilya Dragunov at one point
03:58went for a move as well and just fell right down and basically looked like he was dead. That's when Nathan
04:02Frazier was busting out Phoenix Splashes. I mean, this felt nothing like your usual
04:07WWE match. And that's why it stood out like a sore thumb. Also fair play to Ilya Dragunov
04:12because he watched what Sami Zayn did over his eight open challenges and has gone, you know
04:16what? I can probably do better still. And the moment he may very well just do that. Basically
04:21the end as well, they were just punching each other right in the face when Ilya was able to
04:24hit a powerbomb and finish Nathan off with an H-bomb. So quite clearly he's obsessed with
04:28explosive devices. And he got the one, two, three. And even though they had a big hug-a-thon
04:32afterwards, because you would do that, Tommaso Ciampa was back. He whipped everybody's ass,
04:37which probably means not only will we do DIY versus a variation of these guys, but you're
04:42probably going to do Ilya Dragunov versus Tommaso Ciampa too. Let's not pretend Ciampa isn't a great
04:46wrestler. That's also going to kick ass. It's getting an up. It's nice and simple stuff, but
04:51the bar, the level of these things is through the roof. You should go and check it out today.
04:56We also teased future matches too, because after this backstage, you did have DIY and you had
05:00Fraxium and you had Ilya Dragunov yelling at each other when Tama Tonga walked in and went,
05:05yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like he was a broken robot. And actually I'll be well down for
05:09that. Do you remember when Tama Tonga had that singles run in New Japan? He was a IWGP champion,
05:15the US champion, I can't remember, but it was damn good. So we should do it. When we followed up
05:19from last week, because Carmelo Hayes had decided he didn't like the fact that Kit Wilson had said he
05:23was part of the toxic masculinity problem, so they had a match. Listen, I like Kit Wilson. I'm glad he's
05:28been repackaged. I hope Elton Prince is doing okay, but you could see all this coming a mile
05:34off. Like it was okay. It was fine. But I did think maybe we could have done a little bit more.
05:39Of course, the Miz ran out of 1.2s. I put a one on the dickboard because he hates Carmelo Hayes
05:43and it even threw him into Rita the Ring post. And why I did enjoy that is because WWE kind of did a
05:48double tease there. It didn't work. Mello just hit the first 48 and he got the 1-2-3, which also means
05:54he didn't use nothing but net. I enjoy it when signature manoeuvres get a 1-2-3. Of course,
05:59his victory was short-lived because the Miz gave him a skull-crushing finale. And what I think we
06:02should do is wrap this feud up before the end of the year. And in 2026, we take Carmelo Hayes to
06:07one side. Listen, Mello, you're about to be pushed to the moon. So you may want to buy some real estate
06:12up there. I mean, he's good to go. I mean, there's nobody here. I don't know who I'm pointing at.
06:16But this kind of summarized Smackdown altogether last night. It was all right. It was okay. It was fine.
06:22I am going to give it an up. Maybe we can just do a little bit more at any given time.
06:27We then have the best backstage segment with Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair because they're being
06:31interviewed. And they were like, well, the Kabuki Warriors will never be friends. Alexa Bliss is going
06:35to fight Nia Jax later and she doesn't have any friends. But when it comes to us, we're the best
06:39friends. I think we need to lean into this more. It's stupidly funny. We're going to come to Sami Zayn
06:44talking to Nick Altis. And this made me crack up because Sami was saying, listen, we all know the MFTs are
06:49going to be mucking around and getting involved in their mostly machine guns match later. So let
06:53me go out there too, because I hate the machine guns. And Nick Altis went, listen, you're 100%
06:58right, Sam, but I can't do that because you're not cleared. But then did he pass any kind of edict
07:03that the MFT should stay in the back? Nope. He's just going to let it happen. He's a terrible general
07:09manager. Cody Rhodes then walked in. And of course, because he and Sami Zayn are both mega baby faces,
07:13they basically made nice love in front of you. They didn't do that. I shouldn't have said that.
07:17But Sam did kind of insinuate, maybe I'm going to go after that title where Nick was like,
07:21Cody, have you read the contract? Cody said, yes, I have. Are you happy to sign that contract,
07:26Cody? Yes, I am. Do you think Drew will want to save it? I don't know. I'm not him. We were just
07:32setting up the main event. Well, I'm going to throw it down in there and I'm being a massive nerd. So
07:36set your nerd phases too, nerd. That's a stupid thing to say. But it was indeed Alexa Bliss versus
07:41Nia Jax. I said, man, why can't we just have, that hat's done. Why can't we just have
07:46the tag team champions in a tag team match? Like we all know they're heading towards the Kabuki
07:50Warriors. So I think that should be the focus. You could have had them take out an enhancement
07:55talent here or some local people or something like that. But doing Nia Jax versus Alexa Bliss,
08:00I just didn't get it. I thought it was weird. And also it ended with the baby faces casting
08:05distraction as the poor heel was left all by herself. This one didn't make any sense. The match
08:11itself was totally fine because of course, back in the day, Alexa Bliss and Nia Jax actually had a great
08:15feud. And because Nia is big and Alexa is small, she was throwing her around the place.
08:20And poor Rita in the ring post, they both went into her. Rita was having a terrible evening.
08:24Jax didn't care about any of that though. She grabbed Bliss and just chucked her into Barry
08:27Barricade. And genuinely, when she was about to hit the Annihilator, Charlotte Flair got up on the
08:32ring apron and Michael Cole said, well, she's not done anything physical. So why should anybody care?
08:37That allowed Alexa Bliss to basically, I don't know, flatten Nia Jax when she booted her in the face
08:42and kind of hit the most devastating move in all of sports entertainment surprise row up, but it
08:47wasn't really. And actually, I liked that finish. If like you take someone down from the top rope
08:53and they crumple in a heap and you boot them in the nose, you probably sometimes you get a win.
08:57But yes, put a one on the dick board. I just don't think we needed to do this. And once again,
09:01I really do think the focus should be the Kabuki Warriors. This one was just a little bit weird.
09:06And also, I guess that Nia Jax now goes against a friend. So we can do those kind of tag team
09:11matches. Just pick a lane, right? That's kind of how I feel. I just love these women tag team
09:16championships. And I think we can do more. I also think Alexa and Charlotte have done some good work.
09:21But listen, in terms of a bell to bell thing, I wasn't offended by her or anything. So I will give
09:25it an up. But as for that finish, you know what? I do have to give it a down. It's totally unnecessary.
09:31Imagine Alexa Bliss had just beaten Nia Jax. One, two, three. You'd be like, wow,
09:35what a super competitor you've become. I'm also going to throw another down in because
09:38the UK version of SmackDown on Netflix now has adverts. And because it didn't used to have
09:42adverts, now it has adverts. You've circumvented my expectations and I'm a child. So you're getting
09:48it down. Phoenix then found Soto Sotoa backstage. This was so damn funny. One, Soto reacted to
09:54Phoenix like he was a ghost, like he'd never seen him before. And when he thought that he
09:58wanted a match with him, Phoenix was like, nope, I want to match with Tala. I'm the tallest
10:02Tonga. He stood on a box-like structure, so he could be the same height. And he slapped
10:08him. I thought this was great. It's the small things. Within eight seconds, Phoenix had come
10:12across like a psychopath. Now, can you believe it? Well, I do want to see that match. But
10:18man, poor Phoenix, he is going to get smashed. Then a quick video with Damian Priest, where
10:22he essentially ended with his big punishment line. Because of course, he used to be punishment
10:26Martinez. And it ties into the whole feud with Aleister Black and Zelina Vega. And I do understand
10:31why he is mad. They tried to set him on fire. Just think this feud has become a bit wibbly
10:36wobbly. It would have been way better if Damian could have done a promo in the ring. We have
10:41just called Damian Priest off over the last few months. I don't get why. Like at the start
10:45of 2025, he's the coolest dude ever. Hope we can get back to that. But look, in terms of
10:50a backstage, this has been edited video thingamajig. Pretty good. This is when Tiffany, Shran,
10:55Keanu James and Julia fell out for the, let me check my notes, 789th time. And Julia here
11:01basically said she was going to kill Tiffany Stratton. She went, maybe you'll never say a
11:06word again. So at the very least, she wants to rip her tongue out. One of the cried cannon. Chelsea
11:10Green then walked in as well. And she wants to match with Julia next week. Because if not,
11:14Julia will become the longest reigning US Women's Champion. And at the moment, that is Chelsea.
11:18Honestly, I rarely say this. This was bad, right? At first, Nick Aldis was like, nope,
11:23I'm not signing off on this. And when Chelsea begged for it, he literally went, shrug emoji,
11:28do whatever you want. And he walked off. It's not his fault. But this poor women's US title.
11:34Even the fake general manager of the companies are. This bugbear. This noose around my neck.
11:40I can't stand it. I'm giving it down. For goodness sake. Can we just do more with that thing?
11:46You booted it into existence. Becky Lynch did a great job with the IC title on Raw.
11:50I do not understand why we can't copy and paste.
11:52I do want to point out that Chelsea Green was great as always. And listen, Julia has all the
11:55potential in the world. But this has become like Google mapping to your own home. It's totally
12:00pointless. And next, yes, we had highlights from earlier in the night where the Bearcat mascot
12:05was taking on the Utah Hawk mascot. And one of them did a Peebles elbow. And Michael said,
12:12Michael Cole said it was called the Peebles wing. Now listen, I like goofy wrestling for life.
12:18It's my favorite thing. This is terrible. It was so bad. It doesn't make a difference. It wasn't on
12:24the proper show. It was a glorified advert. But it's one of those things where someone in WWE is like,
12:29this would be so funny. It's like, nope. You got it totally wrong. Give me a second. I have to calm
12:36down. When we kind of got some future tag team title action, at least that's what they're gunning for,
12:39ironically, because it was the most of the machine guns versus the MFTs. And what happened?
12:44So, let's go. It gets on the dickboard with some distractions. And Talatonga was doing it too.
12:50This is why you didn't need to do it in the Alexa Bliss match. Just save it for here,
12:54especially when the other two are babyfaces. So, it really does make me laugh though,
12:57because his mannerisms are so damn funny. And at one point, after Alex Shelley had been totally
13:01murked, Chris Saban got the tag. He went totally crazy. He ran wild. They were hitting a bunch of
13:06dives. At least two. So, they put a two on the dive counter. When Alex Shelley got back in there,
13:11there were quite a few tags, and they were ready to do skull and bones. When Talatonga just went,
13:15nope. He pushed Alex Shelley off the top rope. That's when Talatonga hit the, well,
13:21hidden blade, essentially. I think he's calling it the cutthroat something or other. And he got the
13:25one, two, three. I quite like this finish, because the MFTs came across like such assholes.
13:30And no, I don't care that Talatonga is using that move. It's a flying elbow. Nobody else
13:35the WWE is doing it. Just do it. So, it certainly feels like the long-term play is getting the MFTs
13:40to be the tag team champions. And we should probably do that, because ever since they did
13:44hit reset and they have come back, they do have some edge to them. Not Adam Copeland. He went to
13:48AEW. And you want to fulfill that. It's not like the Wyatt Six do much either. So, don't worry about
13:53it. I should also point out, I forgot about this. At the end of that Chelsea Green segment,
13:57Nikki Cross was just standing there, and she scared everyone. But she wasn't in a Halloween
14:01costume. She was in her normal clothes. And really, talking about that US title, we should
14:06probably do something with Nikki Cross. Back to the tag match. I am going to give it up. Once again,
14:10I'll tie in with the entirety of SmackDown. It was all right. It was fine. I was perfectly good with
14:16this. Drew McIntyre and Nick Owens then had a chat, and Drew was a massive troll here, because Nick was
14:20like, are you happy with everything in the contract? And Drew was like, yes, yes, I'm happy with everything
14:25in the contract. When we got to our main event segment, you're not going to believe it,
14:29but Drew was not fine with everything in the contract. But they both got in the ring. And
14:32yes, Cody Rhodes is all happy to sign it when Drew was like, I'm not signing this. Because over the
14:37last few weeks, Cody Rhodes, you have proved this is a bunch of baloney. Like, if you go and get
14:42disqualified or counted out, you keep the championship. But if I do those things, I walk around with
14:46nothing. And don't forget, we did fight a couple of weeks ago, and you smashed me in the head with
14:51the title. Nick was like, you're a child. You're a baby. I'll get somebody else to do this,
14:55be in the match. And this is why Drew McIntyre is great. He went, all right, fine. And he was going
15:01to leave. More heels need to do that, especially ones like Drew. You shouldn't be getting on your
15:06knees for management. Of course, Cody Rhodes, though, is the ultimate babyface. He was like,
15:10no, come back, you Scottish warrior. Of course, I will put those things in the deal. And for some
15:16reason, Nick Arnold has had a meltdown about this. Cody, I strongly advise against it. What do you care?
15:21You've actually proved Drew McIntyre right. You are showing bias. If the champion is happy with
15:26these rules, and so is the challenger, well, you should just let him do it. Drew McIntyre,
15:30the reminder Cody Rhodes, he owes him everything, because when Drew McIntyre got let go from the
15:34company, it was he who went out there and sort of invigorated his name. And that's the template
15:39that everybody in WWE still use. You should go out there and do a Drew. Cody's like, yep, I did do
15:44that. It's true. You were a bit of an inspiration. But there's one big change. You got fired,
15:49Drew, whereas I took the onus, and I went out there on my own. He then had the best line when
15:54he said, nice guys finish last until I got here. Like, Cody, you are the flipping best. And actually,
16:01fair play to both of them. This was a really good back-to-back promo segment thingamajig.
16:04Drew is such a troll, of course, he then started talking about Cody Rhodes and his daughters,
16:08and Rhodes couldn't handle that. So they got into a big fight when Drew McIntyre hit the claymore,
16:13and he threw Cody through a table. Now, listen, Drew did address this on social media. He basically
16:18said, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I don't care. It's a wrestling trope. I'm still going to win
16:22the championship. It's like Far Cry, Blood Dragon. We talked about this before. If you've
16:26never played Far Cry, Blood Dragon, they're all like, tutorials are so crap, but we still
16:31need you to do a tutorial. Otherwise, you won't know how to play the game. That's kind of what
16:35I feel like is going down here. Drew is being smart. He's leaning into it. But in terms of
16:39my tum-tum and my feelings, well, any anticipation I had for Drew McIntyre winning the title,
16:44it just went out the window. But at the same time, you just never know. Either way, though,
16:49I thought this was very well done, and Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre are just so good at
16:52what they do. They were able to make me buy-in. And once again, the promo-ing itself, fabu-stuff.
16:58I am going to give it an up, and I really think this will have double impact if Drew McIntyre
17:03does win. Well, I search my feelings like a Jedi. I just don't think it's going to happen.
17:07They do work well together, and overall, this SmackDown, I don't know, not a thumb middle,
17:12like a thumb three quarters. It's okay, and if you sit down and watch it, you'll probably get a
17:17little bit more pumped for Saturday Night's main event. But overall, well, I'll go back to what
17:20I said earlier. It just needs a little bit more oomph, and it wasn't oomph-less. It was just like
17:26oomph at 65%. I do not know why you watch me. Now, of course, more importantly, I want to know what
17:31you thought about SmackDown, so make sure you drop me a comment in the comments below. Where else are you
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17:46I'm sorry. Right? I get it. It's fun. I'm sure kids really enjoyed it. One of the dumbest things
17:51I've seen in a while. Have a great weekend, my friends. I will see you tomorrow to up those downs
17:55for Saturday Night's main event. So catch you on Sunday.
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