00:00Hey, Tampa's got a big weekend coming up.
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00:07The first premium live event following WrestleMania 42 in Vegas.
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00:15That's February 20th, 10 a.m., 7 Pacific.
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00:27starting next Thursday, February 19th at 10 a.m. Eastern, 7 a.m. Pacific.
00:33Man, a month and a half into 2026, and I think undoubtedly it has been more unpredictable
00:38than anybody would have ever thought.
00:40Big reason why is what's happened involving the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes
00:44and the Samoan Werewolf Jacob Batu.
00:50Presented by the Sonic $6 All-American Smasher Meal.
00:54Sonic Smashing Highlights.
00:56Live free.
00:57Eat Sonic.
01:01I'm going to lay it out all on the line for you.
01:04My concern was Drew McIntyre.
01:06Batu is convinced that McIntyre took him out months ago.
01:10But Dan, you got to be the hero, huh?
01:13You're going to put your hands on me.
01:16McIntyre's going to escape!
01:20You're standing across from me right now, but I'm not the WWE Champion,
01:24and that is your fault.
01:26Jacob Batu, you have the biggest receipt I have ever handed out coming to you.
01:31Oh, wait a minute.
01:33Jacob Batu attacking Cody Rhodes before this matchup begins.
01:38Oh, hold on, wait a minute.
01:40It's McIntyre taking out two of his biggest adversaries.
01:46Jacob, Cody, you got to beat 29 other men in the Royal Rumble.
01:50Good luck with that.
01:53Oh, no!
01:55Oh, no!
01:55A play ball!
01:56Drew McIntyre, you eliminated me from the Royal Rumble, a match that you weren't even in.
02:06This is by your own design.
02:09This is by your own design.
02:09This is by your own design.
02:11Jacob Batu!
02:13Once again, McIntyre attacked!
02:16I'm going to tell you the same thing I told Cody.
02:18I know you want to get your hands on Drew.
02:21Right now, there's one way to make that happen.
02:23You win the Elimination Chamber, and to do that, you have to qualify in the match.
02:27I put you in next week.
02:30Cody, I'm about to beat your ass!
02:32Y'all and I mean Fatou!
02:38Jacob Batu!
02:39I cannot wait to beat the brakes off your ass!
02:53Ray.
02:55Hey, amigo.
02:56How you doing, buddy?
02:57Doing good, bro.
02:57You?
02:58Yeah, good.
02:58Look, hey, I know you're about to wrestle triple-eans out there.
03:00Just do me a favor.
03:02Teach that guy a lesson, would you?
03:04He's talked a lot of trash.
03:05He's talked a lot of trash to me.
03:06I've seen guys like this before.
03:07He's got all the talent in the world.
03:09He just needs somebody to teach him a lesson.
03:12Don't worry, amigo.
03:13Tonight, I got this.
03:15Yes, you do.
03:16Hey, hey, I actually want to talk to you about something else.
03:19Yeah.
03:21Look, last week, man, when you were talking to me, I know I wasn't really, you know,
03:25I wasn't all there.
03:26It's been a tough couple of weeks.
03:29After losing for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble, you know, it's been hard.
03:34It doesn't matter.
03:35Tonight's a new chance.
03:36Tonight's a chance to punch a ticket to Elimination Chamber.
03:38It's a chance to punch a ticket to WrestleMania.
03:40So what you said to me about me inspiring you or inspiring the locker room or giving hope
03:47to people that if I could do it, maybe anybody could do it.
03:49I just want you to know, man, that meant a lot to me.
03:52And I'm going to take that hope.
03:54I'm carrying that hope to the ring tonight.
03:56So thank you, buddy.
03:57Amigo, I know.
04:00Tonight, you got this.
04:03So take care of this, my brother.
04:05You got it.
04:05Thank you, buddy.
04:07Sounds like a different version of Sammy.
04:29Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome.
04:33Trick Williams.
04:36Well, I guess Trick got tired of listening to Phoenix and Sami Zayn having their little
04:42chat because that music kicked in a little early there.
04:45Although this audience with their whoop, that trick chant seemed to quite enjoy that.
04:50How those lemon pepper steppers looking tonight, Wade.
04:53Oh, they always look darn good.
04:55You know that, Joe.
04:56You should have got a pair for Galentine's Day.
05:01For me, that is.
05:02That should have been the gig.
05:03What?
05:03Look.
05:05Huh?
05:07Uh-huh.
05:09I like it.
05:11Jam on.
05:21Sammy Zayn, Sammy Zayn, let me do you a favor, big dog.
05:28Nobody here in Dallas wants to hear Mr. Can't Get the Job Done tell another sob story.
05:39Every single week, you come out here, you're backstage, you're moping around, you got sketches
05:47on your feet, you ain't combed your head, your breath smelling like 10 pounds of bounce
05:54that ass, and you begging for another opportunity, you make me sick.
06:09News flash, Sammy Zayn, you got an opportunity tonight, you got a qualifying match with Jacob
06:17Fatu and Cody Rhodes.
06:20Those are some big dogs.
06:22If you come out here moping around, they're going to eat your ass alive.
06:26Let's talk about it.
06:31But on the trick, Williams, next week, I'm going to come out here, I'll probably put on
06:38my mean coat, I'll probably take off my lemon pepper steppers, and do whatever it takes to
06:55qualify for the Elimination Chamber.
06:59But as for tonight, I got Ray Phoenix.
07:04Let me tell you something, Ray.
07:06You come out here every single week, you do backflips, you do kicks.
07:13But let me tell you something, when Dallas people go to the zoo, they don't want to see a squirrel
07:18do a flip.
07:19They don't want to see a lion like me get up.
07:21If you think I'm going to lie down for one second, Ray Phoenix, just because I'm new here,
07:25then you must be stupid.
07:27Yeah.
07:30Yeah.
07:35Yeah.
07:41Yeah.
07:45Yeah.
08:05The following contest is scheduled for one fall, making its way to the ring from a gutty
08:12back in Mexico, weighing in at 182 pounds, Ray Phoenix!
08:48Trick Williams and Ray Phoenix set to go at it.
08:55Last week Trick Williams interrupted Ray Phoenix, who was encouraging Sami Zayn backstage.
09:00We just heard from Sami Zayn moments ago saying, go out there Ray and teach this guy a lesson.
09:06And this match is presented by Sonic's new $6 All-American Smasher meal with three, eat Sonic.
09:13Yeah, you're right Joe, so overtly at least Ray Phoenix is out here defending the honor of Sami Zayn.
09:19And Trick has not held back with his verbal barbs after Zayn's disappointment at the Royal Rumble against Drew McIntyre.
09:25But let's not forget Trick Williams' debut here on SmackDown several weeks ago back to Germany was against Ray Phoenix.
09:33With Trick winning that match with a quick roll-up and a major handful of tights.
09:39And I'll tell you right now, as a competitor, you don't forget that.
09:42There's a little extra fire in Ray Phoenix tonight to put that one right.
09:47And that was back on January 9th in Germany.
09:50Of course, that was the night that Drew McIntyre became the undisputed WWE Champion.
09:56And then coming up later tonight as we keep adding chapters to an incredible story this year.
10:02With Cody Rhodes, the Men's Elimination Chamber.
10:05Here's the cover.
10:06Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu, and Sami Zayn.
10:10The qualifying match to see who gets to the Men's Elimination Chamber.
10:14That the Triple Threat main event right here in Dallas tonight.
10:17And the Rhodes do lead to Drew McIntyre in the WWE Championship with CM Punk and Roman Reigns on a
10:23collision course, of course.
10:25Oh, man.
10:27Drew McIntyre and CM Punk need to hold on to those championships all the way to WrestleMania.
10:31I'm sure they'll be laser-focused on doing exactly that.
10:36Would you look at Ray Phoenix as he bounces up to the top rope and then brings the missile dropkick.
10:42This guy's athleticism is beyond, Wade.
10:46Yeah, it's ludicrous movement.
10:48I'll tell you right now, Trick Williams has it all as we've seen.
10:51He's a great mover in his own right, but even he can't match the kind of movement of Ray Phoenix.
10:56He was desperately carving out a path to greatness for himself here on SmackDown.
11:01One of the most, oh, man, oh, man.
11:04That trick kick can come out of nowhere.
11:07God, that was so perfectly executed.
11:09Wasn't it?
11:10It almost hooked around the jaw of Ray Phoenix.
11:13And it's that easy for an athlete the caliber of Trick Williams.
11:17I hope we see that one again.
11:19That was perfect.
11:20Oh, here it is.
11:21My God, you will never see one better executed than that.
11:26You could have done that a hundred times in a training ring and it wouldn't have looked that good.
11:29It's too easy for Trick Williams.
11:31And the size and the power and the explosiveness at 6'5", over 250 pounds the way he delivers.
11:39And that's the key.
11:40Guys, the size of Trick Williams, and he is a true heavyweight, shouldn't be able to move as well as
11:46he does.
11:46That's the cheat code with Trick.
11:48Apart from all the other things like the charisma and the talking chops and all that stuff.
11:53And slams him right in the middle of the ring as he gathers himself after Phoenix went on the attack.
12:01Trick he two times.
12:03He is such a presence.
12:06Well, has he been on SmackDown now for what, six weeks?
12:08He's got more nicknames than anybody in the history of professional wrestling already.
12:12Yeah, Mr. Wook that. Hollywood Trick. Trick Willie.
12:15No, I haven't got to step on it.
12:17Tall, dark, and handsome with a little pizzazz.
12:19There's plenty more where that came from, too.
12:21He's got eight abs, three chains, three cars, two feet.
12:25Oh!
12:27The jumping neck breaker to cap it.
12:33Got his neck, got his back.
12:35What is coming next?
12:40Trick Williams showing you everything he has offensively here.
12:47Listen to him talk in the ring as well.
12:49Oh, man!
12:51Heels over head!
12:54Heels over head!
12:54Phoenix able to barely survive it.
12:57The back breaker, the neck breaker.
13:01Trick Willie.
13:02Oh!
13:02Oh!
13:03Oh!
13:04Oh!
13:04Oh!
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