WWE Smackdown 21/8/20 | A Coherent Review.

Thunder dome. Thunder dome. THUNDER DOMMMMMME! 

Never mind the fact that the Thunderdome name was a reference of the third Mad Max movie that literally went over my head. 

I thought the crowd that surrounded the arena with the led strips didn't add anything to the overall presence. 

I will say, the production for the Thunderdome was A1. 

As far as my thoughts on the episode of Smackdown? It was decent. Just decent. 

Side note, there will be no 5 News Week tomorrow as I'm going to post an AEW as well as an NXT Takeover: XXX review. 

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Mr McMahon Opens The Show And Sh*t Goes Down. 

Vinne Mac kicked off the episode of Smackdown inside the THUNDERDOME welcoming everyone watching the show. 

The lights went down and The Fiend's music played and out walks The Fiend to the ring while Vince stands in the middle of the ring. 

Braun Strowman showed up and he as well as The Fiend had a bit of a staredown until the group known as Retribution surrounded each other ringside.  

The Fiend then basically said "f**k this sh*t, I'm out" with that bye wave and had the big man fight the group all by himself. 

To which, Braun got some assistance in the SmackDown locker room. 

However, after the Retribution beatdown was taken care of, Strowman decided to attack Drew Gulak and Jey Uso and left the ring. 

This felt like two segments wrapped into one and it somehow gelled well. 

The thing that I especially liked about this is how the heels and babyfaces were side by side fighting against Retribution. 

For some reason, I appreciate it when both sides are a unit despite their differences. 

Big E vs Sheamus. 

The opening match was fine. Outside the ring was covered with the superstars for obvious reasons. 

In other words, it is not a lumberjack match, thank God. 

Due to Sheamus' distraction from the brawl between Matt Riddle and King Corbin, Big E rolled the Celtic Warrior up for the victory. 

Jeff Hardy is seen in the trainer’s room, having some sort of a knee injury but he tells the trainer to give him a knee brace. 

The Lucha House Party vs Cesaro And Shinsuke Nakamura For The SmackDown Tag Team Championship. 

The Lucha House Party were heading to the ring but they were attacked from behind by The champions themselves, Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura. 

This match was good although I would prefer the encounter to last just a bit longer.  

Lince at one point, delivered a perfect springboard stunner onto Shinsuke Nakamura. 

The match concluded when Dorado reversed the powerbomb from Cesaro that was followed by a sunset flip pin from the Swiss cyborg to retain the titles. 

After the match, Lince Dorado and Kalisto were arguing with each other. 

God, I hope they don't break up because one, it's a tired old trope that doesn't benefit in the end and two, Smackdown barely got tag teams. 

In a video shot in a separate angle, it looks like AJ Styles was the one to damage Jeff Hardy's knee with his leg. 

In an interview with Sarah schreiber , Mandy Rose faced directly at the camera, telling Sonya Deville that she sees the same Sonya Deville that had her back inside Sonya. 

Bayley And Sasha Banks Interviewed By Corey Graves. 

Graves asked them pretty much about the sudden tension between the golden role models. 

Out came Naomi and she wanted to face both Bayley and Sasha Banks in a singles match. 

Graves gave the idea of a beat the clock challenge and Naomi liked the concept so much that it turned into a reality. 

The glow faced the boss first and the match ended in 3:39 with an L from Naomi with the bank statement. 

The question is, did Bayley beat the clock? She actually didn't because she lost with the rear view.

The golden role models were then attacked by the empress of every title, Asuka.  

Is Naomi's W leading to a title match at Payback? 

There's another side of me that is really scratching my head regarding Bayley's loss given that she's facing Asuka in a few days. Bayley has been taking a lot of losses as of losses and I don't know how to feel about that. 

Sonya Deville slapped Dana Brooke after a talk about Brooke's concern over Deville.

By the way, my thoughts are with Sonya Deville. I'm hoping she's okay and safe. 



Sonya Deville revealed that she'll face Mandy Rose in a no DQ match and the loser will leave W. W. E. Good promo. 

The right thing to do is to postpone the match but that, unfortunately, ain't happening. 

Nikki Cross in a promo says that something terrible will happen. Okay. Who knows where they're leading with this? 

AJ Styles vs Jeff Hardy For The Intercontinental Championship. 

The match was aight. Jeff Hardy is on the offensive for the majority of the match despite the knee injury.

Styles hooked in the calf crusher and Hardy got out of it. 

Thanks to that knee brace, Hardy used it to get out of the Styles clash and nailed the twist of fate then the Swanton bomb to become a FIVE-TIME. FIVE-TIME. FIVE-TIME. FIVE-TIME intercontinental championship. 

Hardy then told Kalya Braxton that he hopes his comeback will inspire the fans to do great things. 

Styles, however, was frustrated, blaming his loss on none other than the knee brace. 

I gotta say, I'm really glad to see Joseph Parks in a WWE setting. 

Firefly Funhouse Time. 

In the recent edition of the Firefly funhouse, Wyatt showed us the firefly funhouse theatre of a play between Braun Strowman and Alexa Bliss. 

The pig played Strowman while the doll played Bliss. 

Strowman stormed into the funhouse and he brutally attacked Bray Wyatt. 

Then, The monster among men delivered the chokeslam on Wyatt that landed on the exposed concrete floor.  

As Wyatt was in the ambulance, smoke came out of the truck as well as red lighting in the background and The Fiend emerges. And that's how the show ended. 

That was lacklustre not gonna lie. The segment didn’t do much for the feud or the storyline.

So, to recap for all of you slow mofos. 

Like: the opening segment, the tag team title match, Sonya Deville promo. 

Didn't like: the end segment. 

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