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WWE Smackdown 28/8/20 | A Coherent Review.

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Before I start this review, I wanna say, rest in peace Chadwick Boseman. 

Your strength and your passion is inspiring, humbling and most importantly, memorable. 

Wakanda forever. 

I also want to send my condolences to Scott Armstrong and his family including Road Dogg because their dad, Bob Armstrong passed away. 

A guy that has wrestled since the 60s all the way till last year. Rest easy Bob Armstrong. 

If there's one thing we've learned from this is that It doesn't hurt to say "I love you" to people you care about. 

Now, how was Smackdown? 

It was really underwhelming. Full of uninteresting things that happened in this episode. 

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The show started off with WWE producer Adam Pearce telling security to stop everything Retribution. 

Then, Pearce met with Vince McMahon and the chairman of the board gave Adam a mission.

That mission is to have Roman Reigns, Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman's signatures on a contract to make that Universal Championship match at Payback official. 

Jeff Hardy Wants To Defend That Intercontinental Championship Until…..

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AJ Styles showed up to tell Hardy that the enigma cheated his way to an intercontinental championship victory. 

Jeff replied with an open challenge for his title but the person answering the challenge is not Styles. 

Shinsuke Nakamura took that offer instead. The match was actually decent.  

It sounds like based on the promo that Cesaro is mad that Shinsuke is in the intercontinental championship open challenge. 

Why are tag teams always jealous when one of its members goes in a singles run? A great example of the word "cliche".

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Hardy retained the championship with the Swanton bomb to which Sami Zayn returned to WWE and kicked Hardy's head off. 

Hardy has to deal with two heels now. 

I wish Zayn is a babyface given that I'm not a fan of his heel run in quite some time. 

Firefly Funhouse Time. 

Adam Pearce dressed as a postman, wanted Bray Wyatt to sign the contract for the triple threat match at Payback. 

Wyatt with no hesitation signed the contract. A meh segment. 

Matt Riddle Calls Out King Corbin. 

Riddle with a 2000s looking hairstyle, desperately wanted King Corbin to show up and Corbin actually did. 

However, Chad Gable attacked Riddle from behind because a match between those two men was next. 

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After Riddle picked up the victory, Corbin and Riddle himself fought for a bit. 

I. Don't. Care. About. This. Feud. For some reason, anything Baron Corbin is an automatic "I don't care about that rivalry"

Bayley Talks With Excitement While Banks…….

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Well, she wasn't in a good mood throughout the entire time Bayley was confidently talking about how the golden role models will retain the titles at Payback.  

Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax via the titantron, told the golden role models that they'll get those titles despite not liking each other.  

Meh. In another backstage segment, Drew Gulak attacked Braun Strowman with a chair but Gulak immediately threw that chair on Adam Pearce. 

That led to a match between Braun Strowman and Drew Gulak and speaking of which…….

Braun Strowman vs Drew Gulak. 

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Strowman absolutely destroyed Gulak and because of that destruction, the match ended pretty short. 

In other words, Braun Strowman won the bout. 

Adam Pearce came out as Strowman was leaving the ring. Pearce got another signature in that contract. 

Two down, one to go. 

Kalisto vs Cesaro. 

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Another decent match of the evening. Cesaro won the match with a roll-up due to a distraction from Nakamura getting a beating from the rest of Lucha House Party. 

After the match, Kalisto "made peace" with Lince Dorado and Gran Metalik. 

Please, don't break up the team. You got no tag teams, WWE. 

Alexa Bliss broke Nikki Cross' mug that Bliss gave her a year back because Nikki told Bliss that Bliss' Harley Quinn style hair reminds her of the Fiend. 

That was stupid. Alexa's hair doesn't look like Bray's hairstyle like AT ALL. 

Big E And Heavy Machinery vs Sheamus, The Miz and John Morrison. 

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The Miz got a serious tan like damn. Sheamus walked off the match which means it is all Big E and Heavy Machinery. 

Big E led his team to a W with the big ending. 

Speaking of a big ending, Adam Pearce was looking at Roman Reigns signing the contract to which he tells Adam that he will walk out of Payback THE universal champion. 

The person sitting right next to Roman was Paul freaking Heyman.

What an ending. By far, the best thing about this uneventful episode. 

So, to recap for all of you slow mofos. 

Like: The ending. 

Didn't like: An uneventful program with a bad backstage segment between Bliss and Nikki Cross.  


Sound off in the comments below on what do you think about this week's episode of Friday Night Smackdown? Follow the blog for honest pro wrestling opinions as well my twitter @omartheplayaguy. Anywho, stay safe smarks.

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