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WWE Smackdown 1/4/22 | A Coherent Review

We're just hours before Wrestlemania aka the show that I had the same amount of anticipation as the new Morbius movie. 

How did the blue brand pull off this week? Well, more people on my Twitter timeline (@omartheplayaguy press z follow me) were talking about Samoa Joe's return at ROH's latest PPV than this episode so that should tell you everything. 

Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal. 

For the second time in a row, the battle royal happened on an episode of Smackdown and not on the pre-show, which I'm happy about because the last thing I wanna see is watching a meaningless match at 5 am in the morning. Anything that saves time is an automatic positive in my book. 

Midcap Moss won the entire thing. I don't even remember who won last year's match so I'll probably forget about it in a day or so. 

Speaking of which, later in the show, Drew McIntyre showed up during the Happy Corbin talk show segment and proceeded to destroy everything on sight using his sword. 

Coooooooool. 

Ricochet vs Angel vs Humberto For The Intercontinental Championship. 

A solid match for what it was. The finish though was fantastic. Ricochet delivered the 630 to Angel followed by the recoil to Humberto for the victory. 

Sasha Banks And Naomi vs Queen Zelina Vega And Carmella. 

Aka a match that was originally planned for Wrestlemania. Seeing Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley on the outside, you know where this leads but to my surprise, no such brawl occurred. 

Two former members of team BAD defeated the tag champs with a quick moonsault to Vega. 

Rick Boogs vs Jimmy Uso. 

This was aight. Austin Theory's shenanigans on to Pat McAfee (that had Finn Balor eventually hit Austin *Michael Cole's voice*from behind) is what led to this match ending via a DQ. 

And you know what happened after that? An impromptu 6 man tag team match, Playas. Nothing screams WWE's writing quite like this. 

The bad guys won the bout with the Ataxia to Finnie Baylord. 

Austin Theory pinned both the intercontinental champion and the United States champion. Yea, not good if you want to build a healthy midcard act.  

Charlotte Flair Was Like, "Ronda, You Think You Can Rip My Arm Off!? Well, That's F**king Bullsh*t M8 Because I'll Destroy You Like Every Critic Review Of Morbius!" 

After those words were uttered, don't you think she has a better chance of retaining the title because that headline certainly convinced ya boy. I mean come on, it's not that she's never said the word "mate", am I right!? 

So, to recap for all of you slow mofos. 

Like: Ricochet vs Angel vs Humberto and the ending. 

Didn't like: the US champion taking Ls like the IC champ on RAW. 

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