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[] "[0] Smackdown once again proved how subpar and uninteresting the show is. I literally can't mention any redeeming qualities about this show. I didn't comment about the last 2 shows since I thought they completely didn't offer anything at all to talk about, but last night's show was so egregiously bad and just outright low effort that I had to talk about it. There is really no need to watch this show. I don't even suggest checking the show's highlights. You can maybe make an exception for the Carmelo match, as he is always the bright spot in this show. How does WWE justify giving us not only last night's show, but also this build for WrestleMania, especially on SmackDown, with 3 weeks to go? Randy opens the show with the same verbiage about him hearing voices in his head, and the Matt Cardona situation, which escalated in the ring for a 2nd week in a row. I really don't know what purpose the inclusion of Matt Cardona serves in the Cody vs Randy title feud, which really needs some momentum, apart from building Randy as a heel, I guess, which is completely failing. I don't care at all for the Women's Tag Division now with Lash Legend and Nia Jax as champions, and the tag match that opened the show. It's baffling to me how much the Women's Tag Division has deteriorated in quality of teams and matches since Rhea and Io lost those titles. Cargill and Rhea's build continues to be bland and tedious, with generic promos, as it once again didn't add any layers to their title match program for WM. Rhea's "match" with B-Fab ended in a DQ in less than a minute, expectedly, as she was attacked by Cargill and her 2 other assistants. WWE's Women's World Title matches really don't have that much effort put into them, especially the one on Smackdown. Jelly Roll wins against Kit Wilson. Nothing followed it afterwards, and that was literally it. A tag team match between them with Danhausen and The Miz is expected, but Gunther, Io, and, as of now, Carmelo are out of WM without a program with 3 weeks to go. Great. Sami vs Carmelo was, as expected with both guys, a really good match and with how they were portraying Sami as desperate to find his spot for WM by challenging Carmelo's US title open challenge, the result was also expected. The focus was mainly on Sami and Williams and their feud, as Carmelo was the third wheel in all of this. They could very well have done the match with Sami and Trick at WM as it is, but for some reason, it needed a title on the line, and Trick was awarded the spot at WM without an opponent by Nick Aldis prior to the match when Sami Zayn was right there the whole freaking time. He just had to win the title for this match to happen in WWE's eyes, in order to get a WM spot and a match against Trick that he wanted all along, right? While they could've easily done the match without the title, and actually have Carmelo, who is one of the very few bright spots on the show by giving us great matches each week, in a match against Dragunov for the title. They could have easily saved their match on Smackdown last week for WM and let these guys go after giving them a build for WM, which both of them deserve, or even have Trick challenge for it at WM. Even if they were to do Carmelo vs Dragunov at WM, that match definitely needed the US title, and Carmelo deserved to walk at WM as champion. Decent promo from Fatu later, which was filled with 'what' chants and didn't add anything new to this feud, nor did McIntyre when he came out. Nick Aldis announced an unsanctioned match, which I don't mind at all and mostly fits the type of feud these guys have. I just expected the Hell in a Cell stipulation for them, as it fitted that feud a bit better, and it'd finish what was going on for months between them, but I'm not complaining. Their match, hopefully, is going to be brutal at WM. Giulia vs Tiffany, didn't care as they don't give me a reason at all to care about her or the women's US title, which has been completely and utterly ignored. Orton vs Cardona main event match was subpar and was mostly there to showcase this new 'vicious' version of Orton and that he only intended to inflict pain in this match, which has failed to do so. Orton wins, and as soon after, Cody arrives in the arena, and the show goes immediately to a 3-minute commercial. I'm a foreign viewer, and I get to watch the show without the ads, and it was literally 3 entire minutes of Orton sitting right there and looking at Cody slowly making his way into the ring. What followed was one of the most lukewarm and least aggressive brawls I have ever seen for what is supposed to be a feud full of bloodshed and revenge. One of the worst brawls I have ever seen, if not the worst and a super underwhelming way to end the show. It was so lame and slow, and they were both pulled apart constantly by security and officials. The little physical altercation they had had no intensity between them, and Cody didn't follow up at all on the malicious attack that Orton had given to him 2 weeks ago. No intensity, no blood, nothing really physical occurred at all and on top of that, Jelly Roll had to get involved in here just like literally every single other thing on this show. 3 weeks to go with this feud, and WWE decides to have fucking Jelly Roll and Matt Cardona involved, but not have any of Orton's and Cody's history explored at all. I'm seriously dumbfounded with this shit, as they have prolonged the build for WM, only to not take advantage of that at all and not tell any sort of story between their main event world title matches. They don't tell any stories at all, even though both matches have adequate history in order to tell a story, but WWE is too lazy to do that and instead relies on star power to sell these matches. This show absolutely sucked on all levels, storytelling and in-ring. Genuinely, might only tune in for the go-home show for Smackdown since this show barely even deserves to be watched through highlights."

[7.0] "Edge has never been one of my favourites and I cant say Im particularly fond of his wrestling style, but I can appreciate his qualities, I don't appreciate his spear though. Might be recency bias but I never really think other wrestlers come out of feuds with him looking more like a star, especially not since his 2020 return."

[] "I Think this match should not have happened. When your show is lackluster with only 1 match over 4 stars? they just dug the hole deeper. DId not like this smackdown a lot. Overall match rating: 2.3"