A Bad 3-Hour Show: WWE SmackDown 1/10/25 Review | RASD

Originally published at WWE SmackDown 1/10/25 Review

John Pollock & Wai Ting review a very long 3-hour WWE SmackDown as Tiffany Stratton speaks for the first time after cashing in her MITB.

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Hahahaha… What a show title.

I’ve never been more compelled to listen to a SmackDown review.

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I had other things going on last night, but even with the easy Netflix access I was totally unmotivated to try and watch three more hours of WWE after Monday. It’s a big ask for anyone

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I enjoy watching Raw and NXT every week. But Smackdown unfortunately just feels like the B show, maybe even lower for the past several months. The company just doesn’t have much focus on the show outside of Cody, KO, and the Bloodline. And adding in the third hour doesn’t help at all. There are still 3 weeks until the PLE. What are they going to do at this time?

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This won’t be the norm going forward. The formula needs tweaks

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I think it’s going to be a challenge to program eight hours minimum of must-see TV a week.

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I don’t think Raw will be that long every week, but 100% agree with this. Less is more.

Yup. You can only ask fans to watch so much until they start to view everything as “missable”.

Raw will not be 180 minutes exactly every week, no, but it’s not like it’s going to be two hours some weeks. They won’t have hard-outs anymore so the length will fluctuate within a margin of some minutes, but it would be silly to think that means they won’t hit their required number of commercial breaks they’re being paid for every week.

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Ya I agree. I think it will be between 2-3 hours, sometimes on the higher end, sometimes on the lower end.

Just watched SD, I agree it was a boring show. I enjoyed the Cody/Owens stuff and the Heyman promo, but everything else was mostly just meh. Tag matches were ok, but nothing that blew me away. Would have been a much better 2 hr show.