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.
Also: Paul Heyman declares Roman Reigns for the Royal Rumble, Cody Rhodes and Jimmy Uso team-up against Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga, and Nick Aldis announces a tag team tournament that’s not really a tag team tournament.
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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
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?
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.
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.
