3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (July 10)
2. Karaoke
What in the name of Simon Cowell was this?
Bayley is a strong SmackDown Women's Champion, Nikki Cross is doing everything she can to act as a decent challenger and Sasha Banks is burning in the background, but this was absolutely horrible. If singing old entrance themes is all WWE has for the likes of Dana Brooke, Tamina, Naomi and Lacey Evans, then they're in trouble.
Lacey sang Road Dogg's 'With My Baby Tonight', Brooke went for a little Honky Tonk Man action (she'd have made a good Peggy Sue), Tamina tried her hand at 'The Game' in honour of Triple H and then Naomi sang 'American Dream'. Was that Dusty Rhodes reference a sly dig at AEW's Cody? Probably not, but Twitter might not see it that way.
The entire segment was a waste of everyone's time. It was WWE-style "entertainment" that failed to entertain, and it only succeeded in making everyone involved look irrelevant. These gals had been challenging for the gold over the past few months, remember?