17 Things You Probably Missed From WWE SmackDown (19 March)

2. Tom Phillips Getting His Wires Crossed

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Credit to the SmackDown announce boys for their work during that epic Gauntlet. Tom Phillips, Corey Graves and Byron Saxton enhanced the match with their commentary, and they whipped up some impressive emotion towards the end.

Phillips had so much emotion in his voice that he forgot who was in the ring.

When the show returned from a commercial break, Tom said that "Big E" had been in the match for 41 minutes. Leaping to his co-host's defence, Graves quickly corrected him by saying Kofi was the one going the distance, not his New Day buddy.

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