5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (1 Nov - Results & Review)

3. As Bland A Segment As You’ll See

It says everything for this one that the main highlight of the entire match was seeing Pretty Deadly beg for some ringside producer to green light their made-up musical. Cole and Corey Graves got more mileage out of talking about that than they did the match vs. Street Profits. That's nothing new when it comes to Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins in late-2024 though.

Those lads badly need an inspired change and a shake up. Badly. It absolutely cannot be another false dawn like the group with Bobby Lashley was either. Either split them and run with both as singles (it's worth trying), or go the heel route and give them an edge. That's something the pair completely lack at time of writing, and it sucks to see.

PD vs. Profits was another short match for SmackDown that also felt directionless from a creative standpoint. Deadly are clowns, so they'll survive losses like this without breaking sweat, but it'd be a stretch to say this bout was any good or worth your time. Both teams were in stables (quasi-stables in Pretty Deadly's case) that went exactly nowhere earlier in the year, and that reflected in the apathy fans had towards this too.

The scrap was presumably on the shorter side because it was part of an epic double taping last week. Fine. That's no excuse for how lifeless both teams are creatively though, or for presenting matches that have precisely zero story context or stakes. Did somebody think this was a house show, or something?