5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SmackDown (3 May - Results & Review)

1. The Brawl Before Going Dark

SmackDown went off the air with tag rivals beating the sh*te out of one another.

Cameras cut from that so-so segment between AJ Styles and Cody Rhodes to Bloodline brutes Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga tangling with R-KO backstage. This sort of visual usually works as a cliffhanger for any pro wrestling show going dark, and things were defo no different on this occasion. It was chaos.

Credit to Corey Graves and Wade Barrett for putting a last-minute bow on the Backlash hype as WWE's copyright watermark popped up on-screen. Sometimes, announcers tend to rush through too much in a short space of time, but they said what needed to be said then laid out to let the action speak for itself.

WWE has the chance to do something funny by opening Backlash with these squads still brawling. Only joking. That'd be silly, but it'd get a pop out of this fan. In all seriousness, the tag match needed to keep pounding that violence button before the PLE, and these fellas did.

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