6 Ups & 2 Downs From WWE SmackDown (18 July - Results & Review)

1. More Humdrum Wyatt Sicks Work

Smoke, dim lighting, shadows and a whole load of grandiose verbiage that flies right over everyone's head. That sums up The Wyatt Sicks and their promo style in a nutshell. On Friday, the group appeared in a pre-taped promo to talk about how The Street Profits and other tag-teams in the SmackDown doubles division are only held together by a lust for gold.

Yeah, about that.

Erm...The Sicks returned to screens specifically to chase the tag straps, so don't Uncle Howdy and pals have the same lust for titles they're castigating everybody else for? Some logic would be nice here. Seriously, The Sicks need to quit it with meandering speeches that rarely make a lick of sense and only manage to burn a few minutes from each broadcast. It's tedious.

The Wyatts are, in this writer's mind, the worst thing that could've happened to the SmackDown tag scene. Their story seemed interesting at first, but all they've been doing is getting in the way. A 4-way scrap between some other teams in the division proved that SmackDown's tags are better off without Howdy and his weirdo gang.

Joe Gacy and Dexter Lumis might've only won the belts on last week's show, but fingers crossed they're not on top for too much longer. Andrade and Rey Fenix, Fraxiom, Motor City Machine Guns, DIY or even Los Garza would be preferable champs for the rest of 2025. Too much about The Sicks is humdrum and predictable, which is the total opposite of how WWE wants you to view them.