6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (20 March - Results & Review)

3. How Is This As Entertaining As It Is?!

Jelly Roll Kit Wilson
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Answers on a postcard.

Kit Wilson feuding with f'n Jelly Roll feels like something from a fever dream, but it’s actually working. The “Slam Poetry” session Kit introduced in lieu of a rap battle Jelly would’ve preferred was laugh out loud funny and added some levity to the show. Wilson’s comedic timing is ace, and Jelly is somehow one of the best talkers in WWE. As aforementioned, his backstage speech to Randy Orton proved that before this segment even started.

Your writer legit thought he’d hate the musician getting involved in wrestling full stop, but he was really good last summer and he’s been really good here again during ‘Mania season. Skits like this will benefit Kit more than matches too - he's managed to get over by yelling "TOXIC", being squashed by Brock Lesnar mauler Oba Femi and by tangling with a cameo celeb. What a guy.

There were doubts cast over Wilson's whole toxic masculinity commentary when it started, but he's been riotously entertaining with it, and the ex-tag star (Pretty Deadly, we hardly knew ye!) is making something of everything WWE hands him right now. Build a statue of the man if he manages to get over to a midcard title level.

All of the lines about Jelly's "willy" and Ozempic worked a treat and went down a storm with the live audience. Sometimes, wrestling shows need a 'let me up' segment exactly like this one. The fact WWE formatted Kit and Jelly (sounds like a children's book) straight after Hayes and Dragunov? Bonus. Stellar decision making.

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