6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (June 23)

Downs...

3. Bin This

Grayson Waller Pretty Deadly
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WWE should've just saved on airfare and carted a Grayson Waller cardboard cutout around with them for SmackDown episodes. The ex-NXT man is doing his best, but what was the point of his Draft hype if he's only on SmackDown to host lame chat show segments? There's nothing new about the "Grayson Waller Effect" to make it stand out.

It's every single chat show-style skit fans have been battered over the head with for years.

Pretty Deadly were Grayson's guests. They've got bags of personality, but even they couldn't save this segment from sinking. Everyone said a whole load of nothing, and you were just sitting around waiting on the inevitable interruption. That came via The Street Profits (more on them in a bit).

The whole thing came across as a time-killing exercise more than anything constructive. How in the name of sh*te anybody thought this was adequate setup for an Undisputed Tag Title bout with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn next week is anyone's guess.

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