WWE Friday Night Smackdown (Episode 1,144)
Live from Cleveland, Ohio at Rocket Mortgage Arena (portions from Miami, Florida at Rolling Loud Festival)
Aired July 23, 2021 on Fox
[Hour One] Michael Cole plugged the show’s sponsor and was joined by Pat McAfee on commentary… John Cena made his entrance to a big ovation. Cena told the crowd that they were amped up. He said he understands because it’s been one hell of a week.
Cena said the big surprise at Money in the Bank was a lot of fun and he had to crash Raw. He said he did a little fan Q&A and answered important questions such as how he escaped the alternate universe of the Firefly Funhouse.
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Commentators: Michael Cole, Pat McAfee
Ring Announcer: Greg Hamilton
-They opened with a wide shot of the arena from the upper deck.
-John Cena’s entrance music played and he came onto the stage to a big ovation. He talked to the camera and said, “We must be live on Fox.” The ring announcer introduced him as he ran the ropes in the ring and played to the crowd. Cena got the “augmented reality” graphics package added to his entrance. When his music stopped, there were sustained cheers. Cena soaked it up and let it ride for 30 seconds. “Man, you are amped up tonight!” he said. (He didn’t have to use all the bag-o-tricks he did in Dallas on Monday to get the crowd going.)
WWE Friday Night SmackDown Results for July 23, 2021
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Cena gets a very loud pop, and a mic so he can speak to everyone. He just plays with the crowd at first, he understands they’re amped up and that it’s been a hell of week. );
His surprise return, he was so excited he crashed RAW to address some fan issues most notably him being the only guy left to chin check the lifeless egomaniac that is Roman Reigns. He came back to challenge Roman Reigns for the Universal title at Summerslam. Everyone can feel how close they are to Cen and Reigns going face to face, and he couldn’t think of a better place than Cleveland.
Winfree’s WWE Smackdown Review 7.23.21
Hello everyone, another Friday is upon us and that means another episode of WWE Smackdown. In the wake of Money in the Bank everyone’s buzzing about the potential for a feud between Seth Rollins and Edge. . . OK jokes aside the big news has obviously been the return of John Cena. Cena made his intentions clear on Monday, and tonight he will get to go face to face with The Tribal Chief, The Head of the Table, the Universal Champion Roman Reigns. Tonight we’re also having a rematch between Bianca Belair and Carmella, for no reason. Last week Belair pinned Carmella clean to retain her title, we’re getting a rematch here because I assume whoever is actually going to feud with Belair shows up tonight to interfere. Speaking of debuts, Toni Storm will be here tonight, and Finn Balor returned last week and abused Sami Zayn to potentially set up something between them. Big E won the Money in the Bank ladder match, so I assume h
The Nightly: December 17th, 2020 By Metal Matt on Dec 17, 2020, 11:03pm EST 81
Hello Nightly!!!
Tonight, it’s a double header as we take a look at both Survivor Series 2014 and 2015.
Los Matadors vs. The Miz and Damien Mizdow vs. Gold and Stardust vs. The Usos for the WWE Tag Team Championships:
Pretty good opener.
Better than usual Divas Survivor Series match, but felt like a waste of Paige.
Bray Wyatt vs. Dean Ambrose:
Really good match.
This was a match that happened.
Nikki Bella vs. AJ Lee for the WWE Divas Championship:
Absolutely awful. AJ got jobbed out to Nikki in 30 seconds, and it started Nikki’s awful title reign.