Money in the Bank continues to get shaped as Shane McMahon makes a historic announcement, New Day makes their SmackDown Live debut, and the competitors in the WWE Title Contract Money in the Bank match clash once again.
The Brian Kendrick and Akira Tozawa meet in a memorable street fight to try to settle their differences.
This year’s Backlash wasn’t great, but it did have some entertaining matches and a few mild surprises.
It feels like we’ve seen this show before, but I still enjoyed seeing TJP face Austin Aries in this pretty good episode of 205 Live.
The last SmackDown before Backlash didn’t provide anything new, but it had a pretty good opening match and a fun new episode of Breezango’s “Fashion Files.”
Rich Swann and Noam Dar finally meet in the ring to settle their issues, but after a very nice match, was anything really settled?
On his first night as a member of SmackDown, Jericho must defend his US Title in a rematch against Kevin Owens.
This episode was light on story, but the matches more than made up for that.
This was an okay show with some interesting moves from certain superstars.
This pretty good episode of SmackDown set up two title matches, one surprising and one not so much.
A good show with a great main event. TJ Perkins and his new attitude took on Jack Gallagher who just wanted Perkins to act like a Gentleman.
SmackDown had the same level of minimal excitement as RAW for its portion of the Superstar Shakeup, but two great matches on this episode with title implications make this a show worth watching.
This edition of NXT was taped before Takeover: Orlando, and it very much felt like a pre-show. The matches were short, and the show was packed with clips and interviews from the big event. Not the best episode of NXT, but there’s still a little fun to be had here.
With a lot of talking and three matches of varying quality, this was a pretty average kickoff show. Though the good parts were quite entertaining, there weren’t a ton of them considering the two-hour running time of the show.
Though this felt more like a continuation of stroylines rather than a culmination, this year’s Wrestlemania-weekend Takeover had some very good matches and really fantastic moments. It wasn’t all spectacular, but it was very entertaining.
Last week, no one was set to face Bray Wyatt at Wrestlemania, but with this week’s SmackDown two people have a claim to a title match. Also, John Cena makes the best of a less than ideal situation (for everyone involved), Becky Lynch and Mickie James manage to squeeze three tiny matches into one normal match, Apollo Crews and Dolph Ziggler get really angry with each other, and more on this okay, but less than ideal episode of SmackDown.
An okay show that would have been merely average if not for the return of Kassius Ohno!
While nothing new really happened, this was an entertaining show with matches that got progressively better.
This was a SmackDown with potential, but unfortunately the execution wasn’t there.
An entertaining episode of 205 Live featuring the debut of Gran Metalik and a great main event with TJ Perkins facing the Cruiserweight Champ and The King of the Cruiserweights, Neville.