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.
Even though half the matches on this show were nearly exactly the same, I enjoyed this show. The competitors for the 2017 Money in the Bank match are named (and fight) and Breezango works their way into a tag title rematch!
This year’s Backlash wasn’t great, but it did have some entertaining matches and a few mild surprises.
The Backlash 2017 Kickoff show was an average opener, featuring Aiden English versus Tye DIllinger.
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.”
A very good show with a great balance of very entertaining matches and many significant storyline segments.
A big six-man tag match highlights a pretty good episode of SmackDown that also featured a special London edition of “Fashion Files” and a great promo from The Usos.
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.
A good show with some good matches, but a long-running feud seems to end in a rather uneventful way on this edition of 205 Live.
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.
The 205 Live after Wrestlemania might not have been as surprising as RAW or SmackDown, but three solid matches make this a show not to be missed.
The first SmackDown Live after a Wrestlemania was good. It might not have felt quite as energetic as RAW, but it had quite possibly the best moment of the past few days with the extremely exciting debut of Shinsuke Nakamura!
This is a very long show, and with any show of this length, there are good and not so good parts. Overall, this is probably a middle-of-the-road Wrestlemania, but there is definitely some fun to be had here. Watching it all in one sitting might leave you a bit exhausted though.