Smackdown Recap & Review – “That’s a Nice Stool”

A predictable show with mostly predictable matches (though Kalisto versus Neville stood out), but it’s a good watch.
A predictable show with mostly predictable matches (though Kalisto versus Neville stood out), but it’s a good watch.
With a couple of good matches, a lot of filler, and a return that no one cares about (both in-story and out), this week’s NXT was okay.
This week’s Main Event had a surprisingly good match between Rusev and Ryback and a match that most people would expect to be good, Swagger versus Owens.
The return of the Rock and AJ Styles versus Chris Jericho highlight a good followup to the Royal Rumble.
As a complete show, the 2016 Royal Rumble started strong and lost some steam as it went along. As a match, it seemed reminiscent of years past, which isn’t always a good thing.
Predictions are made and a fatal four way tag team match is held to determine two of the spots in the Royal Rumble match.
This was a week of setting up some high-profile matches for the February show in Las Vegas, but it also featured the start of the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament and was highlighted by a good triple threat main event.
A pretty good final stop before the Rumble with some pretty good matches.
This show felt a lot like the previous RAW in that not much new ground was covered, but there were still enough fun segments to make it an entertaining show.
This was a week to build up the number one contenders. The matches weren’t surprising, but they were pretty good nonetheless.
This week Main Event is bookended by two decent tag matches with a very nice, aggressive, quick match between Neville and Breeze in the middle.
As the last RAW before the Royal Rumble, this show felt a little like treading water, but one segment in particular made for an interesting lead-in to one of the most fun events of the year.
This week’s episode has some good matches highlighted by a crazy, chaotic, violent tag team street fight in the tradition of ECW.
Tyler Breeze and Jack Swagger make up for their not-so-great match last week with a much better rematch.
A few nice happenings and a good rematch for the US Title make this a Smackdown worth watching.
The first Full Sail NXT of 2016 set up some possible new directions for its singles title holders, but the show itself got NXT off to a slow start for the year.
Main Event this week had some nice matches and made a good case for a tag team that could have some potential for a move to the main shows.
This week’s RAW featured more of the same for the most part, but there were a few highlights spread throughout the show.
A four man survival match highlights a pretty good week in ROH.
Witness the birth of a new tag team, the Golden Truth!