WWE SmackDown Review & Amanda's Bash in Berlin Predictions

And I have a vague recollection that minor copped today means my head hurts, and that is all I have after two years of studying German in school. Anyway, I digress. It's an absolute pleasure to have you listening along once again, and thank you so much for the follows this week on Twitter, for anyone who hasn't done so already, and for anyone who wants to. I am at Amanda SD pod. That's at Amanda sd pod. So first things first, guys, First, I want to thank Rob Mattick twelve for your explanation

of the Comelo Hayes barbershop thing. Thank you. I now understand and can officially stop commenting on that and let it lie. Thank you very much. Second of all, big shout out to Jesse from Melbourne who's also reached out this week on Twitter, and as you are in Australia, Jesse, it's my obligation to say Ozzy Ossy Ozzy and wait for your response. I'm sure you oi oid. But thank you guys for listening and responding. Really great to know

you're out there. So if you guys see the teaser for the new vincement Mann documentary apparently coming to Netflix September twenty fifth, it looks fun. I've seen a picture which I assume is like from the opening credits or something, and it says has Vince as like a puppet master and it says mastermind on one side and then Madman on the other. I can't wait. I think it's going to be epic must watch for us all. So yeah, that looks like it's going to be great. Netflix twenty

fifth September apparently. So before we get to our review of SmackDown. Let's get to some quick predictions or Bush in Berlin tomorrow. I'm defending my outstanding record of two correct. Got to remember this time head overheart, Head over heart, not what I want, what I think. Okay, So first of all, Gunda versus Randy. I have this as a Gunther win. This is only his first title defense. I'd like Randy to win. That's what I want, but my head says that's what I'm going Gunther. Cody versus Ko.

I think this one's really simple. I think this is a sitter. So this is a Cody win. There's no way, no way at all that Cody loses this, and I think we get a Ko turn as well. Drew McIntyre versus CM Punk the Strap match. I think this is going to be a win for Punk, and I think he gets the bracelet back. Damien versus Rea, Sorry, Damian

and Rea versus Dom and Live. This is difficult. Half of me thinks Dom and Live win, taking it to the respective single matches and a title shot for Rea at Bad Blood, and the other half thinks.

not all of it, obviously that would be insane. I said that I think the Champs retain, which was a bit of a stab in the dark because I thought this one was quite a tough call as well. But I think I might have changed my mind now having seen the Jaden Bianco promo within the show. But let's get to that. So for now, let's say Champs retains at Alba Fayre and Ila Dawn, but that one might change. Let's see. Okay, well, let's see how we do. I mean, I only have to get three to improve on my

appalling record, so fingers crossed. So let's get to it and review the SmackDown that aired on August thirtieth from Berlin, Germany, and as we kick off tonight, we see Cody enter the arena and then we get told that there will be a face to face tonight between him and Ko. We then get Nya and Tiffany arriving and remind you that tonight we have a title match which will be a street fight between Nya and Meat. First up, in terms of action, we've got La Knight making his way

to the ring for his open challenge. He gets massive pop as usual, and who's it going to be? We don't know there's been I haven't seen anything on Twitter or anything this week, so I legit don't know who it is. We've also got a changed up commentary team this week, with Cole joining Wade, but as we progress through the show, I think Wade is going to be replaced in coming weeks by Corey, so we'll have Michael Cole and Corey, which I think is a nice pair. In l A Knight has the mic in his hand.

He says it's been twenty seven years since WWE was in Berlin for a major TV event. He says, what a great way to kick it off with the megastar. Well, I couldn't agree more. He says he had his first title defense in the US capital of Washington last week, and he thought he might as well defend it in the capital of Germany. He then goes on to say that maybe that will be a thing and he'll just

just defend it in capitals. I'm not sure how that's gonna work, and as he says, it's state capitals as well, I don't think they travel to that many capitals good enough. He calls out his challenger and then I thought it was Gunter's music that hit, but it may not have been, but it sounded very much like Gunter's music. And then outcomes Ludwig Kaiser, so maybe they share music. I'm not

completely sure. He gets a good pop, obviously being in his home country, and he says he's sure that La Knight wants to defend against the best he can, and he assures him that no one is better on German soil. He says he will win the title and make it the European title, and La Knight says, that's very impressive for Gunter's stooge, which was a fun line, and then that looks like it's official. That's tonight's first match. So

the open challenge is La Knight versus Ludwig Kaiser. I wouldn't have guess Ludwig Kaiser if you'd have given me a month of guesses, which is probably my bad because obviously he's German, so yeah, stupid me.

guess makes sense, but again hadn't thought about it. La Knight pounding Kaiser in the corner and getting the year chance from the crowd, but he is soon reversed by Kaiser, who returns the favor massive clothesline from Night as the action moves outside the ring and Kaiser is dropped on his neck on the apron. Kaiser then takes charge on the outside of the ring, ramming Night into the steps as Kaiser sets up for a running kick through Night

and into the steps, which looked pretty gnarly. As we come back from the break, Kaiser has retained the upper hand and he has Night in the ring and is beat him down on him. Night attempts to fight back and on the two trade blows in the ring, with Kaiser again getting the upper hand. Night battles back and has Kaiser in the corner and then over the top rope again, smashing Kaiser's head off the German announced table. Night with a neck breaker and an elbow from the

middle rope for a close two count. Night still on top with a big knee to the face of Kaiser, where then we get a reversal by Kaiser and a huge kick a quick and very close cover. Night then gets the power slam, but Kaiser counters the BFT and goes for the cover. Kaiser gets back into it with another kick and Kaiser wall for a really really close cover. Knight then hits a BFT with the cover and retains his title. I thought it was a good match, despite

Kaiser being the hometown guy so to speak. The crowd was still behind Night when he was on top, which still left Kaiser getting his best ever crowd reaction. Cole mentioned interestingly in the commentary that Gunza is in fact Austrian.

He has Germany as his adopted home, so that's good at least we don't have to pretend that when Gunza was the Intercontinental title he didn't have the Austrian flag on his side plate, which he so did, so at least now they're acknowledging that he's Austrian, but he has made his home or whatever the story is, in Germany. So yeah, a good match. L A Night's still popular, still very over, even despite being up against the hometown guy. Next up, we get a vignette building up Gunna versus Randy.

We see some of Gunther's greatest hits and he tells us again about the legacy of the championship when we hear from Randy, who basically says that he's the reason that the title exists. We also get a playback of the Randy non shoulder down cover in the King of the Ring Tournament, and Randy says he is going to leave Billin as a fifteen time champion. We see Randy's RKO again on Gunther and are reminded of gud There's

Primo where he was about malting Randy's family. Randy also said it was good that guns consider himself as a legend, as Randy is the legend killer, which was another fantastic line. Next up, we have a tag team match. To be honest, guys, I had to wait to see who it was. I had no idea who the instance music was related to, but it turns out it's Baron Corbyn and Apollo Lows. Sorry, Apollo Cruise versus Angel and Berto, who are called Lagaza

when they're together. Cole tells us as we go to the break, this is a very important match for Legado del Fantasma, and I guess he is referring to the sort of ultimatum. I guess that far, but See gave them last week that they had to, you know, start being impressive and bring the fear, etc. Before we go to the match, we get a promo from Nya, who says greatness is her destiny and basically showing her squashing

everyone on the roster. I know Nya is doing a lot better this run, but I'm still just not feeling it. I can't get on board the Naya train. I actually think I preferred her face character when she was dealing with the whole Alexa blissing in her first run. I wonder if we will see a return of face Naya if, and probably when Tiffany turns on her with the briefcase, saying that though Tiffany is pretty over so maybe that wouldn't work either. I know personal preference, guys. You know

Matt's not into Cody. I'm not into Naya. I just I just can't get there. Back to the match and we now have Legardo del Fantasma making their entrance. Cole reminds us again this is high stakes for them to

bring the fear back to the Guarda del Fantasma. We kick off with Apollo and Berto in the ring and these two guys are tearing it up at the start with some very athletics athletic excuse me moves Apollo with an inverted souplex, which he held up in the air for literally hours, goes straight for the cover, which is kicked out of Corbyn is tagged in but is overcome by Berto. Tagged in Angel, who tried to do some double teething on Corbyn, but he flattens them both with

a clothesline. Corbyn is still in charge with Angel, but is double teamed in the corner and it's actually Berto who is legal. Corbyn gets the tag, Angel is quickly dispatched to the outside, Apollo is launched over the top by Corbyn and takes out both Angel and Berto as we go to the break. That move was Ace using Apollo basically as a weapon, and Corbyn just sort of like pings the rope back like what you used to do with an elastic band in school. So that's a

pretty wicked move. As we come back, the momentum has changed. It's annoying. I'm not going to go on about it, and Angel and Berto now have the upper hand and we get a near fall straight away by Berto and they continue to beat down Cruise in the corner. Cruise has some pretty great athletic moves and actually leap frog Angel to get to the tag, which brings Corbyn back in beating up Berto and Angel. Corbyn with a face first slam and Berto has to move really quickly to

break up the cover. Berto, with a springboard kick to Cruise, also takes out Corbyn on the out side, launches Corbyn into the steps off the distraction by Electro Lopez. Again, she's proven real key, similar to what Beefab is with

the prophets. Whilst in the ring off the distraction, Berto gets a near four long cruise Cruise up onto the top rope that Berto intercepts him with an arm drag from the second rope and at tag to Angel, Los Gaza hit the empty y, which I think Colt said stands for Monterey on Cruise, and that gets them the pin and the victory, surprising me. A really enjoyable match. Berto and Angel are always great to watch, and I like them as heels. I like them as part of

the Guard of Elf Fantasma as well. I hope they get the push they deserve. I think the whole group, the whole of the Guard of Elf Fantasma is actually pretty impressive. I'm really enjoying that. Will we see elect Lopez in the ring? Do we think? I don't know. Let me know what you guys think about that. That's for Corman and Cruise well, as Wade said on commentary, they are now three to zero losses. Like Cruise, he's a great athlete. I'm not sure about his character. It

still feels a bit me. I'm not sure what the hell they're doing with Corbin since he came back from NXT again. His character just seems bland. So I guess just watch this space because I honestly cauldn't tell you what's next for these guys. Will they go down to NXT together, will they get a different program, will they continue, will they break up? I don't know. Yeah. So we now get a recorded promo from Solo with the Bloodline. He says next week the bloodline will be acknowledged by

both they and the Street profits. He reminds them what they're up against. Say he has taken out his own brother and Roman reigns. He said, imagine what the four of them will do when that's what he will do to his own family, which is a fair point. He threatens Cody or Ko, saying he doesn't care who wins.

He's coming for the title. I thought this was interesting as we've got a reminder of exactly who has been taken out by Solo and the blood line, and I thought that maybe this is a teaser to remind us who is coming back into let's call it Roman's bloodline or whatever. I hope it's happening soon. It has to be lining up for blad Blood, right, I mean, it's just perfect. So we nearly there. I think I saw an ad for Bad Blood. It's like the fifth of

October or something. Like that, so we don't have long to wait. We now go to the ring. When he called us or as you guys know, Oblivia the Gladiator as we like to call him is. They're talking up how pleased he is and how please ww E is to be in Berlin, Germany and Europe. We get a highlight package of the WWE European Tour, which Nick says has been very successful, and he brings out Cody and Ko for their face to face. Ko out first, to a nice reaction from the crowd. He doesn't seem super

up for it. To be fair, Wade says he owes Ko an apology as he didn't turn on Cody last week. I think we all thought he would. I'm still going to this storyline that much, to be fair. Then Nick brings out Cody, who as always gets a genormous pop and the noise counter is back, which I like. I think it encourages people to really give it someonheen. They're

at a live event, so that's great. Kao is looking really weird and shifty in the ring as Cody makes his usual entrance, and Cole reminds us that Cody picked Ko for his opponent. Nick this point, I thought this was quite weird, and Nick says good luck for tomorrow night and the floor is yours and then off you pops. I'm not really sure what the point of him was. He gave a bit of hype to WWE and Berlin and etcetera, what they've been doing in Europe. But yeah,

a bit weird anyway. So Ko asked Cody what he wants to talk about, and he says the championship and that they will fight for the undisputed WWE Championship in a sold out bullin tomorrow night. Ko says we can talk about that, well, we can talk about what happened to Cody's knee during the tour. Cody says, his knee is fine, and let's talk about last week when Ko and Cody beat Waller and Theory. He calls them the two biggest upcoming stars in WWE, which is a nice thing.

It's probably right. They probably are two of the next big big stars. Cody wants to talk about last week after the match that like Kao was going to hit Cody in the back of the title and he says he may have done if Cody hadn't turned around when he did. Kao says, why would he do that? They have so much history. Cody says is he mad with him because Kao doesn't get enough credit for the revolution that's happening in the business at the moment, and Cody

gets too much. Kao says he doesn't need a cheap shot, as he knows he has hurt his knee. Cody again says his knee is fine and asks Ko if he wants to pull out like he wanted to before. Kao then says he doesn't want a tted victory and a tainted title run like he has before when he beats him if he's injured. Cody tells Ko that he loves him and consider him a true friend, but asks when Cody beats him tomorrow night, will they still be friends.

Ko throws away his mic and whispers on it to Cody that we don't hear, and leaves we're still not feeling it this match. I had hoped that they would do some kind of really great build to get things going, but my opinion, I don't think they've done that at all. Feels like Cody just wants to fight one of his mates, and it feels like a just completely empty match. I think Ko was acting weird tonight, and I don't know if that was in storyline or whether there was something

going on. I don't know. Perhaps there's something in this injured knee angle. Maybe Ko goes right for that and something develops, But as it is right now, I'm just thinking yawn fest. I think they could have picked someone else, a different opponent, or built differently or something. I think this might be my first time being disappointed with a Triple Ah story, but you never know. It's always hope, right. We then go back to stage and we see Corbyn

and Cruise. They bump into Waller and Theory, who start mocking them straight away. Waller throw Theory under the bus again, saying that Theory said such and such a thing, which gets Corbyn all riled up, and at that point Theory finally pulls up Waller on all his shenanigans over the past few weeks and says maybe they're falling apart. Waller says, no, this is what you do in Australia. It's banter. They shake hands and all is well for now at least.

I still think that there's a split and a turn coming with those two and it can't come soon enough for me, to be honest. I like them both as individuals and I'd like to see how that develops. Our next match is and versus Comello, with and up two matches to one. Before we go to that match, though, we get anotherdio package from Giovanni Vinci. He says, this isn't this isn't his return, it's his arrival. He is coming back next week on to backdown and looks to

have been totally repackaged. Should be good to see and I'm looking forward to his arrival, see what storylines he gets and what for us he has. But yeah, that looks like a good move. So with Andrade having already made his entrance, we now get Carmelo making his way to the ring. We get a reminder of the last match between them and how it ended. Camello MUSHes to the ring, rushes to the rings straight away and the bell rings and we're off, and Rada with an insane

cork crew off the ropes to the outside. It gives him the upper hand, but Carmelo with a springboard clothesline and Rada with a horrible looking move off the top to the outside. Once again, just kind of looked like he stepped on him with massive force, and we go to a break, but the replay is of the corkscrew from earlier, not the move we just saw, so I'm not sure if something's gone a bit wrong there. Certainly

didn't look great. Back from the break and Hayes has Andrader in the ring, Andrade comes out of another exchange better off, goes to the top, pulls out his double moon salt, which is a beautiful thing. Hayes hits the first forty eight and follows up with a meteor and a cover for two, and Hayes is selling the knee injury. Andrade pulls off a series of power moves and almost gets a free count. He's firmly in charge now in the crowd absolutely loving him. Carmelo with a super kick

from out of nowhere and gets a two count. Spanish fly from Andrade into the cover, but Hayes kicks out again and as we come back from the break and takes Hope off the top rope, and again Hayes kicks out and has Haze off on the top again. Hayes counters and pulls him onto the exposed turn buckle, hits nothing but net from the top and gets the three count, leveling up the series between these two to two each.

Another great match from these two. Really enjoyed the way this has been built and wasn't super into it at the beginning. I guess we're going to a decider now, which I'm excited about. My prediction would have to be a Hayes win, but probably in some kind of dodgy fashion, as if you look back, none of his wins over Andrade, well, none of the two wins that he's had over and Drada have been exactly clean, but they have been brilliant

matches and I've really liked what they've done. We then get a reminder of what has led us to the street fight match for the title women's title tonight, which is short package. First, we get Naya Jax, who is without Tiffany Stratton, so I guess that means that we

will be seeing her later on tonight. Before we go to the match, we get some build for the Women's Tag Team Championship match tomorrow night, and this was the point where I thought maybe I might change my mind and go for Jade and Bianca to win back the titles. And I think that's what I'm doing. I think I'm officially changing my prediction. So champions are not going to retain. Jade and Bianca are going to win back the titles.

So we get Meechin then en route to the ring, cutting a promo as she goes, telling us that we can like her or hate her, but after tonight we won't forget her. I like that she picks up a shopping trolley on her way which is filled with weapons. And this isn't actual shopping trolley. It's got the coin bit in it and everything. So I'm sure some poor production assistant had to go down to Alda or something with a euro and you know, rubber shopping trolley for

the night. Anyway, Digress, we kick off. Meeching starts on the attack with a kendow stick, battering Naya. Nya rolls out of the ring and me Chin carries on. Nia grabs the stick, but Meechin uses her speed to dodge and ram Naya into the ring post. Meechin gets a quick two count after a great move through the ropes. Meeching brings out the table from underneath the ring, but Naya attacks her with a kendo stick and then puts the table back to massive boots from the crowd. Meeting

and attacks Naya and gets the table back out. It's like the hok coke in out in, out of crowd obviously loving it. As we come back from the break, Nira is in charge, but Meachin rolls out of the ring and lets have a fire extinguisher in Nya's face. Naya flam Meeching into one of the rubbish cans in the ring, but Meeching fights back with the lids. It's like she's playing the symbols in a band or something. After a botch of the temp, Meaching finally hits the

tornado DDT on the rubbish canned lid. Nya is down. At this point. Meaching looks seems to be looking for something specific under the ring, and just now this match doesn't feel like it's flowing particularly well. Naya has then got Meaching on the table and shapes up to put her through it, but Meeting counters and manages to get Naya through the table. At that point, Tiffany Stratton's music hits. I'm thinking, ah, could this be hit? The crowd pop huge?

Tiffany runs into the ring, swinging her briefcase takes out Meeching and it looks like she's about to cash in. She half hands the referee to briefcase and is nodding her head as if to say yes, cashing in just about She's just about to hand over the briefcase to the ref Nya eyeballs her and instead of cashing in, she hits Meeching again with the briefcase setting up the cover so dragging Naya onto meet Chim, but Michim manages to kick out. At that point, Bailey's music hits and

she comes to the aid of Meeching. Baby chases Tiffany away over the barricade through the crowd. It basically gets rid of her. Back in the ring, Meechin has some great offense, but Nya from nowhere puts her through another table and hits a really sick looking annihilator, but after putting the rubbish can on Meechin, so she not only gets squished by Nya's ass, but she also gets squished by the rubbish can. It looked pretty awesome and Nya

obviously gets to free count and Rent retains. This was a decent match, as I said, in places like it didn't flow all that well, but it warmed up as it went along. I'm really enjoying the teasing of the briefcase with Tiffany and will she won't she? And I guess maybe she never will because she doesn't have to cash in on NIA as far as I know, she can choose to go and cash in on Live. I think, so maybe the whole will she won't she is a big old fat red herring. Maybe something else is going

to happen. Anyway, it's good fun and it's making some very enjoyable TV, so yeah, not bad at all. So guys, all in all, a good show I'd say, maybe one of the weakest in recent months. I do like how some of the major storylines that are not linked to the pl and so they carry on week on week. And I also like that the blood went on always

front and center of the whole episode. I'm looking forward very much to Bash and bell In, which again is in the premot spot for me of six o'clock on a Saturday night, so double awesome for all of us watching in Europe because I think, you know, we'll probably have like six eight o'clock, seven o'clock kickoffs all around Europe, which is absolutely brilliant for us. So guys, that just about does it for this week's show. Once again, and as always, thank you for having me in your ears.

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