THE STORIES HIT. WHERE WAS THE WRESTLING?
Turnbuckle Talk Wrestling by Alexander the Great and Aiden Haystack
Episode notes
π₯ SmackDown finally gave its biggest post-SummerSlam stories some real heat.
CM Punk and Kevin Owens got personal. Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton finally found the fire that feud shouldβve had at WrestleMania. And Chelsea Greenβs first SmackDown as champion raised a much bigger question about how WWE presents its womenβs world titles.
π€ But hereβs the contradiction:
The stories worked. The wrestling we got mostly worked.
And somehow SmackDown still gave us only three matches in two hours.
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ποΈ CM PUNK VS. KEVIN OWENS GETS PERSONAL
Owens returns after 17 months of uncertainty, immediately confronts Punk, and turns their WWE Championship feud into something much more personal than a simple number-one contender story.
ποΈ CODY RHODES & RANDY ORTOΒ ...Β