Here are my Smackdown Thoughts:
It's funny that Sami Zayn never wears the most recent Bloodline Shirt. He should get beat up for that alone. Interesting graphics and it sucks that Solo Sikoa doesn't have his North American Title with him.
Excellent opening segment. Paul Heyman was awesome as usual. I love that they said the Elders of the Samoan Dynasty sent Solo Sikoa to Smackdown, but he still had to acknowledge Roman Reigns. Sami Zayn was great as usual especially with everything that happened at the end.
Liv Morgan VS Lacey Evans was OK. It wasn't a great match, but it wasn't a bad match either. As much as I don't like Lacey, she's an OK wrestler & she had a good role in showing how Extreme Liv can be.
Enough with The Street Profits on Smackdown. They are Raw wrestlers. The rest of the segment with Hit Row & Shinsuke Nakamura. I saw the QR Code on Hit Row's TV, but I couldn't scan it. But I did find out it was this link, which was a game, that lead to coordinates.
www.wwe.com/04175/index.html?utm_source=tv&utm_medium=qr&utm_campaign=tv_feedyourhead. I love these Easter Eggs.
Decent segment with Madcap Moss & Ricochet talking to Sami Zayn & Solo Sikoa laying them out.
Excellent video package on The Usos. I love the mention of the old tag teams including an AEW wrestler.
It's too early to do a Royal Rumble Moment even with tickets on sale on Friday.
The New Day VS Maximum Male Models was horrible, but if it means less modeling by Maximum Male Models that it's a thumbs up for me. The New Day needed a win & the MMM should be treated as jobbers. I like Max Dupri getting mad.
I love them actually reinforcing the ring for Braun Strowman VS Otis. And don't ask me what was the last match between 2 monsters like Strowman & Otis. I don't keep those type of records. And I don't mind Otis wrestling on Smackdown since he has a reason to be here.
More crap backstage with people that should actually be wrestling instead of doing segments like that.
Braun Strowman VS @otiswwe was a fun match as expected. I didn't know about the last match between 2 monsters was, but I do know that Otis was the first wrestler of 2022 to wrestle on Main Event & Smackdown in the same week.
Loved the promo by The Brawling Brutes.
Great promo by Drew McIntyre. I thought we would get a Strap Match between Dexter Lumis & The Miz, since that's Lumis' specialty, but I will take one between McIntyre & Karrion Kross. The stuff with Lady Scarlett was weird. I love that Extreme Rules are having all of these Stipulation matches unlike previous years.
Nothing happened at 9:23. All I saw was a commercial for State Farm, so unless Jake will be making his WWE debut, then 9/23 on Monday only meant the date & not the time.
Raquel Rodriguez VS Dakota Kai was way too short & it ended with another roll-up. I love that they brought up their history in NXT. I love Shotzi making the save. I can see the teams forming for War Games for Survivor Series.
The segment in the back was OK. I like Los Lotharios laying out Hit Row to set-up a future match. There was also another QR Code that I couldn't get.
Awesome. Sheamus VS GUNTHER will be incredible for the 2nd time in 2 weeks on the "Season Premiere" of Smackdown, though Smackdown is new 52 weeks a year, but since the TV Season is officially underway, it makes sense for them to do a Season Premiere.
Next week's Smackdown should be another great show, with Shotzi VS Bayley, Hit Row VS Los Lotharios, & Madcap Moss & Ricochet VS Solo Sikoa & Sami Zayn.
Everyone wanted Ridge Holland fired for injuring Big E back in March, but since he has joined Sheamus & Butch as The Brawling Brutes, he has improved a lot. What a fun match VS The Usos for the Tag Team Titles. I really thought that The Brawling Brutes was going to win. The finish with Imperium getting involved was a little much.
Ends an awesome Smackdown. I loved all of the matches except for New Day VS MMM. The women's matches were OK, but nothing special, but the Tag Team Titles Match was my favorite match of the night. I also loved the opening segment with The Bloodline.