WWE Friday Night Smackdown 4/24/20 feat. Triple H Celebration and Mostly Other Useless stuff
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's the <a href="https://twitter.com/TripleH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TripleH</a> 25th Anniversary Celebration. Relive a quarter of a century of water spitting, sledgehammer throwing and talent suppressing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReasonsToWatchSmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ReasonsToWatchSmackDown</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1253746584841527304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight is the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFLDraft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NFLDraft</a>. Who will become a top <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFL</a> star and who will go undrafted &amp; decide to show up at the <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEPC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWEPC</a> on Monday? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kayfabe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kayfabe</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1253429850854940677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Meh at boring Corbin getting a MitB spot.

Match itself was pretty decent which is probably the best you can say about Corbin matches these days.

This jobber Sheamus beat up could easily pass as a member of the AOP.

This portion of the Jeff Hardy mini-documentary was pretty great.

Only really interesting thing that has happened so far on the show.

This "DX invades WCW" clip reminded me of how butthurt WWE was when AEW pulled a similar stunt to them.

Gran Metalik is soo good in the ring. Any other company would have found a way to maximize his talent and/or have him showcase a division but WWE is run by morons that still don't care or know how to handle lucha/cruiser style wrestling.

Miz & Morrison vs. Lucha House Party was pretty good overall.

:lol: at the ref ignoring Lacey using a weapon to knock out Sasha.

That women's MitB match is going to be soo bad. Asuka going to have to carry the whole thing at the rate things are going.

Hope Asuka wins MITB. Shes been extra awesome for awhile now. Her taunting the champion at the time with the briefcase all the time will be epic.

Bliss and Cross busting out a modified 3D was pretty cool, rest of the women's tag title match was meh.

wonder if HHH is about to get an impromptu squash match

Mandy vs. Carmella for the final MitB spot pretty much guarantees this year's Women MitB match might be the worst one ever in MitB history based on quality talent involved.

This is the most burying of Triple H since maybe the time Ultimate Warrior no sold the pedigree.

:lol: at HBK bringing up Katie Vick.

This celebration so far has been an entertaining train wreck.

WTF now Vince is randomly talking about the Gobbledy Gooker and Triple H being naked one time.

:lol: at Vince doing the Vince walk to the back.

Not sure WTF I just watched but that somehow managed to be the one of the most entertaining things to happen in Smackdown in months.

Like it was both the best and worst thing at the same time.

Rest of Smackdown was mostly forgettable.

The only thing I saw was the HHH anniversary and I am shocked they actually promoted the hell out of that to deliver...whatever that was.

Vince McMahon sounded as coherent as Joe Biden. I spent the whole time thinking HHH would get jumped to set up some big summer feud, but nope, literally ends with crickets.

Bizarre.

No 205Live rants this week because I don't give 2 shits about Ariya Daivari. But they're airing Bret/Austin from WM13, so I'd like to welcome them to 205 Live.

:wtf:

I'm sure they had been planning it out since long before everything going on and it was probably meant to be similar to Flair's retirement ceremony where we'd have seen the likes of Batista, Orton, Flair, Cena, 'Taker, Edge, etc. come down to the ring and congratulate Trips while the crowd ate it up. They probably didn't know any good ways to make it feel as special as it deserved to so they just improvised everything except Shawn and Vince actually being there.

I do have to admit to laughing way more and way harder than I should have at his WM low-light reel though. Random production guy stealing his bottled water during his entrance also got a slight chuckle out of me too.