[4.0] "Poor booking dragged down a show filled with weak or forgettable matches, while both the opening and closing angles suffered from lazy writing. Giulia versus. Kiana James also felt rushed, though the midcard offered a few brighter moments through Monroe's debut and the developing alliances involving MFT, Solo, LA Knight, and a possible Bullet Club reunion. R-Truth provided the only genuinely effective comedy, while Danhausen's segments continued to feel overused and directionless."

[8.0] "MFT's dissolution, Blake Monroe's debut, Fenix Frazer match, Giulia Kiana James match and the closing segment made it quite a strong show and the London crowd elevated it like they always do"

[3.0] "Damn who would've thought that this Smackdown was going to be meh seeing that card ? Yeah me too, but it was worse than I thought. It's not completely trash, but this very bad. Thankfully there's that occasional Rey Fenix match to help put the bar a bit higher."

[1.0] "I feel sorry for the Londoner who went to see this show. There wasn't a single thing remotely decent; I'll be quicker and list the few good things there were. The post-kayfabe Trick Williams wedding was alright, and the match between Rey Fenix and Frazer, well, for them, they could have done better. I had to watch the show in three parts because it was so incredibly boring, and to top it all off, it was a marathon of humiliated wrestlers who don't deserve the treatment they receive in this division. Not even the final segment between the main eventers could save this awful show."

[5.0] "Very mideocre show, where only 2 matches were good or on the right level. We got a cool segment in opener with Trick Williams and Ricky Saints and great segment in the ending of the show, where Sami and Cody delivered another solid conversation and GUTHER also looked good there. Jey and Oba also steps up and 2 matcher before Night on Champions ended their build up in a good way. Blake Monroe finally arrived, what was obvious, because SmackDown was in her hometown. Everything else was just not so intresting."

[2.0] "Just a really, really bad show. Blake finally debuting was really the only upside but they've worked relentlessly on taking any of her momentum away and everyone knew her debut would come in England so it wasn't a hugely exciting moment, the moment to debut her when she was red hot was well over a year ago at this point. In-ring was really poor, Jacy/Paige being particularly horrific but the opener was tragic as well, Fenix/Frazier massively underwhelmed, main event was nothing and everything else was short and unimportant. The booking was even worse, B-Fab beating Tiffany and Paige beating Jacy...I mean fucking hell. The booking of Fatal Influence is some of the worst you'll ever see. Some very uninteresting segments and Jey Uso being Jey Uso, the Danhausen stuff has become painfully unfunny and not the sort of thing that made him what he is in the first place...god this show fucking sucked. Much like Raw the crowd didn't feel like a UK one and this one also didn't seem to even nearly fill the building. 2/10."

[2.0] "One of the worst weekly of the year, it was a 90 minutes show extended to 3 hours and there was only one good match in those 3 hours. I know it's a taped show but it's not an excuse to be that bad."

[3.0] "This show IS FUCKING UNWATCHABLE. The opening promo was garbage, and built nothing towards the PLE match, all we got was Trick telling the world he got married, and Lil Yachty telling the world how great the wedding was. Starks is an ABSOLUTE afterthought in all of this, Starks vs Williams is better off as a 15 minute Smackdown main event, instead I'm sure it gets under 10 minutes in Saudi, riveting. We then get a terrible tag, how B-Fab is still employed as a wrestler is beyond me, especially considering how many talented woman we have in NXT. The match was garbage, Chelsea Green as a babyface does not work, nothing about this is good television. Fenix vs Frazier had a match as good as you would expect, should've gone longer but we need to make time for Danhausen BULLSHIT RIGHT PAUL? LA Knight and Solo had segment of the night and that's not saying much, not much was accomplished out of this other than the fact that Solo wants to work with Knight to take out the Bloodline. LA say no end of segment. Paige vs Jacy Jayne was a FUCKING DISGRACE. HOW THE FUCK are you beating Jacy in 6 minutes, by a wrestler who has not wrestled a good match in ALMOST A DECADE. This was infuriating to watch, god I can't wait for Kendal to come up to Smackdown in 6 months, to be jobbed out like this. Get Danhausen off my screen, when the show is good this stuff is acceptable and can be used as a breather between great segments, when the show sucks and this appears on my TV, I want to break it. Jade Cargill vs Chelsea Green was NEVER GOING TO BE GOOD, and was a waste of our fucking time. Cargill vs Stratton is on the PLE and nobody cares. Giulia beats Kiana James in a match that went under 10 minutes, for Blake Monroe to make her debut by attacking Giulia. The attack makes NO FUCKING SENSE, but at least we get Blake on television I guess, I could've came up with 100 alternatives to this though, it was very underwhelming. What sucks about this is whoever comes out on the losing end of this feud (and it will be Giulia) will look like an absolute fucking loser. The final segment was good until Jey Uso spoke, I will never grow tired of hating on this man, his gimmick is so fucking corny, his entrance is tiresome and only gets a reaction from the live crowd because WWE's audience is 90% casuals at this point because they've driven their hardcore audience away, his in-ring ability is nothing special, his promos are ruined by his terrible catchphrases, and everytime he cuts a promo he sounds out of breath, and he is currently FAVOURED, YES FAVOURED to beat Oba in the KOTR. This company is a joke. I'm excited for Cody Sami GUNTHER but will be disheartened when Cody wins because this company does not know how to take any risks. This show was a terrible go-home show 2.5/10"

[4.0] "A show that epitomizes poor booking. The matches were bad or bordering on inconsequential. Even the Giulia vs. James bout felt rushed, given how sloppily the rivalry has been handled. As for the non-match elements, the opening angle was terrible, and the final one was a prime example of incredibly lazy writing. The midcard was more interesting, featuring Monroe's debut and the unfolding storylines regarding various alliances (the end of MFT, the Solo/LA Knight team-up, a potential BC reunion? ). Finally, regarding the "comedy" aspect, R-Truth managed to be funnier than Danhausen--whose nonsense has been taking up far too much airtime lately for no real payoff. Match quality: 2.25/6.5. Non-match angles and segments: 1.5/3.5. Bonus/penalty: none. Total: 3.75/10. Show seen on Netflix (FR)."

[4.0] "First, Ricky Saints puts himself on Trick Williams's agenda, then it's on to the first match. In my opinion, this match isn't much to speak of and comes across as very disjointed. The Tongas are no longer on the same page as Sikoa--that much is clear. Sikoa, of all people, confides in LA Knight. And Knight gives him even more to think about. Paige defeats Janye, which I can neither understand nor approve of. After that, Danhausen steals my time again, now with various undercarders. At least Cardona gets a chance to taste victory again this way. Meanwhile, Chelsea Green isn't able to pose much of a challenge to Jade Cargill. Giulia wins--which might not bode well for Kiana James--and is then attacked by Blake Monroe during her SmackDown debut. Last but not least, the inevitable, ever-present, and incredibly annoying Jey Uso crashes the verbal sparring between Zayn, Rhodes, and Gunther. This episode doesn't score higher than four points."

[3.0] "Very awful episode. SmackDown isn't watchable. Now I know they may have some rare episodes, but it'll appear to be good. But in general, these shows just add nothing. It's an empty feeling when watching SmackDown weekly, you think they'll progress, and get better, and now that it'll be 2-Hours again until January of 2027, I hope the two-hour format can help this show because I don't know what WWE even writes for these shows. After all, it comes off if they are lazy and have nothing to offer."

[3.0] "The last few weeks have shown a solid improvement on SmackDown. This episode was a truly massive leap backwards. One passable match (and I do mean passable) in the whole show and almost every single segment around it was awful. The final five minutes of the show weren't horrible but it felt horribly forced. The only real positive was the fact it was only two hours long and the pain was over quickly. This was also hands down the worst crowd I've ever seen in Britain. They were near enough dead and given the quality on display I'm not sure that I blame them. 3/10"

[5.0] "After three solid SDs, this one marks a step backwards in terms of quality. It was average. The Trick/Saints segment was decent but nothing more. I'm pleased about the team-up between Trick and Lash, but that sort of thing has no place in this segment. This segment did a good job of hyping up the match. TiffyBliss/MichinBFab was average. Stratton was clearly the best and most interesting performer in this match. An interesting finish with B Fab pinning Stratton. Fenix/Frazer was by far the match of the evening. Fast-paced, quality in-ring action and great chemistry. Some nice spots like Fenix's cutter, and the video-game-worthy duel between Frazer and Fenix. Frazer's dive was terrifying. The backstage segments were uninteresting. The only interesting segment was the one where MFT left Solo because they'd had enough of him meddling with the Bloodline. The Knight/Sikoa segment was decent. Both were consistent. On the one hand, following MFT's departure, Solo needs people who see the Bloodline as the enemy. On the other, Knight doesn't want to join Solo because the latter, like the others, will end up siding with Roman Reigns. It's an interesting angle, but the big problem is that we're building up to War Games and it's far too similar to what we've been seeing for years with that event. Paige/Jayne was rubbish. What a poor performance in the ring. A dreadful result that only reinforces the awful booking of Fatal Influence. How are they going to push Influence towards the tag team titles when all they do is lose to Brie and Paige? The ViralHausen segment was just a way to kill time. That tag team match was just uninteresting. Surprisingly, the in-ring action wasn't that bad, but it's yet another of those matches booked at the last minute. Jade/Green was random. Yet another pointless match. Giulia/James was the women's match of the evening. It could have been better, but it was decent. James and Giulia delivered. The rivalry helped make the match interesting. It was good to have Giulia win. Finally, Blake makes his debut by hitting Giulia. I can't wait to see what happens next. The final segment is very good. Once again, we have Sami regretting his actions and Cody seeing Zayn as a nuisance rather than a victim. Zayn was very good when he said it's thanks to Sami that Cody is champion. Gunther was decent but not quite as good as Cody and Zayn. Jey was decent too. What followed was really cool, with the brawl and then Oba's arrival, teasing every potential Summerslam match. Now NOC."

[3.0] "This was a skippable smackdown episode and was mostly boring with a couple of weaker matches like Paige vs Jayne and the Tag Team match with Cardona and Danhausen. Fenix vs. Frazer was the best match on the show. For an UK crowd there were not very into it and the 02 was half empty with just 6, 500 people in the audience."

[4.0] "This was awful for the most part, the main event match was fun, the AAA title match was pretty good and some of the talking segments were fun too, the main event angle kinda worked but Jey's promo was horrible"

[6.0] "For a pre-taped episode of Smackdown, it was actually somewhat solid with a couple of matches that were decent and the rest being average to okay, the segments were a variety of okay and decent. Solo Sikoa/MFT segment was intriguing when Tama Tonga and Talla Tonga seemingly walked away and splitting from Solo Sikoa, Danhausen segment was entertaining with Miz and Kit Wilson continuing to sell the after effects of being electrocuted which led to Angel and Berto to come out and get a match made following this, Closing segment with Cody Rhodes and Sami Zayn and Gunther and Jey Uso and Oba Femi made for interesting watching given Rhodes vs Gunther vs Zayn at NOC and Uso vs Femi at NOC and this segment had some interesting promo work. B-Fab & Michin vs Alexa Bliss & Tiffany Stratton: B-Fab continues to improve in the ring and put on solid performances since aligning with Jade Cargill, the match was fine and the ending kind of made sense with Jade Cargill running interference and cost Stratton the match which was interesting given 24 hours before Stratton vs Cargill at Night Of Champions [**1/4]. Rey Fenix vs Nathan Frazer: Fenix and Frazer had some chemistry and it displayed well enough to make this compelling and the match was quite solid with some high octane lucha libre wrestling on display, Fenix winning and retaining was quite nice to see but Frazer could have got the win and the title all the same [***1/2]. Paige vs Jacy Jayne: An average match that had some outside the ring involvement with Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley as well as Brie Bella, Jayne tried to cheat a couple of times but ultimately Paige gets the win which was good to see [*3/4]. Danhausen & Matt Cardona vs Angel & Berto: A match that was made official during the Danhausen segment, the match was okay at best [**]. Jade Cargill vs Chelsea Green: An average match that made Green look weak even if Cargill gained momentum for NOC [*1/2]. Giulia vs Kiana James: Was kind of expecting a squash match but it kind of surprised me, James had one or two moments of offense but Giulia would ultimately get the win [***]."