Reviews
WWE Raw 11/9/20 – Six Man Tag Action
| November 9, 2020
The road to Survivor Series continues...
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for September 2020: Roman Reigns Terrifies Me
| September 19, 2020
We're closing in on Clash of Champions, where we'll watch a man kill his own cousin. Meanwhile, Nikki Cross wants some goddamn answers.
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Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for September 5th 2020: Welcome to the Nepotism Penitentiary
| September 5, 2020
A Fatal Four-Way to decide Universal Championship #1 contender! Meanwhile, Bayley & Sasha Banks have an opportunity of their own: regain Women's Tag Team titles.
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for August 28th 2020: No, Seriously, What?
| August 29, 2020
We're less than a week removed from SummerSlam and two days away from Payback. What the fuck is going on?
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report for August 14th 2020: Things Are Getting Weird
| August 15, 2020
It's really not a great month to be Alexa Bliss...
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for July 31st 2020: Fiend’s Back
| August 1, 2020
The Fiend is as mad as hell, and he's going to take this anymore. He's also going to assault women.
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for July 10th 2020: KA-RA-OK-E *Clap* *Clap* *Clapclapclap*
| July 11, 2020
Seriously, who's okaying all of these matches? They're good matches, but who's signing off on them?
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for July 3rd 2020: The End is Nigh
| July 4, 2020
After several weeks of negative press, WWE lets one of its employees try to sabotage a coworker's sobriety.
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for June 26th 2020: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
| June 27, 2020
WWE has successfully made a global pandemic fractionally worse, and they will now dedicate a show to the Undertaker in a psychotic expression of victory.
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Columns
Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report for June 19th 2020: Back In Time
| June 20, 2020
After a fairly decent Backlash, it's time to see who Braun Strowman's next Universal Champion contender is...
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for June 12th 2020: PISS TEST
| June 13, 2020
Backlash looms as some WWE folks are getting ready to come in a distant 2nd to the GREATEST MATCH IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: Styles vs Bryan!
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for March 22nd 2020: The Tournament Rolls On
| May 23, 2020
Intercontinental Championship tournament continues, Charlotte returns to take on Bayley and Miz and Morrison have some issues they want to work out with Braun Strowman.
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Dr Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for May 15th 2020: It’s Otis’ World and We’re All Just Living in It
| May 16, 2020
We're still in the year of good things happening to Otis, because they have to be happening to someone right now...
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Columns
Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for April 17th 2020: Bray Wyatt: TSA Nightmare
| April 19, 2020
Bray and Braun seem destined for collision sooner rather than later...
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for April 10th 2020: Get This Lack of Long-Term Booking
| April 12, 2020
WWE's dusting itself off and hopefully hand-sanitising after WrestleMania, and we're already turning towards the future. That future contains Braun Strowman as Universal Champion.
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Columns
Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for March 20th 2020: Reporting to You from the Quarantine-Zone
| March 21, 2020
For the second week running, SmackDown is coming from the WWE Performance Centre, where Goldberg and Roman Reigns meet to make their WrestleMania match official.
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Columns
Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for March 13th 2020: REMAIN INDOORS
| March 14, 2020
In a world ravaged by disease and pandemonium, civilisation struggles on in the WWE Performance Centre. I'm not going to lie: it mostly revolves around wrestling.
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Columns
Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for February 14th 2020: Happy Valentine’s Day
| February 15, 2020
It's the night we finally see Heavy Machinery's Otis squire Mandy Rose about the town...
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for January 24th 2020: That Contract’s Finally a Woman
| January 26, 2020
They've got the Fiend attending a contract signing, on the basis that Bray Wyatt can make anything work...
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for January 17th 2020: Has There Ever Been a Good Strap Match?
| January 18, 2020
They're letting wrestlers pick stipulations, because wrestlers are stupid and never try to make the matches ludicrously unfair.
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for January 10th 2020: Repent, Ye Sinners
| January 12, 2020
It's the second SmackDown of the new decade, and King Corbin and Lacey Evans are already dangerously close to making me drink my feelings.
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for January 3rd 2020: New Year, Same WWE
| January 4, 2020
The Usos are back, so I'm using all of my DUI jokes now in case one or both of them gets arrested again before next week.
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for December 13th 2019: All I Want for Christmas is a Satisfying Roman Reigns Angle
| December 15, 2019
I'm recovering from an absolute arsehole of an election, so this review might feature some pretty colourful material: fair warning.
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for December 6th 2019: You Better Watch Out
| December 8, 2019
On this week's SmackDown, Bray Wyatt gives a masterclass in effective heel-work, and King Corbin does the opposite.
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for November 22nd 2019: War
| November 23, 2019
It's the final chance for all three teams to fire their shots before Survivor Series (provided no-one plans to be a dick at WarGames)...
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for November 15th 2019: Turns Out That Bray Wyatt Can Hold a Grudge
| November 16, 2019
The war of brand supremacy rages on, with SmackDown and NXT clashing while RAW seems above such things.
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Columns
Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for November 1st 2019: We Are NXT
| November 3, 2019
Fresh from the bloodstained and morally indefensible propaganda pay-per-view, it's time for SmackDown.
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Columns
Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for October 18th 2019: Day #14 Without a Real Number One Contender
| October 20, 2019
We're through the draft and on the road to sunny, horrifying Saudi Arabia...
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for October 4th 2019: I’m Not Angry; I’m Disappointed
| October 5, 2019
It's...I'm...I don't know how I feel about this. I don't know how I feel about anything anymore. Everything is horrible and confusing.
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Dr. Spain’s SmackDown Report and Review for September 10th 2019: Shane McMahon is the Worst Thing in Wrestling
| September 11, 2019
We're only days away from Clash of Champions...
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