WWE SmackDown Live – February 26, 2018 (Review)

What was the worst part of last night’s episode?

Dylan Kapisky

Control-C, Control-V, AHA! I’ll admit, I’m reaching here, y’all. This was a damn fine episode of SmackDown Live, with very few obvious flaws. Therefore, my “worst segment” is merely a small issue, from a fraction of a segment. While all of the parts were played right, Vince McMahon replacing Kofi Kingston with a hand-chosen opponent is a direct copy of the storyline between Becky, Ronda, and Charlotte. That’s a bad thing. Moving on.

Nicholas Holicki

The absence of both Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa from another live broadcast. After a fairly nonsensical pairing of the two last week, their role was reduced to a meaningless backstage cameo on Monday and complete anonymity last night. This despite Gargano having being announced to face Cesaro over the weekend.

Now, the suggestion is that this is being done for storyline reasons, as Gargano and Ciampa have a complicated relationship on NXT which wasn’t being translated to the main roster. But surely there must be some way of having both guys on SmackDown without completely invalidating everything they do in developmental. It’s been one week since their main roster call-up and we’ve seen them go from being booked badly to not being booked at all. It’s disappointing.

Kyle Payne

For me it was certain pinfalls. I don’t think that Nakamura and Rusev should have taken the loss so soon in their tag team venture – not that I think they should even be teaming at all, but here we are. I also don’t think Bryan should have taken the pinfall again. While I understand they are trying to build up Owens, they didn’t have to do it this way. Rowan should have taken the fall.

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Nate Craver

Lacey Evans. I really don’t get how this is getting her over. It makes no sense. Maybe the fact that we’re talking about her is a good thing, but I don’t see it. I don’t think this is doing her any favors.

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