WWE SmackDown Live – March 19, 2019 (Review)

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

Kyle Payne

The biggest issue with SmackDown, and the issue they’ve seemed to have since Ronda and Becky began feuding, is Asuka. They don’t know what to do with her and with only a few weeks remaining, she has no viable opponents. Asuka is such a great wrestler who doesn’t deserve to be left on the back burner. She’s too amazing as a performer to be placed in anyone’s shadow. Unless Rhea Ripley is coming from NXT UK to fight the ‘Empress of Tomorrow’, I don’t know what they will do.

Nicholas Holicki

This entire episode was built around one match, making everything leading up to that moment feel rather underwhelming. It was like having to eat your vegetables before being allowed to tuck into that delicious chocolate-hazelnut sponge cake.

Most egregious this week was the IIconics’ long-anticipated encounter with Bayley and Sasha Banks. After teasing this match for weeks, the end result was pretty much a damp squib. The match itself went little more than a few minutes and ended with another pointless Lacey Evans walkout, causing enough of a distraction for a dodgy rollup pin by Peyton Royce.

So the IIconics pick up the win over the freshly-crowned tag team champions. But in the spirit of the all-time classic track “Cotton-Eye Joe“: where did they come from and where did they go? Nothing has been done to build the IIconics in anticipation of this match and there was nothing on the line last night either. So all you’re left with – as much as I love the Australian duo – is an unimpressive team picking up a victory out of nowhere, with no clear direction. Plus this does nothing for Sasha and Bayley either, who only just won the belts.

Perhaps this leads to yet another team being added to the WrestleMania tag team title match. But even so, it could’ve – and should’ve – been handled so much better.

Sorry to interrupt but…. looorrddd just look at me 👒
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— Macey Estrella (@LimitlessMacey) March 20, 2019

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