2025-05-10 WWE Backlash - REVIEW
2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System (Rev2):
🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]
🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]
❤️ - Loved It! [+3]
👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]
👍 - Liked It [+1]
½ - Kinda Liked It [+0.5]
👊 - Indifferent [0]
👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]
👎👎 - Really Didn’t Like It [-2]
🤬- Hated It [-3]
🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]
🙋♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]
Or any combination of the like…
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Robert “The Frozen Asian” features on today’s review…
Vlad “The Wrestling Expert” features on two reviews today for Storylines # 4 & 5…
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STORYLINES:
(1) Solo & his new recruit, Jeff Cobb, give Jacob Fatu an easy win, although Jacob seems upset with the help...
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Priest / McIntyre feud continues…
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: 👍
(B) Jacob Fatu seems to reject Solo’s new recruit, Jeff Cobb…
Details:
Enter Solo Sikoa, Jeff Cobb… the debuting Jeff Cobb cleans house and leaves Jacob Fatu w/ little to do the finish the match…
Winner: Jacob Fatu… who retains US title…
-Post Match, Jacob Fatu doesn’t celebrate with the two who helped him win, instead walking past them…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👊
TheFrozenAsian - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Oh man. Ive met Jeff Cobb and I always root for his success in wrestling but I unfortunately feel like this is a dead spot... the angle doesn't make sense... Solo has been dead and buried, so he shouldn't be making moves like this. Jacob is right. If Solo wants to hang out and be the sidekick, that's fine, but Solo has no credibility anymore, and Jacob has a right to be pissed. That being said, its a tough spot for Jeff Cobb...
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(2) Sore Loser Becky Lynch, STUNNED by Lyra Valkyra, can not accept defeat...
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package
-Match: Lyra Valkyria vas Becky Lynch…
Winner: Lyra Valkyria… who retains Intercontinental title…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, a furious Becky Lynch attacks Lyra Valkyria until officials break it up… Becky walks to the back dejected…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
TheFrozenAsian - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: Solid match for Lyra's reputation... Becky should be gearing up to retire so good on her for doing the job...
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(3) Dominik retains IC title over Penta thanks to help from his Judgement Day stablemates and El Grande Americano...
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Penta feud w/ Judgement Day…
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: 👊
(B) Chad Gable’s feud w/ luchadors…
Details:
Enter Finn Balor, Carlito, JD McDonough… they get caught interfering and get ejected but Finn still pressures the ref and causes further distraction…
Enter El Grande Americano…
Physical Interference from El Grande Americano…
Winner: Dominik… who retains Intercontinental title…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
TheFrozenAsian - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️ TheMalapertSmark: I will say, it's nice to see Finn Balor get on board and be a team player... a little surprising..
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(4) Pat McAfee puts in respectable showing, but falls to Gunther in the end...
Participants:
Details:
-Pre Match, Pat McAfee talks w/ Michael Cole who apologized for getting McAfee into this situation and also for being biased…
-Match: Pat McAfee vs Gunther…
Enter Michael Cole…
Physical Interference from Michael Cole… regardless…
Winner: Gunther…
-Afterbirth: Post Match, Gunther shows a small leve of respect and walks off…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
TheWrestlingExpert - 👍
TheFrozenAsian - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: They played this as well as you can play it. No complaints about the work... I just never really dug the idea for the match... The one moment that made the match worth watching was Michael Cole getting in there and trying to hold Gunther's leg down for the pin... but overall, id say this was too methodical and predictable...
⭐️TheWrestlingExpert: As you said they got everything they could out of this feud. It was entertaining but i think they actually gave Pat way to much here as far as offense.
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(5) Chaotic end to main event sees John Cena retain Undisputed WWE title...
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Officials rush the ring to check on ref, ignore the ongoing match…
TheMalapertSmark SubPlot Review: 👎
(B) R-Truth saves John Cena…
(C) John Cena cheats to win…
Details:
REF BUMP… Cena does not take advantage in time....
REF BUMP...
REF BUMP... RKO... No ref for the pin...
Enter officials… Randy Orton RKOs multiple officials and gets ready to punt kick John Cena…
Enter R-Truth, who saves John Cena…
John Cena recovers after R-Truth is laid out…
LOW BLOW, and nails Randy Orton w/ the title belt… the ref recovers to make the count…
Winner: John Cena…. who retains Undisputed WWE title…
-Post Match, John Cena cuts in ring promo…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
TheWrestlingExpert - 👍
TheFrozenAsian - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark:
(A) This was kinda weird... Never see officials come in like that to check on the ref... completely ignored the match and the fact that Orton had it won... they all deserved to get RKO'd... but this was a little strangely unrealistic to me...
(B) I freakin called this! On my recent reviews, I had a feeling they were gonna go in this direction, although it really makes a joke out of the whole thing... Im not sure how i feel about it. Im ok silly wrestling so R-Truth being involved is fine w/ me, but I know there are those out there who would have wanted them to play it relatively straight in Cena & Orton's last match...
(C) Well i really expected Cena to retain... I was throwing around the idea with my friends of letting Orton win and have the title bounce back to Cena in a month, really make his last year a roller coaster... but not to be for Randy Orton...
⭐️TheWrestlingExpert: The finish was weird with all the ref nonsense but the scene where Orton is RKOing everybody was hilarious. Then R Truth comes out. I'm torn on using a comedic wrestler in the main event but Truth is soo funny. I'll give it a 👍 but it wasn't the greatest match. It was probably the last match between these two guys ever so yeah.
⭐️TheFrozenAsian: I didn't mind R Truth's
involvement. It makes sense based on his history glazing John Cena.
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Post Show Press Conference Storylines:
(1) John Cena turns on R-Truth and gives him an FU through a table…
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