One of the comments I get for complaining in Best And Worst Of WWE Raw is, “why don’t you do a Best And Worst Of Smackdown instead?” That’s usually followed by “it’s a lot better”, and a list of wrestlers I love who infrequently or never show up on Raw, like Daniel Bryan and The Chickbusters, A.J. and Kaitlyn. I did one when it aired live on a Tuesday — The Best And Worst Of WWE Super Smackdown — but it ended up filled with Raw guys.
The reason I don’t do it regularly (besides an “I’m always busy on Friday nights” thing I’m not going to lie to you about) is simple: With Leather doesn’t update on Saturdays, and nobody’s interested enough to come back Monday for a report about a show that aired Friday and was taped the previous Tuesday. The solution, at least until we figure out the logistics of podcasting, is even simpler: tonight, starting at 8 PM EST (or 7 PM Brandon Time), we’re going to experiment with the Best And Worst of WWE Smackdown Live-Blog.
Thanks to the magic of CoverItLive, you can come back to this entry when Smackdown starts and follow along with me as I make jokes, mark out for the FCW fresh and pretend like I didn’t read the spoilers. I’ll be sharing your comments as we go, and best case scenario I’ll have Popular Internet Girlfriend Destiny as my co-host. Check it out. If this is successful and I don’t find out I’m less funny on the fly, we’ll keep it going.
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I would read the hell outta a B&W of Smackdown on a Monday morning. I think many people would feel the same way in “who cares if it is six days old you are entertaining brandon stroud.”
And yes, Destiny is the best Internet Girlfriend of all the internet girlfriends.
Be honest, the only reason you’re doing this is because Derrick Bateman is making his Smackdown! debut tonight.
I love this. It has gotten to the point that your reviews are the best part of WWE’s programming, and I look more forward to the review than the shows themselves.
Another Smackdown without Trent Barreta…
Popular Internet Girlfriend Destiny
Did you just call Destiny a pig? That’s some cold shit, B-Stroud. . .
@Keith – I did not. As a WWE fan I am not smart enough to speak in purposeful code.
Can I DVR the live blog? :/
So excited for this!
Oink.
I’m going to follow this live blog while watching episodes of The Next Generation. Maybe they’ll overlap somehow.
Who would you rather jerk off to: Stacey Keibler or Dean Malenko?
Destiny rules, and the pic of AJ and Kaitlyn already won everything.
This was way fun and I would do it again.
Yay that was fun even if I’m not as funny as Brandon. A++ would snarky live blog again.
Our mutual love of AJ is reason enough for me to follow you to the ends of the earth.
Let’s do this again gentlemen. It was a fun evening
That was incredibly fun, maybe we could make it trend on twitter like Derrick Batman.
I feel like its going to be hard watching these shows without this now.
This made Smackdown so much fun. Let’s do this every week.
Thanks for hanging out and talking about wrestling and racist Big Show with me, everybody. Like I said up there, you guys are hilarious. Glad to know you.
Thanks everyone! This was so super fun. :D
Didn’t participate a ton but enjoyed it lots.
I really enjoyed reading the liveblog and it made me sad I don’t have cable. Thanks for the entertainment!
Dammit, I’m pissed I missed this. I live on the stupid sexy west coast and work til 8 pm out here. You should do a B&W of the live blog.
I think you will cause Smackdown ratings to go up. If that’s not true, I would take the credit anyway.
Just read this. It was fun and reminded me that I havent watched Mayweather Big Show in a week or so, so off to youtube!
Damn, I had no idea this was here. I’ll be sure to tune in next week.
Also, I’ve been lazy on and not registering for a couple weeks. I’ll comment regularly now.
Time difference will keep me from following this live, but I’ve registered because of them. More fun than watching Raw etc.
I’m not sure how I feel about what will surely turn out to be Kaitlyn turning on AJ. On the one hand I’m sad about Chick Busters breaking up. On the other hand this may mean they will actually get on TV semi-regularly, which is a big plus.
Nice. Might give me a reason to tune in and stay tuned in every week.
The Chickbusters better not break up! Kaitlyn, don’t you do it! Stroud, we need a #SaveChickbusters rally, stat!
good times.
Look, I could make up a long list of reasons why I wouldn’t write a regular Smackdown review column, but “nobody will read/appreciate it” is not one of them. I second what Phil said.
In other news, hooray for work finally updating their browsers. I can comment again!
I didn’t even watch this liveblog – didn’t even know it was happening! I read it just minutes ago (On Monday!). I’d like to point out two things: I didn’t watch Smackdown, but I can easily tell exactly what happened by your liveblog, and 2) I would absolutely read, on Monday, a recap of a show that aired Friday and was taped Tuesday.
Reading this on Tuesday, while waiting for the Best and Worst of Raw, was strangely satisifying.
Maybe I should just stop watching RAW, and start watching SD!?
*submits another vote for a B&W of SD on Monday* This and my DVR don’t mix. This is essentially a live tweet session of “you had to be there.” But I wasn’t.