KERNEN: MR. SECRETARY, CAN YOU GIVE US ANY COLOR ON THE REPORTED NAVARRO/MNUCHIN SMACKDOWN – SMACKDOWN THAT HAPPENED ON YOU.
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Move over, WWE SmackDown — here comes BWA Safari Showdown!
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Smackdown storyline which nobody cares about and never lasts long.
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Shinsuke Nakamura was finally called up from NXT on Smackdown.
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An appeal seemed unlikely given Leon's smackdown of government lawyers.
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He's been really good when I've caught him on Smackdown.
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"We love this job," Sessions, seemingly unbowed by Trump's smackdown, said.
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She's a Raw wrestler and Fast Lane is a Smackdown show.
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It continued last week, through Smackdown Live and onto social media.
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Fans can still watch this week's SmackDown, which airs on Fox.
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Smackdown, the story that matters for three weeks out of the year.
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It's official: Becky Lynch is the 2019 Raw and Smackdown Women's Champion.
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We're told the hangout went down after "Smackdown" in Vegas on Friday.
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Not even the Penguin who you ultimately lost to in the smackdown?
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Sometimes, you just want to watch a good old-fashioned long-destined smackdown.
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Jacobs even made an appearance on the July 3 episode of WWE Smackdown.
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And SmackDown has always been the show you can find spoilers for online.
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Today, "Raw" and "Smackdown" have a combined viewership of well over 10 million.
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SmackDown Live has been better, but still risked slipping into the same rut.
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This Tuesday's debate in Charleston, S.C., ought to be the biggest smackdown yet.
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The four losers went on to sing in one of two smackdown rounds.
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Somewhat surprisingly, SmackDown hasn't just held its own against Raw—it has thrived.
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What's more, there's every indication that he's set to become Smackdown Live's flagship star.
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All weekend long, your favorite celebrities have been gearing up for the pigskin smackdown.
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Smackdown television is execrable, but pretty much all of WWE's TV shows are terrible.
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Over the past few weeks, the Democratic primary contest has become a septuagenarian smackdown.
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SmackDown Live will leave USA and move to Friday nights at its new home.
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Last week, WWE signed a new television deal with Fox for SmackDown Live rights.
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The other intrusion of violence into the simulation came on last week's Smackdown Live.
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After that, she became the SmackDown General Manager, but ended that job in December, 2018.
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US Senate Who knew that quoting a civil rights icon would elicit a Senate smackdown?
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Fox's first broadcast of SmackDown on Friday nights brought in solid ratings earlier this month.
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Carr left NXT to join Smackdown, the WWE's Friday night fight brand, in December 2019.
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Because, yeah, she's been trained to put the smackdown on someone nearly twice her size.
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For six months, Mahal ruled over Smackdown in an overlong, surprisingly dominant reign as champion.
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POLITICO reporters tackle President Trump's trip abroad, the budget and the Montana special election smackdown.
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Democrats will see Vindman's "lieutenant colonel" correction as a smackdown of the much-maligned Nunes.
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SmackDown is moving to Friday nights, a traditional network television death slot since time immemorial.
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"The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars," Musk said.
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Jimmy and his brother, Jey, are tag team partners who are ex-SmackDown Tag Team champs.
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"I tell her, 'You need to be a mom ASAP,' " says Brie of SmackDown star Naomi.
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In his remarks, Musk described it as a "smackdown" to the fossil fuel-addicted auto industry.
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I have to wonder what exactly, does the DNC expect a Warren/Trump smackdown to accomplish?
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Probably, they are chunks of Pluto's outer shell that got ripped off during the Big Smackdown.
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Oddly enough, though, tape-delayed SmackDown already has a lower DVR viewership percentage than live Raw.
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The fundamental conflict in Civil War isn't between hero teams, it's about Superhero Smackdown Fun vs.
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" And my favorite: "Oh, snap, #TheBachelor laying the smackdown on Russia in The Women Tell All.
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Her command performance in the debate, which included a smackdown on Joe Biden, sent her soaring.
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Last week, Mauro Ranallo, a commentator on WWE SmackDown since January 2016, reportedly left his position at the company after allegedly being harassed by John "Bradshaw" Layfield, a fellow SmackDown announcer who previously wrestled for WWE dating back to 20173 and who's better known as JBL.
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"It's rare for the LDS Church to issue a clear and unambiguous smackdown to anyone," Riess wrote.
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Not a word though about Clinton's email woes or the verbal smackdown (see above) from James Comey.
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Only on live weekly show remains on the WWE Network — 205 Live, which airs immediately after SmackDown.
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Jimmy and his brother, Jey, are tag team partners who are the reigning SmackDown Tag Team champs.
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RELATED: The Trump-Cruz smackdown Legal experts believe the same will be true of the Cruz challenge.
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He normally wrestles as one half of the Hardy Boyz for the SmackDown brand of the company.
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What you won't find on the WWE Network is either "Raw" or "Smackdown," which remain on USA.
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Ron Russell in May 1974, two months after delivering the royal smackdown that saved Princess Anne's life.
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With so many good matches and storylines popping up from Sunday, tonight's Smackdown has become must watch.
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The news comes just days after the company moved its weekly event, SmackDown, to the Performance Center.
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Two hours is the perfect length for a wrestling program; not coincidentally, Smackdown has been getting far better reviews than Raw for weeks now, though the ratings are still lagging, at least in part because Smackdown has yet to shake its long reputation as a missable, B-quality show.
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That and another million in Boulder didn't do the trick—voters gave soda a smackdown in significant numbers.
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With three short words – "Delete your account," the ultimate Twitter smackdown – Hillary Clinton set herself a Twitter record.
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Live commissioner Shane McMahon was battling multiple injuries after a falling 20 feet from the top of SmackDown!
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The press release suggests it expects exceptional viewership for the first live airing of SmackDown on July 19.
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World Wrestling Entertainment is talking to other networks about its "Smackdown" television franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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A federal district court judge promptly gave the White House's absolute immunity claim the legal smackdown it deserved.
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The smackdown goes down live on the Main Stage at Disrupt San Francisco 2020 on September 14-193.
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What's missing from the Network is convenient access to RAW and SmackDown episodes, where WWE storylines unfold weekly.
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Fans can also see Nattie compete every Tuesday night on SmackDown Live on USA Network at 8 p.m. ET.
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The North Korean smackdown to Mr Bolton ("We do not hide our feelings of repugnance towards him") was predictable.
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WWE has been in Florida this week -- 'Raw' was in Tampa on Monday, 'Smackdown' was in Miami on Tuesday.
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Obviously. But while we savor the thrill of this imminent smackdown, it's worth figuring out how we got here.
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As for the promised battle royale of the title, viewers after a UFC smackdown are in for a disappointment.
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The "liberal journalist" here isn't being given a verbal smackdown, the kind most decent reporters hear all the time.
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Following several days of public smackdown, Pepsi has announced that it has pulled the ad it released on Tuesday.
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It was Becky Lynch's "heel turn" after the three way Smackdown women's title match, between Lynch, Charlotte, and Carmella.
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Smartphone Smackdown 2018: This week we're looking at the year's very best smartphones—and what we didn't like about them.
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By the tone of the trailer, the series is a wonky version of a WWE smackdown – The Gray Lady vs.
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"I just had this feeling that it was going to be an instant smackdown of LGBTQ rights," they told me.
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But Rubio's smackdown Monday included a reminder that he never wanted Trump to be the nominee in the first place.
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This is because of the brand split, which has left Raw and Smackdown with two distinct rosters of WWE wrestlers.
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Ambrose is on Smackdown, leaving Raw without a main-event-quality title going into its big re-debut on Monday.
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The biggest of the new stories was the surprise appearance of Asuka to challenge Charlotte for the Smackdown women's title.
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Another big-name wrestler, Paige, was also set to make her return to confront the current SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley.
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Rob Gronkowski made his first appearance on SmackDown on Friday ... and the dude went BONKERS right out of the gate!!
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Though it will also be held without fans, if "SmackDown" was any indication, that shouldn't be a problem for Gronk.
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"Potus Comes Roaring Back With Press Smackdown at Trump Tower," ran the bright-red headline on the right-wing site.
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Kim Kardashian West got roped into an online food fight ... and responded by laying a plant-based smackdown on everybody.
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But it should be fun to watch Stone try and lay the smackdown on Carell, even if it doesn't solve sexism.
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And with three years having elapsed since the last compilation smackdown (2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron), expectations have been high.
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Right after the opener, WWE did the right thing and had Becky Lynch beat Charlotte cleanly for the Smackdown Women's title.
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Combined domestic and foreign box office estimates for the weekend put Marvel's big superhero smackdown at $1.053 billion in ticket sales.
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While the two exchanged their fair share of headbutts and clothesline dives on the floor and on top of the SmackDown!
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I can't say I'm not at least a little bit envious of the Germans for delivering this privacy smackdown to Facebook.
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Productivity and the Joy of Doing Things the Hard Way 10 Productivity Hacks From WIRED Staffers Optimization Smackdown: Hustle Porn vs.
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This is frustratingly contradictory — because the ICO also writes that it doesn't believe the industry will change without a regulatory smackdown.
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When the brilliant WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role launched on PlayStation, Jake effortlessly made the jump from Nintendo to Sony.
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Tom Holzerman tweeted just that before Shane came out, with Smackdown possibly returning to its status as coequal show with Raw.
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Daniels's smackdown of Trump's "horseface" remark isn't the first time she's lit up Twitter by taking down a foul-mouthed man.
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"SmackDown LIVE" is broadcast on FOX, and Gronkowski has worked as an NFL studio analyst for FOX Sports this past season.
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The night before "SmackDown Live," Mr. Dhesi was out of character and standing backstage at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass.
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About to get a WWE-style smackdown with a folding chair for tweeting about how quirky your love for Target is?
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Each show had its own champion, Raw with the more prestigious WWE heavyweight championship and Smackdown with the world heavyweight champion.
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The fact the he continues to promote performers from NXT to Raw and SmackDown is a clear sign of his support.
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When Diana realizes that the villain she's been chasing all this time is, in fact, not the end but just the beginning to a line of villains to be trotted out, no doubt, in subsequent chapters, the movie turns into an eye-rolling digital smackdown that mirrors every other late-period DC (and, to be fair, Marvel) movie smackdown.
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The build-up has been bland, but WWE pulled out a few stops on the Raw directly preceding the first live Smackdown.
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According to research submitted recently to ArXiv by a team of astronomers, one of Uranus's moons—Cressida—will likely instigate the smackdown.
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Google could have fiercely charged through the door and laid smackdown on the iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, but it didn't.
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Alas, that's exactly what this TMZ paparazzo didn't do — and ended up on the receiving end of a J Lawr verbal smackdown.
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The Mahal-Nakamura stuff aside, Hell in a Cell did what I couldn't expect—it made me excited about Smackdown Live again.
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That means "Raw" and "SmackDown" could go from $270 million in revenue to almost $600 million in three years, Barrios told CNBC.
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This felt like a karmic smackdown, and Ms. Levy wanted to interrogate her own responsibility for such a sequence of grim events.
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The two-hour format has helped, as has the move of former NXT writer Ryan Ward to lead the SmackDown writing team.
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Big Boy says he was THIS close to laying the smackdown on the EXTREMELY drunk driver who rear-ended him in Calabasas.
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On the "SmackDown Live"brand, WWE Champion AJ Styles will defend the belt against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a handicap match.
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Now, a series of computer simulations reconstruct a plausible sequence of events from that ancient cosmic smackdown to the moons of Mars today.
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Silva's above interview with Mauro Ranallo, who has since made the reverse transition from commentating on MMA to WWE's Smackdown brand, was perfect.
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The unscripted panel program became acclaimed by fans for its unique format, many reacting to the chemistry between Young and SmackDown GM Bryan.
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Enterprise Gang's Denis Pombriant joins the Keith Gang for a vigorous rubdown of fake views and Comey's smackdown of the Obstructor in Chief.
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"The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars," Musk told a crowd in Los Angeles on Thursday.
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Sullivan was a 9-0 smackdown of plaintiffs who saw libel suits as a legal extortion racket to be used to silence publishers.
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After the studio audience voted Eagle and Penguin as the losers of their faceoffs, they went head-to-head in the smackdown round.
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But President Trump won't get the smackdown from a court of law that he's managed to avoid in the court of public opinion.
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The Usos -- sons of pro wrestling legend, Rikishi -- are 5-time WWE tag team champions ... currently holding gold for the company's SmackDown brand.
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After putting the science smackdown on Needful, Rick and Summer extend their quality time together by beefing up in the weight room, then putting the physical smackdown on a bunch of stock baddies—a neo-Nazi, an abusive pet owner, a Westboro Baptist Church member—to the tune of DMX's "X Gon' Give It to Ya." This is family time, Rick & Morty style.
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David Arquette got beat up in public Wednesday night -- and the man who served up the smackdown is Jack Perry, son of Luke Perry.
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Even throughout his tenure as a non-wrestling authority figure on SmackDown Live, Bryan never stopped being the most popular performer on the roster.
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That storyline has been building momentum and it's turned out to be pretty good, one of the foundations of SmackDown Live's superiority over Raw.
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Our sources also say Alexis only started barking about a smackdown when her male friend showed up, and they'd been tossed from the party.
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The initial turn was simple enough: he kicked A.J. Styles square in the balls to win the title on an episode of SmackDown Live.
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There's Buffy and Spike's violent smackdown/foreplay, which depending on your point of view is either sexy or horrifically violent and disturbing (or both).
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Per the report, Gronkowski could be in the ring as soon as March 20 at a Friday Night "SmackDown LIVE" event in New Orleans.
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Oliver put the smackdown on the WWE and its chairman and CEO Vince McMahon for how badly the organization has exploited its professional athletes.
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The constitutional smackdown handed down in the Hage case should have ended rancher efforts to seize control of federal lands through the court system.
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WWE Divas Champion Brie Bella and WWE SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan are first-time parents to a little girl named Birdie Joe Danielson, E!
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A few helpful links for things we talk about in the podcast: -WIRED Culture's smackdown on who gave the best performance in The People v.
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You don't buy an industrial when you're worried about a Fed-induced smackdown, even if it's an industrial with a stock that's come down dramatically.
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The big catch is that the tournament will be separate from the ongoing story lines and matches seen on Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live.
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Ted Cruz's own words against him, repeatedly highlighting Cruz's smackdown of "New York values," giving the Texas senator little room to grow in the state.
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Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch closed out WrestleMania in April with Lynch walking away with two titles, the Raw and Smackdown Women's Championships.
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The history of Memorial Day is the subject of a longstanding academic smackdown, with dozens of cities and towns claiming to be the holiday's birthplace.
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Batman was unable to topple Superman in their long-awaited showdown, but Melissa McCarthy is likely to put the smackdown on them both this weekend.
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The WWE wrestler gave birth to her 9-month-old daughter in May, whom she shares with husband and WWE SmackDown general manager Daniel Bryan.
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We spoke with "Bud" about that smackdown he put on Khan on Saturday -- in a fight where Khan quit after taking an accidental low blow.
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Then there's Rey Mysterio, arguably the greatest cruiserweight in history, who was recently announced to be returning to WWE for the 1,000th episode of SmackDown.
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Here, he brushes off his "The Rock" persona to lay some hilarious smackdown on the lead and her brother after they ask for some advice.
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It seems the injury was suffered in the opening moments of his match with Orton on 'Smackdown Live' -- when Orton was stomping Ali's face in.
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While Raw's roster is more robust on paper, having one less hour to deal with means the Smackdown creative team has no room to dawdle.
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MbS may have enabled Saudis to see the latest title fight or WWE smackdown, but they may also be even less free than they were.
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Doing so would expand the catalog to include other popular shows like The Real Housewives, Top Chef, The Expanse, Mr. Robot, Suits, and WWE Raw / Smackdown.
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But when the spotlight was on, Rowdy delivered -- layin' the smackdown on Stephanie McMahon and Triple H in what many are calling the night's #1 match!
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The company is also trying to reverse a decline in TV viewership as it prepares to bring SmackDown Live to the Fox network later this year.
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The former UFC champion could follow up her appearance at the Royal Rumble by showing up at either Monday Night Raw or SmackDown Live this week.
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Bella gave birth to her daughter in May, who she shares with husband and WWE SmackDown general manager Daniel Bryan (whose real name is Bryan Danielson).
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After airing on tape delay since its debut in 1999, WWE's number-two program, SmackDown, is permanently going live on Tuesday nights on the USA Network.
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That difference, though, could be due to the perception that what happens on SmackDown is of less consequence than what's seen on the flagship Raw program.
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If you'd like to hear a much better rant about Jackson, however, listen to WFAN's Mike Francesa lay the smackdown in a much more tolerable way.
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After that, she was made to look like an idiot in repeated losses to previously-a-joke Smackdown women's champion Carmella (also blonde) before disappearing entirely.
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Yesterday John Legend proved that Teigen's not the only one in the family ready to lay the smackdown on Twitter when the situation calls for it.
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USA Network will continue to air Monday Night Raw, and Fox Sports will for the first time distribute SmackDown live every Friday on Fox broadcast network.
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Well, Smackdown Tuesday went more or less as expected: a big night for Trump and Clinton, with both of them moving closer to becoming the nominees.
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There's also a singular option for new scripted programming on cable and satellite: WWE SmackDown will, as always, be airing a new episode on USA Network.
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Lawsuit smackdown: Big Pharma is getting slammed with lawsuits for creating super addictive painkillers that are jacking up the opioid crisis in America to unprecedented levels.
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It's been reported that Ranallo, whose contract with WWE runs through August, missed the episode of SmackDown because he was suffering from a bout of depression.
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"The point of doing this is to give a hard-core smackdown to gasoline cars," he said to a cheering crowd of more than 2,000 people.
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Fresh off Ryan Murphy's "Feud" comes another diva smackdown: a new musical about the rivalry between Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, who ran competing cosmetics empires.
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Fifteen years after the Malice at the Palace rocked the NBA, a smackdown in the Sunflower State has captivated — and horrified — the world of college basketball.
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Last month WWE announced it signed deals with NBCUniversal and Fox Sports for its programs "Monday Night Raw" and "SmackDown Live" respectively, starting from October 2019.
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But that dense, statistics-heavy work was overshadowed by its accompanying video smackdown of wine expertise, in which a panel of Vox employees blind-tasted wines.
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Following news of the hack, hundreds of thousands of curious Instagram users tuned in, responding to each carefully curated update like they were watching a WWE smackdown.
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Charlotte wasn't even originally scheduled to face Ronda at the event -- and only stepped in after "Smackdown" women's champ Becky Lynch suffered a broken face last week.
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I just flew in from Australia yesterday and I'll be on WWE Smackdown Live tonight and I'll be worn out and jet-lagged and I don't care.
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The lone SmackDown that aired live this year did provide the program with the second-lowest percentage of DVR viewership for the show so far this year.
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Ric's daughter is the current "SmackDown" Women's Champion -- and Ric tells TMZ Sports he knows his daughter wants a shot at the newest star on the roster.
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The creator of Smackdown and Raw TV shows boasted a U.S. cable television viewership second only to the National Football League in 214.8, according to Nielsen data.
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Washington (CNN)On Thursday, the six members -- three Republicans, three Democrats -- of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics issued a stinging smackdown of New Jersey Democratic Sen.
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Ms. Cotton saw a direct relation between Ms. Swift's romping photos and Ms. Kardashian West's leaked video, which she explained as a kind of celebrity brand smackdown.
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He then played to the crowd when Marella eventually bid "one thousand four hundred sixty-five American-style dollars" for a Best of Smackdown Tenth Anniversary DVD.
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The door nearly creaked open by way of A.J. Styles, their one-time stable-mate in New Japan and the current world champion of WWE's SmackDown brand.
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Debbie Dingell (D-MI) delivered yet another smackdown about "shadow profiles" and Facebook's ability to gather data on everyone â€" not just Facebook users â€" through pixes.
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The Bella Twins were guests Friday night on "A Moment of Bliss" on SmackDown, where they and everyone else learned they were going to be 2020 inductees.
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And if you need to offer any library haters a smackdown, the American Library Association even has a handy PDF with a list of impressive, "quotable" statistics.
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" The entire smackdown was captured on security cameras, and Reddit users chimed in with their support, heavily up-voting the comment "So she's a server.... of justice.
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"NXT has become WWE's third global brand alongside Raw and SmackDown," Levesque said, adding that NXT content is some of the highest-viewed on their digital outlets.
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The brand split allowed for Raw versus Smackdown five-on-five matches and the entire event reveled in the utterly nonsensical sense of joy it found within itself.
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That slow build-up of pressure likely helped Harris lay the smackdown on Biden Thursday night and rip media attention away from the rest of a crowded field.
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Theoretically, with no spoilers available, putting SmackDown live on Tuesday nights could lead to more viewers watching live and fewer watching later via DVR and skipping the ads.
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And that's a big reason Sesame Street's smackdown of Saltzman's initial assertion that he wrote them as people in a romantic relationship rang so hollow to so many.
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First, he busted out Stone Cold Steve Austin's famous Stone Cold Stunner -- then after laying the smackdown on his training partner, gave the crowd a little People's Elbow.
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Of course it's also satisfying because each smackdown is followed by a resurrection, a shaky rise from the floor and a counterattack that telegraphs resolve, superiority and victory.
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For now it works with a Chinese video company service called PPTV, which streams the company's weekly flagship shows, called "SmackDown" and "RAW," with real-time Mandarin commentary.
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The Playmaker was clearly impressed with the rookie RB after the Chiefs put the smackdown on Tom Brady and the Patriots ... telling TMZ Sports the dude WENT OFF!
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While the new deal represented an increase from the $115 million earned by Raw, SmackDown, and Total Divas in 2014, it wasn't the double that Vince had promised.
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