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🤼‍♀️ WOMEN'S WRESTLING TAKES OVER SMACKDOWN... AND THE MEN WON'T STOP TALKING! | OCTOBER 23, 2026

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💥 WOW! WOMEN OF WWE! This week's WWE SmackDown was brought to you by women's wrestling! We had multiple championship matches, a TITLE CHANGE, and plenty of action! Oh, and just to make sure nobody forgot about them, we also had a bunch of men standing around TALKING! Because apparently, that's wrestling too!

🎙️ ERIC B TO THE RESCUE! With Brad facing a ridiculously busy day, Eric B steps in at the last minute to save the show! Can he...

 In this episode: Chatting Yokozuna, Snoop Dogg, Christian Cage, Halloween Havoc, LOD/Road Warriors, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Rikishi, The Rock, Scott Hall/Razor Ramon, Kevin Sullivan, WWF Raw is War, Dusty Rhodes, Kiss, MVP, Jake Roberts, Macho Man Randy Savage, BROKEN UNIVERSE & More!

Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Pod...

🤦 WWE SMACKDOWN WAS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?! | OCTOBER 16, 2026

What did Eric ever do to deserve THIS?! 🎂😴 This week's WWE SmackDown was only made bearable because my good friend Eric, the former Raw Dog, stopped by to hang out and celebrate his birthday! Unfortunately, WWE apparently decided the best birthday present was two hours of absolute NOTHING!

💥 Seriously, WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS SHOW?! One good line doesn't make an entire show! They don't call him Johnny Entrance, and they certainly don't call this episode of SmackDown Entertaining! Instead of building excitement for an upcoming Premium Live...

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🤦 WWE SMACKDOWN WAS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME?! | OCTOBER 9, 2026

What on earth was THAT?! 😴 This week's WWE SmackDown was supposed to get us hyped for Money in the Bank, but did it actually deliver? From underwhelming segments and forgettable matches to a main event that went absolutely nowhere, this show left A LOT to be desired!

💥 Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley captured the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships, Cody Rhodes had some choice words for Randy Orton, and Sami Zayn, CM Punk, and Kevin Owens went...

In this episode: Chatting Brian Pillman, Capt Lou, Rhea Ripley, Eddie Guerrero, Demolition, LOD/Road Warriors, The Miz, Stone Cold Steve Austin, DX, Rikishi, Bret Hart & More!

“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co...

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Last night’s WWE SmackDown delivered huge moments, shocking interference, and major Money in the Bank implications! The road to WWE Money in the Bank 2026 is heating up, and the blue brand is becoming more unpredictable by the week!

💥 Tiffany Stratton secured her spot in the Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match, while Kevin Owens survived a chaotic Triple Threat against Cody Rhodes and Johnny Gargano to punch his ticket into the Men’s match.

😱 But the biggest moment of the...

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As we watched SmackDown on Dolly Parton Day, we talk a little about our 9-5 jobs.

SmackDown this week was uninspired.

It’s probably not worth your time.

And if you listened to last week’s show…Brad was right.

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Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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Greg is back from his very special assignment. He’s already regretting his life choices.

We’re talking about this week's SmackDown from Corpus Christi.

Sami is the new champ.

Cody sits down with Vince, I mean Michael Cole.

MITB Qualifiers.

Assistant GM Danhausen is busy.

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Brad the Dad is joined by Erik B (the raw Dog) while Greg is away on a “special assignment.”

This week, SmackDown comes to us from Mexico City, where apparently everything is better at elevation—including the wrestling. With four title matches and one major title change, this show shakes up SmackDown and hopefully creates enough chaos to get people coming back for more.

Which championship changed hands? What side tangents do Brad and Erik go on about wrestling and pop culture? And what exactly has Erik been up to all these months?

Find o...

FAN FIRST 10: September 7th - 20th in the history of Professional Wrestling

“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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SmackDown this week was pre-recorded on Friday, August 28th.

We read the spoilers. After reading them, we recorded this show for you.

Overall, I’m more interested in watching this show, than last weeks.

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SmackDown this week was pre-recorded on Monday, August 24th. 

So, we read the spoilers.

And after reading the spoilers, neither of us watched SmackDown. 

But we’ll talk about what we read, and why WWE is being lazy.

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Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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Yeah..Greg was right… we can’t have nice things.

We’re in Toronto tonight.

The show wasn’t terrible, until you got to the end. 

It put Greg and Brad in a mood.

Programming Notice - With Taped Shows next two weeks, we’re likely phoning it in too. 

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We were excited to watch SmackDown this week from Boston.

WWE managed to take that joy and stomp on it.

The first half of the show was pretty great. All things considered.

Then it took a nose-dive off a cliff.

Next week is Toronto, how can WWE make it worse? Tune in to find out.

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FAN FIRST 8: August 10th - 23rd in the history of Professional Wrestling

“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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After a 4 week break, the SmackDaddies are back from their summer break.

This was a 3 match show.

There were about 400 talking segments.

Greg questions his life choices.

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While everyone else in the wrestling world is talking about SummerSlam, Brad finally convinced his wife to sit down and talk about her experience at AEW Redemption in Montreal last Sunday night.

She may not know the names of most of the wrestlers—or even entirely understand why they’re fighting—but that doesn’t stop her from having some strong opinions.

We discuss the characters who caught her attention, the parts of the show she enjoyed and what AEW could do differently to attract more casual viewers and a larger female audience.

Along th...

“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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FAN FIRST 6: July 13th - 26th in the history of Professional Wrestling

“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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SmackDown was taped on Tuesday. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married tonight, so WWE gave everyone the night off.

With a taped SmackDown, Brad and Greg could watch this at 1.5x (as God intended) and it really wasn’t a bad show. 

The highlights were a fun Lucha Match and some back stage segments involving R-Truth and company, as well as Danhausen and Matt Ryder.

It wasn’t all fireworks on this July 3rd special, we got a couple of matches that really didn’t hit the spot.

Alleluia, the two hour SmackDown era has returned. We’re across the pond this week, on a show taped on Tuesday but making you believe it’s Friday.

This show was overall pretty fun. The Danhausen and his Legion of Danhausen, the introduction of “Matt Ryder”, Blake Monroe’s debut, Paige and Nathan Frazer wrestling at home. 

The MFTs are done. We highlight a new person on Bloodline Be-Gone. And we prepare you for Night(Afternoon) of Champions.

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Some good matches this week. A lot of recaps.

Next week in London, on tape delay. We’re scared.

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“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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WWE has made it back to North America (unfortunately), and we’re back to the same old garbage.

If you want to see outside interference (repeatedly), boy do we have the show for you.

Tho, even Greg will admit he enjoyed most of the show (at 1.5x speed), we’re now edging towards the creative vacuum that was WWE in years gone by. 

Greg debuts a new segment.

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Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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The SmackDaddies doing the second-best thing you can do in the afternoon, watching SmackDown.

It’s always great when these shows are done by suppertime.

It wasn’t that bad. Seriously, it really wasn’t.

And yes, we grade these on a curve.

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The SmackDaddies are back (reluctantly) this week.

We’re here to celebrate Brad’s Birthday.

Unfortunately, we also have to talk about SmackDown.

This show is getting worse week to week.

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“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (7 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions plus Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy). This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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Don’t watch SmackDown. 

It’s really not worth it.

Go to socials and watch the Danhausen segments. 

Trust us, this was the worst SmackDown of the year.

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“Fan First” is a podcast hosted by Independent Professional Wrestlers: Holden Albright (12 yrs experience) & Van Landon (5 years experience). They became wrestlers because of a lifelong fandom of Professional Wrestling & want to relive memories with yourself every other Monday night @ 8pm. Van & Holden also operate GTA Wire (an independent Canadian entertainment collective specializing in Podcasts, Video productions & Live entertainment online & in person specifically Pro Wrestling & Comedy. This is a co-production with The Hub Sports Entertainment Network.

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After the bloodletting of last week, we’re back to pick up the pieces with Smackdown.

Tonight, we get the introduction of a starky Ricky Saints… yeah that one will be hard to adjust to.

R-Truth providing Fraxiom Tax Planning Advice. We can only assume it’s how to prepare in the event of being future endeavored, and a match.

More Bloodline stuff for some reason.

Miz and Kit setting a trap for Danhausen.

Powerhouse Royce Keys...

After a weekend in Vegas, a bunch of wrestlers went bust after TKO’s Vegas gamble didn’t pay out. The house always wins, as long as it’s not the House of Black.

WWE terminated a bunch of wrestlers on Friday.

We also had Smackdown.

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We’re in Vegas, so of course there’s a wedding. 

We watched the Battle Royal.

We played a few games to prepare for Wrestlemania weekend and what might happen in the coming months.

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Smackdown was barely watchable.

Watch the Danhausen parts of it, that’s really all you need to see.

Next week we’ll give you a recap of the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royale and play everyone's favourite game, “Will Greg Watch It?” as we preview Wrestlemania.

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I laughed, I cried, and I groaned while watching SmackDown this week. Guess which happened where.

We start the night with Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes and the realization that Greg was wrong. Because we find out tonight who was counseling Randy on the phone, it wasn’t Kevin Owens. No it was Pat McAfee. This team I’m going to call the Antivirus, with N(Orton) and M(a)cAfee in his corner as faces (or heels?) going into Wrestlemania to take on Cody (who we’re still not sure if he’s a face or a heel...

Jelly Rolled into Pittsburgh and was involved throughout the show.

First we get Randy Orton in a ring, to be confronted by jobber Matt Cardona, who did the only sensible thing and come out and clock Randy in the head with a microphone leading to a match to end the show.

Nick Aldis is enamoured by Tricky Williams, and tells him he has a Mania match, and tells Sami he’s on the outside looking in.

Our first match of the night is the much anticipated, definitely not skipped over...

elly Roll drives by Drew t-boning Jacob Fatu (at least I think?) who is then greeted by people rushing past him to see Drew ripping Fatu’s windshield out and beating him. This is the beginning of Brad’s predicted Peter Griffin and the Chicken segment.

The Freebird MFTs took on R-Priest, and of course the Wyatt’s have to also get involved. At the end of the day, long after the follically challenged R-Truth got a hair cut, we have new Champs.

Danhausen was paid by Candace LeRae to cure Johnny D...

Drew quits, and Greg is seriously considering joining him. 

The 1085th match involving Wyatt Sicks and MFTs happened, and just when you think we’re moving on from it, they decide to prolong it again. This needs to end.

Jade Cargill and Michin fought in a pretty decent match. But in reality, we really want to see Rhea beat her ass.

Sami “shit disturber” Zayn and Cody interact backstage.

We lost a bet somewhere as we get the Bella Twins on SmackDown. They get involved in the Women’s...