Wrestling fans i've covered alot of classic and current WWF PPV's and trust me when I say that I plan on reviewing alot more classic and current WWF PPV's in the future. However i've never one reviewed an episode of Smackdown and well that is something that is going to end right freaking now and well I have to say that this episode of WWF Smackdown is really freaking good and so join me as I review the April 12th 2001 of the WWF wrestling show that is called simply just "WWF Smackdown" and so enjoy the review everyone.
Of course the main plot line going across the entire WWF programming at this time is of course the formation of The Power Trip and well rather shocking only Triple H has a part to play in this episode of Smackdown. Since the show gets rid of Stone Cold Steve Austin by the thirty minuet mark and Stone Cold Steve Austin is barely mentioned or referenced for the res of this particular episode and while usually i'd say that you don't need to have seen the rest of the shows to fully understand what the storylines going into this show are in this case I think that you should watch some of the shows before watching this particular episode simply because the other storylines that are currently going in the WWF at this time period aren't really as defined as the story of the formation on The Power Trip is in my opinion anyways / at least.
This show does feature the classic circles set which is the set that I personally grew up watching and I have to say that seeing it again in this episode it filled me with a sense of nostalgia for this particular / very Smackdown set / stage and however with that being said this set / stage does look a little bit boring to me personally. Since there's nothing visually interesting about this particular set / stage which is a shame because this is an iconic set / stage and so it's just a shame that it doesn't quite hold up well enough today.
Now then this was actually one of the many episodes of WWF Smackdown that I actually watched as a kid heck I can even tell you what channel Smackdown used to air on in the UK as well as the day that Smackdown used to air on in the UK and what day that it used to air in the UK as well. However I strongly remember the main even for this particular episode being alot more epic then what it actually was but that might be because I was eleven years old when I first saw this particular episode of WWF Smackdown.
Now then one of the few things that the commentary team for this particular episode of WWF Smackdown keep on reminding us of is the the fact that both Lita and Matt Hardy are at home nursing injuries which they sustained when Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin attacked Lita and Matt and Jeff Hardy with steel chairs on the previous episode of WWF Raw Is War. This is really something that they didn't really need to do because we already have not one but two video packages showing us what happens and so we don't really need to hear the commentary team reminding us of the attack every five minuets or so.
The other thing that they kept on bringing up on / in this particular episode was the failed American football league the XFL. Which was something that I personally just found to be hilarious simply because they kept on saying how the XFL was having a great first season and yet it wasn't it just simply wasn't since the ratings for the XFL were so bad that the league was cancelled after it's first season and it would be brought back until 2018 where it failed again and so here's hoping that Dwayne Johnson has some much more better luck with the XFL then Vince McMahon ever did.
Now then even tho i've been fairly positive about this particular episode of WWE /WWF Smackdown thus far there are some thing that I personally didn't like about the show. Like for example I didn't like the fact that apart from the main event alot of what we see in this show is just basically filler which is a shame because they had alot of very talented wrestlers working on this very show and yet alot of them are given nothing to do or even nothing to work with which when you have a card that's as good as the one that this show has having alot of wrestlers just doing nothing is not a good thing at all in my opinion anyways / at least.
I will admit that it was nice seeing very big name stars appearing on Smackdown simply because even tho guys like Roman Reigns and Edge among many others are big name stars they just simply aren't on the level of Triple H in his prime or even Stone Cold Steve Austin in this prime or even Jeff freaking Hardy in his prime and so it was good to see those guys appearing on this particular episode of WWF Smackdown. As it makes WWF Smackdown seem like a big deal and plus it gives them a chance to carry on with any storylines that might have started on WWF Raw Is War and that kind of synergy is something that you just don't see in todays WWE / WWF product but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
Now then this particular episode of WWE / WWF Smackdown has / had a grand total running time of one hour and twenty seven minuets and forty four seconds and well if i'm being really freaking honest here that running time really did effect the quality of the show for me personally. Since everything just felt like that it was on fast forward and as such it felt like that there was no room to breathe or to catch a breath because everything was moving that fast and as such I really do wish that this particular episode of WWE / WWF Smackdown was alot closer to two hours since then the audience would be able to catch their breath alot easier and storylines would then be allowed to develop at a more naturel pace but that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
Now then since is a wrestling show and that thus that means that there are wrestling matches that are to be found on this wrestling show and so that means that I have t actually talk about the wrestling that are featured / presented to us on this actual wrestling show and well the wrestling that's featured / presented to us in this wrestling show is really good. However I did notice at least a botches which are in the Test Vs Val Venis match with the first one being when the rest of the The Right To Censor start attacking Test on the outside you can quite clearly see The GoodFather not actually connecting with Test and the second one being when Bull Buchanan tries to a scissors kick to test on the outside and you can just tell that he didn't do the move right because Bull Buchanan doesn't land how you normally would land when doing a scissors kick and so if anything he lands like you normally would when your performing a leg drop.
Overall this wasn't a bad episode per say infact it was one that I had alot of fun watching but at the same time I do wish that pretty much all of the matches that were on the card for this particular episode could have gone on bit longer and infact apart from the main event none of the matches that are featured / presented to us in this very / particular episode last longer then four minuets with the main event lasting just over eight minuets. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this particular episode that means that this particular episode gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and from Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this particular episode of WWE / WWF Smackdown being Google Images just simply due to how high quality and how high definition the mages that are to do with the particular episode and that are currently up on Google Images well and truly are.