Did Trick Williams Go Too Far… or Was It Comedy Gold? RiP Gingerbread Man

WWE SmackDown recap, review & highlights! Huge night as Gunther officially makes his move to SmackDown after Paul Heyman cashes in a favor, setting up a massive showdown with Cody Rhodes. Plus Bloodline drama explodes with Roman Reigns, Jacob Fatu, and family tensions boiling over. We also break down the wild Gingerbread Man funeral segment with Trick Williams, Sami Zayn, and the surprise reveal involving Lil Yachty. Full WWE SmackDown analysis, reactions, predictions, and what it means for Backlash moving forward. Funny or lame? You decide.

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RIP Gingerbread Man tonight was a celebration of life for Ginger, and well, we we need a soldier on people. And I know there are WWE fans out there who actually don't like this entire plot, this entire story of the gingerbread man having a funeral for him. And I uh I do though, I do. I don't think it's like haha, a gingerbread man is dead and everybody buys it. I think what the joke here is that Trick Williams is is going to such extreme lengths to get under the skin and troll Sammy Zayn. And then Sammy can't fathom how everybody is playing along. That's the joke. Sammy broke it down perfect. How can we have a have a SmackDown segment, the main event SmackDown segment be devoted to a gingerbread man? And then people still boo him. So Sammy Zayn in his head, it almost reminds me of Brett that hit Man Hart when he was turning heel against the Americans, believe it or not. Because Brett kept saying, Why are you cheering this guy? He he swears, he cheats, he's a degenerate, and everybody just cheered more and more. Bret Hart's like, I'm the hero here. Sami Zayn is like saying the things that people are actually saying. Why are we wasting our time on a gingerbread man story? And yet, those people, even who hate the segment, are still cheering Trick Williams and booing Sammy Zayn. So Sammy just can't fathom it. And that's what makes this whole storyline funny, to me at least. I mean, you're free to have any opinion you want, but I love that Trick is willing to go to such great lengths. Sammy even said, Man, like I thought you said nothing gets in the way of your money, and then Sammy broke it down. You paid for a casket acquire, who, by the way, were off key. Sammy's such a brilliant heel. I loved it. He's like, that kind of uh wood, I forget what he said, but it like mahogany or something. That doesn't, that's not cheap. That's not cheap. He's like the refreshments, the roses. I looked it up. That cost a lot of money. Sammy Zayn broke it down. How much, how, how, just the extreme lengths that Trick Williams has gone to just to get under the skin of Sammy, and then he even says, But you did, congratulations, you did. But Sammy's like, but it doesn't matter. I'm I've been here, I've lasted, I lasted bigger, tougher guys than you, and I'm gonna outlast you. And Sammy actually knocks him down, and for a minute, I'm like, man, just one punch took Trick Williams down, but Trick was faking it. Well, he probably, I mean, he wasn't faking the punches, like he got hit, but I don't think Trick fought back on purpose because we had the the ginger taker sit up, and it's little Yachty. He comes out, hits him with the cane, Sammy Zayn with the cane, and it's all a trap. It was all a trap. Trick Williams spent so much money just to have a beatdown of Sami Zayn, and I love it. I love that because you know what? I'm just tired. I'm just tired of someone doing an interview, and then you attack him from behind. You know, give me a gingerbread man funeral to set up an attack any day of the week. It was hilarious. Trick Williams even did a song, he had a glass of milk and he poured one out for his homie ginger, and throughout the night they're showing us like now haters are gonna say it's AI, but like he's showing us images of gingerbread man in these really like uh historic moments, you know, when uh when when Austin's being arrested at the Joe Lewis Arena, I should have been there that night, but I wasn't. The body slam Hogan on Andre the Giant WrestleMania 3. When when Kurt Engel had the milk truck, just like just funny stuff, funny stuff. And I guess Ginger was a streamer, also. He did reactions. Hopefully, he didn't get copyright striked by WWE, but yeah, no, to me it's great stuff. Honestly, you know what I didn't like about the whole gingerbread man thing? I think last week it was okay for Joe Tess to sell it hard, but I don't think he should have sold it hard this week. Joe Tess doesn't seem like somebody who like his character would allow him to bow down the integrity of of being a commentator to just go along with a trick wins joke. And I don't think Ray Phoenix should have sold it either. Now, our truth, Johnny Gargano, that's fine. They're in comedy stuff right now, but but Ray Phoenix, he has no problem with Sami Zayn, so he should not have been in the funeral to sell that that the gingerbread man was, you know, actually legit R.I.P. Now Largaza is fine because they're heels, you know, and Trick Williams technically is still a heel, so he could talk his other his fellow heels to doing it. But I don't think I don't think Ray Phoenix should have sold it. But I do like that Sammy was like, what is going on here? How can we be doing this? He's the only sane person in the crazy world because we're all just booing him. It was so freaking funny, in my opinion. And that's why I like it. That's why I like the the gingerbread segment. And also, what I like are subscribers, and I would like you to subscribe, and then you can win this belt if you do, because subscribers who comment below have a chance to win this belt right here at 30,000 subscribers. Gonna mail the 20,000 subscriber belt that I did the giveaway for that. I'm gonna mail it on Tuesday, I believe. But yes, you can win this belt right here. It's not a toy, it's a replica. So subscribe and comment. What about the rest of the show? You know, fun fact though, not really a fun fact, but you know what I noticed tonight? That backlash, three out of five of the matches are based around mentor mentee. EOSky is the mentee of Asuka. Asuka was the ment the Senpai, her mentor. We have Danhausen was trying to become the mentee of The Miz, but the Miz took on took on Kit Wilson. And then what was the other one? Oh, and then Braun Breaker was the mentee of Seth Rollins. Isn't that like yeah, yeah. Certain some things they do use AI on, apparently, storytelling. But but that's backlash. This is the one take, one shot Smackdown review where I do it immediately following SmackDown so you get my raw gut reaction. My gut reaction. Oh, ooh, oh man, oh kidney, kidney failure. I'm just one, I'm just one large medical bill away from bankruptcy. All right, I don't know why I said that. Jacob and uh the Jacob Fatu, he comes to the ring, he's definitely getting better, he's definitely getting better on the microphone, and the Usos come out, and Jacob is like, you know, nobody was saying nothing to me. You guys always looked at me like a failure, but now now that I'm challenging for Roman, somebody suddenly people want to be nice to me. And Jay was like having flashbacks. He's like, Man, you don't understand when you get into the ring against Roman, he's gonna like humiliate you, all these things right in front of your family. You need to you need to acknowledge him. Like, we way to sell that one, Jay. Jay having flashbacks of his SummerSlam match and his hell in the cell match, but yeah, you know, Jacob's like, no, no, I'm going to die. I'm going to die before I acknowledge him and not win this title. So can Roman say the same? We had a Roman, or then we had a Jacob, Jacob and Powerhouse Hobbs. They had a little like I like that. I like Jacob and Powerhouse Hobbs. I want to see more of that. I don't want to see more of Powerhouse Hobbs and Solo Sokoa, though. I'm kind of kind of tired of them treating solo sequoa like as a manager or a jobber or a guy to just get others over. I wish they would try to get get solo over a little bit here and there. And then the Usos will talk to Powerhouse Hobbs also and say, yeah, you better, you better not, you better not get involved. You better not get involved. You know, we the you don't want the you don't want the wrath of the tribal chief. The first match of the night was Kiana James versus Tiffany Stran. It was a fine match. It was a fine match. Uh Tiffany does win. And the story here is I think the breakup of Kiana and and Julia. And I think we need to do that quick. In fact, break them up and send Julia over to Raw as a baby face. I think that would be I think we would do that. But the match itself was whatever, fine. Talatunga versus Damian Priest. This was a surprisingly good match. I thought I didn't know what I was like, I was not expecting much, and I actually enjoyed it. And it I felt it went maybe a little too long, but still kind of cool. I uh there was one time where Talatunga had Damian Priest up for a suplex. Like, wow, Damian Priest is a tall guy, and so was Talatunga. So like Damian Priest was like, you know, his feet, his feet were probably 15 feet in the air by the time he took the he took the drop. Talatunga gets the biggest win of his career. Eventually, our truth is gonna come in, right? Our truth is gonna try to save the day, which will cost Damian Priest the match because our truth starts to get beat up, you know. And then when after the match, Solo and his boys, the MFTs, who are only now Tomatunga and Tunga, uh not Tomatunga and Tallatunga because JC Mateo hate that name, and Tungaloa, the real tribal chief, were released by TKO. And so as they're about to beat up R-Truth, then Powerhouse Hub Hobbs comes for the save. This will set up a match between Tomatunga and Powerhouse Hobbs later in the night. That match was actually okay. It kind of, again, I feel like it kind of went a little too long. If this had been a two-hour smack down, I think it would have been a good smack down. But because it was three hours, parts of it felt like a like a chore to watch. And I just feel that this should have been a quicker matchup. Quicker matchup, but powerhouse Hobbs did win, and solo Sokoa didn't help Tomatunga because Tomatunga got mad at Solo and was like, why did we let Powerhouse Hobbs? Why didn't we beat him down? And Solo's like, we're trying to recruit him, and Tomatonga's like, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go out and do something about it. So Solo didn't help him at all to teach him a lesson because he's like, Yeah, you know what happened, Tomatunga. You didn't you weren't able to beat Powerhouse Hobbs. So, yes, powerhouse Hobbs. He won. We then had Matt Cardona. He is he was called QB4 from from Ricky Saints, and Ricky Saints then goes out and proves that he is QB4, and he beats him. So, yeah, uh Matt Cardona, he he he lost. That's pretty much what I gotta say. It was very, it was very much a dead crowd. I think we need to get Ricky Saints in some kind of big program because the fans don't seem to be really feeling him just yet. I'm not saying that as a bad thing or a good thing, I'm saying that as an observation. So I think we need to, instead of just letting Ricky Saints' matchups be the thing that get him over, I think we need to give him an actual program, a storyline, a big old storyline. Oh, by the way, Truth comforted Sami Zayn and said, I see the family resemblance at the funeral. That was pretty, that was pretty funny. We had the the women's division was like crazy tonight, though. It went completely bonkers. We have Paige and Ann Bree Primo. She comes out, and then you have then you have JC Jane and Fatal Influence come out. Then you have Naya and Lash come out. The crowd starts singing whoop that trick because if you didn't know Lash Legend and Trick Williams, they're engaged. But Naya was able to was able to play it all. Because I don't know if Lash knew what to do. And this is a good this is why it's really good to have Naya actually paired with Lash because it helps her navigate these things now that she's on the main roster. But and and maybe Lash could have done it, I don't know, but uh, but Naya jumped in and was like, yeah, trick, trick, trick. She called she called Fatal Influence all tricks, and that was kind of funny, and the crowd was that had to shut up because of it. And then uh I they beat the Naya, the the irresistible forces beat down the champions. They start to walk away, but then we start the matchup where we have Rhea Ripley and Rhea Ripley come down, stare down with Lash, gets in the ring, Charlotte Alexa come in, they fight Fatal Influence. At some point, Jade Gargill interferes, but the ref doesn't see it. But the ref had to obviously not look in that direction, so kind of buried the ref. I wish Jade should have like interfered, pulled Rhea off the apron, and then hid better, but she didn't hide. But whatever. One, two, three. Then Jade starts beating everybody up, and B Fab and Meat Chip come in. So it was just like it was a free-for-all. Like, I think like there's like what how many women is that? We have two the irresistible forces, then the then the six participants in the in the matchup, and then three more jade. That was a lot, a lot of people. Let's just say that. I ran out of fingers. No, I think it was nine, but or eight. Regardless. What else happened? Um SmackDown. I think I think that might be it. I think that might be it. Oh no. There's something else. I know something else happened. Oh, Ms. Danhausen. There was a point where they go up to Danhausen. He's trying to get people to sign up to be his mystery partner. They laugh at him because he doesn't have a mystery partner, and they're like, the only person stupid enough to be your partner is this person. And Kit Wilson holds up a mirror and Danhausen sees it and he's like, Oh, you're right. So Danhausen then goes later in the night, tries to clone himself. He tries to, he's trying to clone himself. This is where I think we're a little like if we actually bring out a Danhausen clone, to me that is gonna be a little too much. I I do like goofy wrestling, but there is there's a fine line. There's a fine line. Like I said, I love the I love the gingerbread man stuff, but I didn't like that Ray Phoenix was selling it. I love the Danhausen stuff, but if there's an actual clone, I'm probably not gonna like that, but I am gonna hold judgment because I didn't I was a little iffy on on Danhausen when he first appeared, but the next night on Raw, he did win me over real quick. So Danhausen has earned some like trust where I'm like, okay, let me just wait and see how this plays itself out. I'm a little apprehensive it's if it's a clone, but if it just like what if like what if we open the door of the the the box where the clone is supposed to come out and it's like powerhouse hobs and paint or something? I don't know, then you know, and we just say it's a clone. You know, there's there's there's definitely room. Oh, you know what I forgot? The like the biggest one of the biggest talking points, we have so Cody go. We have well, first it's Paul Heyman. Paul Heyman goes to Nick Aldis, and it's like, all right, this is the contract. Then Gunther comes in, and Gunther, it sounds like Gunther has cashed in his favor to to fight Cody Rhodes, and Paul Heyman's like, Yes, we got it. But then Cody Rhodes' music hits, and Gunther gets mad and walks away. So then Paul Heyman says, I'll handle this. He goes to the ring and he says, Cody, you gotta have a matchup with Gunther at Clash in Italy, and then here's here's the contract. I need you to sign it basically. And then as he's leaving, Cody says, Wait a second, why are you here? Are you if you're not with Gunther? Then what are you doing here? You don't got Roman, you don't got punked, you don't got brack lesnar anymore. And then and then Paul Heyman teases, they eventually all come to me, and he's teasing a Cody Hope Rhodes heel turn, which I'm like, oh, cool. I like that. I like that. Planting seeds. Hopefully, these seeds actually grow into a plant because they I don't know, because a lot of drop storylines, a lot of drop storylines. Heck, Kyrie Sain is a drop storyline, and then she ends up getting fired by WWE. We never get payoff for that. So is this gonna be paid off, or are we just supposed to forget about it? But uh, Guther will attack Cody Rhodes, and then Cody will fight him off, and then Cody's like, I'm easy to find, hard to beat. I guess that's Cody's new new catchphrase, and Gunther kind of just leaves. But what I don't what this I don't like this though, because I like I'm fine with Gunther versus Cody, but why would Gunther cash in a favor? Because there's no reason for Gunther to have to cash in a favor to get a title shot against Cody Rhodes. Because A, you're allowed to just cross brands. Jacob Fatto is actively crossing brands to fight Roman Reigns. So why can't Gunther actively cross brands to fight Cody Rhodes? Cody Rhodes isn't ducking anybody, he's easy to find, hard to beat. So therefore, he could just Gunther could just walk up to him. And last week, Ricky Saints did just walk up to Cody, and Cody just granted him a title shot. So Gunther wouldn't need to use his favor. I get it. The favor was probably to face Brock Lesnar in a retirement match. And now that Brock has been moved to the alumni section of WWE.com, that we we just have to like, there's no I don't know, there's just that that storyline has been like, you know, it's it's not in play anymore. But still, it still doesn't make sense. Just because the story has now changed because of real-world circumstances doesn't mean we just throw it away. Have Gunther hold it over Paul Heyman's head for years, have him just hold it over his head for years, even because there's just no reason for Guther to make Paul Heyman to do that, no reason whatsoever. I mean, Rhea Ripley even is a raw raw uh she's on raw, she's a raw woman that just happens to hold the SmackDown title. That's why she's on SmackDown. That's the only reason she's on Smackdown. So if if Guther had to come to SmackDown to face to be the SmackDown champion, no, he didn't. No, he didn't. Just like you just gotta make it make sense, people. You just gotta make it make sense. But regardless, we'll have Gunther versus Cody Rhodes at Clash in Italy. Maybe the favor could have been that we have the match in Italy and that Cody Rhodes can't face anybody anymore. And Guther could be like, because I want to win my title in my in Europe. You know, we could have we just had to add a couple little sentences, and that could have been it. The favor could have literally been Cody's not allowed to defend his title again until Italy when I get a chance to win it on my country, on my home turf. And that could have been the favor. Also, let's forget the fact that why does why does Paul Heyman have such negotiating power? Like, how does he have such negotiating power when he's just the manager of the vision? Anyways, that's my one-take one-shot review. What did you think, boys and girls? I'm gonna give it a one, two, three, four, five, six point five, six point five on the chop ometer. The final segment really saved the day for me. This was just I uh things were just a little too drawn out, but overall, overall be. I'm gonna give it a 6.5. I think that's it. I think that is it. Royce Keys, Jade Cargill, Page. Yep, okay. There you go. Boys, girls, see you bye. Oh, we are gonna live stream backlash tomorrow. Backlash!