{"id":116330,"date":"2021-04-02T20:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=116330"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:02:01","slug":"wwe-announces-wrestlemania-edition-of-smackdown-for-april-9th-w-hazelwoods-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/04\/02\/wwe-announces-wrestlemania-edition-of-smackdown-for-april-9th-w-hazelwoods-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE announces &#8220;WrestleMania Edition&#8221; of Smackdown for April 9th (w\/ Hazelwood&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2599933858\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/smackdown\/article\/special-wrestlemania-edition-of-smackdown\">WWE announced<\/a> a special &#8220;WrestleMania Edition&#8221; of Smackdown to air next Friday, April 9th, just one night before the show proper begins on the 10th.<\/p>\n<p>First, it was revealed that &#8220;the WWE Universe&#8221; will hear from all three wrestlers in the Universal Championship match: Universal Champion Roman Reigns, Edge, and Daniel Bryan<\/p>\n<p>Second, a fatal four-way match for the Tag Team Championship was announced. Dolph Ziggler &amp; Robert Roode will defend against The Street Profits, Alpha Academy, and Rey &amp; Dominik Mysterio.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, in a departure from previous years, WWE announced the &#8220;Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal&#8221; will take place on the special edition of Smackdown. WWE on FOX tweeted out the participants in the match, totaling 22 men including Mustafa Ali, Cedric Alexander, Elias, and others.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal participants will be: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbWaT000CB\">pic.twitter.com\/tbWaT000CB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEonFOX\/status\/1377713145918132229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smackdown airs 8 EST\/5 PST every Friday night on FOX.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Hazelwood&#8217;s Analysis: Even with two nights, they lacked space for a tag championship match and what has become a WrestleMania staple in the Battle Royal. If it&#8217;s to keep each night around three hours, then that&#8217;s fine. It is a bit curious they&#8217;re packing so much before their biggest show of the year, but there&#8217;s also an argument that loading the show will give viewers more incentive to purchase Peacock subscriptions to view the show.)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/04\/02\/aews-chris-jericho-announced-for-wwes-steve-austin-broken-skull-sessions-austin-comments-on-how-the-deal-came-together\/\">AEW\u2019s Chris Jericho announced for WWE\u2019s Steve Austin Broken Skull Sessions, Austin comments on how the deal came together<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3503142338\"><div id=\"pwtor-575424862\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Yesterday, WWE announced a special &#8220;WrestleMania Edition&#8221; of Smackdown to air next Friday, April 9th, just one night before the show proper begins on the 10th. First, it was revealed that &#8220;the WWE Universe&#8221; will <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/04\/02\/wwe-announces-wrestlemania-edition-of-smackdown-for-april-9th-w-hazelwoods-analysis\/\" title=\"WWE announces &#8220;WrestleMania Edition&#8221; of Smackdown for April 9th (w\/ Hazelwood&#8217;s Analysis)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":115259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[72,132,71,117],"class_list":["post-116330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-smackdown","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/03\/WrestleMania-37.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116333,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116330\/revisions\/116333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}