WWE SmackDown 8/21/2026: 3 Things We Hated And 3 Things We Loved

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s weekly review of "WWE SmackDown," the show that gave us a long-awaited dream championship match between Kevin Owens and CM Punk — and had Sami Zayn come out to ruin it.

The WINC staff has some thoughts about that, you can be sure.

And that's not all — we also have thoughts about MFT retaining their tag titles against Damian Priest and R-Truth, Blake Monroe's in-ring debut (but not really), and the first appearance of Hiromu Takahashi, now known as Kyoki.If you missed the show, you can read about everything that went down Friday night on our "WWE SmackDown" 8/21/26 results page, including Baron Corbin wrestling Lil Yachty on Sunday Night's Main Event.

We don't have much to say about that in this column, because this co…

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