WWE SmackDown - 3/27/2026: 3 Things We Loved And 3 We Hated

Randy Orton and Jelly Roll make an entrance - Elsa/Getty Images The Road to WrestleMania continues, and it brought "WWE SmackDown" to Pittsburgh, PA, home of the Penguins, the Pirates, and "The Pitt. " The show was loaded with Jelly Roll appearances, featured a US Title switch, and even had Matt Cardona wrestling in the main event. But enough about what happened, we already covered that.

Instead, it's time to talk about the very good and the very bad from Friday's show in the PPG Paints Arena. As always, there was plenty to love, like Sami Zayn's big win, and there was plenty to hate, like the wall-to-wall Jelly Roll coverage, that would even make his own mother say, "Ok, enough. " But enough of my bloviating, let's get down to the very best and the very worst from the March 28, 2026, edition of "WWE SmackDown.

" Read more: Where Are MTV's Wrestling Society X Stars Now? Loved: WrestleMania Finally Taking Shape Drew McIntyre makes an entrance - Elsa/Getty Images It has taken weeks but WrestleMania 42 is finally starting to take shape. WWE has been kicking around various ideas, and teasing others, but the general managers of "Raw" and "SmackDown" have finally started saying "at WrestleMania" with their whole chests.

No better example of this than Nick Aldis stepping in between Drew McIntyre and Jacob Fatu and making an unsanctioned match between the two at WrestleMania. There is a very real probability that a violent brawl between McIntyre and Fatu could steal the weekend, and while I think there's been too much p****footing around about WrestleMania, the matches themselves have some real bite to them. There's about 20-something days until the big show, and they've already given me a match that will feel like appointment television.