Overview:
Smackdown, opens up with Booker T making his entrance and welcoming everyone to it. Then he introduces the World Heavyweight Champion, Mark Henry and tries to get on his good side. He ends up getting on his bad side thou, cause Henry well is against the world. Henry then goes on about defeating Randy Orton and will beat him at Hell in a Cell, along with members of the 'Hall of Pain.' Then Henry argues with Booker T, over how Orton will beat or lose at Hell in a Cell. Following that Mark Henry gets ready to face the Great Khali. The match opens with Khali beating down Henry with clubbing fists, and kicks. Eventually Henry, grounds Khali and hits several big splashes. Khali tries to fight back and fail, while falling into the World's Strongest Slam. After Henry beats Khali he then goes to crush Khali's knee with the steel chair and body splash.
Backstage, Khali is on a stretcher as Jinder Mahal confronts them. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance, with a match for Evan Bourne to face Jack Swagger. Swagger is joined by Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler. The match is pretty good, Evan is seemingly to get a better push. During the match Ziggler tries to interfere, but fails and is attacked by Kofi Kingston, while the ref looks at the fight outside Vickie then interferes helping Swagger. From the interferance, Swagger locks the Ankle Lock on Evan making him tap out. Then breaking news, at Hell in a Cell it will be Sin Cara vs Sin Cara!
The next match is Sin Cara(Mystico) facing off with Heath Slater. In the opening minutes he botches a moves and quickly follows up with his finisher. Then the fake Sin Cara(Hunaco) reveils himself, as the Black and Silver Sin Cara. After that we get a promo for tonights Intercontinental Championship match, Cody Rhodes defending against Sheamus due to Raw's Battle Royal ending with the interferance from Christian. Following the promo we get a commerical break and return to a promo for WWE COO Triple H's recent issues, then all the superstars are in a meeting with John Lauriniatis talking about their greivances. Next we get a Divas' Match with Kelly Kelly facing Natalya, as Beth Phoenix join commentary. The match beings with Kelly elbowing Natalya, and Natalya not getting any counters. Soon Natalya begins to wear Kelly Kelly down, but Kelly lands a roll-up pinfall. After the match Beth Phoenix hits Kelly with a Glam Slam and Natalya hits her with the new submission.
Following the Divas' match we come to the Intercontinental Championship match. Just before the match gets started, Cody Rhodes rants about the injustice that has been given to him and talks smack about Sheamus. During Sheamus' entrance he talks about how he'll beat Rhodes for the title tonight. The match finally gets going and Sheamus overpowers Rhodes. Sheamus just beats him down in the opening minutes, until Rhodes exits and tries to re-enter the ring. Sheamus gets him back in and continues to assault him. Somehow Rhodes, manages to fight out of the assualt and lands a Beautiful Disaster kick on him heading into the commerical break. Coming back from the break Rhodes is maintaining to wear down Sheamus by working on his "injured" shoulder. Sheamus fights back leading to powerslams, diving shoulder block, and finally the Brogue Kick, but misses it. Sheamus recovers and tries for the Celtic Cross, but Christian hits the ring and hits Sheamus with the KillSwitch. The match ends via a DQ, while Rhodes retains the title.
Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder shows up and is a match against JTG of all people. The match is pretty boring starting off since they have JTG out wrestling Ryder. Eventually Ryder, fights out and gets the crowd backing him up. Ryder hits the Broski Boot, and follows up with the Rough Ryder for the win! Woo Woo Woo, You Know It! Backstage Triple H runs into Lauriniatis, and tells him off about his backstabbing ways. Just Lauriniatis tries to say he stands by Triple H, but we know he's not so serious. After another break, we get the stupid Hell in a Cell promo that has been spammed since after Night of Champions and we're read off the matches.
Following the Hell in a Cell promo, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton about his upcoming match with Mark Henry this sunday. Orton is furious with Henry's earlier statements and swears he'll hit a RKO on him. Along with that Orton swears he'll end Henry's reign as World Heavyweight Champion leading into tonight's main event. The main event thou is Christian vs Orton, where it starts off with them countering one another. Eventually the turns to Christian's favor as he begins to dominate him. After a short break, we return to Christian still beating Orton. Soon Orton fights back, with Christian managing some reversals. Christian hits a Spear and only gets a 2-Count pinfall; while Christian goes for the KillSwitch, Orton reverses and lands the Rope-Hung DDT. Two then fight outside the ring, leading into a double count-out draw. While Orton tries to RKO Christian on the announce table, Rhodes comes to the save, then Sheamus comes to Orton's save. That all leads to Henry coming down to hit Orton with the World's Strongest Slam, which he does but when trying to destroy him with a chair Orton kip up hitting a RKO to end the night!
Review:
Well Smackdown was alright, and had alright matches. Just the matchs were all predictable. The opening match was good, just I wanted it to go longer since it was a battle of Goliaths'. Following that we get Evan Bourne facing Swagger, I'd perfer it end via Swagger's Gut-Wrench Powerbomb instead of the Ankle Lock. The Ankle Lock just doesn't really fit Swagger since he can't match up to Angle. Following that we get a crappy Sin Cara match and crappy Divas' match. Recently these matches just bore the hell out of me! The Intercontinental Championship, was one of the best on the card. It was really enjoyable, the whole fact that Sheamus destroyed him and how Christian jumped him seemlessly, following that we got a Zac Ryder match! Anytime Zac Ryder is on any show it just adds to my Rating! Well anyways the main event was good, along with the final minutes with the brawls and Orton hitting the RKO in his hometown. With that all being said, SmackDown was great match were played out mostly correct. The key issues with it were mostly the first few opening matches and the end results, actually most of the results hurt the rating for tonight. So I got to go with gut wrenching guess of like 3.5-Star Rating!
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
WWE Smackdown 9/16
Overview:
Smackdown opens right up to Edge's return! Also anyone notice that Rated-RRR sign tonight it made me laugh. Edge talks about missing the WWE and shooting that show he does for SyFy. Then Edge cuts to tonight's the Cutting Edge with guest Mark Henry and Randy Orton. Following that statement, Cody Rhodes shows to make a shot on Haven. Edge then tells Cody to quit bitching and blaming! Cody then goes to starting more bull crap on being Intercontinetal Champion, beating Ted DiBiase and Orton on the last Raw before calling Edge a tragedy. Edge retorts about talking how Cody is so boring, before exitting the ring. Rhodes starts ranting before being attacked by Ted DiBiase who leaves Cody in the ring with a Dream Street.
Backstage Sin Cara(Hunico) and Daniel Byran make their way to the ring before the break. After the commerical break we comeback to a promo for the match. The match itself thou opens with a brawl, Byran really being dominating in the opening mintues. Sin Cara fights back leading into another break. Following the break we return with Sin Cara locking Bryan in the Inverted Indian Deathlock as Bryan fights out. Bryan eventually breaks away by catching Sin Cara in face with a kick and elbow. Sin Cara reverses by locking Bryan in a Tree of Woe and attacks Bryan, leading to a DQ victory for Bryan. After the match the real Sin Cara(Mystico) appears and faces off with Hunico who leaves when the crowd sides with the original.
In Teddy Long's office he talks with Zac Ryder about Night of Champions and the World Heavyweight Championship match. After Zac Ryder leaves, Aksana tries hitting on Teddy Long as Trish Stratus walks in. Following this small promo, we cut to AJ with Kaitlyn at ringside facing Beth Pheonix with Natalya. Beth just destroys AJ within a few minutes. Then we get some promos for Night of Champions and Sheamus before cutting to a Tag Team match with Sheamus & Justin Gabrial facing off with Wade Barrett & Christian. In the opening minutes the Barrett and Christian isolate Gabrial off from Sheamus. Finally Sheamus gets in the match and begins to take back the match. Sheamus cleans out Christian before hitting Barrett with the Brogue Kick and tagging in Gabrial for to hit a 450 Splash for the win.
The Great Khali makes his entrance as they show what happened last week before he lays a beating to Heath Slater. Jinder Mahal comes down to the ring, and he's pissed with Khali and I really don't care about what he's saying. Eventually Jinder gets in the ring and attacks Khali with Slater. Khali breaks through and scares off Jinder Mahal while hitting the Double Handed Choke Slam. Next we get the promo for CM Punk vs Triple H in the No Holds Barred match at Night of Champions. After the promo we get to Air Boom's Evan Bourne facing off with Awesome Truth's R-Truth. As Awesome Truth makes their way into the arena, they remix "What's Up?" into "What's Up? Canada Sucks!" while the Miz joins commentary with Kofi who previously joined too.
Evan and R-Truth brawl about with their two different styles. Evan gets Truth down and goes for Air Bourne. Evan misses it and lands right into R-Truth's Shut Up facecrusher. Backstage Edge makes his way to the ring for the Cutting Edge with guests Randy Orton and Mark Henry. Orton starts about how Mark Henry is the World's Strongest Man and how he's trying to make a statement. Orton even says he'll beat Mark Henry at Night of Champions. Then Edge, goes into how Mark Henry has failed several times at getting to the top. Mark Henry then retorts with how he knows and what he does, which is he's coming for the World Heavyweight Championship. Then Edge where says this is the part where I said Teddy said you can't fight during the Cutting Edge, where he cuts to the Cutting Edge is over. Orton and Henry brawl it out while the whole roster races to break the fight. Henry lands the World's Strongest Slam on Orton then battles the rest of the roster. Smackdown ends with Mark Henry holding the Championship high over his head.
Review:
Smackdown started off pretty good,and actually made me really enjoy this episode. The whole intro with Edge's return leading to Cody Rhodes getting attacked by Ted DiBiase was awesome. I really enjoyed that now Ted might finally have a chance cause I've always had a liking for Ted Dibiase. The fact he's been getting crapped on by the WWE is amazingly huge Bull Crap cause I believe Ted is better than Cody. Anyways the opening match with Bryan and Sin Cara(Hunico) was great just shouldn't end with a 5-Count DQ. Following that is the little Sin Cara vs Sin Cara face-off which should've been a brawl if the suits were different. Then Trish Stratus' little show up backstage was cool, then Beth Pheonix destroying AJ was cool but got old. Where as the Tag Team match with Sheamus was awesome cause Sheamus just kicks everyone's ass. As for the end of the night it went all to hell, until the Cutting Edge that's where it got good again. Just it didn't end well for Orton, as he got beat down again along with the roster. That whole brawl was just to keep marketing Mark Henry being the World's Strongest Man! As a result that made this Smackdown just a pure 4-Star Rating, which was great due to recent weeks of failures.
Smackdown opens right up to Edge's return! Also anyone notice that Rated-RRR sign tonight it made me laugh. Edge talks about missing the WWE and shooting that show he does for SyFy. Then Edge cuts to tonight's the Cutting Edge with guest Mark Henry and Randy Orton. Following that statement, Cody Rhodes shows to make a shot on Haven. Edge then tells Cody to quit bitching and blaming! Cody then goes to starting more bull crap on being Intercontinetal Champion, beating Ted DiBiase and Orton on the last Raw before calling Edge a tragedy. Edge retorts about talking how Cody is so boring, before exitting the ring. Rhodes starts ranting before being attacked by Ted DiBiase who leaves Cody in the ring with a Dream Street.
Backstage Sin Cara(Hunico) and Daniel Byran make their way to the ring before the break. After the commerical break we comeback to a promo for the match. The match itself thou opens with a brawl, Byran really being dominating in the opening mintues. Sin Cara fights back leading into another break. Following the break we return with Sin Cara locking Bryan in the Inverted Indian Deathlock as Bryan fights out. Bryan eventually breaks away by catching Sin Cara in face with a kick and elbow. Sin Cara reverses by locking Bryan in a Tree of Woe and attacks Bryan, leading to a DQ victory for Bryan. After the match the real Sin Cara(Mystico) appears and faces off with Hunico who leaves when the crowd sides with the original.
In Teddy Long's office he talks with Zac Ryder about Night of Champions and the World Heavyweight Championship match. After Zac Ryder leaves, Aksana tries hitting on Teddy Long as Trish Stratus walks in. Following this small promo, we cut to AJ with Kaitlyn at ringside facing Beth Pheonix with Natalya. Beth just destroys AJ within a few minutes. Then we get some promos for Night of Champions and Sheamus before cutting to a Tag Team match with Sheamus & Justin Gabrial facing off with Wade Barrett & Christian. In the opening minutes the Barrett and Christian isolate Gabrial off from Sheamus. Finally Sheamus gets in the match and begins to take back the match. Sheamus cleans out Christian before hitting Barrett with the Brogue Kick and tagging in Gabrial for to hit a 450 Splash for the win.
The Great Khali makes his entrance as they show what happened last week before he lays a beating to Heath Slater. Jinder Mahal comes down to the ring, and he's pissed with Khali and I really don't care about what he's saying. Eventually Jinder gets in the ring and attacks Khali with Slater. Khali breaks through and scares off Jinder Mahal while hitting the Double Handed Choke Slam. Next we get the promo for CM Punk vs Triple H in the No Holds Barred match at Night of Champions. After the promo we get to Air Boom's Evan Bourne facing off with Awesome Truth's R-Truth. As Awesome Truth makes their way into the arena, they remix "What's Up?" into "What's Up? Canada Sucks!" while the Miz joins commentary with Kofi who previously joined too.
Evan and R-Truth brawl about with their two different styles. Evan gets Truth down and goes for Air Bourne. Evan misses it and lands right into R-Truth's Shut Up facecrusher. Backstage Edge makes his way to the ring for the Cutting Edge with guests Randy Orton and Mark Henry. Orton starts about how Mark Henry is the World's Strongest Man and how he's trying to make a statement. Orton even says he'll beat Mark Henry at Night of Champions. Then Edge, goes into how Mark Henry has failed several times at getting to the top. Mark Henry then retorts with how he knows and what he does, which is he's coming for the World Heavyweight Championship. Then Edge where says this is the part where I said Teddy said you can't fight during the Cutting Edge, where he cuts to the Cutting Edge is over. Orton and Henry brawl it out while the whole roster races to break the fight. Henry lands the World's Strongest Slam on Orton then battles the rest of the roster. Smackdown ends with Mark Henry holding the Championship high over his head.
Review:
Smackdown started off pretty good,and actually made me really enjoy this episode. The whole intro with Edge's return leading to Cody Rhodes getting attacked by Ted DiBiase was awesome. I really enjoyed that now Ted might finally have a chance cause I've always had a liking for Ted Dibiase. The fact he's been getting crapped on by the WWE is amazingly huge Bull Crap cause I believe Ted is better than Cody. Anyways the opening match with Bryan and Sin Cara(Hunico) was great just shouldn't end with a 5-Count DQ. Following that is the little Sin Cara vs Sin Cara face-off which should've been a brawl if the suits were different. Then Trish Stratus' little show up backstage was cool, then Beth Pheonix destroying AJ was cool but got old. Where as the Tag Team match with Sheamus was awesome cause Sheamus just kicks everyone's ass. As for the end of the night it went all to hell, until the Cutting Edge that's where it got good again. Just it didn't end well for Orton, as he got beat down again along with the roster. That whole brawl was just to keep marketing Mark Henry being the World's Strongest Man! As a result that made this Smackdown just a pure 4-Star Rating, which was great due to recent weeks of failures.
Friday, September 9, 2011
WWE Smackdown 9/9
Overview:
Smackdown opens with a huge promo featuring Mark Henry's domination of Smackdown before the intro starts up. Henry then starts the show by talking about his victories over Kane and Big Show, along with his Hall of Pain. Then Henry is cut off by Zac Ryder, and tries to make him a Broski while announcing that theres a no contact rule for him and Orton. Henry orders Ryder back into the ring, then asks him who'll win at Night of Champions where he tries to get out of the question. Ryder tries to get out of the way but is hit with a World's Strongest Slam. Ezekiel Jackson then makes his entrance to face Henry in the opening match.
Jackson and Ezekiel, face off and go for a power struggle clash. The two brawl about and Jackson tries to lock a Tourture Rack in, but fails. The match goes outside where Henry uses the ring to beat up Jackson. Henry then starts to lay it into Jackson and hits off a fast World's Strongest Slamto pick up the pinfall. After the match Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes is promoted as Teddy Long runs into Aksana again. Then following the Aksana and Teddy Long, confrontation Sin Cara makes his entrance.
The Sin Cara match, is him beating down Tyson Kidd while the commentary talk about his dirty attack to Daniel Bryan. Sin Cara just mostly dominates Tyson Kidd in his usual way. The match is just plain boring cause the moves are just the same each week. After the match Josh Matthews has an interview with Sin Cara, who can now speak english! If anyone doesn't know this Sin Cara isn't Mystico he was recently replaced by Hunico due to the suspension. Then Bryan comes out and calls out Sin Cara for a rematch next week before being attacked and locked into his LaBell Lock.
When coming back to Smackdown a promo for Cody Rhodes, before Matt Strike has an interview with Randy Orton about facing Cody tonight. Following the interview, Kelly Kelly makes her entrance and awaits Natalya's entrance whose accompanied by Beth Phoenix. This Divas match is oddly out matched even thou Kelly Kelly gives Natalya a run for money in the opening minutes. Natalya beats down Kelly Kelly, but Kelly manages to get a roll up for the win and swiftly exits the ring.
Christian comes out and starts complaining about his match on Raw last week and the Steel Cage on Smackdown the following night. Then Christian continues to complain about how he wants another match until Sheamus cuts him off. Sheamus then intimidates Christian completely to leave, while Wade Barrett makes his entrance. Yeah another battle of the UK'ers! They tie it up and stuggle before they began to brawl about the ring. The pace flips back and forth between the two, with Wade Barrett eventually over powering Sheamus for awhile. Then when Sheamus finally begins to get momentum Christian interferes, Sheamus brawls out and hits Wade with the Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus can hit the Celtic Cross on Christian, he breaks from the hold and runs from the ring.
Air Boom then makes their entrance to face Jinder Mahal and the Great Khali. The match is pretty much the same as before, Evan got his ass beat down. Then Kofi appears and starts brawling about hitting his moves on Jinder. The match the ends the same as usual Khali and Jinder screw up cost them the match. Following, the match the entrances for Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton occur for the Champion vs Champion match for tonight's Main Event. Cody shot a quick promo thou before about Orton and Ted DiBiase. He ranted about stupid crap to practically force out Orton.
The match starts out with Orton beats Cody about in the opening minutes. Through out the match Orton just dominates Cody. Sometime later on in the match Cody actually tries to make a good come back. After a commerical break Cody is still maintaining the lead on Orton. Eventually Orton, makes a break from Cody and connects several moves on his old friend. Cody tries to his kick but misses and falls for a RKO. Following the match Mark henry makes his way down to the ring. Henry slams Orton down then, places a chair on his throat and sits down on him while taunting him.
Review:
Smackdown was slightly horrible, cause I didn't catch much of my attention. I thought the matches could've been greatly better. The promos also weren't even watchable at most times. Like this was just barely reaching a 3-Star Rating, and like probably hit a 2.5-Star Rating. The matches that are worth mentioning as the better matches were Barrett/Sheamus and Orton/Rhodes. Those two seemed to be great matches, just every time Barrett/Sheamus meet they've always ended horribly. I want the UK'ers to beat the living hell out of them. As for the matches that could've been greater should've been Henry/Jackson and Kelly/Natalya. My biggest complaints were they seemed too short and didn't have alot of counters or reversals. The Henry/Jackson match I wanted a battle of monsters not a Fat Strong man overpowering a Dominating guy like Jackson. As for the Divas, Kelly gave Natalya a run for her money earlier on but it didn't switch back and forth to gain a pop from the crowd. I really want the Divas to really step it up and be enough to rival some of the better Divas matches of yesterday. That's why this SmackDown hit a low of 2.5-Stars!
Smackdown opens with a huge promo featuring Mark Henry's domination of Smackdown before the intro starts up. Henry then starts the show by talking about his victories over Kane and Big Show, along with his Hall of Pain. Then Henry is cut off by Zac Ryder, and tries to make him a Broski while announcing that theres a no contact rule for him and Orton. Henry orders Ryder back into the ring, then asks him who'll win at Night of Champions where he tries to get out of the question. Ryder tries to get out of the way but is hit with a World's Strongest Slam. Ezekiel Jackson then makes his entrance to face Henry in the opening match.
Jackson and Ezekiel, face off and go for a power struggle clash. The two brawl about and Jackson tries to lock a Tourture Rack in, but fails. The match goes outside where Henry uses the ring to beat up Jackson. Henry then starts to lay it into Jackson and hits off a fast World's Strongest Slamto pick up the pinfall. After the match Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes is promoted as Teddy Long runs into Aksana again. Then following the Aksana and Teddy Long, confrontation Sin Cara makes his entrance.
The Sin Cara match, is him beating down Tyson Kidd while the commentary talk about his dirty attack to Daniel Bryan. Sin Cara just mostly dominates Tyson Kidd in his usual way. The match is just plain boring cause the moves are just the same each week. After the match Josh Matthews has an interview with Sin Cara, who can now speak english! If anyone doesn't know this Sin Cara isn't Mystico he was recently replaced by Hunico due to the suspension. Then Bryan comes out and calls out Sin Cara for a rematch next week before being attacked and locked into his LaBell Lock.
When coming back to Smackdown a promo for Cody Rhodes, before Matt Strike has an interview with Randy Orton about facing Cody tonight. Following the interview, Kelly Kelly makes her entrance and awaits Natalya's entrance whose accompanied by Beth Phoenix. This Divas match is oddly out matched even thou Kelly Kelly gives Natalya a run for money in the opening minutes. Natalya beats down Kelly Kelly, but Kelly manages to get a roll up for the win and swiftly exits the ring.
Christian comes out and starts complaining about his match on Raw last week and the Steel Cage on Smackdown the following night. Then Christian continues to complain about how he wants another match until Sheamus cuts him off. Sheamus then intimidates Christian completely to leave, while Wade Barrett makes his entrance. Yeah another battle of the UK'ers! They tie it up and stuggle before they began to brawl about the ring. The pace flips back and forth between the two, with Wade Barrett eventually over powering Sheamus for awhile. Then when Sheamus finally begins to get momentum Christian interferes, Sheamus brawls out and hits Wade with the Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus can hit the Celtic Cross on Christian, he breaks from the hold and runs from the ring.
Air Boom then makes their entrance to face Jinder Mahal and the Great Khali. The match is pretty much the same as before, Evan got his ass beat down. Then Kofi appears and starts brawling about hitting his moves on Jinder. The match the ends the same as usual Khali and Jinder screw up cost them the match. Following, the match the entrances for Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton occur for the Champion vs Champion match for tonight's Main Event. Cody shot a quick promo thou before about Orton and Ted DiBiase. He ranted about stupid crap to practically force out Orton.
The match starts out with Orton beats Cody about in the opening minutes. Through out the match Orton just dominates Cody. Sometime later on in the match Cody actually tries to make a good come back. After a commerical break Cody is still maintaining the lead on Orton. Eventually Orton, makes a break from Cody and connects several moves on his old friend. Cody tries to his kick but misses and falls for a RKO. Following the match Mark henry makes his way down to the ring. Henry slams Orton down then, places a chair on his throat and sits down on him while taunting him.
Review:
Smackdown was slightly horrible, cause I didn't catch much of my attention. I thought the matches could've been greatly better. The promos also weren't even watchable at most times. Like this was just barely reaching a 3-Star Rating, and like probably hit a 2.5-Star Rating. The matches that are worth mentioning as the better matches were Barrett/Sheamus and Orton/Rhodes. Those two seemed to be great matches, just every time Barrett/Sheamus meet they've always ended horribly. I want the UK'ers to beat the living hell out of them. As for the matches that could've been greater should've been Henry/Jackson and Kelly/Natalya. My biggest complaints were they seemed too short and didn't have alot of counters or reversals. The Henry/Jackson match I wanted a battle of monsters not a Fat Strong man overpowering a Dominating guy like Jackson. As for the Divas, Kelly gave Natalya a run for her money earlier on but it didn't switch back and forth to gain a pop from the crowd. I really want the Divas to really step it up and be enough to rival some of the better Divas matches of yesterday. That's why this SmackDown hit a low of 2.5-Stars!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
WWE SuperSmackDown 8/30
Overview:
So before SmackDown begins, Facebook and Commerical Promo notified me that tonight Sin Cara faces Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton face Christian in a Steel Cage rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship, along John Cena face off with Wade Barrett, and finally a contract signing for Night of Champions between CM Punk and Triple H. After that promo we ge the regular Smackdown intro from Green Day, and it makes me wish I had someone to punch everytime I hear it.
Following the whole SmackDown intro, John Cena bursts onto the stage saying "Is today the right day?!" John Cena hits the ring and cuts a promo, about SuperSmackDown live and the Brand Extension being gone while including WCW shows for fun along with XFL. Then Cena calls out Alberto Del Rio, but instead he got Ricardo Rodriguez leading to Cena punching him in face while Barrett made his entrance. Barrett, the goes to insult Cena and such leading into why he demanded a match with him. Finally this all ends up with a commerical break.
We come back to Cena vs Barrett and the two brawl it out. Cena, gets the quick lead on Barrett by hitting a quick Bulldog and Headlock Takedown. Cena, dominated the match completely endding it with a huge Additude Adjustment and pinfall. After the match Matt Striker had an interview with Mark Henry. Henry goes on about how he'll face the winner of the Steel Cage match. Then he gives his own input on Steel Cage matches along with facing himself. Following the short interview, Sin Cara made his entrance leading into another break.
We comeback to Daniel Byran coming down to the ring and makes me completely wonder why is Bryan facing Sin Cara. Seriously this maybe what Ricardo meant when Del Rio couldn't make it. Anyways the two of them fly about and Daniel goes for a quick pinfall. Daniel locks Sin Cara in several amazing submissions and Sin Cara broke out. They eventually fight about with aerial moves, and swift moves coming down to Sin Cara hitting his aerial combo into the pinfall. After, the match Sin Cara kicked Bryan in the face. Shortly after Matt Striker has an interview with the Tag Team Champions, Air Boom about being tag champs.
Next we get a promo for the Christian and Randy Orton feud of the World Heavyweight Championship. It covered everything since Christian winning the Championship at Capitol Punishment, the No Holds Barred match at Summerslam to now. Then after the promo Christian has an interview, about being World Heavyweight Champion.
We get to a Divas Tag Team Match, where Aksana is special ring announcer. The match is between Beth Phoenix & Natalya facing off with Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox. Kelly and Natalya start off the match, while Natalya and Beth dominate her fast. Alicia Fox, gets tagged in and gets hit with a Glam Slam as Beth picks up the win. Backstage, Triple H and Teddy Long walk to the ring for the signing.
Teddy Long, is already in the ring and announces Triple H as he makes his entrance. Triple H, goes on about how the WWE Board aloud him to make the exchange from Nash/Punk to Punk/Himself at Night of Champions. Following those brief words, Triple H calls out Punk for the signing. Punk, comes about to question the contract Triple H for the match. Then Triple H, goes on about Punk insulting Triple H and how Triple H approved Punk's theme and shirt, along with the match at Night of Championship leading to how Triple H snapped under the pressure. Punk then goes on how he wants the Cerebral Assassin at Night of Champions and wants the WWE to be better, changing it. Triple H, then calls out Punk saying he just wants to be on top like a martyr. Punk retorts about how he'll be the real change around WWE not Triple H. Triple H, retorts to how if it was Vince he'd have to take a beating but instead Triple H will put a beating on Punk at Night of Champions. After the signing, Kevin Nash arrives and explodes on the scene leading to him booting Punk and shoving Triple H down.
During the break, Kevin Nash blows off Matt Striker for an interview. After that we get the Great Khali facing off with Sheamus. Khali takes down Sheamus fast with several chops leading into a weardown submission. Sheamus breaks out, beats down Khali and preps for a Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus hits the kick Jinder jumps Sheamus leading to them teaming up on Sheamus. They beatdown Sheamus for awhile but somehow he manages to power out hitting the Brogue Kick on Khali and Pale Justice/Celtic Cross on Jinder. Now that was some crazy crap, cause usually a 2-on-1 attack you take the beating not give it.
Finally we get to our Main Event the Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the opening minutes Christian makes several attempts to exit the cage, each time Orton stops him from getting out. After a break, we come back to Christian and Orton brawling about the ring, while Christian attempts to get out again. Orton tries to hit a fast RKO and fails, but recovers and lands a few moves. As Orton goes for the Rope Hang DDT, Christian flings him into the Cage and follow with a foot choke before trying to climb out again. Orton trys a Roll Up and falls into a SpineBuster. They fight about for awhile, and end up battling atop the top rope with Orton getting a Superplex in.
Follow another break, Orton was controlling the match throwing Christian into the Cage, before Christian countered minutes later. They battle on the top rope again, and Christian reverses Orton pushing him down while following up with the Frog Splash and a unsuccessful pinfall. Christian then attempts a Spear, countered into a RKO that's countered into the Spear. Then Christian tries to Punt, Orton moves out of way. Then he tries to fake out Orton but fails as Orton starts take back the match. Christian recovers and gets on top the cage, while Orton joins him. They battle atop the cage and back into the ring leading back to the top rope, for a Super RKO and a win. As soon as the match ends Mark Henry comes down to the ring and enters the cage. Orton tries to beatdown Henry but is unsuccessful. Henry beats Orton into the cage, then hits him with a Big Splash, back into the cage and finally the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry after beating down Orton, holds up the World Heavyweight Championship.
Review:
Well this live Smackdown could've been better! The opening match was just a beatdown to Barrett, but it was expected. Then the match between Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan, pissed me off cause I expected Sin Cara to face Del Rio. Since it was Bryan I was even more pissed, cause they jobbed Bryan to Sin Cara and having Sin Cara turn heel was stupid it felt. Then following that we got some boring crap until the Contract Signing, that's where everything got amazing. The feud between Triple H and CM Punk is turning out great, and the heat behind it is good especially when you got the Wild Card in this, Kevin Nash. The Sheamus/Khali match could've been a little bit better, but the end beatdown was amazing. To see Sheamus take down both Khali and Jinder, was just pure awesome sauce! Now as for the Main Event that was great, just I would've like no commerical interuption. The match played out amazingly and the reversals were amazing. I enjoyed all the Spear and RKO attempts leading all the way up to the Super RKO, that endded it. I foresaw, Mark Henry appearing at the end of the match and just destroying Orton completely, so I wasn't disappointed my the whole beatdown. Also it couldn't of gotten any better either, since Mark Henry sucks and has a foreseeable onslaught of moves. Ironically this just made tonight's SmackDown a 3.5-Star night!
So before SmackDown begins, Facebook and Commerical Promo notified me that tonight Sin Cara faces Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton face Christian in a Steel Cage rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship, along John Cena face off with Wade Barrett, and finally a contract signing for Night of Champions between CM Punk and Triple H. After that promo we ge the regular Smackdown intro from Green Day, and it makes me wish I had someone to punch everytime I hear it.
Following the whole SmackDown intro, John Cena bursts onto the stage saying "Is today the right day?!" John Cena hits the ring and cuts a promo, about SuperSmackDown live and the Brand Extension being gone while including WCW shows for fun along with XFL. Then Cena calls out Alberto Del Rio, but instead he got Ricardo Rodriguez leading to Cena punching him in face while Barrett made his entrance. Barrett, the goes to insult Cena and such leading into why he demanded a match with him. Finally this all ends up with a commerical break.
We come back to Cena vs Barrett and the two brawl it out. Cena, gets the quick lead on Barrett by hitting a quick Bulldog and Headlock Takedown. Cena, dominated the match completely endding it with a huge Additude Adjustment and pinfall. After the match Matt Striker had an interview with Mark Henry. Henry goes on about how he'll face the winner of the Steel Cage match. Then he gives his own input on Steel Cage matches along with facing himself. Following the short interview, Sin Cara made his entrance leading into another break.
We comeback to Daniel Byran coming down to the ring and makes me completely wonder why is Bryan facing Sin Cara. Seriously this maybe what Ricardo meant when Del Rio couldn't make it. Anyways the two of them fly about and Daniel goes for a quick pinfall. Daniel locks Sin Cara in several amazing submissions and Sin Cara broke out. They eventually fight about with aerial moves, and swift moves coming down to Sin Cara hitting his aerial combo into the pinfall. After, the match Sin Cara kicked Bryan in the face. Shortly after Matt Striker has an interview with the Tag Team Champions, Air Boom about being tag champs.
Next we get a promo for the Christian and Randy Orton feud of the World Heavyweight Championship. It covered everything since Christian winning the Championship at Capitol Punishment, the No Holds Barred match at Summerslam to now. Then after the promo Christian has an interview, about being World Heavyweight Champion.
We get to a Divas Tag Team Match, where Aksana is special ring announcer. The match is between Beth Phoenix & Natalya facing off with Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox. Kelly and Natalya start off the match, while Natalya and Beth dominate her fast. Alicia Fox, gets tagged in and gets hit with a Glam Slam as Beth picks up the win. Backstage, Triple H and Teddy Long walk to the ring for the signing.
Teddy Long, is already in the ring and announces Triple H as he makes his entrance. Triple H, goes on about how the WWE Board aloud him to make the exchange from Nash/Punk to Punk/Himself at Night of Champions. Following those brief words, Triple H calls out Punk for the signing. Punk, comes about to question the contract Triple H for the match. Then Triple H, goes on about Punk insulting Triple H and how Triple H approved Punk's theme and shirt, along with the match at Night of Championship leading to how Triple H snapped under the pressure. Punk then goes on how he wants the Cerebral Assassin at Night of Champions and wants the WWE to be better, changing it. Triple H, then calls out Punk saying he just wants to be on top like a martyr. Punk retorts about how he'll be the real change around WWE not Triple H. Triple H, retorts to how if it was Vince he'd have to take a beating but instead Triple H will put a beating on Punk at Night of Champions. After the signing, Kevin Nash arrives and explodes on the scene leading to him booting Punk and shoving Triple H down.
During the break, Kevin Nash blows off Matt Striker for an interview. After that we get the Great Khali facing off with Sheamus. Khali takes down Sheamus fast with several chops leading into a weardown submission. Sheamus breaks out, beats down Khali and preps for a Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus hits the kick Jinder jumps Sheamus leading to them teaming up on Sheamus. They beatdown Sheamus for awhile but somehow he manages to power out hitting the Brogue Kick on Khali and Pale Justice/Celtic Cross on Jinder. Now that was some crazy crap, cause usually a 2-on-1 attack you take the beating not give it.
Finally we get to our Main Event the Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the opening minutes Christian makes several attempts to exit the cage, each time Orton stops him from getting out. After a break, we come back to Christian and Orton brawling about the ring, while Christian attempts to get out again. Orton tries to hit a fast RKO and fails, but recovers and lands a few moves. As Orton goes for the Rope Hang DDT, Christian flings him into the Cage and follow with a foot choke before trying to climb out again. Orton trys a Roll Up and falls into a SpineBuster. They fight about for awhile, and end up battling atop the top rope with Orton getting a Superplex in.
Follow another break, Orton was controlling the match throwing Christian into the Cage, before Christian countered minutes later. They battle on the top rope again, and Christian reverses Orton pushing him down while following up with the Frog Splash and a unsuccessful pinfall. Christian then attempts a Spear, countered into a RKO that's countered into the Spear. Then Christian tries to Punt, Orton moves out of way. Then he tries to fake out Orton but fails as Orton starts take back the match. Christian recovers and gets on top the cage, while Orton joins him. They battle atop the cage and back into the ring leading back to the top rope, for a Super RKO and a win. As soon as the match ends Mark Henry comes down to the ring and enters the cage. Orton tries to beatdown Henry but is unsuccessful. Henry beats Orton into the cage, then hits him with a Big Splash, back into the cage and finally the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry after beating down Orton, holds up the World Heavyweight Championship.
Review:
Well this live Smackdown could've been better! The opening match was just a beatdown to Barrett, but it was expected. Then the match between Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan, pissed me off cause I expected Sin Cara to face Del Rio. Since it was Bryan I was even more pissed, cause they jobbed Bryan to Sin Cara and having Sin Cara turn heel was stupid it felt. Then following that we got some boring crap until the Contract Signing, that's where everything got amazing. The feud between Triple H and CM Punk is turning out great, and the heat behind it is good especially when you got the Wild Card in this, Kevin Nash. The Sheamus/Khali match could've been a little bit better, but the end beatdown was amazing. To see Sheamus take down both Khali and Jinder, was just pure awesome sauce! Now as for the Main Event that was great, just I would've like no commerical interuption. The match played out amazingly and the reversals were amazing. I enjoyed all the Spear and RKO attempts leading all the way up to the Super RKO, that endded it. I foresaw, Mark Henry appearing at the end of the match and just destroying Orton completely, so I wasn't disappointed my the whole beatdown. Also it couldn't of gotten any better either, since Mark Henry sucks and has a foreseeable onslaught of moves. Ironically this just made tonight's SmackDown a 3.5-Star night!
Monday, August 29, 2011
WWE Raw 8/29
Overview:
Triple H, roars out in the arena to make his point swift. He announces the brands are not technically existing anymore, making Raw and Smackdown Supershows. Then he jumps to the whole issue with Nash and Punk, where Punk interrupts as soon as possible. Eventually this all leads to Nash's entrance which is the NWO Theme, as we learn he was signed to WWE. Then Punk and Nash argue about leading to Triple H making a match at Night of Champions for them to face each other breaking the meaning of Night of Champions. Endding the promo, Orton makes his entrance as we get a upcoming promo for Orton vs Dolph Ziggler.
Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler, they tie it up and brawl about. The match goes great leading to several counters, and brawling outside the ring. Orton and Ziggler really get the match going, with Orton hitting free fall drop Neckbreaker, and Superplex. While Ziggler, got a Fameasser in and countered the Punt with a Superkick. The match ended with Orton hitting a DDT, Ziggler locking in the Sleeper followed by Orton spinning out into an amazing RKO. Along with that Jack Swagger, watching on.
Following the match, John Cena comes down to the ring and talks about what he'll do Alberto Del Rio. He eventually, lead Cena saying "If you want some come get some!" That leading to Mark Henry coming out to set up more "Supershow-ness" and Henry goes on about he'll face who ever wins the Cage match. After that statement Christian, interrupts while Cena goes to insult them leading to a brawl that makes Sheamus come to Cena's save. Ah what an amazing Team, the Red Ranger and Green Ranger!!! Hint, Hint: I'm buying their shirts soon! Henry and Christian bail from the ring, as John Lauriniatis is confronted by Triple H.
The next match on the card is CM Punk vs the Miz, before the match Miz goes on about Punk and his recent Pipebombs. This week, Punk believes he's a Green Ranger too, while he mocked Miz...lol! They tie it up, with Punk taking the lead. They brawl in the ring facing off with their styles, Miz takes down Punk. For the next minutes following Miz, dominates the match hitting a few of his signature moves. Eventually Punk reverses Miz and takes back the match. Follow Punk hitting a Savage Elbow Drop, and going for the GTS, R-Truth hits the ring leading to a DQ-Win. Miz and R-Truth beat down Punk as Nash comes down to the ring to hit a JackKnife Powerbomb.
Match number 3 is Sin Cara against Jack Swagger. As we all know Sin Cara is going to win cause he makes people job to him. Anyways during the match Jack, grounds Sin Cara and Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. That leads Dolph to also come down to the ring and help cost Jack his match while aruging with Vickie. Heck the rivalry over victory is boring and stupid the only good thing out of this is Ziggler either turns solo and becomes WWE Champion or turns face!
Our next match on the card features the new Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne in rematch with Otunga and McGillicuty. We find out Kingston and Bourne, team's name is Air Boom....I just want to say it but I don't want to offensive! Well the match sucks, cause Otunga and McGillicuty do nothing. The end result is Air Boom retaining the Championships. Following the match Otunga attacks Jerry "the King" Lawler, I guess Otunga wasn't happy with the insulting him or his wife.
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly against Nikki Bella or Brie, I don't know whose who. It's hard to tell them apart unless you see the tattoos which they love to hide. Kelly dominates one of them as the girls hit Twin Magic and gets the win over Kelly Kelly. While Beth Phoenix and Natalya trash Kelly Kelly backstage.
As the Main Event starts, Henry and Christian make their entrances first while a commerical break occurs. Sheamus and John Cena, make their entrances with the crowd exploding for them. Sheamus starts the match and overpowers Christian leading to Mark Henry tagging in. Henry and Christian dominate Sheamus for most of the match, leading to Cena getting tagged in. Cena locks a STF on Christian, while Henry breaks the hold as Sheamus and him slip the fight outside. Christian recovers and lands a Spears, Cena while trying to get the pinfall. Cena breaks out and sends Christian into the Brogue Kick from Sheamus then into the Additude Adjustment. The night ends with us hearing about Triple H facing CM Punk at Night of Champions while Cena and Sheamus stand in the ring together in victory.
Review:
Since the Brand Extension is pretty much dead for now this makes everything amazing. The rosters being combined together gives us better matches, and possible rivalries. The first Raw Supershow, had a good start with the promos and matches. The Orton/Ziggler match went fast pace and the moves made played out great. The RKO finish on Ziggler was a great impact finish. Now jumping straight to Miz/Punk, the match actually had a good start and a mildly great presentation for the continuation, however the end result sucked quite a bit. The DQ finished suck but was predicted, at least Nash coming down to add insult to injury was good. Following that match Raw sucked until the Main Event, the tag team was good, I think it just had the right crowd to support it. The end to the match was my favorite part a Brogue Kick right into the Additude Adjustment, that's just pure awesome-sauce! As a result of the end to the Brand Extension and great presentation of the matches I look forward to tomorrow's SuperSmackDown. So to rate this I say it's 4-Star Raw!
Triple H, roars out in the arena to make his point swift. He announces the brands are not technically existing anymore, making Raw and Smackdown Supershows. Then he jumps to the whole issue with Nash and Punk, where Punk interrupts as soon as possible. Eventually this all leads to Nash's entrance which is the NWO Theme, as we learn he was signed to WWE. Then Punk and Nash argue about leading to Triple H making a match at Night of Champions for them to face each other breaking the meaning of Night of Champions. Endding the promo, Orton makes his entrance as we get a upcoming promo for Orton vs Dolph Ziggler.
Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler, they tie it up and brawl about. The match goes great leading to several counters, and brawling outside the ring. Orton and Ziggler really get the match going, with Orton hitting free fall drop Neckbreaker, and Superplex. While Ziggler, got a Fameasser in and countered the Punt with a Superkick. The match ended with Orton hitting a DDT, Ziggler locking in the Sleeper followed by Orton spinning out into an amazing RKO. Along with that Jack Swagger, watching on.
Following the match, John Cena comes down to the ring and talks about what he'll do Alberto Del Rio. He eventually, lead Cena saying "If you want some come get some!" That leading to Mark Henry coming out to set up more "Supershow-ness" and Henry goes on about he'll face who ever wins the Cage match. After that statement Christian, interrupts while Cena goes to insult them leading to a brawl that makes Sheamus come to Cena's save. Ah what an amazing Team, the Red Ranger and Green Ranger!!! Hint, Hint: I'm buying their shirts soon! Henry and Christian bail from the ring, as John Lauriniatis is confronted by Triple H.
The next match on the card is CM Punk vs the Miz, before the match Miz goes on about Punk and his recent Pipebombs. This week, Punk believes he's a Green Ranger too, while he mocked Miz...lol! They tie it up, with Punk taking the lead. They brawl in the ring facing off with their styles, Miz takes down Punk. For the next minutes following Miz, dominates the match hitting a few of his signature moves. Eventually Punk reverses Miz and takes back the match. Follow Punk hitting a Savage Elbow Drop, and going for the GTS, R-Truth hits the ring leading to a DQ-Win. Miz and R-Truth beat down Punk as Nash comes down to the ring to hit a JackKnife Powerbomb.
Match number 3 is Sin Cara against Jack Swagger. As we all know Sin Cara is going to win cause he makes people job to him. Anyways during the match Jack, grounds Sin Cara and Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. That leads Dolph to also come down to the ring and help cost Jack his match while aruging with Vickie. Heck the rivalry over victory is boring and stupid the only good thing out of this is Ziggler either turns solo and becomes WWE Champion or turns face!
Our next match on the card features the new Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne in rematch with Otunga and McGillicuty. We find out Kingston and Bourne, team's name is Air Boom....I just want to say it but I don't want to offensive! Well the match sucks, cause Otunga and McGillicuty do nothing. The end result is Air Boom retaining the Championships. Following the match Otunga attacks Jerry "the King" Lawler, I guess Otunga wasn't happy with the insulting him or his wife.
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly against Nikki Bella or Brie, I don't know whose who. It's hard to tell them apart unless you see the tattoos which they love to hide. Kelly dominates one of them as the girls hit Twin Magic and gets the win over Kelly Kelly. While Beth Phoenix and Natalya trash Kelly Kelly backstage.
As the Main Event starts, Henry and Christian make their entrances first while a commerical break occurs. Sheamus and John Cena, make their entrances with the crowd exploding for them. Sheamus starts the match and overpowers Christian leading to Mark Henry tagging in. Henry and Christian dominate Sheamus for most of the match, leading to Cena getting tagged in. Cena locks a STF on Christian, while Henry breaks the hold as Sheamus and him slip the fight outside. Christian recovers and lands a Spears, Cena while trying to get the pinfall. Cena breaks out and sends Christian into the Brogue Kick from Sheamus then into the Additude Adjustment. The night ends with us hearing about Triple H facing CM Punk at Night of Champions while Cena and Sheamus stand in the ring together in victory.
Review:
Since the Brand Extension is pretty much dead for now this makes everything amazing. The rosters being combined together gives us better matches, and possible rivalries. The first Raw Supershow, had a good start with the promos and matches. The Orton/Ziggler match went fast pace and the moves made played out great. The RKO finish on Ziggler was a great impact finish. Now jumping straight to Miz/Punk, the match actually had a good start and a mildly great presentation for the continuation, however the end result sucked quite a bit. The DQ finished suck but was predicted, at least Nash coming down to add insult to injury was good. Following that match Raw sucked until the Main Event, the tag team was good, I think it just had the right crowd to support it. The end to the match was my favorite part a Brogue Kick right into the Additude Adjustment, that's just pure awesome-sauce! As a result of the end to the Brand Extension and great presentation of the matches I look forward to tomorrow's SuperSmackDown. So to rate this I say it's 4-Star Raw!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
WWE SmackDown 8/26
Overview:
SmackDown opens with a re-cap of last week's Battle Royal to decide the No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Leading to Mark Henry's victory and the stare down that follow, before transitioning right into SmackDown's intro. Still hating GREEN DAY! Anyways we get cut into discovering that the Main Event is Sheamus vs Mark Henry, then we get a special return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart! Hart starts off by saying COO Triple H made him the Special GM before announcing the Live Super SmackDown featuring Raw and Smackdown. Then we here the Main Event is Mark Henry vs Orton, for the World Championship while Christian interrupts him. Christian talks about blaming Edge for his lost, leading up to Christian asking for his rematch. Hart goes on about how Christian is becoming an embarassment, Why don't they just return to calling him a CLB?! This all ends with Bret Hart, making a different match for next week a SteelCage ReMatch! Mark Henry then shows up and argues about his Contendership. Then says he'll face the winner of next week's match as Sheamus cuts in. They brawl about leading into a promo for Orton vs DiBiase.
After the first break, we get Christian facing off against Daniel Bryan. Before the match begins we get a quick promo for Bryan, it shows off how badass he is. The match starts off with some good counters, and Bryan landing a suicide dive. Bryan locks in a Submission and trys rolling it into a pinfall. Christian kicks off and beings fighting back. After a short break, Christian has a headlock on Bryan leading to some counters. Eventually Bryan gets around Christian's offensive and manages to hit his flying dropkick. Bryan follows up with a great offensive uppercuts, kicks and knees. Christian follows up trying to hit a Spear and fails, minutes later Christian trys a KillSwitch and falls into the LaBell Lock. Christian breaks the hold by reaching the ropes, then finally lands a KillSwitch and gets the pinfall.
The next match we get is Wade Barrett against some jobber, following some WWE Vault moment which was a match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Maybe that Vault clip is to foreshadow something for next week's SuperSmackDown?! Well instead of facing the jobber, Wade Barrett walks away as we jump straight to the Raw Rebound. The Rebound covers the CM Punk/John Cena match for No. 1 Contendership. As soon as the Raw Rebound ends we cut to Sin Cara facing off with Heath Slater. This match is gonna be amazingly easy to guess, while we find out at SuperSmackDown we'll see Sin Cara face Alberto Del Rio. Anyways, Slater loses to Sin Cara within like 7minutes.
Now we come to the only match I saw from this whole SmackDown while it airred, Randy Orton vs Ted DiBiase. Ironically while writing this thou I barely remember what freakin' happened! As Ted makes his entrance, Cody talks about crap and such on improving Ted's career and Cody being Intercontinental Champion. The match starts with Ted, getting an early advantage before Orton took over. The match flipped back and forther leading to a commerical break. When we got back from the break the match was leaning into its final minutes before Orton hit a RKO and got the pinfall. Following the match Cody Rhodes attacks Ted and bags him!
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly facing off with Tamina. This match actually was pretty good, Kelly Kelly brawled about with Tamina in the opening minutes. Ironically, it seems Kelly Kelly is now to be some Brawling Barbie?! Anyways she gets the win as we cut to Striker interviewing Jinder Mahal. Jinder, goes on about how Khali failed him last week in the Battle Royal and how Khali is to face Ezekiel Jackson tonight. Khali and Jackson, brawl about and each destroy each other in the 6 minutes or so. Jinder tries to interfere in the match and is struck by Khali by mistake, while Jackson locks Khali in the Touture Rack to win via submission. Jesus Christ, that submission made the crowd along with myself go OMG!
Tod Grisham gets a quick interview Orton on the Cage Match, and Orton goes into quick detail on he'll defeat Christian than Mark Henry. Leading right into promo for Mark Henry and his destructive ways, before finally getting to tonight's Main Event. Mark makes his entrance first followed by Sheamus. They brawl about for the opening minutes of the match and it was great brawling could've been better if it was No Holds Barred! They fight outside the ring and brawl about again leading to Sheamus this time winning via count-out. Following the match they brawl outside the ring and it's better than the whole match was in general it all ends with Mark Henry hitting the World Strongest Slam on Sheamus onto the steel steps.
Review:
Well this SmackDown was able to make over a 3-Star Rating with a 3.5 rating, even thou I missed it during its actual airring. I missed due to getting seriously sick during a car ride home today from NYC. Anyways from what I saw on Youtube originally made me think this SmackDown was shit and then actually waking up & rewatching some parts a few times I was like damn! The first match was great, that vault clip I saw was a great match from a year or so ago and didn't fit in, then Jackson making Khali tap and the Main Event made the whole show. That vault clip, followed by the Wade Barrett promo and Sin Cara match made me thou really hate this SmackDown. The vault clip just didn't need to be shown at all, even thou I love that match it was plain out stupid to air it. I think they only airred due to the fact Jericho, Christian, Edge and Bret Hart are all Canadian!
Anyways the actual matches that happened on SmackDown were good. Christian/Bryan went over good it could've been better but was good enough. Then Jackson/Khali was an amazing piece of brawling monsters, especially the match finish. Ironically putting Jackson/Khali back-to-back with Sheamus/Henry was a great idea, it really had the crowd going. My only disapproval of the Main Event was the count-out victory for Sheamus, hell the match should've been No Holds Barred and ended with World's Strongest Slam on the steps. I mean the end of the night was slightly a let down even thou that adrenaline got pumping, hell I wanted more! Anyways stay tuned for more Wrestling Reviews, and the SuperSmackDown next week!
SmackDown opens with a re-cap of last week's Battle Royal to decide the No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Leading to Mark Henry's victory and the stare down that follow, before transitioning right into SmackDown's intro. Still hating GREEN DAY! Anyways we get cut into discovering that the Main Event is Sheamus vs Mark Henry, then we get a special return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart! Hart starts off by saying COO Triple H made him the Special GM before announcing the Live Super SmackDown featuring Raw and Smackdown. Then we here the Main Event is Mark Henry vs Orton, for the World Championship while Christian interrupts him. Christian talks about blaming Edge for his lost, leading up to Christian asking for his rematch. Hart goes on about how Christian is becoming an embarassment, Why don't they just return to calling him a CLB?! This all ends with Bret Hart, making a different match for next week a SteelCage ReMatch! Mark Henry then shows up and argues about his Contendership. Then says he'll face the winner of next week's match as Sheamus cuts in. They brawl about leading into a promo for Orton vs DiBiase.
After the first break, we get Christian facing off against Daniel Bryan. Before the match begins we get a quick promo for Bryan, it shows off how badass he is. The match starts off with some good counters, and Bryan landing a suicide dive. Bryan locks in a Submission and trys rolling it into a pinfall. Christian kicks off and beings fighting back. After a short break, Christian has a headlock on Bryan leading to some counters. Eventually Bryan gets around Christian's offensive and manages to hit his flying dropkick. Bryan follows up with a great offensive uppercuts, kicks and knees. Christian follows up trying to hit a Spear and fails, minutes later Christian trys a KillSwitch and falls into the LaBell Lock. Christian breaks the hold by reaching the ropes, then finally lands a KillSwitch and gets the pinfall.
The next match we get is Wade Barrett against some jobber, following some WWE Vault moment which was a match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Maybe that Vault clip is to foreshadow something for next week's SuperSmackDown?! Well instead of facing the jobber, Wade Barrett walks away as we jump straight to the Raw Rebound. The Rebound covers the CM Punk/John Cena match for No. 1 Contendership. As soon as the Raw Rebound ends we cut to Sin Cara facing off with Heath Slater. This match is gonna be amazingly easy to guess, while we find out at SuperSmackDown we'll see Sin Cara face Alberto Del Rio. Anyways, Slater loses to Sin Cara within like 7minutes.
Now we come to the only match I saw from this whole SmackDown while it airred, Randy Orton vs Ted DiBiase. Ironically while writing this thou I barely remember what freakin' happened! As Ted makes his entrance, Cody talks about crap and such on improving Ted's career and Cody being Intercontinental Champion. The match starts with Ted, getting an early advantage before Orton took over. The match flipped back and forther leading to a commerical break. When we got back from the break the match was leaning into its final minutes before Orton hit a RKO and got the pinfall. Following the match Cody Rhodes attacks Ted and bags him!
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly facing off with Tamina. This match actually was pretty good, Kelly Kelly brawled about with Tamina in the opening minutes. Ironically, it seems Kelly Kelly is now to be some Brawling Barbie?! Anyways she gets the win as we cut to Striker interviewing Jinder Mahal. Jinder, goes on about how Khali failed him last week in the Battle Royal and how Khali is to face Ezekiel Jackson tonight. Khali and Jackson, brawl about and each destroy each other in the 6 minutes or so. Jinder tries to interfere in the match and is struck by Khali by mistake, while Jackson locks Khali in the Touture Rack to win via submission. Jesus Christ, that submission made the crowd along with myself go OMG!
Tod Grisham gets a quick interview Orton on the Cage Match, and Orton goes into quick detail on he'll defeat Christian than Mark Henry. Leading right into promo for Mark Henry and his destructive ways, before finally getting to tonight's Main Event. Mark makes his entrance first followed by Sheamus. They brawl about for the opening minutes of the match and it was great brawling could've been better if it was No Holds Barred! They fight outside the ring and brawl about again leading to Sheamus this time winning via count-out. Following the match they brawl outside the ring and it's better than the whole match was in general it all ends with Mark Henry hitting the World Strongest Slam on Sheamus onto the steel steps.
Review:
Well this SmackDown was able to make over a 3-Star Rating with a 3.5 rating, even thou I missed it during its actual airring. I missed due to getting seriously sick during a car ride home today from NYC. Anyways from what I saw on Youtube originally made me think this SmackDown was shit and then actually waking up & rewatching some parts a few times I was like damn! The first match was great, that vault clip I saw was a great match from a year or so ago and didn't fit in, then Jackson making Khali tap and the Main Event made the whole show. That vault clip, followed by the Wade Barrett promo and Sin Cara match made me thou really hate this SmackDown. The vault clip just didn't need to be shown at all, even thou I love that match it was plain out stupid to air it. I think they only airred due to the fact Jericho, Christian, Edge and Bret Hart are all Canadian!
Anyways the actual matches that happened on SmackDown were good. Christian/Bryan went over good it could've been better but was good enough. Then Jackson/Khali was an amazing piece of brawling monsters, especially the match finish. Ironically putting Jackson/Khali back-to-back with Sheamus/Henry was a great idea, it really had the crowd going. My only disapproval of the Main Event was the count-out victory for Sheamus, hell the match should've been No Holds Barred and ended with World's Strongest Slam on the steps. I mean the end of the night was slightly a let down even thou that adrenaline got pumping, hell I wanted more! Anyways stay tuned for more Wrestling Reviews, and the SuperSmackDown next week!
Friday, August 19, 2011
WWE SmackDown 8/19
Overview:
SmackDown starts with a small clipshow of Summerslam and Randy Orton, winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Following the clipshow, Teddy Long welcomes Randy Orton as the new Champion, while he enters the arena. Orton, takes the mic from Teddy and starts on about Christian. He goes on for how he lost respect for Christian, for his complaining and whining. Teddy then announces the Main Event tonight is a 20-Man Battle Royal to decide the new Number 1 Contender. Soon they're interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, as Cody talks about random B.S. Cody, then continues his rant about he wants the World Title too, before passing the mic to Ted. DiBiase then talks about Orton, before getting hit with the RKO. Teddy then says Cody is taking Ted's place in tonight's opening match against Ezekiel Jackson and it's a re-match for the Intercontinental Championship.
The Intercontinental Championship match, starts and Jackson overpowers Cody from the start. Cody eventually makes a good break, and begins to work on Jackson for a short period, before Jackson takes charge again. The match spills outside shortly as steps come into play, leading to Jackson getting his knee hurt and falling into a Cross Rhodes. Cody, gets the pin and retains the championship.
Zac Ryder, then comes to see Teddy Long. There Zac Ryder, tells Teddy long Alberto Del Rio is gonna be on Smackdown, along with that Zac Ryder says he'll win the Battle Royal. Aksana interrupts Zac Ryder, and then continues Teddy Long. Then following the promo, they show a Justin Gabriel promo leading into his match with Tyson Kidd. Gabriel shows the crowd why Tyson is a jobber and ends the match with a 450 Splash followed up with a pin for the win. Following the match Matt Striker has an interview with the Great Khali and Jinder Mahal, about the 20-Man Battle Royal.
After the commerical break, Albert Del Rio makes his SmackDown return as the Undisputed WWE Champion. Del Rio, talks of how this arena was where he made his debut and how he defeated Rey Mysterio his first night then how he beat Rey on Raw this past week, ironically he isn't boo'ed he's cheered! Then we get clips from the WWE Championship match this past week on Raw. After the clips are shown, Del Rio makes an open challenge to the SmackDown roster that is answered by Daniel Bryan.
The match opens up with Daniel taking a quick lead into the match. Del Rio, counters Bryan and begins working on his back and arms. Del Rio, goes for pinfalls and submissions as Bryan works his way out. The two brawl it out from ringpost to ringpost, before Del Rio hits a flying armbreaker from the second rope. Del Rio, continus on Bryan's arm before getting countered. During this time I learn that Daniel Bryan has a Youtube Channel. After learning this Del Rio, reverses Bryan and continues assualting the arms. Bryan breaks away again and get Del Rio in a few minor signatures of his arsenal, leading to the suicide dive/ knee to the face. They fight back into the ring, leading to a super back-to-belly suplex, where Daniel countered into a falling crossbody. After a short commerical break, we cut back to Daniel Bryan assualting Del Rio. Bryan hits kicks and a missile dropkick, followed up by more kicks! Bryan hits his reverse naked choke, before Del Rio locks Bryan in the Cross Armbar/breaker making him submit again within a week. As soon as the match ends, Del Rio continues to assualt Bryan's arm before Sin Cara shows up to make a save. Del Rio, runs away as the Match Replay hits.
Following the match, we get a short interview with Mark Henry. We says how he shouldn't be in the Battle Royal and just handed the Number 1 Contender spot. Along with that we get some clips of Summerslam, where he slammed Sheamus through the barricade to win his match via count-out. After another break we return to a Divas Tag Team Match! Kelly Kelly and AJ faced off with Natalya and Alicia Fox, where AJ & Natalya started off the match. AJ, gets worked on by both Natalya and Alicia. They really seem to be putting on a good beating to AJ. Kelly Kelly eventually gets tagged in and gets the win, while Natalya and AJ battle outside. After the match Natalya and Alicia argue it out before Natalya locks in a Sharpshooter.
Before, the 20-Man Battle Royal we get another re-cap of Summerslam Fan Acess. Then that's followed by Randy Orton making another entrance before joining commentary. The Battle Royal, slowly begins to start as most of the competitors are already in the ring. There I can already see, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Khali, Zac Ryder, William Regal, Ted, Rhodes, and others before being joined my Wade Barret, Mark Henry and Sheamus. Henry makes quick eliminations to Trent Baretta and Yoshi Tatsu. Barrett throws Johny Curtis out next, followed by Sin Cara getting out Zac Ryder. Jackson, quickly gets Cody Rhodes out, before Khali gets ride of Jackson. Shortly after Khali faces down Mark Henry, before Henry removes Khali. Henry, leaves ring before Sheamus can eliminate him, leading to Sheamus Brogue Kicking Heath Slater out.
We come down to Usos', Tyson Kid, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, and Mark Henry. Sin Cara, eliminates Gabriel followed by Sheamus getting out both the Usos'. Mark Henry, comes back and wrecks the other remain guys. Eventually we get down to Henry, Barrett, Sheamus and Sin Cara. The others group attack Mark Henry, before they turn on each other. Sheamus kicks Barrett out, then gets thrown out by Henry. Sin Cara and Mark Henry battle it out for awhile before, Sin Cara is eliminated. Mark Henry is then delcared the Number 1 Contender while facing down Orton.
Review:
Okay well these week's SmackDown makes us think it's going to be a great freakin' Card for the night, but they don't! We only get one amazing match, and 2 other matches that could've been better. The best match on the card was the rematch from last week of Mr. Money of the Bank, Daniel Bryan vs Undisputed WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio. That was the most impressive match, on the whole freakin' card. Del Rio and Bryan are having a great set of matches. They need to market Del Rio/Bryan at Night of Champions instead of Del Rio/Cena. Their series is a great marketing idea.
Other than that the Intercontinental Championship sucked, they need to amazingly step up the resurrection to that title. Along with that the Battle Royal, shouldn't of ended up with Mark Henry winning. I seriously, think Mark Henry shouldn't have won, and either Sheamus or Wade Barrett would of been better. If they choose to step up the matches they need guys that can work these matches. The Orton/Christian series was great could've ended alil better, just like Bryan/Del Rio have been in recent weeks. So this SmackDown, was like dead center at 3 Stars. Also stay tuned for the live SmackDown on the 30th!
SmackDown starts with a small clipshow of Summerslam and Randy Orton, winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Following the clipshow, Teddy Long welcomes Randy Orton as the new Champion, while he enters the arena. Orton, takes the mic from Teddy and starts on about Christian. He goes on for how he lost respect for Christian, for his complaining and whining. Teddy then announces the Main Event tonight is a 20-Man Battle Royal to decide the new Number 1 Contender. Soon they're interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, as Cody talks about random B.S. Cody, then continues his rant about he wants the World Title too, before passing the mic to Ted. DiBiase then talks about Orton, before getting hit with the RKO. Teddy then says Cody is taking Ted's place in tonight's opening match against Ezekiel Jackson and it's a re-match for the Intercontinental Championship.
The Intercontinental Championship match, starts and Jackson overpowers Cody from the start. Cody eventually makes a good break, and begins to work on Jackson for a short period, before Jackson takes charge again. The match spills outside shortly as steps come into play, leading to Jackson getting his knee hurt and falling into a Cross Rhodes. Cody, gets the pin and retains the championship.
Zac Ryder, then comes to see Teddy Long. There Zac Ryder, tells Teddy long Alberto Del Rio is gonna be on Smackdown, along with that Zac Ryder says he'll win the Battle Royal. Aksana interrupts Zac Ryder, and then continues Teddy Long. Then following the promo, they show a Justin Gabriel promo leading into his match with Tyson Kidd. Gabriel shows the crowd why Tyson is a jobber and ends the match with a 450 Splash followed up with a pin for the win. Following the match Matt Striker has an interview with the Great Khali and Jinder Mahal, about the 20-Man Battle Royal.
After the commerical break, Albert Del Rio makes his SmackDown return as the Undisputed WWE Champion. Del Rio, talks of how this arena was where he made his debut and how he defeated Rey Mysterio his first night then how he beat Rey on Raw this past week, ironically he isn't boo'ed he's cheered! Then we get clips from the WWE Championship match this past week on Raw. After the clips are shown, Del Rio makes an open challenge to the SmackDown roster that is answered by Daniel Bryan.
The match opens up with Daniel taking a quick lead into the match. Del Rio, counters Bryan and begins working on his back and arms. Del Rio, goes for pinfalls and submissions as Bryan works his way out. The two brawl it out from ringpost to ringpost, before Del Rio hits a flying armbreaker from the second rope. Del Rio, continus on Bryan's arm before getting countered. During this time I learn that Daniel Bryan has a Youtube Channel. After learning this Del Rio, reverses Bryan and continues assualting the arms. Bryan breaks away again and get Del Rio in a few minor signatures of his arsenal, leading to the suicide dive/ knee to the face. They fight back into the ring, leading to a super back-to-belly suplex, where Daniel countered into a falling crossbody. After a short commerical break, we cut back to Daniel Bryan assualting Del Rio. Bryan hits kicks and a missile dropkick, followed up by more kicks! Bryan hits his reverse naked choke, before Del Rio locks Bryan in the Cross Armbar/breaker making him submit again within a week. As soon as the match ends, Del Rio continues to assualt Bryan's arm before Sin Cara shows up to make a save. Del Rio, runs away as the Match Replay hits.
Following the match, we get a short interview with Mark Henry. We says how he shouldn't be in the Battle Royal and just handed the Number 1 Contender spot. Along with that we get some clips of Summerslam, where he slammed Sheamus through the barricade to win his match via count-out. After another break we return to a Divas Tag Team Match! Kelly Kelly and AJ faced off with Natalya and Alicia Fox, where AJ & Natalya started off the match. AJ, gets worked on by both Natalya and Alicia. They really seem to be putting on a good beating to AJ. Kelly Kelly eventually gets tagged in and gets the win, while Natalya and AJ battle outside. After the match Natalya and Alicia argue it out before Natalya locks in a Sharpshooter.
Before, the 20-Man Battle Royal we get another re-cap of Summerslam Fan Acess. Then that's followed by Randy Orton making another entrance before joining commentary. The Battle Royal, slowly begins to start as most of the competitors are already in the ring. There I can already see, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Khali, Zac Ryder, William Regal, Ted, Rhodes, and others before being joined my Wade Barret, Mark Henry and Sheamus. Henry makes quick eliminations to Trent Baretta and Yoshi Tatsu. Barrett throws Johny Curtis out next, followed by Sin Cara getting out Zac Ryder. Jackson, quickly gets Cody Rhodes out, before Khali gets ride of Jackson. Shortly after Khali faces down Mark Henry, before Henry removes Khali. Henry, leaves ring before Sheamus can eliminate him, leading to Sheamus Brogue Kicking Heath Slater out.
We come down to Usos', Tyson Kid, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, and Mark Henry. Sin Cara, eliminates Gabriel followed by Sheamus getting out both the Usos'. Mark Henry, comes back and wrecks the other remain guys. Eventually we get down to Henry, Barrett, Sheamus and Sin Cara. The others group attack Mark Henry, before they turn on each other. Sheamus kicks Barrett out, then gets thrown out by Henry. Sin Cara and Mark Henry battle it out for awhile before, Sin Cara is eliminated. Mark Henry is then delcared the Number 1 Contender while facing down Orton.
Review:
Okay well these week's SmackDown makes us think it's going to be a great freakin' Card for the night, but they don't! We only get one amazing match, and 2 other matches that could've been better. The best match on the card was the rematch from last week of Mr. Money of the Bank, Daniel Bryan vs Undisputed WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio. That was the most impressive match, on the whole freakin' card. Del Rio and Bryan are having a great set of matches. They need to market Del Rio/Bryan at Night of Champions instead of Del Rio/Cena. Their series is a great marketing idea.
Other than that the Intercontinental Championship sucked, they need to amazingly step up the resurrection to that title. Along with that the Battle Royal, shouldn't of ended up with Mark Henry winning. I seriously, think Mark Henry shouldn't have won, and either Sheamus or Wade Barrett would of been better. If they choose to step up the matches they need guys that can work these matches. The Orton/Christian series was great could've ended alil better, just like Bryan/Del Rio have been in recent weeks. So this SmackDown, was like dead center at 3 Stars. Also stay tuned for the live SmackDown on the 30th!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
WWE SummerSlam 2011
Overview:
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Friday, August 12, 2011
WWE Friday Night SmackDown 8/12
OverviewSmackDown opens with for once the opening credit promo crap with Green's Do You Know the Enemy. Followed by WWE COO Triple H, coming out to talk about this weekend's Summerslam along with the Main Event. Then he goes on about loving to be in Vince's shoes running WWE. He follows up with announcing an Intercontinental Championship match, Ezekiel Jackson vs Cody Rhodes; a MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match, and matches for the World Heavyweight Champion competitors. Christian then interrupts Triple H, before he can announce Christian's opponent. Christian comes to the ring and says he's going to sue the WWE cause Randy Orton is unstable and he shouldn't be in a No Holds Barred match with him. Triple H retorts by saying the match is still gonna happen and schools Christian about how contracts work. Christian has a breakdown about Randy Orton's history with Triple H, where Triple H schools him again. Christian flips again where Triple H reveals that Sheamus is to face Christian tonight. Thus it was Game Over and we cut to Commerical!
We come back to World Heavyweight Champion, Christian vs Sheamus for our opening match. Sheamus quickly takes down Christian and applies a Outlaw Stomp, before the match spills outside the ring. Christian pushes Sheamus into the turnbuckle post a couple of time and beings working on the right shoulder. Sheamus breaks out beings putting a hurting on Christian, hitting several of his minor signature moves. Before being able to hit the Brogue Kick, Christian splits from the ring and Sheamus wins via a stupid count-out.
Next match is a Divas Tag Match, Beth Phoenix and Natalya against AJ and Kaitlyn. AJ & Kaitlyn are easily jobbed out since they're rookies. AJ is hit with the Glam Slam and Kaitlyn locked in a Sharpshooter. Then we get a quick promo for Raw's MitB Holder Alberto Del Rio facing SmackDown's MitB Holder Daniel Bryan.
SmackDown shows a promo for Sin Cara, then we cut to Zack Ryder and Teddy Long chatting. They're soon interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, followed by Aksana coming in to hit on Teddy. Eventually we come to a promo for Mark Henry being the most dominate superstar right now. After the promo, Johnny Curtis finds out his debut match is against Mark Henry. Leading into Sin Cara's return to SmackDown where he beats Tyson Kid.
Next match is the MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match. Daniel Bryan really puts on a show with Alberto Del Rio. Bryan did most of the work in the match before Del Rio locked in an Armbrecker. Bryan taps out to it and is attacked by Wade Barrett, where Barrett hit Bryan with a Wasteland. After a commerical break, we come to the Intercontinental Championship match and let me spoil this now cause I knew this since the taping, Cody Rhodes wins. Anyways Jackson, dominates the first few minutes before Cody and Ted begin playing games, leading to Cody's victory.
After the Incontinental Championship match, and Commerical Break we get the NFL-like promo for John Cena vs CM Punk at Summerslam. Following the promo, we get a run down of the Summerslam Matches. Then Randy Orton, has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming No Holds Barred match at Summerslam. Then we come to Mark Henry vs Johnny Curtis, where Mark Henry just overpowers Curtis. After the match Sheamus, comes to Curtis' save before Mark Henry could break his leg.
Finally we get to our Main Event, Randy Orton vs the Great Khali. Orton tries getting a few punches and Khali just flings Orton all about the ring. Khali, hits a Khali Chop, into the Vice Grip to the shoulder where Orton reverses the hold. Orton traps Khali in the ropes and gets in several kicks. A few mintues later Orton comes out of no where and lands a RKO on Khali and gets the pin. Christian comes out after the match to say at Summerslam everything is going to change, when it gets to the No Holds Barred match. Does this mean Tomko is back or something else?
Review:
Well this SmackDown sucked the matches weren't anything to compare to the Raw matches. Nothing really got good enough to amp the crowd up for Summerslam it seemed. There weren't any matches on the card worth mentioning, or really talking about. Hell the Intercontinental Championship match was pretty dumbed down, I mean it didn't seem really enough to how Cody won or that he won. The Divas' Tag Match could of been much better if they didn't job AJ and Kaitlyn. I mean they're barely even using AJ or Kaitlyn correctly at all, these two Divas could actually be good in the division and to job them for being rookies doesn't help Natalya or Beth rep as being dominate either. As a result this SmackDown only equals about 2 out of 5!
We come back to World Heavyweight Champion, Christian vs Sheamus for our opening match. Sheamus quickly takes down Christian and applies a Outlaw Stomp, before the match spills outside the ring. Christian pushes Sheamus into the turnbuckle post a couple of time and beings working on the right shoulder. Sheamus breaks out beings putting a hurting on Christian, hitting several of his minor signature moves. Before being able to hit the Brogue Kick, Christian splits from the ring and Sheamus wins via a stupid count-out.
Next match is a Divas Tag Match, Beth Phoenix and Natalya against AJ and Kaitlyn. AJ & Kaitlyn are easily jobbed out since they're rookies. AJ is hit with the Glam Slam and Kaitlyn locked in a Sharpshooter. Then we get a quick promo for Raw's MitB Holder Alberto Del Rio facing SmackDown's MitB Holder Daniel Bryan.
SmackDown shows a promo for Sin Cara, then we cut to Zack Ryder and Teddy Long chatting. They're soon interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, followed by Aksana coming in to hit on Teddy. Eventually we come to a promo for Mark Henry being the most dominate superstar right now. After the promo, Johnny Curtis finds out his debut match is against Mark Henry. Leading into Sin Cara's return to SmackDown where he beats Tyson Kid.
Next match is the MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match. Daniel Bryan really puts on a show with Alberto Del Rio. Bryan did most of the work in the match before Del Rio locked in an Armbrecker. Bryan taps out to it and is attacked by Wade Barrett, where Barrett hit Bryan with a Wasteland. After a commerical break, we come to the Intercontinental Championship match and let me spoil this now cause I knew this since the taping, Cody Rhodes wins. Anyways Jackson, dominates the first few minutes before Cody and Ted begin playing games, leading to Cody's victory.
After the Incontinental Championship match, and Commerical Break we get the NFL-like promo for John Cena vs CM Punk at Summerslam. Following the promo, we get a run down of the Summerslam Matches. Then Randy Orton, has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming No Holds Barred match at Summerslam. Then we come to Mark Henry vs Johnny Curtis, where Mark Henry just overpowers Curtis. After the match Sheamus, comes to Curtis' save before Mark Henry could break his leg.
Finally we get to our Main Event, Randy Orton vs the Great Khali. Orton tries getting a few punches and Khali just flings Orton all about the ring. Khali, hits a Khali Chop, into the Vice Grip to the shoulder where Orton reverses the hold. Orton traps Khali in the ropes and gets in several kicks. A few mintues later Orton comes out of no where and lands a RKO on Khali and gets the pin. Christian comes out after the match to say at Summerslam everything is going to change, when it gets to the No Holds Barred match. Does this mean Tomko is back or something else?
Review:
Well this SmackDown sucked the matches weren't anything to compare to the Raw matches. Nothing really got good enough to amp the crowd up for Summerslam it seemed. There weren't any matches on the card worth mentioning, or really talking about. Hell the Intercontinental Championship match was pretty dumbed down, I mean it didn't seem really enough to how Cody won or that he won. The Divas' Tag Match could of been much better if they didn't job AJ and Kaitlyn. I mean they're barely even using AJ or Kaitlyn correctly at all, these two Divas could actually be good in the division and to job them for being rookies doesn't help Natalya or Beth rep as being dominate either. As a result this SmackDown only equals about 2 out of 5!
Friday, August 5, 2011
WWE Friday Night SmackDown 8/5
OVERVIEW:
Smackdown opens up to a quick 9 minute match between Sheamus and the Great Khali. For half of it Khali is slightly dominating the match by overpowering Sheamus. Eventually Khali locks him in the Vice-Grip, but Sheamus finds away out and hits a Brogue Kick on Khali following with a pin. After the match a promo for a tag-team match with Randy Orton & John Morrison facing off against Christian & R-Truth, is displayed before cutting to commerical.
We come back to Smackdown, to a Divas Match. AJ makes her way to the ring, awaiting Natalya entrance it's a match between mentor and student I guess. It starts being pretty techinical with reversal after reversal, nothing too impressive just yet. Natalya quickly locks in the Sharpshooter and AJ taps out in secs, then Natalya puts a bigger beating onto AJ at ringside. Following the beat, Natalya then says she sides with Beth Phoenix on her beatdown to Kelly Kelly on Raw this week. Also tonight we got a State of the Showski Address from the one and only Long Island Iced-Z, ZAC RYDER!
After another commerical break, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton over last weeks match with R-Truth, where Orton beat Truth down with a chair and hit 2 RKOs onto the announce table. Orton replies how he was just unleashing agression and will do the same to Christian at Summerslam. Then we cut to Justin Gabriel's return to South Africa meeting the fans and such. I'm guessing they're planning to turn him back to being a face! Following the promo, Wade Barrett comes down to ringside to join commentary to watch an upcoming Daniel Bryan match.
Tyson Kid is already in the ring, while Daniel Bryan makes his entrance with new theme. The match is pretty techinical, while Barrett bitches about Bryan and his finishing move. Somehow the match turns in Tyson's favor as they go to a commerical break, when returning from the break it's still in Tyson's favor. Tyson is mostly working on Byran's knees locking in Indian Death-Locks. Byran breaks out, goes to the turnbuckle and drops a Dropkick, thus the tide changes. Then it flips back and forth for awhile, until Bryan hits a Roundhouse Kick and his new submission finisher.
We come to the State of the Showski Address with Zac Ryder, just Tony Chimmel doesn't give Ryder a good introduction. Shortly after starting Ezekiel Jackson, comes out and joins him in the ring, followed by Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase. Then they aruge about how Ted Dibiase is used and such, followed by General Manager Theodore Long to come out and announce Ezekiel Jackson vs Zac Ryder. Ryder, easily then gets jobbed out by tapping out to Jackson's Torture Rack. Then we cut to "the new" Aksana debut on Smackdown, as she introduces herself to GM Long.
Mark Henry makes his way to the ring for a match to face off with Vladimir Kozlov, who was recently released from his contract today. Mark quickly beats Vladimir, then wraps Vladimir's ankle in a steel chair before slamming down on it. Sheamus flys down to the ring with a chair in hand, chasing out Mark as a strecher comes out for Vladimir. Following the match, backstage John Morrison is flying about demoing some free-running for tonight's main-event.
Sheamus runs into Tod Grisham, for an interview. Sheamus talks how he's going to take out Mark Henry like how he took out Big Show and Kane. Following the interview come back to David Otunga, Micheal McGillicuty & JTG coming to the ring for a 6-Man Tag Match, their opponents are Trent Barreta, & the Uso's. The match isn't too great, and is having a slow start. At the sametime Booker T put on his Twitter "Michael Cole is a TOOL", remind you of anyone?(Check RDM's Blog Again!) Back to the match during that time, all hell breaks loose between all 6 Men leading to McGuillicuty and Otunga taking out Barreta for the win.
Just great a new Johnny Curtis promo, leading to his debut next week. Followed by the Raw Rebound, at this time you should probably go re-read Raw 8/1 review to help fill in the blanks. After the Raw Rebound, we cut to an interview with Christian the World Heavyweight Champion. He talks of how Smackdown has a conspiracy , where then R-Truth appears and talks about Lil' Jimmys leading into Orton's enterance and another commerical break.
After the break we come to Morrison and the opposing teams' entrances. Orton and R-Truth start off the match. Soon each tag out switching to Morrison and Christian, the pace of the match gets better. A commerical break occurs and we come back to Morrison and R-Truth. Morrison is really taking a beating from R-Truth and Christian, until Morrison hits a Ride the Wave. Orton and Christian get tagged in and the pace really picked up. Orton hits some signatures along with Christian, Morrison and R-Truth battle outside, leading to Christian hitting the KillSwitch and getting the pin for his team.
Review:
Alright well this Smackdown started off with some okay matches, and had good results. The way they're promoting Sheamus now as like Hogan/HHH persona, is good by having go up against Khali, then going over to Natalya dominating AJ and siding with Beth on her actions on RAW. Then the few following promos really being to help the upcoming Summerslam and Justin Gaberial as a face. Following the Daniel Bryan match the next couple of matches, kind of suck. They don't really catch my attention.
It's not until the Main Event that Smackdown ends on somewhat of a good note. The tag-team match is great, the brawling and the promoting for the Summerslam match for the World Heavyweight Championship are really amped. The result could've gone almost either way for sometime it felt. Overall this was practically an ok SmackDown, the opening matches really helped with the storylines WWE are making. I'm enjoying how the dominate Divas are taking out the "Barbie Dolls" and enjoying Sheamus face-turn. The Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett is becoming a great plot or I hope it will be. I'm hoping that this Summerslam will actually turn out great, with the matches being promoting like Sheamus vs Mark Henry, Cena vs Punk for the WWE Championship, and Orton vs Christian for the World Heavyweight Championship in a No-Holds Barred match. Hell I hope I won't come out swearing to this upcoming PPV next Sunday!
Smackdown opens up to a quick 9 minute match between Sheamus and the Great Khali. For half of it Khali is slightly dominating the match by overpowering Sheamus. Eventually Khali locks him in the Vice-Grip, but Sheamus finds away out and hits a Brogue Kick on Khali following with a pin. After the match a promo for a tag-team match with Randy Orton & John Morrison facing off against Christian & R-Truth, is displayed before cutting to commerical.
We come back to Smackdown, to a Divas Match. AJ makes her way to the ring, awaiting Natalya entrance it's a match between mentor and student I guess. It starts being pretty techinical with reversal after reversal, nothing too impressive just yet. Natalya quickly locks in the Sharpshooter and AJ taps out in secs, then Natalya puts a bigger beating onto AJ at ringside. Following the beat, Natalya then says she sides with Beth Phoenix on her beatdown to Kelly Kelly on Raw this week. Also tonight we got a State of the Showski Address from the one and only Long Island Iced-Z, ZAC RYDER!
After another commerical break, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton over last weeks match with R-Truth, where Orton beat Truth down with a chair and hit 2 RKOs onto the announce table. Orton replies how he was just unleashing agression and will do the same to Christian at Summerslam. Then we cut to Justin Gabriel's return to South Africa meeting the fans and such. I'm guessing they're planning to turn him back to being a face! Following the promo, Wade Barrett comes down to ringside to join commentary to watch an upcoming Daniel Bryan match.
Tyson Kid is already in the ring, while Daniel Bryan makes his entrance with new theme. The match is pretty techinical, while Barrett bitches about Bryan and his finishing move. Somehow the match turns in Tyson's favor as they go to a commerical break, when returning from the break it's still in Tyson's favor. Tyson is mostly working on Byran's knees locking in Indian Death-Locks. Byran breaks out, goes to the turnbuckle and drops a Dropkick, thus the tide changes. Then it flips back and forth for awhile, until Bryan hits a Roundhouse Kick and his new submission finisher.
We come to the State of the Showski Address with Zac Ryder, just Tony Chimmel doesn't give Ryder a good introduction. Shortly after starting Ezekiel Jackson, comes out and joins him in the ring, followed by Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase. Then they aruge about how Ted Dibiase is used and such, followed by General Manager Theodore Long to come out and announce Ezekiel Jackson vs Zac Ryder. Ryder, easily then gets jobbed out by tapping out to Jackson's Torture Rack. Then we cut to "the new" Aksana debut on Smackdown, as she introduces herself to GM Long.
Mark Henry makes his way to the ring for a match to face off with Vladimir Kozlov, who was recently released from his contract today. Mark quickly beats Vladimir, then wraps Vladimir's ankle in a steel chair before slamming down on it. Sheamus flys down to the ring with a chair in hand, chasing out Mark as a strecher comes out for Vladimir. Following the match, backstage John Morrison is flying about demoing some free-running for tonight's main-event.
Sheamus runs into Tod Grisham, for an interview. Sheamus talks how he's going to take out Mark Henry like how he took out Big Show and Kane. Following the interview come back to David Otunga, Micheal McGillicuty & JTG coming to the ring for a 6-Man Tag Match, their opponents are Trent Barreta, & the Uso's. The match isn't too great, and is having a slow start. At the sametime Booker T put on his Twitter "Michael Cole is a TOOL", remind you of anyone?(Check RDM's Blog Again!) Back to the match during that time, all hell breaks loose between all 6 Men leading to McGuillicuty and Otunga taking out Barreta for the win.
Just great a new Johnny Curtis promo, leading to his debut next week. Followed by the Raw Rebound, at this time you should probably go re-read Raw 8/1 review to help fill in the blanks. After the Raw Rebound, we cut to an interview with Christian the World Heavyweight Champion. He talks of how Smackdown has a conspiracy , where then R-Truth appears and talks about Lil' Jimmys leading into Orton's enterance and another commerical break.
After the break we come to Morrison and the opposing teams' entrances. Orton and R-Truth start off the match. Soon each tag out switching to Morrison and Christian, the pace of the match gets better. A commerical break occurs and we come back to Morrison and R-Truth. Morrison is really taking a beating from R-Truth and Christian, until Morrison hits a Ride the Wave. Orton and Christian get tagged in and the pace really picked up. Orton hits some signatures along with Christian, Morrison and R-Truth battle outside, leading to Christian hitting the KillSwitch and getting the pin for his team.
Review:
Alright well this Smackdown started off with some okay matches, and had good results. The way they're promoting Sheamus now as like Hogan/HHH persona, is good by having go up against Khali, then going over to Natalya dominating AJ and siding with Beth on her actions on RAW. Then the few following promos really being to help the upcoming Summerslam and Justin Gaberial as a face. Following the Daniel Bryan match the next couple of matches, kind of suck. They don't really catch my attention.
It's not until the Main Event that Smackdown ends on somewhat of a good note. The tag-team match is great, the brawling and the promoting for the Summerslam match for the World Heavyweight Championship are really amped. The result could've gone almost either way for sometime it felt. Overall this was practically an ok SmackDown, the opening matches really helped with the storylines WWE are making. I'm enjoying how the dominate Divas are taking out the "Barbie Dolls" and enjoying Sheamus face-turn. The Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett is becoming a great plot or I hope it will be. I'm hoping that this Summerslam will actually turn out great, with the matches being promoting like Sheamus vs Mark Henry, Cena vs Punk for the WWE Championship, and Orton vs Christian for the World Heavyweight Championship in a No-Holds Barred match. Hell I hope I won't come out swearing to this upcoming PPV next Sunday!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
My Top 10 WWE Themes Currently Used
In Wrestling almost every superstar has a Entrance Theme. A few are amazing, alot are catchy and others just plain out suck. Some great things thou about these themes are that famous or popular bands perform these themes. Bands such as Rev Theory, Saliva, Motorhead, Downstait, Alter Bridge, and Drowning Pool along side WWE's resident Music Director Jim Johnston. Recently in these past months many new themes debut and changed my views on what I conceive as the best in the business. So I then decide to make my list of the Top 10 Themes currently in use and this is what I came up with!
1. CM Punk - Cult of Personality by Living Colour
2. Dolph Ziggler - I am Perfection V2 by Downstait
3. Wade Barrett & the Corre - End of Days V9 by Rev Theory
4. Alex Riley(on the left) - Say it to My Face by Downstait
5.The Miz(on the right) - I Came to Play by Downstait
6. Sheamus - Written in My Face by Sean Jenness
7. Randy Orton - Voices by Rev Theory
8. Christian - Just Close Your Eyes by Story Of the Year
9. Zac Ryder(on the left) - Radio - Watt White
10. Curt Hawkins(on the far right) - In the Middle of it Now by Disciple
All pictures obtained from Wikipedia.org and former Talk Wrestling Host, Jeff Meacham!
1. CM Punk - Cult of Personality by Living Colour
2. Dolph Ziggler - I am Perfection V2 by Downstait
3. Wade Barrett & the Corre - End of Days V9 by Rev Theory
4. Alex Riley(on the left) - Say it to My Face by Downstait5.The Miz(on the right) - I Came to Play by Downstait
6. Sheamus - Written in My Face by Sean Jenness
7. Randy Orton - Voices by Rev Theory
8. Christian - Just Close Your Eyes by Story Of the Year
9. Zac Ryder(on the left) - Radio - Watt White10. Curt Hawkins(on the far right) - In the Middle of it Now by Disciple
All pictures obtained from Wikipedia.org and former Talk Wrestling Host, Jeff Meacham!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Punk of Personality
On July 17 at WWE Money in the Bank, CM Punk defeated John Cena for the WWE Championship. That same night he walked away from the WWE and took the Championship with him. The following night on Monday Night Raw, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon stripped Punk of the championship and arranged an 8-man single elimination tournament to crown a new champion. The results would be Rey Mysterio and the Miz in finals which was then set to take place the following Raw, as Mr. McMahon was forced to resign as chairman with his son-in-law, Triple H taking over.
A week later on this most recent Monday Night Raw of July 25th, Rey Mysterio successfully defeat the Miz in the tournament finals to become WWE Champion. Eventually later on that night the new WWE COO Triple H would go on to make another championship match with Rey defending the title against John Cena who rightfully had a re-match cause that became nullified when Punk left the WWE. The match was actually a great match to remember going a full 20-mins, and had some memorable moments like when Rey locked Cena in his own STF, or the several finisher reversals each man made. The end result thou was John Cena defeating Rey Mysterio to become a 9-time WWE Champion.
But immediately following Cena's title win, Punk returned to WWE TV and held his belt up in defiance of Cena's win. Also debuting his new enterance theme back from his ROH days, "The Cult of Personality." The following night at the SmackDown! tapings, WWE COO Triple H announced that both men had legitimate claims to the title and the situation would be rectified the following Monday on RAW.
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