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!