WWE SmackDown 9/23

Overview:
SmackDown opens with John Lauriniatis talk about Triple H firing the Miz and R-Truth in front of the SmackDown Roster. Then he cuts right to introducing Mark Henry, shortly after Triple H gets on the scene. After Triple H tries to like congradulate Mark Henry, Christian shows up and somehow to weasel into getting a World Heavyweight Championship match tonight. Triple H just hands him the match, and makes it a Lumberjack Match and winner will face Randy Orton at Hell in a Cell.

The first match on the card is Sheamus vs Heath Slater. This match is already going in one man's favor. Sheamus, just practically beats the hell out of Slater. Then randomly Slater gets one up on him before falling to his demise. The Great White, just destroys the loser. Following the match, backstage Great Khali runs into Christian and they chat it up. This is probably the only time Khali has ever spoke this much english during his whole WWE Career!

Next match is Wade Barrett against Justin Gabriel! Barrett brawls about, beating Gabriel down as the match goes in and out of the ring. Gabriel fights back with a few dives, kicks and a STO. As Gabriel takes his eyes off Barrett, Barrett recovers Boots him in the Head following up with Wasteland. These first few match are seemingly just plain out squash matches.

After a break, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton about his loss. Orton goes on thou to saying he'll get the Championship back. Following the interview, we get a promo for Hell in a Cell. Backstage Christian talks with Ezekiel Jackson about being World Heavyweight Champion. Christian is trying to get support from the Lumberjacks the Lumberjack match tonight. We then get to the Divas' match of the night, it was a Tag Team match. Beth Phoenix and Natalya are squashing yet again Kaitlyn and AJ. Beth and Natalya, just beat the hell out of Kaitlyn in opening minutes. Aj flies into the match starts doing work on Beth, before falling to a Glam Slam yet again as Kaitlyn checks on AJ following the match.

Eventually we get another Randy Orton/Cody Rhodes match. They brawl about and the match is a complete brawl. Rhodes, uses his mask on Orton and Orton replies by doing the same to Rhodes. Due to Orton using the mask he gets DQ'ed, following that he attacks Cody and just beats him down. Orton assaults Cody with his mask, hits him with the ring as WWE edits all the amazing blood Cody spewed from the attack leaving us with a random RKO on the announce table. After that Christian tries to suck up to Sheamus, for the Lumberjack match. Christian even gives Sheamus a potatoe, just it's not an Irish one its an Idaho Potatoe!

The next match is Great Khali facing off with Jinder Mahal. In the opening minutes, Jinder somehow manages to get Khali down. Eventually Khali fights back and quickly finishes off Jinder with his Two Handed Chokeslam. Following Khali destroying Jinder, we get Sin Cara facing off with Daniel Bryan. The match has the original Sin Cara(Mystico) battling with Daniel until, the second Sin Cara(Hunico) knocks Sin Cara out and replaces him while winning the match. It quickly jumps to Christian running into Zac Ryder and trying to win him over. Then randomly Ryder gets a call from Hugh Jackman saying Orton's in!

We get to the Usos' facing off with Air Boom. The Usos' beat down Evan Bourne in the opening minutes which seems the usual for him. Eventually Kofi is tagged in and things get going. Kofi hits one of the bros with a Trouble in Paradise leading to Evan hitting Airbourne for the win. Then before the main event got start we got the Zac Ryder and Hugh Jackman from Raw. The promo even used Decade Stock Music, such as my favorite "Fight in the Man".

Finally we get to the Lumberjack Match for the World Heavyweight Championship! The match starts with Christian trying to getting away from Mark Henry. Christian tries to play cat and mouse but the Lumberjacks stop him. Henry brawls about and beats Christian down, he mostly uses submission holds to wear him down. Christian fights back and almost gets Mark Henry down just he couldn't manage the KillSwitch on him. The fight spills outside and the whole roster swarms Mark Henry, just he destroys anyone who was in his way. Christian then tries to get out of the match and Sheamus throws him back into the ring and right into Mark Henry hitting him with a World's Strongest Slam for the win. After the match Orton rushes Henry going into SmackDown's final minutes of the night.

Review:
SmackDown was completely a squash night. The matches were completely able to predict, and figure out all the outcomes even without the known spoilers. Since the matches were so easy to judge and predict it became an issue to really enjoy most of the matches. Ironically even thou they weren't amazing matches, I enjoyed Sheamus beating down Slater, Air Boom/the Usos' match and the Main Event where Henry fought the whole roster. Those few matches just barely got me into the whole episode of SmackDown. Hell if Sheamus wasn't so awesome at kicking everyone's ass the start of the show would've been boring. Then Air Boom was great cause it's just help to set-up Air Boom as a good tag team while still trying to get the Usos' some airtime. Now Mark Henry vs the Lumberjacks was great, for some reason I would've enjoyed Henry losing just for the fact he destroyed the roster last week and it'd be pay back. Another pure plus for the show was Kaitlyn and Zac Ryder, Kaitlyn is one of my favorite Divas in the WWE and Ryder is just Ryder! Making this edition of Smackdown equal out to a mildly great 3-Star Rating; Woo Woo Woo, You Know It!