The Smackdown Summary – 3rd September 2010
03/09/2010
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Match 1: Christian Vs. Drew McIntyre
Match 2: Michelle McCool Vs. Kelly Kelly
Segment 2: Will Swoggle Speak?
Match 3: Dolph Ziggler Vs. Chris Masters
Match 4: The Big Show Vs. Punk & Gallows
Segment 3: Jack Swagger’s V.I.P Lounge
Main Event: Matt Hardy Vs. ‘Dashing’ Cody Rhodes
Closing Segment: Kane’s Big Announcement
The Smackdown Summary
Segment 1
Fiesta Time
Smackdown is kicking off with a Mexican Fiesta tonight, in honour of Alberto Del Rio and to celebrate his removal of Rey Mysterio from the WWE last week.
After making his lavish entrance and showing clips of the beating from last week (which has apparently left Rey with a fractured wrist) Mr. Del Rio explains that Mysterio was nothing more than a poor representation of his people and only wore a mask because he was ashamed of his heritage.
He likened Rey to a donkey piñata he’d hung up in the ring (wearing a Mysterio mask), then smashed it to bits, signifying what he did last week.
One of his many aides in the ring handed him a glass of champagne and he raised a toast to himself, declaring himself handsome, powerful and rich.
Just when it looked like things might be over Christian’s music hit and he made his way down to the ring.
Could this be a proper feud for Christian at last?
Christian apologises for interrupting and says that he’s just come to the ring to introduce himself.
He calls Del Rio ‘Juan Bradshaw Layfield’ (playing on the car entrance, I assume) and ‘Enrique Iglesias’, singing until Alberto cuts him off and calls him something derogatory in Spanish.
After trying some of the food laid out Christian says that he’s out here because he doesn’t appreciate what Del Rio did to a good friend of his.
He says Del Rio can hit as many donkey piñatas as he likes, he’ll still be the only Jackass in the ring.
Del Rio suggests that Christian must want to end up crying in the hospital too, and Captain Charisma responds by telling him that although he has a scheduled match later tonight, he’ll fight him right now.
Alberto makes out like he’s going to accept the invitation, but then thinks better of it, telling Christian there will be another time and place for him to pay for his interruption.
Drew McIntyre then appeared through the crowd and struck Christian from behind, dumping him out of the ring, where Del Rio mocked him before leaving.
Not a bad promo, I’m warming to this guy, especially if it results in a push for Christian.
Match 1
Singles Match
Christian
Vs.
Drew McIntyre
McIntyre continued his assault through the commercials, and by the time we returned to the action Christian looked pretty much out of it.
The referee checked if he still wanted to go on, and like any good face he said he did, so the match got under-way.
I’d like to see McIntyre wrestle an important match where he hasn’t softened up his opponent significantly beforehand, nearly every big one on one I can think of The Sadistic Scot has either struck immediately before the match or inflicted some kind of damage in the weeks leading up to it.
This match didn’t run anywhere near as long as I expected it to, and saw a battered Christian grab a quick 3 out of nowhere.
Christian wins by Pinfall.
Match 2
Divas Match
Michelle McCool (w/ Layla)
Vs.
Kelly Kelly
Layla joined the commentary team at the start of the match and spent most of the match screeching encouragement towards Michelle and hyping up the title unification match at Night of Champions.
Michelle pretty much squashed Kelly in the ring, which was kind of shocking given how many times Kelly beat both members of Lay-Cool in the past couple of weeks.
Michelle McCool wins by Pinfall.
Segment 2
Will Swoggle Speak?
So it turns out that Hornswoggle’s latest ‘storyline’ is that he’s trying to learn to talk, or not as the case may be.
Teddy Long, having promised the little guy he’d get him talking English, has hired a psychologist to do the business, although so far attempts using phonics, ink blots and a see-and-say haven’t worked.
The doctor tells Teddy that he’s had to consider more desperate measures, namely electro-shock therapy.
Hornswoggle doesn’t seem too keen on the idea, but Teddy talks him into it, allowing the Doc to send numerous volts through his tiny little cranium.
Just as he’s about to deliver full power, Swoggle pulls the connectors off his temples and slaps one on the doctors head, sending a full charge through him instead.
Hilarious stuff in the 1980′s I’m sure, maybe they should invest some money in finding out who taught Kane to speak (I think it was originally meant to be Raven until the storyline got axed) and get them back.
Match 3
Singles Match
Dolph Ziggler (w/Vickie Guerrero)
Vs.
Chris Masters
With Masters already in the ring Vickie emerged and did her usual introduction for Ziggler, while the crowd booed like crazy.
I seriously have to praise the creative team for putting Ziggler with Vickie.
Sure, in the past I’ve blasted it for being a re-hash of the whole Edge/Escobar bits, and it is, but no one seems to draw more heat on Smackdown than Mz. Guerrero at the minute, and without her I think the crowd would be cheering for the New-Age Narcissist, much like they do for Jericho etc.
Slight progression for Masters here, he’s gone from jobbing on Superstars to jobbing on Smackdown, which has got to be a good thing.
Ziggler escaped the MasterLock and hit the Zig-Zag to score the 1..2..3.
As the replay of Ziggler winning played Matt Striker said “Light it up Dolph, you’re still the Intercontinental Champion’, despite there being no indication at all that this was a title match (because it wasn’t), making Striker’s statement a pointless one.
On a totally unrelated note, can I just say ‘Get well soon J.R!’.
Dolph Ziggler wins by Pinfall.
Match 4
2 on 1 Handicap Match
The Big Show
Vs.
C.M Punk & Luke Gallows (w/ Joseph Mercury)
Still no mention of Serena, so I guess we’re brushing her under the carpet like nothing ever happened.
I really dislike it when they do that, even Danielson’s firing got some 2-bit explanation from Nexus the week after it happened, and he was only gone for a month or two.
I’d like to see Show join the S.E.S at some point and turn heel, because lets face it this feud isn’t really doing anything for either team.
Either The S.E.S win, not really gaining any credibility while making Show look weak (even if he is up against the numbers) or Show wins and makes The S.E.S, but moreso Punk, look like a joke.
And that’s exactly how it went, with a beaten-up Show scoring a submission victory over Gallows with the Alley-Oop/Camel Clutch.
Sure I get that Show is a man-mountain, but Gallows is pretty big himself and Punk is a former World Heavyweight Champion, surely they should have been able to come close to a win here at least, something they only did because Show shoulder barged the steel steps and played up the damage for a large part of the bout.
After the match Punk took his frustrations out on his First Disciple, hoisting him up and drilling him with the GTS.
The Big Show wins by Submission.
Segment 3
Jack Swagger’s V.I.P Lounge
Has anyone actually been looking forward to this?
Three weeks now they’ve been building up to Swagger hosting the V.I.P lounge, and I for one couldn’t really care less.
Dressed in an all white suit with a selection of pictures and trophies scattered around (didn’t The Big Show destroy all of them?) Swagger shows footage of his ‘dominant’ win over M.V.P, then introduces his guest for tonight; Jack Swagger Sr. (who is already perched in the ring in a wheelchair and neck brace.)
Swagger Sr. explains how proud he is of his son, telling the tale of when he broke the record for consecutive push-ups at the tender age of 9, then asks him to replicate that moment right now so the people in the arena can enjoy it.
Swagger Jr. takes off his jacket and does some push-ups while his dad counts them off (a lot faster than he actually does them.)
As the count nears 50 M.V.P’s music hits and he makes his way to the ring.
He says the V.I.P Lounge is meant to be all about music pumping, bottles popping and women dancing (three things I’m fairly sure have seldom ever happened when he was hosting it) then questioned Swagger’s choice of guest.
Swagger says he’s trying to have a moment with his father and M.V.P should leave while he still can under his own power.
M.V.P tells Swagger that he might be the host tonight, but it’s still HIS lounge, and the V.I.P lounge is now closed for renovations.
He dumps some trophies over the top rope, tosses the table up the ramp and tips over the sofa, before making a bee-line for Swagger, who uses his father (still in a wheel-chair) as a shield.
Swagger eventually tips his father up, sending him flying into M.V.P who hits him with a Play of the Day (although it looked more like Swagger Sr. landed a pretty good Clothesline) then Ballin’, after dumping Swagger Jr. over the top rope.
Sure I’m no fan of the Swaggers, but isn’t hitting a crippled old guy with an elbow kind of a heelish thing to do?
Main Event Match
Singles Match
Matt Hardy
Vs.
‘Dashing’ Cody Rhodes
Upon making his entrance, the ‘Dashing’ one already has a microphone in hand.
He says that Matt clearly hasn’t been paying attention to his Grooming Tips, which is a shame because they are for people exactly like him.
He questions why Hardy has never had anything done about his ‘busted up proboscis’, then mocks his beard and his weight before telling him to take a look at himself in a mirror that’s stitched to the back of his jacket.
He asks if he sees the Matt Hardy who revolutionised Tag Team wrestling, the Matt Hardy who dreamt of being the World Heavyweight Champion or even Matt Hardy Version 1, saying all he sees is Matt Hardy Version DONE.
Speaking of The Dashing One, after seeing Goldust put on a clinic with Ted DiBiase on Superstars this week we decided to ask Goldy, via the medium of Twitter, if he’d like to work a program with Cody and if it was ever likely to happen.
Much to our surprise he tweeted straight back with this:
@WWEBlog that is the one thing I wanna do before I decide to retire….is beat me some dashing ass.
So hopefully that’s something to look forward to, if the creative team decide to do it.
This match didn’t last long, but it was what we’ve come to expect from Cody over the past couple of months; a great performance.
Hardy’s injured ankle (crushed by Drew McIntyre a few weeks back) turned out to be his achilles heel and led to a pinfall victory for Cody after he delivered the Cross-Rhodes.
Cody Rhodes wins by Pinfall.
Closing Segment
Kane’s Big Announcement
For the second week running the show ends on a Kane/Undertaker promo.
The whole thing kicks off backstage in Kane’s all-too-familiar candlelit domain.
He makes the announcement that The Undertaker’s career will finally come to an end at Night of Champions, when he gets a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship.
Kane tells Taker he was very preceptive last week when he said he was haunted by the deadly sin of Envy.
He says that he is happy to accept his sin of envy, which will be to his credit, unlike The Deadman who refuses to acknowledge his sin of Pride, which will ultimately be his downfall.
Kane admits to always being envious of his older brother’s powers and now after all these years he finally has them.
As Kane laughs maniacally on the Titan-tron eerie music begins to play and a selection of druids wheel a casket to ringside.
The camera focuses on the casket, and as it does some strange effects are used to blur the screen and cut in pictures of The Undertaker.
Eventually the casket opens, only to reveal Kane laughing in the flesh, and not The Deadman as many seem to have expected.
He rolls into the ring and says he’d love to see the look on his brother’s face, now that he has to live in the shadows.
Kane claims Taker is weak following his ‘vegetative’ period, showing clips from Raw’s 900th episode to back his statement up.
He says that following Night of Champions The Phenom will become a memory otherwise known as ‘Kane’s brother’, and there is nothing at all he can do to stop his demise.
As Kane continually shouted ‘Nothing can stop me’ the infamous gong sounded and the lights dimmed.
Kane looked to the top of the ramp with a huge grin on his face as the flames began to lick the bottom of the titan-tron and The Deadman finally emerged through the smoke.
Once at the bottom of the ramp Taker threw off his hooded top and brought the lights up, staring at his brother with seemingly unlimited rage.
However, as he stepped through the ropes the lights dipped again, and when they came back up Kane had vanished and the casket lid had closed.
Taker approached the casket with some uncertainty, finally flipping back the lid to reveal… nothing.
As Taker stood perplexed on the apron Kane once again appeared on the Titan-tron.
He told his brother that while he may not have taught him everything about being evil, he’s mistaken if he thinks there’s anything left that he has to learn.
He says they may have been known as the Brothers of Destruction, but after Night of Champions The Undertaker will simply be known as the brother he destroyed.
Kane’s ringpost pyros ignited and he continued to laugh evilly as the show went off the air.
The
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Christian confronted Alberto Del Rio about his actions towards Rey Mysterio during a fiesta, indicating that the pair would meet at a later date.
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Christian beat Drew McIntyre against the odds in a 1 on 1 match.
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C.M Punk hit Luke Gallows with the GTS after a disappointing 2 on 1 loss to The Big Show.
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M.V.P beat up Jack Swagger’s father during the V.I.P Lounge segment.
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Cody Rhodes beat Matt Hardy after insulting him regarding numerous aspects of his appearance.
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Kane announced that he will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against The Undertaker at Night of Champions, then bettered his brother once again with some Deadman’esque mind-games.
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