Smackdown Review

Edge defeated Drew McIntyre in the opening match on Smackdown. It was a decent match, but as is the case in the WWE over the past couple of years, it could have benefited with more time. Edge picked up the win after hitting the Spear and then making McIntyre submit with a modified Sharpshooter.

Cody Rhodes cut a creepy and effective promo to help develop his fued with Rey Mysterio. He reminds me of Christian Bale in American Psycho with that facemask on (watch it, great film). Rhodes challenged Mysterio to a match at WrestleMania 27 and vowed to remove his mask at the event. The odds of this happening is extremly slim of course, but who knows, with Sin Cara (Mistico) coming in, the company might only want one masked superstar. Who would have thought this time last year that Cody Rhodes would be the one who had a high profile singles match at Mania and not Ted DiBiase.

The Corre reminded Kane that they helped him win a very important match last year (Wade Barrett and the 'Old' Nexus, helped Kane beat The Undertaker at Bragging Rights), and asked him to take out The Big Show in their upcoming match. Kane was unhappy and stormed off. During the TITANIC encounter (insert sarcastic face here), The Corre rushed the ring and handed Kane a chair, which he glady used on The Big Shows back. The Corre then swarmed Show and preceded to destroy the seven foot giant. In the chaos of the attack, Show pushed Justin Gabriel into Kane and that sent 'The Big Red Machine' into a rage. He cleared the ring of The Corre and sent them packing. In my opinion this could be the start of the long rumored program where top Smackdown stars team up to face The Corre at WrestleMania. If the rumours are true the Smackdown team will be Kane, The Big Show, Kofi Kingston and Christian, but I thing otherwise. I believe it will be a handicap match and The Corre will either face Kane and Big Show or Kane, Big Show and Kevin 'Diesel' Nash. Only time will tell, but I know which option most of my fellow fans want.

The Undertaker came out to hype his match with Triple H at WrestleMania. With a new entrance theme (Ain't No Grave by Johnny Cash), leather pants, and a new nickname - The Last Outlaw, The Undertaker seems to have gone through a slight gimmick change, which in my opinion, is a good thing (no, I'm not DDP). The Undertaker did an effective job of hyping the match and led the viewers to believe that the only way he will retire or 'die', is if his WrestleMania Streak is broken. He also gave off the opinion that if Triple H was to lose, then 'The Games' career is over. Is it true? Probably not, but it adds another layer of intrigue to an already epic match.

Christian helped Edge from getting beaten down by Alberto Del Rio and Rico Rodriguez during the WrestleMania 27 contract signing. It seems more and more likely that Christian will be added to the World Championship Match at Mania', which is something that Christian deserves. To many, including myself, he has the potential to be a HUGE main event player in the WWE, and being in a WrestleMania main event will show that maybe, just maybe, Vince is starting to believe it to. Saying that, I don't believe it would be right to put the gold on Christian at WrestleMania, because the companies long term future lies in Alberto Del Rio, and once again on Smackdown he shown the word why he is the complete package.