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.

Smackdown Review 09/10/10: Has he still got it?

This past weeks Smackdown just like the Raw before it was a good show. Its not often I can get through an entire episode of Smackdown without booting up my computer and looking at things that are more interesting, this week was different.

The show started with a decent addition to the collection of great promos cut by Undertaker and Kane these past few weeks, although by far not the best one, Taker did a good job. During the segment Taker was made to look more human not just by his storyline weaknesses but also the way in which he spoke, it was very reminiscent of the 'Badass' Taker of the early '00's. Punk came out ans said how weak Undertaker is now and how he will make Taker tap out like he did at Breaking Point last year. TONIGHT: CM Punk vs Undertaker.

Friday night also saw some pretty decent matches, even for the standards of Smackdown these matches were good. There was Swagger vs MVP which to be honest should have been a bit more heated than it actually was especially with their mini-feud ongoing and all. Swagger won clean which I thought was the right move, they still need to make Swagger into a bonafide upper-mid carder before he takes the on the role of a real headliner this series with MVP should accomplish that, but Swagger still has a lot of other mid card heels to compete with such as Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre.

Which brings me to my next match McIntyre vs Kaval, the match was short but sweet. WWE pushed Kaval strong and even claimed "Theres nothing Low Key(Ki) about Kaval" which was a nice touch. McIntyre went over clean but Kaval stole the show and definitely wasn't booked a s a jobber which obviously after the time and effort put in to build him up on NXT you wouldn't think they'd blow it would you?.... There was no appearance of Michael McGillicutty or his McGillibuddies on this weeks Samckdown.

Alberto Del Rio defeated Matt Hardy in another decent effort. Del Rio attacked Hardy after the match and Christian came to the save, all to the annoyance of Del Rio who called Christian an "American (insert Spanish here)" obviously Del Rio has no interest in the fact Christian is Canadian. Del Rio is a talent that needs to be heavily pushed (which he is being) as he will be a future star. He also has the best smile in wrestling today just look...


In other happenings from the show Lay-Cool argued over who would face Melina at Night Of Champions and Ziggler and Chavo Guerrero were beaten by Kofi Kingston and Chris Masters after an outside distraction.

The main event again was a decent effort with a lot of story going in, mainly to see if the Undertaker would win or even be close to what he used to be. Punk claimed 'Taker was finished. Undertaker claimed he will be champion at the end of Night Of Champions. Well lets just say the way the match was booked did a impressive job of setting up Undertakers match with his brother Kane. Taker narrowly bested Punk after being hit with a GTS and quickly locking in the Triangle Choke, much like they way he did to Edge at Wrestlemania 24. After the match the commentators doubted Undertakers chances at the PPV. We all know how the story goes Kane music hits and then.... laughter and well that's it the show went off the air with Kane's laughter at the Undertakers under-performance and borderline lucky win. In my opinion that ending was impressive and yes I will be watching the PPV for that match.

Overall the show was good, its always nice to sit down and actually enjoy watching wrestling, which in this day and age with the product as stale as it is can sometimes be a rarity