Coming off of the highly anticipated Raw 1000 episode earlier this week, it was Smackdowns turn to take the stage. Did they deliver?
The show started off with a nice montage from Monday nights Raw 1000 episode.
The WWE announced a #1 contender match with Kane vs Rey Mysterio vs Daniel Bryan vs Alberto Del Rio in a Fatal Four Way match later that night.
The first match was Christian invoking his re-match clause against The Miz for the Intercontinental Championship. This was a good match, with lots of action and a good amount of nearfalls. The Miz rolled up Christian for the 1-2-3, to retain his IC Championship. Well done by both guys.
They announced that Sheamus would face Cody Rhodes.
The next match was Jinder Mahal vs the freak show, known as Ryback. Mahal actually got a good amount of offense in on Ryback. Ryback went to knock the head off Mahal but he ducked and headed out of the ring and was counted out. Ryback wins via count out. I am a huge fan of Ryback, however, it is time for him to face some tougher foes.
Up next was a review of the Punk and Cena championship match from Raw 1000.
We then had the match between Cody Rhodes and the Heavyweight Champion Sheamus. This was a non-title match. There was some action in this one as well and overall it was an OK match. Dolph Ziggler once again comes down, mid-match, teasing he was going to cash in the Money in the Bank briefcase. Sheamus wins the match after he punts the head off of Rhodes, delivering his famous Brogue Kick. Ziggler once again teases cashing in the briefcase. Chris Jericho throws Ziggler back into the ring who in turn, gets his head kicked off with the Brogue Kick, delivered by Sheamus. Jericho climbs into the ring and delivers the Codebreaker. Ziggler once again looks ridiculous.
United States Champion Santino Marella once again does not defend his title in a match against Antonio Cesaro. Cesaro defeats Santino in the non-title match. Bottom line, who cares.
A match between Damien Sandow and Yoshi Tatsu was up next. Sandow defeated Tatsu. Nothing much really needs to be said here.
A highlight package of the Brock Lesnar/Triple H shenanigans followed.
The Fatal 4 Way match was up next. Overall, this was a pretty solid match. There was lots of action and physicality. The match ended as Mysterio hit the 619 on Bryan and Del Rio. Mysterio went for the pin on Bryan but Ricardo Rodriguez pulled Mysterio out of the ring and Del Rio stole the pin. Del Rio is the number one contender for Sheamus's World Heavyweight Championship.
Overall this was an OK episode of Smackdown. Smackdown is definitely in a rut and needs some life pumped back into it.
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