Friday Night Smackdown Spoilers! "No Date Necessary"

[Savio]

WWE Superstars:
* Heath Slater vs. Zack Ryder. Ryder gets a monster pop from the crowd. Ryder hits the Broski Boot and the Rough Ryder for the win

* The Usos defeated Hunico and Camacho.

* Sin Cara vs. Drew McIntyre is up next. McIntyre controlled most of the match, but Sin Cara picks up the win.

*Divas Champion Layla defeated Natalya.


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Thanks to Cam and Jenn Naylor, Brendon B and Chris W. for sending in these results from tonight's SmackDown tapings in Kansas City, MO: SmackDown is getting setup. Booker T (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/56/booker-t/) comes out to a nice pop while Michael Cole gets his usual heat.

The Miz (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/182/the-miz/)'s music hits and he comes out to his usual heat. His title win on RAW is recapped. There are lots of boos, mixed in with some cheers. Miz thanks the "peeps" for their vote that helped him get his match. Christian interrupts. Christian wants a rematch tonight. Rematch to take place NOW.

Christian vs. The Miz: Christian controlling the match early. Miz recovers and goes to work. Lots of boos. Miz threw Christian out to the wall and almost wins via countout. Miz is back in control for a bit, but Christian comes around. Christian going to the mid-rope, but Miz recovers. Both battle and Miz goes down. Christian comes off the top but Miz nails him as he comes down. Crowd is behind Christian as he recovers. Christian is now in control and there are lots of two counts. Very back and forth. Good match. Crowd into it as Christian goes for the Killswitch. Miz escapes and hits his DDT. Miz to the middle rope and is pulled down. Christian is calling for spear and Miz rolls out of the ring. Both are back in the ring and it's back and forth again. Miz then rolls up Christian for the win. Miz is your winner, and still champion, via pinfall.

There will be a four-way contender match with Kane, Alberto Del Rio, Rey Mysterio (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/54/rey-mysterio/) and Daniel Bryan. Cody Rhodes vs. Sheamus (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/186/sheamus/) is also announced for tonight.

Jinder Mahal vs. Ryback: On a personal note, Ryback is scary as hell in person. Mahal actually laying some hits and tries for a pin. Crowd is not amused. Mahal still controlling the match. "Goldberg" chants start and Ryback takes over. He hits a solid spinebuster and Mahal rolls out of the ring and starts up the ramp. The match is over, Ryback wins by countout. Ryback is not happy and chants, "feed me more!"

A recap is shown of the CM Punk (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/64/cm-punk/) - John Cena (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/23/john-cena/) match from last night, all the way through the Rock coming in and getting clotheslined by Punk.

A recap of the six man tag match from last night is shown. Sheamus comes out to a big pop. Cody Rhodes is out second and the match is on.

Sheamus vs. Cody Rhodes: Sheamus is in control though the early portion of the match. Dolph Ziggler hits the floor with the briefcase... and dropped it. Lol. Cody goes to work and Ziggler is slowly going around to the announcer table eyeballing the ring. Cody continues to work Sheamus over. A couple of kickouts, but Rhodes is still very much in control. Cody applies a headlock, but Sheamus comes alive. Rhodes finds another opportunity and hits a back flip off the top rope, But misses. Sheamus hits his back breaker. Rhodes is back in control as Ziggler gets to the ropes with the briefcase. Sheamus eventually plants Cody with the Brogue kick and gets the pin.
Ziggler slowly gets down and stares. Chris Jericho (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/46/chris-jericho/) comes in from behind in a pink Ziggler shirt and throws Ziggler back in the ring and Sheamus beats him down! Jericho mocks Ziggler and nails him with the codebreaker. He rips off his shirt and mocks Ziggler as he is laying there.

Antonio Cesaro (w/ Aksana) vs. Santino Marella: Match starts of slow. Aksana distracts Santino. Cesaro works over Santino a bit, but Santino comes alive and hits his usual moves. Cesaro gets out the cobra. Santino is distracted again by Aksana but maintains control. He fails with the Cobra, and Cesaro picks up the win.

A clip of the DX - Damien Sandow angle from RAW is shown. Sandow is next.
Yoshi Tatsu vs. Damien Sandow: Match starts off quickly. Sandow quickly lays waste to Tatsu and gets the win.

Sandow starts talking after the match about last night to major boos. It's so loud that we can't even hear most of what he says. He finishes by saying he was "your martyr" and "you're welcome." He does a cartwheel and bows to the fans. Triple H (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/45/triple-h/) comes out to the ring to a monster pop. Triple H says he got caught up in the moment on RAW and apologized for "humiliating" him. Triple H then hits the Pedigree and then does a DX chop over the fallen Sandow.
Backstage segment. AW and the Primetime Players interrupt a photo shoot with Rosa Mendes. AW takes the camera after jawing with the camera guy and starts taking pics of the Primetime Players.

A recap is shown of the Triple H - Paul Heyman - Stephanie McMahon (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/36/stephanie-mcmahon/) - Brock Lesnar (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/218/brock-lesnar/) segment from RAW.

Fatal 4-Way - Rey Mysterio (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/54/rey-mysterio/) vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. Kane (http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/profiles/68/kane/) vs. Daniel Bryan: All the participants go after each other and it goes outside the ring. ADR interrupts a 619 on Bryan. Lots of action. Kane looking solid and taking on Rey and Bryan. Double suplex by Kane. Kane still in control. Del Rio stops it. Del Rio and Bryan go at it. Bryan kicking Del Rio hard in the corner to tons of YES chants. Kane and Del Rio go back and forth. Kane and Bryan take it outside the ring. Bryan hits Kane over the barricade. Rey comes back in and is gaining steam against Del Rio. Bryan comes in to try and stop, but Rey get him up against the rope for the 619. Del Rio tries to stop him, but Rey hits him and sets him up right next to Bryan. Double 619 to a huge crowd pop. Rey up to the top rope and nails Bryan and goes for the pin, but Ricardo Rodriguez pulls him outside the ring. Del Rio snags the pin for the win and a huge amount of heat!

[Savio]

Antonio Cesaro (w/ Aksana) vs. Santino Marella: Match starts of slow. Aksana distracts Santino. Cesaro works over Santino a bit, but Santino comes alive and hits his usual moves. Cesaro gets out the cobra. Santino is distracted again by Aksana but maintains control. He fails with the Cobra, and Cesaro picks up the win.
Salt in the wounds VSG

[Lock Jaw]

Bushwa. Christian deserves ONE MORE MATCH.

[SammyG]

Del Rio Sheamus again?

[Tazz Dan]

I'm loving Jericho/Ziggler. That match will be huge when it happens.

[Lock Jaw]

Would not be suprised to see Rey added to the match to make yet another Triple Threat WHC match.

[#1-norm-fan]

Fucking Ryback. 2 weeks without pinning anyone.

[Lock Jaw]

At least the match started this time.

[Indifferent Clox]

I bet alberto del rio cheats to win at the ppv and dolph cashes in and goes face at the ppv after beating jericho

[Fignuts]

I see Jericho going face before Ziggler.

[GD]

I hear VSG is a closet Jinder Mahal fan.

[ClockShot]

Can Del Rio win the belt this time. Pretty please?

[Joesgonnakillyou]

Cesaro as US champ in the near future?

[Swiss Ultimate]

Miz is in the doghouse, guys. Didn't you know that Triple H hates him?

[Hanso Amore]

SOOOOOOOO

Ryback.

Still getting Goldberg chants, still developing at a snails pace. Not sure how two straight weeks of not looking all that strong and having a no finish is supposed to get him over.

[Shisen Kopf]

Ryback is rasslin. WWE better start using him properly or I'm gonna think about emailing Vince and tell him I'm not gonna tape smackdown anymore. I'll probably not send the email but that'll learn him. Still pissed no Bushwhackers on Raw.

[VSG]

Salt in the wounds VSG

??

I am still in TPWW Survivor.

[Savio]

That takes place on Smackdown Though

[VSG]

Last time Tamina and Kaitlyn had their lives extended after their appearance on a Sunday PPV, even though they had both wrestled on Superstars 3 weeks back.

[Savio]

Nah broseph they didn't hit their 3 weeks, They wrestled in Diva battle royal and then at No Way out

[St. Jimmy]

Minus Cesaro this show sounds lackluster.

[Big Vic]

Yeah, it's Smackdown.

[Volare]

Not too bad of a show really.

[Ultra Mantis]

I can't get into Miz at all, this match with Christian is probably pretty good but I just don't give a shit. The Del Rio / Sheamus saga is having a similar effect.

[Ultra Mantis]

Mahal is possibly the dullest guy on the entire roster to put Ryback in a program with.

[Ultra Mantis]

Cody / Sheamus was great. Would love to see a full blown program between these guys. Cody / Zigs would also be awesome.

[Tazz Dan]

Ziggler's selling to Sheamus' Brogue Kick and The Codebreaker was fantastic.

[#1-norm-fan]

Mahal is possibly the dullest guy on the entire roster to put Ryback in a program with.

I don't know if he's gonna be in a program with him any more than Hawkins and Ryder were "in a program" with him. And Swagger. Who attacked him before the match and it never got started and apparently was just forgotten about. I'm not sure they know what they're doing...

[#1-norm-fan]

And what the fuck are they doing with the US Title? Constantly lose non-title matches, then every once in a while have a title match that he wins.

... I guess I just answered my own question. But seriously. How is this good for anyone/anything?

[Lock Jaw]

Yeah, they really need to get that belt off him. Should have voted for Santino to defend his title on RAW1000 instead of Xtian. :mad:

[#1-norm-fan]

Yeah if Santino had won, Miz would have probably just won that title instead.

I hate saying "They need to get the title off Santino" because that makes it sound like it's his fault. It's not. Santino is great. He's just booked SO poorly as champion. If he was winning matches and they gave him more of an "idiot who can somehow always eek out the win" then he'd be fine. But it doesn't make any sense the way it is. No reason for him to have it and be booked like shit.

[Tazz Dan]

Yes, you should have. It was your one vote that cost Christian the belt. HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW?

[#1-norm-fan]

I don't even get WWE Pool point for him being champ because he barely ever defends it. Even I can't benefit from his shitty reign. No one wins.

[Mr. Nerfect]

* Christian vs. Miz was amazing. I like that The Miz called himself the face of the Intercontinental Championship. I'd like The Miz to make a big deal out of being the champion, like Cody was sort of doing. The Miz should enter the Royal Rumble next year and claim that he wants to take the IC Title into the main event of WrestleMania with him. I'd really like to see him go until next year's Mania as the champion.

* Antonio Cesaro as the next US Champion could work. Cesaro is a pretty great talent, and he seems like he would be a good fit for the title. Remember when William Regal was in WCW and he always went after the TV Title because he didn't care about being the champion of the United States? It would kind of be cool if Cesaro won the title and was then like "I don't want to be the champion of the United States," and relinquished the title. It's been a while since we've seen a tournament on the main rosters -- I'd like to see one for the vacant US Title.

* Daniel Bryan cracks me up. I don't care what any of you say -- I found him less awkward in that backstage segment than Sheamus was.

* On a related note, how damn good is Sheamus? He's pretty solid at everything and has got size to him and is great at public appearances. That dude should probably be champion for a long time.

* I haven't seen Chris Jericho in a while -- he seems to be growing his hair out a tiny bit. I like him as the babyface, and I think that he has got legs as the old lion that is woken up by the younger lion and takes the cub to school. I actually think Jericho could use a win more than Ziggler at SummerSlam. If Del Rio cheats to beat Sheamus, I would love to see Ziggler cash in on Del Rio and win the World Heavyweight Title there and then. Ziggler vs. Del Rio vs. Sheamus vs. Jericho at Night of Champions. I could get behind that.

[VSG]

So who exactly is Smackdown's GM?

[Gertner]

Would love Del Rio to win the belt. He's the best in ring performer in the business.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Del Rio is really good. I thought there was something really "special" about him when he debuted. Since he's moved to RAW, I've kind of felt that it hasn't been accentuated to the best of what it could be. I hope that changes very soon.

[XCaliber]

That's barely even close to the Superstars episode that I watched. :wtf:

[Skippord]

Del Rio is the vanilla-ist midget of all

[Corporate CockSnogger]

He looks more caramel to me.

[Jura]

Vanilla core covered in caramel.

[Joesgonnakillyou]

Jericho wearing Zigglers t-shirt was probably the best part of the show.

That always somehow feels like (to me) the worst insult one wrestler can do to another

[Cool King]

So who exactly is Smackdown's GM?

I get the feeling that they just want us to forget that SmackDown is GM-less.

Though, if they're still thinking of someone to be the GM at this point, then I'm preparing myself for them to just throw Hornswoggle into the position, just so they can fill the vacancy.

But, I would love it if Big Johnny returned and became SmackDown GM. Him, or somehow, Paul Heyman.

[Triple Naitch]

Cody/Sheamus was great. Really would like to see them continue something.
I'm excited for Jericho/Ziggler. Loved how Dolph sold the Codebreaker.
Interested to see how Cesaro plays out.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I would love to see William Regal as the SmackDown GM. I think he and AJ would be interested as respective authority figures.

[#1-norm-fan]

I would just love to see William Regal's talent not be wasted on a show that doesn't even air in the states. It's sad. Every week someone like William Regal is not contributing to making Raw or Smackdown LOADS more entertaining is just a week of his life that he could be helping out the business more than he is and he just... isn't.

Yeah, I went super deep on that thought. I know.

[#1-norm-fan]

I also feel the same about Matt Striker and Johnny "Why are you scripting shitty, corny comedy skits on a wrestling show when you can just throw me on screen without a script and let me be naturally awesome?" Curtis.

[#1-norm-fan]

Also, Johnny Curtis is unique in the ring. He sells thing very strange sometimes and I like it. He's different. Also, he's got a really good look.

Have I mentioned how much I love Johnny Curtis lately? It seems like it's been too long.

[Gertner]

I would just love to see William Regal's talent not be wasted on a show that doesn't even air in the states. It's sad. Every week someone like William Regal is not contributing to making Raw or Smackdown LOADS more entertaining is just a week of his life that he could be helping out the business more than he is and he just... isn't.

Yeah, I went super deep on that thought. I know.

Regal is terrible on commentary