PUNK IN THE DOGHOUSE!!!!!!!1111ONE (SD Spoilers)
 

SmackDown!:
* Vince McMahon is out to open SmackDown. He complains about Milwaukee, shows a video of the Donald Trump firing and brings out Teddy Long. Long announces that the main event with be “Rage in a Cage” with Edge & Chris Jericho vs. Jeff Hardy & Rey Mysterio with CM Punk as the special guest referee. McMahon then put Smackdown general manager Teddy Long on probation.
* R-Truth b. Shelton Benjamin
- Truth gets the win via pinfall.
* They did a backstage segment with Rey Mysterio, Vince and Long.
* Later tonight we will have John Morrison vs. Punk.
* Michelle McCool & Alicia Fox b. Melina & Gail Kim
* Vince and Punk were backstage. Vince is watching everything.
* We’ll see Dolph Ziggler vs. The Great Khali in a No DQ at The Bash.
* Morrison beat Punk. Punk hit The GTS afterward.
* Josh Matthews interviewed Chris Jericho backstage.
* Jim Ross & Todd Grisham rundown The Bash in the ring.
* Edge & Chris Jericho b. Jeff Hardy & Rey Mysterio
- Solid match with lots of back and forth action.

Am I the only one who thinks champs shouldn't lose matches until they drop the belt?

So how does this put 'Punk in the doghouse'?

Huh???

Apparently I didn't make the thread title drip with enough sarcasm. I'll lay it on ticker next time.

Sorry. My psychic powers are a bit below par today. [/sarcasm]

I don't think Punk is in the doghouse as much as I think that the writers just ate too many crayons as children.

I don't think they were EATING crayons...

FFS Narc. Thats my gimmick :(

So they still haven't given Edge a match at The Bash? What the fuck is that about

Here's hoping that he'll get involved in some capacity but yeah, that is a bit dull.

*PUNK HEEL TURN*

Cause he's better than you!

I for one think it will be exciting to watch Morrison defeat Punk...it should be a big step towards the glass ceiling, however, knowing WWE Logic, he could just as easily end up buried.

Punk needed to do something to generate heat, Morrison needed to do something to inch closer to the ME. Voila! THis actually makes sense. Rising face gets a non title victory that he can lay claim to after pushing to former champs to their limits....

Punk dissapointed that he lost to inferior opposition, so he heels it up a little. Good enough for me.

I however miss 15 minutes of fame.

Looks like another great week of Smackdown. :y:

As far as punk is concerned, while it may not look great for your champ to be being beat clean, he is turning heel and people are quick to forget. Plus it gives Morrison a nice rub.

Whats kind of odd is that they had Morrison beat Punk(the world champ) this week, but not Edge last week, kind of odd. Are they trying to keep Edge strong for a face turn or what?

The Punk thing seems well booked. He hasn't be overtly heel-like in the last few weeks, if you were to ignore the subtleties in his promo with Hardy and the negative reaction from a minority from the crowd.

It seems that the writers are constantly teasing us. We were all waiting for Punk to nail Jeff with the belt last week, and maybe nail Morrison this week; but he didn't. That's exactly the reason I'm excited about the inevitable - because it looks at least like it's been planned and well scripted rather than put together at the last second.

Knowing WWE he'll lose the belt to Kane on PPV before he turns heel.

Total unfounded nonsense. He lost to Kane at a useless PPV and it's already been forgotten about with the exception of a handful of cynical smarks. He has to lose some of the time

We all know the only champion who should job during his reign is Triple H. :roll:

Maybe Umaga could beat him via telepathy from the unemployment office.

Are you really comparing CM Punk as World Champion to Triple H's reign of terror?

Ziggler vs Kahli no DQ makes me want to pick up the phone to call directv and pay them not to order the Bash.

Ziggler/Khali may be the icing on the cake of the worst PPV of the year on paper.

Punk/Hardy will save it just barely, with Rey/Jericho assisting as well.

Everything else is gonna suck.

I'll be there ringside, so I hope not.

I'd actually be looking forward to Khali vs. Ziggler. They've had some fun matches together so far (even if you can't call them "good"). Ziggler has sold his ass off to make Khali look like a beast, and he's succeeded so far. I'm hoping it's reward time for Ziggler, and he finally pins Khali by going nuts on him with a steel chair again. It won't be the wreck you are expecting, I'll give you that much.

CM Punk putting over Morrison was very cool. It was a nice surprise, and officially fast-tracks Morrison, in my opinion. Plus, it adds more chaos to Punk's current position on the face-heel spectrum.

As for champions not losing, I do agree with that, generally speaking. Rey Mysterio used to do it, and Punk did it occasionally. I don't mind his loss to Morrison, though. It did more to help Morrison than hurt Punk. They can't have Punk losing all the time, but so far they haven't been doing that. It was just one loss to a rising star that they obviously want to be hovering around the main event scene.

For those who may have missed tonight's incredible SD! match (you know which one), here it is in it's entirety:

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I like how Punk added a few more moves in his WWE arsenal that inverted superplex was simply amazing hopefully uses it every once in a while. I think this was a better match then last weeks Edge/Morrison so it would be great to have a transitional feud for the title between the two.

Also, I don't get the hate for Ziggle/Khali sure their matches so far haven't been spectacular but they've all been fun for the most part and getting a clean win over Khali on PPV will do wonders for Ziggler. So as long as the match is short it won't detract from the PPV much or at all..... :shifty:

lol at the fan who miss spelled "straight edge".

He was probably high.

Smackdown is so much better than everyone else. I don't even like wrestling that much these days, but Smackdown is super fun to watch. Morrison and Punk are really coming into their own and that much was awesome. Grisham and JR seem to have a lot of fun commentating their matches.

vinces visit to smackdown reminds me when he visited ecw, rember sandman reading the paper, just before vince got rid of most the ecw guys. get ready for qanother house cleaning.

Great match. People behind the curtain are really starting to believe in Morrison. How about the reversal of Morrison's vicious knee into a half 'walls of jericho'? Superb chemsitry between these two. Can anyone of you see the maturation of their work since feuding over the OvW, I mean ECW title?

Yeah, that match was definitely better than the ones they had in ECW. CM Punk has been wrestling for quite the while, and while I'm sure he's bettered himself, I'd have to give most of the credit to Morrison really growing as a performer.

Innit. Really odd.

Yeah Morrison is well on his way.

The way JR was putting him over you just know he's gonna be a world champ within 18 months. I'm enjoying JR a lot more lately than I have been for years, I liked the HBK comparison too :).

Morrison should have a run with the IC title first and beat jericho for it.