Smackdown ***Spoilers for 3/18/04**

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Dark Matches:

- Horshu defeated Funaki

- Orlando Jordan defeated The FBI's Johnny Stamboli

Velocity Taping:

- Paul London & Billy Kidman defeated Yoshihiro Tajiri & Akio when London scored the pin with a 450 splash.

- Chuck Palumbo of the FBI defeated Hardcore Holly.

- WWE Cruiserweight champion Chavo Guerrero Jr. defeated Ultimo Dragon.

-Smackdown opens with WWE United States Heavyweight champion John Cena coming to the ring. Cena tells the crowd that he is from Boston and notes he is the new United States champion. Cena rips on the FCC as well. Paul Heyman comes out and announces that Brock Lesnar has left the WWE, blaming it on the Smackdown roster abandoning him last week when Steve Austin showed up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Heyman talks about the lottery next week on Raw and gets in Cena's face, slapping him. Cena goes after Heyman but Rhyno comes out....

-WWE United States Heavyweight champion John Cena pinned Rhyno with the F-U.

-They play the Edge video pushing his return.

-After showing a replay of the Cena-Heyman situation, they go backstage to where Heyman is walking past the APA. The APA mock Heyman and he notes that last week they promised loyalty to the Smackdown roster but abandoned Brock Lesnar. He tells them that tonight, they will get a WWE Tag Team championship match against Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty, and if they don't win, they are fired.

-WWE Tag Team champions Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty defeated The APA.

-Backstage, The APA challenge Paul Heyman to fire them. Heyman says that he never claimed he would fire the APA, he would fire Farooq. They start to argue and Heyman tells Bradshaw that he has a successful book and appears on talk shows about giving financial advice and doesn't need to keep carrying Farooq. Farooq walks out while Bradshaw stands there. Farooq questions him, then walks off, leaving Bradshaw alone.

-They air a clip of Vince McMahon announcing the lottery on Raw at the Meadowlands,

-Backstage, Dawn Marie tells Billy Gunn, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, and Rey Mysterio that Paul Heyman will be with them in a moment. Heyman comes in and informs them there will be a gauntlet match tonight on Smackdown and the winner will challenge WWE champion Eddie Guerrero later on in the show. Haas and Benjamin warn Heyman that unlike the APA, he can't play divide and conquer with them. Heyman tells them that they will be the first two in the gauntlet then, so they'll be wrestling each other.

- In the Gauntlet, Shelton Benjamin defeated Charlie Haas

-Backstage, Bradshaw stopped Farooq as he was leaving and tried to explain that it was business and he still wanted to be friends. Farooq walked out on him.

-In the Gauntlet, Shelton Benjamin defeated Billy Gunn

-The Big Show comes out and tells Benjamin he has something to say. He says that he may have lost the United States championship but tonight he will be the last man in the Gauntlet match,

-In the Gauntlet, Rey Mysterio defeated Shelton Benjamin

-In the Gauntlet, Rey Mysterio defeated The Big Show by countout after John Cena came down and struck him with the title belt outside the ring.

-Rey Mysterio will challenge Eddie Guerrero tonight for the WWE championship.

WWE is currently taping Smackdown at the Fleet Center in Boston, MA. Billy Krotchsen is calling in reports from the show:

-WWE champion Eddie Guerrero defeated Rey Mysterio in what was said to have been a really great match.

-Paul Heyman came out and said that he hopes on Raw's lottery that Guerrero and Mysterio are gone forever from Smackdown, and made a crack about English being the second language on Smackdown. Heyman said that he will do what he wants and he doesn't care who tries to stop him.

-The Undertaker's gong was heard and he came to the ring with Paul Bearer. Rey and Guerrero shove Heyman into UT, who grabs him and tombstones him to end the show.