Smackdown Spoilers

[Dave Youell]

Dark Match:

Johnny the Bull over some local Kelowna Wrestler

Not too bad a match actually, with Johnny getting some great power spots, and showing how quick he can be. He won with that move off the top rope that turns into a clothesline.



Velocity:

Jamie Noble over Spike Dudley

This was another great opening match, with spike really playing to the crowd. Some fun moves, with spike hitting what I believe to be the stomp, off the apron. That was cool. Noble took it with a rollup I believe.



Nunzio over Funaki

Another fun opener, with lots of heat for nunzio. He won by holding the tights, if I recall.



Mark Jindrak Over Orlando Jordan

This is where the show got good, because we got to see Teddy Long. This dude is amazing. If I had my way, he would have the modern day equivalent to the Heanan family. Call it the players club or something. Anyway, he comes out, starts talkin his jive, and we are all loving it. The mirror is in the ring, and he brings Jindrak out to pose in the mirror. We are all cheering for Teddy. Orlando Jordan comes out, and we are off. Good back and forth match with Jordan getting a lot of offense. Jindrak won with the same ‘jumping rock bottom’ move he has been doing. I hope our chants for Teddy make TV. I want that dude given more time instead of seeing Bradshaw’s mug every week for so long.



Hardcore Holly/Rockabilly over The Bashams

Another fun match, with Hardcore getting a lot of pop. Lots of back and forth, and a couple switches by the Bashams. I am pretty sure it ended with Billy pinning Damaja, using that crazy spinning move he does.



Smackdown Time!!!



Booker T Over RVD

The show started, with no pyro for some reason. RVD comes out, again no pyro. Booker comes to the ring, and RVD stops him with a baseball slide out of the ring. The bell rings while they are outside. They get into the ring. The bell rings again. Good back and forth action. RVD hits rolling thunder, and a few other of his spots. I really like the chemistry these two have. Suddenly the pyro to start smackdown goes off. Scares the crap outta everyone. Well, everyone except booker, being that he takes the opportunity to roll RVD up for the win.



Paul E’s music hits, and lo and behold, look who the new GM is. Well, for a night anyway, because Kurt is in the hospital with a broken leg, so Vince told Paul he was the only one he could trust with the Brand for tonight. He starts to go off on a tirade on how awesome smackdown is, and how he is responsible for it. he then starts to go off on RVD about how he used to be somebody in ECW and now is nothing. Cue the Dudley’s, who came out to stand with Rob. Buh Buh says that anything Paul E says can as far as he is concerned be said to them too. Heyman goes off about how they used to be monsters, but now have been tamed. He taunts them for a while longer, till Buh Buh can take it no more and clocks…….RVD!!!! yup, heel turn for the Dudley’s. They beat the bejesus outta RVD for a while, and they look to Paul for approval. Good segment.



Charlie Haas and mystery partner over Scottie and Rikishi for the Belts!

Yup, that’s right, new tag champs. They promo on the titantron that Charlie will have a mystery partner tonight…whoever will it be….hmmmmm….well, he comes out to the ring and then suddenly, Ricos music hits! Yup, Rico and Charlie Haas are the new odd couple tag team of the WWE. And let me tell you from where I sit, its gold. Soooo funny! The match was total comedy, with some fun spots. Everything from rico giving haas a good luck pat on the bum to consoling Scottie 2 hottie about his low blow. It was so fun, and rico is pulling this character off. The icing on the cake was the big kisch setting Haas up for the stink face, rico calling for him to stop, so he can switch in. Jackie hands Rico some chap stick, and says go for it. the facial expressions were great on everyone’s part at that. fun match. I believe Charlie ended up getting the pin. The story was that Charlie is attracted to Jackie, and that is why he is interested in the team. Very fun match to watch, and if you are a Rico fan you are going to be happy (Well, that they are using him anyway)



Bradshaw Over EL Gran (the Champion of Mexico)

Maybe Dave can help us with this one, cause I have no idea who this guy is. (I was hoping, in my heart of hearts for La Parka) Bradshaw cut a promo in the back with Paul E about how apparently Bradshaw met the heavyweight champion of Mexico in an airport and they started yelling at each other. So he booked the match. El Gran was announced at 215 pounds, wore black and gold and a mask. Pretty boring match actually. (not that it should be a surprise) Bradshaw played the heel by pinning and pulling the champ (who had a pretty cool Mexican championship belt actually) up off the mat at 2. then he laid down and made the lifeless body of the champ pin him, only to kick out at two. Fall away slam, clothesline from hell, and its over.



Café du Rene

I am not sure the actual name of the segment, I think this is it. But after watching him tonight, I have to say this: Rene Dupree is GOLD. The dude is awesome. He was such a great heel tonight. As far as I am concerned, he has all the tools to be great in this business. He got the most heat of the night, bar none. I hope it comes off as well on TV as it did live. Man, I love to hate him. The segment took place in the ring, with a lamppost, and street sign (rue de Rene I think is what was on it) and an Eiffel Tower about 4 feet high. Of course, there was also a café table, with bread and wine. There was also an old dude playing the accordion behind him to start the segment off. Of course, Fifi was in the corner, scared shitless of all that was going on around her. For some reason, they had her sitting on the monitor at first, which just made matters worse, cause whenever anyone would talk, she would freak out. Not a happy camper. As for Rene, he would open his mouth, and we would boo. It was great. He was in a suit, and asked torrie out. He announced her as a playboy cover girl, and most recently a diva magazine cover girl as well. She got and he sat her down all gentleman like. He was being very polite, pouring her wine, and introducing her to Fifi. I wonder how long this will last? I didn’t have to wonder very long tho, because he started asking her about the Big Show, and why in the world she would laugh at him. Torrie said she thought she was out here to talk about the Diva Rag, I mean Mag, and he should stick to that. Rene kept pressing, and got more and more intense with her. Man this guy is good. He got to the point where he was over her, shouting, saying that Fifi wasn’t the only bitch in the ring. Torrie slapped him, and he grabbed her hard. She swung again, and he blocked it. suddenly out of nowhere, John Cena is there. He cleans house, throwing the props (never did see what happened to Fifi) out of the ring. Rene was cut badly near his ear, and was sent back. Cena grabbed the wine, tried it, and spat it out. He wanted a Molson Ex (one of Canada’s most popular beer) someone in the crowd gave him one and we were chanting ‘Chug’. He said he will if we will, so raise a glass. He did a rhyme to kelowna, and everyone was drinkin. He started to promo, and suddenly, the two Chavos interrupted.



ChavoChavo Over John Cena

Handicap match with The Two Chavos fighting Cena. Lots of fun stuff here, with Cena being very very over. All the spots you would think would be there were, but in the end, with some cheating, Chavo Jr pinned Cena with at Brain Buster. Good match



Booker T came out to promo how great he is. We disagreed, so we booed him mercilessly. Booker was talking about how big a star he was, and all that, and suddenly the lights went out. A couple of bongs and thunderclaps later, booker was running away in the audience. This was the only disappointment of the night, as many of us saw taker earlier in the day, and we would not get to see him this night. The place went apeshit for the bongs, so it was disappointing not to at least see him.



The Dudley over Eddie

Okay, so Paul is calling the Dudley Boyz ‘The Dudley’ tonight. I am not really sure why, but basically, this is a handicap match. Eddie gets beat down. There is a double count out at one point but Paul E (down by ringside) says that this is the main event, and there will be a winner! So the match goes on, with Eddie working hard, and hulking up Eddie style on Devon. He triple suplexes him, and looks to have victory at hand, but then he is tripped, pinned, and buh buh holds his feet down on the outside. Bradshaw shows up and gives Eddie the Big Beat Down including a Clothesline from hell. He gets on the buckle and gloats. Pretty good match, and that’s the show.



Biggest Pops

Cena

Eddie

Taker (or the tease)



Biggest Heat

Rene (this guy is going to be a megastar)

Heyman

Booker T



After the show Eddie gets up, and gets the mic. He starts some kind of verbal game with Tazz about why Tazz wont get him a bottle of water. Tazz says its Coles job. Eddie gets some water, and throws it back to Tazz saying ‘I will give you a chance to catch this’. Tazz comments how Cole is really the Catcher, but he will do his best. He catches the water, and then tells Eddie how much he respects him so he will give him the water, and he gets up and hands it to him. Eddie then tells us again how great we are, and thanks us and wishes us God Bless. Before he leaves he gets us chanting ‘Bradshaw sucks!’

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Sounds like a rpetty decent show, but the reporter could be over hyping eveything

[Shawn]

So tazz is a bitch now huh.

[big_bluto]

And apparently the 'New' bradshaw still uses the clothesline from hell.....
*deadpan* woohoo

[SeanMC]

The thing after the show sounds kinda gay, but the rest of the show up until the main event looks good,and ilike the dudleyz heel turn, maybe this could be the start of the return for ECW?Even though they did attack RVD but they could always fit him in eventually..

[Mikey]

Great another random tag team wins the tag team titles

[Azriel]

So, it looks like Taker vs. Book at Judgement Day? And I'm sure Dudleys will get the titles at JD.

[AareDub]

Sounds better than last week's show

[SuperSlim]

sounds like entertainment

[MVP]

Definitely sounds like one of the better shows.

The angle with Rene and Cena sounds hilarious, and Smackdown is pretty good at using comedy to draw feuds (i.e. Brock dancing in a sombrero, WGTT impersonating the APA, Bradshaw's promos).

Glad to see that Heyman returned because Kurt Angle was a pretty terrible GM IMO. The Dudleyz' heel turn works really well with Heyman's return since they are loyal to their former ECW promotion. I'm looking forward to seeing where they'll go from here.

[El Santo]

Honestly, I'm glad the tag belts are off Scotty & Rikishi. Rico and Haas sound like they'll make a good tag team.

Sooo... Stone Cold John Cena, eh?

[Sephiroth]

Sounds as a overall good match

[Evil Vito]

Originally Posted by Mikey Great another random tag team wins the tag team titles

Proof that smarks only want to complain.

[El Santo]

By the way, the trade is really starting to work for Smackdown. Renee, RVD, Booker, and the Dudleys are all in major angles, while Rico (w/ Jackie) has won 1/2 of the tag belts, and Teddy Long, Jindrak, and Spike are still within visibility (on Velocity, but I love that show, so no complaints).

Meanwhile, on RAW: Shelton is absent this week on Raw, Tajiri is jobbing to Coach, and Rhyno, A-Train, Palumbo, and Nidia are nowhere to be seen.

[KingofOldSchool]

Originally Posted by El Santo By the way, the trade is really starting to work for Smackdown. Renee, RVD, Booker, and the Dudleys are all in major angles, while Rico (w/ Jackie) has won 1/2 of the tag belts, and Teddy Long, Jindrak, and Spike are still within visibility (on Velocity, but I love that show, so no complaints). Meanwhile, on RAW: Shelton is absent this week on Raw, Tajiri is jobbing to Coach, and Rhyno, A-Train, Palumbo, and Nidia are nowhere to be seen.

Yeah but you have to realize that Smackdown has loss a lot of talent and need to make up for it. Without Lesnar, Angle, and now Show they need more people on their shows.

While on Raw they haven't loss much.

[The CyNick]

Anytime I get to see Heyman on TV its a good day.

I like the idea of the Dudleys managed by Heyman. I was saying way before Mania that they need to turn the Dudleys into killers in order to make them worth watching. Good move by WWE. It'll be interesting to see if they add RVD to the faction down the line. I still dont think RVD will really ever get over as a true heel, but I can see it happening. I really think RVD-Eddie should be the major program they go with on Smackdown for the summer. Ive been watching some of their stuff from '02, and it was gold. Ive said before I think Eddie should face RVD face vs face (maybe at Summerslam), and then maybe in a rematch they could have RVD turn, and win the WWE title (I know that'll never happen, but it should). Anyway, then RVD with a faction could provide a solid chase story for Eddie.

Haas/Rico sounds odd, but at least they'll have good matches. If Haas ends up with Jackie and a solid push, it'll be all good.

I didn't like the fact that Long and Jindrak were put on Velocity this week, because I feel with a new character you have to promote him as much as possible, being on Velocity wont do that. Hopefully they at least give them a promo on the show.

Rene Dupree segment sounds funny. I like the idea of Dupree/Cena, but it might be a little too soon. I think it would have been better say for Summerslam after Dupree gets a few more victories. I would guess Cena will go over, but then where does that leave Dupree?

Guess BT is still going with Taker, thats too bad for the Bookerman. Who knows, maybe BT gets a cheesy win after that Mordecai dude debuts. I think thats the only way to make this program work. That way BT gets a huge win (even if it is really cheap) and he can continue to brag that he's better than everyone on Smackdown. Beating Taker would logically make him the #1 contender for the WWE title, which could be done at the Great American Bash in June. Then for Mordecai that would be a great way to make an impact upon his debut. And at the same time it sets up a decent feud for Taker in the Summer.

[KingofOldSchool]

Originally Posted by The CyNick Rene Dupree segment sounds funny. I like the idea of Dupree/Cena, but it might be a little too soon. I think it would have been better say for Summerslam after Dupree gets a few more victories. I would guess Cena will go over, but then where does that leave Dupree?

I see it like this...

Cena goes over in this feud, then Dupree gets to feud with lower end guys to help build himself even more. Then when it's time for Cena to go after the WWE Title, Dupree can feud with Cena again and this time go over.

Thus elevates Dupree to upper mid card status while Cena gets put officially into the main event.

[The CyNick]

Originally Posted by KingofOldSchool I see it like this... Cena goes over in this feud, then Dupree gets to feud with lower end guys to help build himself even more. Then when it's time for Cena to go after the WWE Title, Dupree can feud with Cena again and this time go over. Thus elevates Dupree to upper mid card status while Cena gets put officially into the main event.

Yeah I just think it puts them in a tricky spot.

Cena is probably the most over full time guy in the company right now so they have to be careful with him. If he sells a lot for Dupree it might hurt him, especially if they dont push Dupree after his feud with Cena. Hopefully they make it close with Dupree, but then after JD Dupree goes on a winning streak so Cena doesn't look weak for having sold do much for Dupree.

I agree when its time for Cena to move on, Dupree would be a great guy to hold the "US" title.

[big_bluto]

Originally Posted by The CyNick I really think RVD-Eddie should be the major program they go with on Smackdown for the summer. Ive been watching some of their stuff from '02, and it was gold. Ive said before I think Eddie should face RVD face vs face (maybe at Summerslam), and then maybe in a rematch they could have RVD turn, and win the WWE title (I know that'll never happen, but it should).

Agree 110%!
I remember that was when Eddie was a heel, and he and RVD were feuding over who had the best frogsplash, but nobody cared why they were fighting as the matches were so awesome.
Anything that puts those two against each other would be great IMO

[RGWhat316]

Well, WWE is willing to put injury angles into storylines, but yet they don't like to explain them. Last week when Angle got chokeslammed off the balcony, we all saw bloodaround Angle's head. So the explanation we get this week is that Angle has a broken leg, thats it.

But anyways, I do like that Paul Heyman is back as GM. Angle is just not fit for the GM role. I'm not Heyman's biggest fan by any means, but it hasn't seem right the past month without him there.

[The CyNick]

Originally Posted by RGWhat316 Well, WWE is willing to put injury angles into storylines, but yet they don't like to explain them. Last week when Angle got chokeslammed off the balcony, we all saw bloodaround Angle's head. So the explanation we get this week is that Angle has a broken leg, thats it. But anyways, I do like that Paul Heyman is back as GM. Angle is just not fit for the GM role. I'm not Heyman's biggest fan by any means, but it hasn't seem right the past month without him there.

I think they also said he has a 3rd degree concussion, which would explian the bleeding. His leg was also bent in an odd way when they showed him laying there, hence the broken leg. Makes sense to me.