Full Smackdown Spoilers

**Blitz** · 01-11-2006, 01:47 AM

From wrestlingobserver.com

7:30pm: They show a wrestlemania 21 vignette, and say
they are starting Velocity.
Velocity: Nunzio/Vito vs Danny Doring(ECW!) and Adam
Scott
Winners=Nunzio/Vito after a Vito superkick.

Ken Kennedy promo is next. He comes out talking about
how he's going to show the world how to dress. He
gives Tony Chimel(sp?) a shirt and tells him to put it
on. Then he tells Chimel to walk around and display
the shirt. What's the shirt? None other than a
Mr.Kennedy t-shirt, lol. He has merchandise now. Cool
shirt btw.

Jamie Noble vs Scotty 2 Hotty
Winner-Jamie Noble in a super fast match. Hotty taps
out to a reverse chokehold.

Paul Birchum with Regal vs Nick Burk(CZW)
Winner=Birchum with a flipping rock bottom. Guy seems
like he's got potential.

Simon Dean tells us he has a new system: The Gymini,
those two twins wrestlers from last week. Gymini vs
two announced wrestlers, Gymini win after double cross
slam.

Velocity Main Event: Mexicools(Psychosis/Crazy)vs The
Dicks
Winners=Mexicools after Animal runs down to help them.
After the match, Animal and Cools celebrate, then
Animal turns on them. End of Velocity

Smackdown: Pyro, Batista's music hits. Comes to the
ring with Teddy Long. Batista tells how he got injured
on Sunday and that it IS serious. He says how he's
loved following in the footsteps of Harley Race, Ric
Flair, etc. as World Champ and has a major
announcement. He declares that he has no choice but to
take time off and recover and that he is handing over
the belt to teddy to become vacant. Batista fills up
as he hands the belt over. He tells the fans that
whoever wins this belt will(in Tista's eyes) never be
a REAL champion until they defeat Batista since he
never techincally lost it. Commercial.

The show is back on, Teddy's in th emiddle of the
ring. He states that this night is going to be
HUGE(wait til you hear this!)and that tonight in
Philly, someone is becoming the new champ. He
announces that the main event is a 20-man over the top
battle royal. The winner is the undisputed World
Champion ala Flair at Rumble 92. Commercial.

Match 1: Chris Benoit vs Randy Orton (Match 7)
This match was extremely mat based and technical. Tons
of submissions, fans were getting bored. Nick Patrick
throws Booker and Sharmell out and ejects them. After
about 15 mins, Patrick is knocked out and Benoit gets
Randy in the crossface. Randy fights out and is about
to hit the RKO when Orlando Jordan runs out to
distract him. Orton knocks out Jordan and Book comes
back down. Benoit gets Orton in the crossface again
and with the ref slowly getting up, Booker nails
Benoit with the U.S. title. Orton puts his arm on
Benoit, 1-2-3 Orton is your new US champ.

Piper is walking backstage, bumps into JBL/Jillian. He
makes jokes at Jillian's face and JBL begs to be on
Piper's Pit.
Piper's Pit is next. Piper says the first ever Piper's
Pit was 22 years ago in this same city, Philadelphia.
His guest was supposed to be the Boogeyman, but JBL
comes out anyway. JBL takes the mic and goes on rants
about how great he was and how busts on Batista saying
he(JBL) wrestled with injuries. Piper tries to chime
in, but JBL keeps talking. Finally, after Piper acts
like he's snoaring, the two of them get into an
arguement. Piper calls out Boogeyman, and here we go,
lol. This is nuts, but funny. JBL pushes Jillian into
Boogeyman and what does Boogeyman do? He licks
jillian's "growth" and then EATS it! Haha. End of
segment.

Backstage promo with MNM and Mark Henry saying they
will bring more gold home.

Main Event, 20 man Battle Royal for World Title.
Participants are: Paul London, Spanky, Regal, Paul
Birchall, Lashley, Nunzio, Vito, Mexicools, Matt
Hardy, JBL, Mark Henry, MNM, Animal, Rey Mysterio,
Simon Dean, Orlando Jordan, Sylvian......but wait
that's only 19???? Long pause.....and guess who's
musics hit? None other than Kurt Angle.
Decent over the top match. Some cool spots such as
Lashley and Henry getting into it, etc. During the
match, Henry knocks Angle through the ropes and once
outside, he overhead presses Kurt through the announc
table. Angle lays there for a good 10 mins. Towards
the end of the match, we see Rey Mysterio elminate
both members of MNM. It's Rey vs Mark, but Angle is
still not officially elminated. After some good big
man vs little man spots, Mark throws Rey over the
ropes. Henry raises his arms for a good 5 mins, when
Angle pops up and gets in the ring. He pulls his
straps down and here we go. Back and forth action with
them teasing Henry almost getting Angle out. However,
in the end Angle hooks his legs around Henry and
forces him over the ropes. Your winner and shockingly
new World Champion, Kurt Angle. Fireworks go off all
over the place, confetti falls like a Wrestlemania,
and we have a new champion.
Hope this report helps you Dave and take care. -Jeff

WWE Smackdown--Philly 1/10/06

-=Ryan DiBiase

Arena was pretty much full. Only part of the upper level was papered. Crowd was hot for the most part the entire night.

Velocity/Dark Matches

--FBI over Danny Doring and Scott Drake. (Doring got no ECW heat or chants, for some reason) Someone needs to tell Vito to get a new set of tights-flesh colored tights make him look like he stole Naked Mideons gimmick tonight. FBI goes goes over via superkick by Vito.

--Kennedy comes out, cuts a promo and shills his T-Shirt on sale at the arena. He is still very much over, for some reason. I don't get it.

--Jamie Noble over Scotty Too Hotty. Noble used a dropdown slam where Scotty lands on Nobles knees-a move stolen from Roderick Strong of TNA. After that spot, Noble does a Taz-Mission type submission for the win. Scotty is still way over.

--Simon Dean comes out on the segway and introduces the Shane Twins. (Gymani) Squash match over too unannounced jobbers. From the upper deck, the Shane Twins looked like The Bashams on juice. Charming.

---Paul Burchill w/ William Regal over local talent, Nick Berk of CZW fame. Not sure what you call his finisher, but it money.

---Mexicools over The Dicks. Run-in by Animal, helping Crazy and Psychosis, but afterwards, he turned on both of them. Got a huge face pop before and after the turn.

Smackdown Tapings

1.) Batista comes down to the ring to cut a promo. Huge pop. Teddy Long in there as well. Cuts promo on the legacy of the World title. (Brings up Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair and other..) Correct me if I am wrong, (Credit to my brother, Justin DiBiase for pointing this out) but that belt over his shoulder has about a three year lineage. It doesn't go back to Flair. Even though it is the same model and *look* as the old WCW title, that championship began after HHH was awarded it on Raw. Am I right?

Bats cuts a promo on his injury. Gets choked up and says he is giving up the title. Seemed like a send-off. He thanked the fans, kissed the title goodbye and handed it to Teddy Long. As he was leaving, he took his sports jacket off and threw it in the crowd near the entrance ramp. It should be noted that as we go to a commercial, a security guard takes the jacket BACK from the fan who caught it. Sport jackets are hard to come by these days in Titan I guess. I miss the Canary Blue McMahon one, don't you?

2.) Backstage, Bats is saying his goodbyes to workers and officials. Ricky Steamboat has good words for him, as does Arn Anderson and Rey Jr. Bats puts over Rey Jr before he leaves.

3.) Cut back to the ring, Teddy Long cuts a promo saying that there will be a 20-man Battle Royal for the vacant title, right here tonight. Gi-normous pop.

4.) Video package runs on the Best of Seven Series.

5.) Cut to backstage, Teddy Long backstage with Randy Orton. Orton wants in the Battle Royal, even though he has the U.S. title match. Long says no, and wants him to prepare for Benoit.

6.) Cut back to the ring, Sharmell introduces Booker T, on crutches.

7.) Orton over Benoit to win the United States title for Booker T. Before the match starts, Booker gets suspended from ring side. Match goes on, very solid stuff and pretty long. Finish: Benoit tries to get Booker in the Sharpshoter, Booker shoves him off, Benoit backs into the ref-ref bump. Orlando Jordan runs in---Benoit takes care of him. Benoit snaps on a Crossface on Orton-no ref. Booker comes back out with Sharmell wielding a crutch. Swings at Benoit, Benoit ducks---Benoit almost set up for an RKO by Orton, no, snaps on a Crossface on Orton. (Booker powders) Orton is tapping now. Booker grabs the belt from ringside, gets back in and nails Benoit over the head with it while the Crossface is applied. Booker powders out, Orton lays on top of Benoit, ref counts to three. Booker T is your U.S. Champ.

7.) Video clip of Eddie's family receiving the "Spirit of the Heart" award.

8.) Cut backstage, Piper back there with JBL. JBL convinces Piper to let him be a guest on Piper's Pit tonight. Piper is a face here.

9.) Ring set up for Piper's Pit. Piper comes out to a decent pop. He notes that the first Piper's Pit was held in Philly 22 years ago. Wow. JBL comes out, cuts promo on the Battle Royal and how he will be champ again. In a hilarious moment, Piper falls asleep on a stool at one point and we can hear him snoring on the mic. Piper then has had enough and cuts a promo on JBL--- Piper introduces his REAL guest---The Boogeyman. Huge pop. This guy is over like gangbusters. (What does gangbusters mean anyway?) I'm waiting for Vince to sell foam worms. Money. Once he gets in the ring and does his little shimmy gimmick, JBL powders, but Jillian is left in the ring. Boogeyman has his way with her, sniffs her and licks her huge scab on the side of her face many times. (Is it a scab?) Huge tongue. Gene Simmons-like. He then bites the scab off of her face and chews it up. He spits it out, then holds it up like sacrifice and eats it. This got over. Jillian then powders out and leaves with JBL. ...which leaves Piper alone in the ring with Boogeyman. Boogeyman saunters over to Piper who is saying prayers in the corner on the mic. Hilarious. Piper is by far one of the best actors this business has ever seen---or should I say improviser. Hilarious. Boogeyman then powders to the outside, leaving Piper untouched as the segment came to a close.

10. Cut backstage, Mark Henry and MNM cutting a promo on the Battle Royal. Basic stuff.

11. Main Event: 20-man Battle Royal. 19 men in the ring. Long pause. Number 20? Kurt Angle. Boom. Not a pop---bigger than a pop. A boom. Amazing face heat. Shows that fans don't buy the Anti-American Angle. It's a 1984 cookie-cutter gimmick and it DIDN'T work. I'm glad they put Angle in this spot. You can't force things on the fans.

Match goes on. Here are the workers in it, listed in the order they were eliminated: JBL, Big Vito, Animal, Simon Dean, Nunzio, OJ, Regal, Crazy, Burchill, London, Matt Hardy, (at this point Henry and Angle are on the outside of the ring and Henry slams Angle through the announce table. Angle out cold. Henry comes back in.) Lashley and Henry have a stand off-Henry sends him out. Kendrick, Sylvan, and MNM were eliminated next. This left Rey Jr. and Mark Henry. Henry tosses him out after a minute or two. Angle back to his feet. Angle and Henry. Hits and Angle Slam on Henry. Good spot: Angle with a leg scissors on Henry on the ropes trying to send him over, but Henry counters and hits a Power Bomb on Angle. They do a similar leg scissors spot again, but this time Angle leans all the way back and sends Henry to the floor. They both went over, but Henry hit first.

New World Champion, Kurt Angle. Celebration in the ring with confetti and Pyro. Huge, Huge, Huge, Huge, Huge, Huge face heat. That's six times I typed "huge".

End of the show. Fans go home happy.

Very fun show live.

-=Ryan DiBiase

**Deceit** · 01-11-2006, 02:46 AM

KURT FUCKING ANGLE

**D Mac** · 01-11-2006, 02:52 AM

So will he go face? (Angle)

**Funky Fly** · 01-11-2006, 03:24 AM

What the shit. I may be reading this wrong because I am freaking drunk of my ass right now, but this shit sounds like some sloppy ass booking. Unexpected, but not good. Also, I have no clue why Jordan was involved in the US title match (haven't seen smackdown in 3 weeks).

**Splaya** · 01-11-2006, 03:36 AM

The booking happened like this because Tista tore his triceps again on Sunday

**Mr. Obvious** · 01-11-2006, 03:45 AM

ALL HAIL KING KURT!!!

**Funky Fly** · 01-11-2006, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Splaya

The booking happened like this because Tista tore his triceps again on Sunday

Yeah, I can see that. I said I'm drunk not retardeded.

**CharismaInjection** · 01-11-2006, 03:48 AM

Kurt Angle coming to save Smackdown in it's hour of need.

**Lock Jaw** · 01-11-2006, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Funky Fly

What the shit. I may be reading this wrong because I am freaking drunk of my ass right now, but this shit sounds like some sloppy ass booking. Unexpected, but not good. Also, I have no clue why Jordan was involved in the US title match (haven't seen smackdown in 3 weeks).

Jordan was involved because for the past two weeks Booker laughed at him when he wanted to replace Booker. And he said something like "You know what... I'll remember this". And then it was revealed that he invented a time machine and sent back the "I still remember" note to Booker.

Ok, that lastpart about the time machine didn't happen. On camera at least.

Last week he made Randy lose to Bentoit.

**Funky Fly** · 01-11-2006, 04:00 AM

That explains it. Kinda stupid, but it makes sense.

**Eunos** · 01-11-2006, 05:36 AM

Sounds like a Good show.. May have to check it out.

So does this mean Kurt Angle is a Smackdown Wrestler again?..

**Nark Order** · 01-11-2006, 06:00 AM

I hope so, being that he is the Smackdown World Champion.

**Pinnacle Charisma** · 01-11-2006, 08:00 AM

Fantastic. Two champs has been reappointed this week that I actually give a fuck about.

**Disturbed316** · 01-11-2006, 10:14 AM

WHOOO BOOGEYMAN ATE THE GROWTH!

**Disturbed316** · 01-11-2006, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Disturbed316

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Kurt Angle.

Kurt Angle is now a superstar on Smackdown , but Kurt Angle is from Raw. Now think about it. That does not make sense.

Why would Angle, a huge superstar on Raw, want to wrestle on Smackdown with a bunch of B-Show wannabe's. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with whole "the rosters are locked" case.

Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case.

It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major wrestling company and I'm talkin' about Kurt Angle. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Kurt Angle wrestles on Smackdown you must acquit. The defense rests.

**PorkSoda** · 01-11-2006, 11:08 AM

Why does WWE post the spoiler (Kurt winning the title) on the website? Doesn't really make sense to me.

But Kurt as champion =

Kurt on Smackdown =

Boogeyman biting off Jillian's growth =

Me being kind of sick today =

Cheeseburgers =

**Xero** · 01-11-2006, 11:18 AM

Man I wish I had gone to that. I could have, too, but I decided against it because I didn't want to travel all the way to Philly for a SmackDown! taping.

**Disturbed316** · 01-11-2006, 11:24 AM

It kinda sucks that ALL of Smackdown's champions have been injured within the last couple of weeks.

Kid Kash - Broken Arm - Cruiserweight Champ
Booker T - Broken Cock muscle - United States Champ
Batista - Broken arm muscle - World Heavyweight and Tag Champ

That really sucks for the guys

**Lock Jaw** · 01-11-2006, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by PorkSoda

Why does WWE post the spoiler (Kurt winning the title) on the website? Doesn't really make sense to me.

Watch the ratings skyrocket.

**The One** · 01-11-2006, 02:53 PM

Here is what I don't get. Orton pinned Benoit...BUT in one of the reports it says Orton was announced new US Champ, and in another it says Booker T was announced new US Champ. Who is the champ? (this is why I knew is was dumb to throw Orton in as a replacement...too confusing)

**Cool King** · 01-11-2006, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Blitz

Paul Birchum with Regal vs Nick Burk(CZW)
Winner=Birchum with a flipping rock bottom. Guy seems
like he's got potential.

IT'S BURCHILL DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!

Can nobody spell or remember his name? Some guy spelt it Burchal then someone else spelt it Barchill, now this!

And it's called The C4! Not a flipping Rock Bottom.

Damn.

Anyway, pretty good SmackDown!.

**D Mac** · 01-11-2006, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel Mac

So will he go face? (Angle)

**redoneja** · 01-11-2006, 05:37 PM

Any other day alot of ppl would complain that there was only 2 matches.

**Shadow** · 01-11-2006, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cool King

IT'S BURCHILL DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!

Can nobody spell or remember his name? Some guy spelt it Burchal then someone else spelt it Barchill, now this!

And it's called The C4! Not a flipping Rock Bottom.

Damn.

Anyway, pretty good SmackDown!.

I take it you've got a hard on for Burchill?

**ThruTheWire** · 01-11-2006, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Shadow

I take it you've got a hard on for Burchill?

Burchill? Don't you mean Barchill?

**Blitz** · 01-11-2006, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThruTheWire

Burchill? Don't you mean Barchill?

You misspelled that. It's Barchum.

**Corkscrewed** · 01-12-2006, 05:04 AM

TWO matches on SD?! Wow, that's a brand new low. I don't care if one is a battle royale... there's no excuse a show should only have two matches.

Ending makes up for it, but I can't help but go

a little bit.

CANNOT wait to hear the reaction for Kurt tho.

**Londoner** · 01-12-2006, 09:56 AM

Good to hear Kurt is the new champ, but what the fuck, 2 matches?That's just lazy booking.There's no excuse for that.

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Blitz Angel Headed Hipster Posts: 37,942	Full Smackdown Spoilers From wrestlingobserver.com 7:30pm: They show a wrestlemania 21 vignette, and say they are starting Velocity. Velocity: Nunzio/Vito vs Danny Doring(ECW!) and Adam Scott Winners=Nunzio/Vito after a Vito superkick. Ken Kennedy promo is next. He comes out talking about how he's going to show the world how to dress. He gives Tony Chimel(sp?) a shirt and tells him to put it on. Then he tells Chimel to walk around and display the shirt. What's the shirt? None other than a Mr.Kennedy t-shirt, lol. He has merchandise now. Cool shirt btw. Jamie Noble vs Scotty 2 Hotty Winner-Jamie Noble in a super fast match. Hotty taps out to a reverse chokehold. Paul Birchum with Regal vs Nick Burk(CZW) Winner=Birchum with a flipping rock bottom. Guy seems like he's got potential. Simon Dean tells us he has a new system: The Gymini, those two twins wrestlers from last week. Gymini vs two announced wrestlers, Gymini win after double cross slam. Velocity Main Event: Mexicools(Psychosis/Crazy)vs The Dicks Winners=Mexicools after Animal runs down to help them. After the match, Animal and Cools celebrate, then Animal turns on them. End of Velocity Smackdown: Pyro, Batista's music hits. Comes to the ring with Teddy Long. Batista tells how he got injured on Sunday and that it IS serious. He says how he's loved following in the footsteps of Harley Race, Ric Flair, etc. as World Champ and has a major announcement. He declares that he has no choice but to take time off and recover and that he is handing over the belt to teddy to become vacant. Batista fills up as he hands the belt over. He tells the fans that whoever wins this belt will(in Tista's eyes) never be a REAL champion until they defeat Batista since he never techincally lost it. Commercial. The show is back on, Teddy's in th emiddle of the ring. He states that this night is going to be HUGE(wait til you hear this!)and that tonight in Philly, someone is becoming the new champ. He announces that the main event is a 20-man over the top battle royal. The winner is the undisputed World Champion ala Flair at Rumble 92. Commercial. Match 1: Chris Benoit vs Randy Orton (Match 7) This match was extremely mat based and technical. Tons of submissions, fans were getting bored. Nick Patrick throws Booker and Sharmell out and ejects them. After about 15 mins, Patrick is knocked out and Benoit gets Randy in the crossface. Randy fights out and is about to hit the RKO when Orlando Jordan runs out to distract him. Orton knocks out Jordan and Book comes back down. Benoit gets Orton in the crossface again and with the ref slowly getting up, Booker nails Benoit with the U.S. title. Orton puts his arm on Benoit, 1-2-3 Orton is your new US champ. Piper is walking backstage, bumps into JBL/Jillian. He makes jokes at Jillian's face and JBL begs to be on Piper's Pit. Piper's Pit is next. Piper says the first ever Piper's Pit was 22 years ago in this same city, Philadelphia. His guest was supposed to be the Boogeyman, but JBL comes out anyway. JBL takes the mic and goes on rants about how great he was and how busts on Batista saying he(JBL) wrestled with injuries. Piper tries to chime in, but JBL keeps talking. Finally, after Piper acts like he's snoaring, the two of them get into an arguement. Piper calls out Boogeyman, and here we go, lol. This is nuts, but funny. JBL pushes Jillian into Boogeyman and what does Boogeyman do? He licks jillian's "growth" and then EATS it! Haha. End of segment. Backstage promo with MNM and Mark Henry saying they will bring more gold home. Main Event, 20 man Battle Royal for World Title. Participants are: Paul London, Spanky, Regal, Paul Birchall, Lashley, Nunzio, Vito, Mexicools, Matt Hardy, JBL, Mark Henry, MNM, Animal, Rey Mysterio, Simon Dean, Orlando Jordan, Sylvian......but wait that's only 19???? Long pause.....and guess who's musics hit? None other than Kurt Angle. Decent over the top match. Some cool spots such as Lashley and Henry getting into it, etc. During the match, Henry knocks Angle through the ropes and once outside, he overhead presses Kurt through the announc table. Angle lays there for a good 10 mins. Towards the end of the match, we see Rey Mysterio elminate both members of MNM. It's Rey vs Mark, but Angle is still not officially elminated. After some good big man vs little man spots, Mark throws Rey over the ropes. Henry raises his arms for a good 5 mins, when Angle pops up and gets in the ring. He pulls his straps down and here we go. Back and forth action with them teasing Henry almost getting Angle out. However, in the end Angle hooks his legs around Henry and forces him over the ropes. Your winner and shockingly new World Champion, Kurt Angle. Fireworks go off all over the place, confetti falls like a Wrestlemania, and we have a new champion. Hope this report helps you Dave and take care. -Jeff WWE Smackdown--Philly 1/10/06 -=Ryan DiBiase Arena was pretty much full. Only part of the upper level was papered. Crowd was hot for the most part the entire night. Velocity/Dark Matches --FBI over Danny Doring and Scott Drake. (Doring got no ECW heat or chants, for some reason) Someone needs to tell Vito to get a new set of tights-flesh colored tights make him look like he stole Naked Mideons gimmick tonight. FBI goes goes over via superkick by Vito. --Kennedy comes out, cuts a promo and shills his T-Shirt on sale at the arena. He is still very much over, for some reason. I don't get it. --Jamie Noble over Scotty Too Hotty. Noble used a dropdown slam where Scotty lands on Nobles knees-a move stolen from Roderick Strong of TNA. After that spot, Noble does a Taz-Mission type submission for the win. Scotty is still way over. --Simon Dean comes out on the segway and introduces the Shane Twins. (Gymani) Squash match over too unannounced jobbers. From the upper deck, the Shane Twins looked like The Bashams on juice. Charming. ---Paul Burchill w/ William Regal over local talent, Nick Berk of CZW fame. Not sure what you call his finisher, but it money. ---Mexicools over The Dicks. Run-in by Animal, helping Crazy and Psychosis, but afterwards, he turned on both of them. Got a huge face pop before and after the turn. Smackdown Tapings 1.) Batista comes down to the ring to cut a promo. Huge pop. Teddy Long in there as well. Cuts promo on the legacy of the World title. (Brings up Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair and other..) Correct me if I am wrong, (Credit to my brother, Justin DiBiase for pointing this out) but that belt over his shoulder has about a three year lineage. It doesn't go back to Flair. Even though it is the same model and look as the old WCW title, that championship began after HHH was awarded it on Raw. Am I right? Bats cuts a promo on his injury. Gets choked up and says he is giving up the title. Seemed like a send-off. He thanked the fans, kissed the title goodbye and handed it to Teddy Long. As he was leaving, he took his sports jacket off and threw it in the crowd near the entrance ramp. It should be noted that as we go to a commercial, a security guard takes the jacket BACK from the fan who caught it. Sport jackets are hard to come by these days in Titan I guess. I miss the Canary Blue McMahon one, don't you? 2.) Backstage, Bats is saying his goodbyes to workers and officials. Ricky Steamboat has good words for him, as does Arn Anderson and Rey Jr. Bats puts over Rey Jr before he leaves. 3.) Cut back to the ring, Teddy Long cuts a promo saying that there will be a 20-man Battle Royal for the vacant title, right here tonight. Gi-normous pop. 4.) Video package runs on the Best of Seven Series. 5.) Cut to backstage, Teddy Long backstage with Randy Orton. Orton wants in the Battle Royal, even though he has the U.S. title match. Long says no, and wants him to prepare for Benoit. 6.) Cut back to the ring, Sharmell introduces Booker T, on crutches. 7.) Orton over Benoit to win the United States title for Booker T. Before the match starts, Booker gets suspended from ring side. Match goes on, very solid stuff and pretty long. Finish: Benoit tries to get Booker in the Sharpshoter, Booker shoves him off, Benoit backs into the ref-ref bump. Orlando Jordan runs in---Benoit takes care of him. Benoit snaps on a Crossface on Orton-no ref. Booker comes back out with Sharmell wielding a crutch. Swings at Benoit, Benoit ducks---Benoit almost set up for an RKO by Orton, no, snaps on a Crossface on Orton. (Booker powders) Orton is tapping now. Booker grabs the belt from ringside, gets back in and nails Benoit over the head with it while the Crossface is applied. Booker powders out, Orton lays on top of Benoit, ref counts to three. Booker T is your U.S. Champ. 7.) Video clip of Eddie's family receiving the "Spirit of the Heart" award. 8.) Cut backstage, Piper back there with JBL. JBL convinces Piper to let him be a guest on Piper's Pit tonight. Piper is a face here. 9.) Ring set up for Piper's Pit. Piper comes out to a decent pop. He notes that the first Piper's Pit was held in Philly 22 years ago. Wow. JBL comes out, cuts promo on the Battle Royal and how he will be champ again. In a hilarious moment, Piper falls asleep on a stool at one point and we can hear him snoring on the mic. Piper then has had enough and cuts a promo on JBL--- Piper introduces his REAL guest---The Boogeyman. Huge pop. This guy is over like gangbusters. (What does gangbusters mean anyway?) I'm waiting for Vince to sell foam worms. Money. Once he gets in the ring and does his little shimmy gimmick, JBL powders, but Jillian is left in the ring. Boogeyman has his way with her, sniffs her and licks her huge scab on the side of her face many times. (Is it a scab?) Huge tongue. Gene Simmons-like. He then bites the scab off of her face and chews it up. He spits it out, then holds it up like sacrifice and eats it. This got over. Jillian then powders out and leaves with JBL. ...which leaves Piper alone in the ring with Boogeyman. Boogeyman saunters over to Piper who is saying prayers in the corner on the mic. Hilarious. Piper is by far one of the best actors this business has ever seen---or should I say improviser. Hilarious. Boogeyman then powders to the outside, leaving Piper untouched as the segment came to a close. 10. Cut backstage, Mark Henry and MNM cutting a promo on the Battle Royal. Basic stuff. 11. Main Event: 20-man Battle Royal. 19 men in the ring. Long pause. Number 20? Kurt Angle. Boom. Not a pop---bigger than a pop. A boom. Amazing face heat. Shows that fans don't buy the Anti-American Angle. It's a 1984 cookie-cutter gimmick and it DIDN'T work. I'm glad they put Angle in this spot. You can't force things on the fans. Match goes on. Here are the workers in it, listed in the order they were eliminated: JBL, Big Vito, Animal, Simon Dean, Nunzio, OJ, Regal, Crazy, Burchill, London, Matt Hardy, (at this point Henry and Angle are on the outside of the ring and Henry slams Angle through the announce table. Angle out cold. Henry comes back in.) Lashley and Henry have a stand off-Henry sends him out. Kendrick, Sylvan, and MNM were eliminated next. This left Rey Jr. and Mark Henry. Henry tosses him out after a minute or two. Angle back to his feet. Angle and Henry. Hits and Angle Slam on Henry. Good spot: Angle with a leg scissors on Henry on the ropes trying to send him over, but Henry counters and hits a Power Bomb on Angle. They do a similar leg scissors spot again, but this time Angle leans all the way back and sends Henry to the floor. They both went over, but Henry hit first. New World Champion, Kurt Angle. Celebration in the ring with confetti and Pyro. Huge, Huge, Huge, Huge, Huge, Huge face heat. That's six times I typed "huge". End of the show. Fans go home happy. Very fun show live. -=Ryan DiBiase

01-11-2006, 02:46 AM	#2
Deceit Member Posts: 533	KURT FUCKING ANGLE

01-11-2006, 02:52 AM	#3
D Mac Posts: 21,603	So will he go face? (Angle)

01-11-2006, 03:24 AM	#4
Funky Fly The Satanic Mechanic Posts: 52,521	What the shit. I may be reading this wrong because I am freaking drunk of my ass right now, but this shit sounds like some sloppy ass booking. Unexpected, but not good. Also, I have no clue why Jordan was involved in the US title match (haven't seen smackdown in 3 weeks).

01-11-2006, 03:36 AM	#5
Splaya 1-0 TPWW Chess Master Posts: 17,211	The booking happened like this because Tista tore his triceps again on Sunday

01-11-2006, 03:45 AM	#6
Mr. Obvious Posts: 12	ALL HAIL KING KURT!!!

01-11-2006, 03:48 AM	#8
CharismaInjection RIP Latino Heat. Posts: 920	Kurt Angle coming to save Smackdown in it's hour of need.

01-11-2006, 04:00 AM	#10
Funky Fly The Satanic Mechanic Posts: 52,521	That explains it. Kinda stupid, but it makes sense.

01-11-2006, 05:36 AM	#11
Eunos Bastard Deer Posts: 1,385	Sounds like a Good show.. May have to check it out. So does this mean Kurt Angle is a Smackdown Wrestler again?..

01-11-2006, 06:00 AM	#12
Nark Order Soundly Defeated Wadding Posts: 40,590	I hope so, being that he is the Smackdown World Champion.

01-11-2006, 08:00 AM	#13
Pinnacle Charisma Posts: 1,981	Fantastic. Two champs has been reappointed this week that I actually give a fuck about.

01-11-2006, 10:14 AM	#14
Disturbed316 Posts: 22,695	WHOOO BOOGEYMAN ATE THE GROWTH!

01-11-2006, 11:08 AM	#16
PorkSoda Diabetes Coming To Getcha Posts: 6,826	Why does WWE post the spoiler (Kurt winning the title) on the website? Doesn't really make sense to me. But Kurt as champion = Kurt on Smackdown = Boogeyman biting off Jillian's growth = Me being kind of sick today = Cheeseburgers =

01-11-2006, 11:18 AM	#17
Xero He's Here Posts: 60,735	Man I wish I had gone to that. I could have, too, but I decided against it because I didn't want to travel all the way to Philly for a SmackDown! taping.

01-11-2006, 11:24 AM	#18
Disturbed316 Posts: 22,695	It kinda sucks that ALL of Smackdown's champions have been injured within the last couple of weeks. Kid Kash - Broken Arm - Cruiserweight Champ Booker T - Broken Cock muscle - United States Champ Batista - Broken arm muscle - World Heavyweight and Tag Champ That really sucks for the guys

01-11-2006, 02:53 PM	#20
The One Boss Posts: 17,611	Here is what I don't get. Orton pinned Benoit...BUT in one of the reports it says Orton was announced new US Champ, and in another it says Booker T was announced new US Champ. Who is the champ? (this is why I knew is was dumb to throw Orton in as a replacement...too confusing)

01-11-2006, 05:37 PM	#23
redoneja Posts: 5,629	Any other day alot of ppl would complain that there was only 2 matches.

01-12-2006, 05:04 AM	#27
Corkscrewed Posts: 18,357	TWO matches on SD?! Wow, that's a brand new low. I don't care if one is a battle royale... there's no excuse a show should only have two matches. Ending makes up for it, but I can't help but go a little bit. CANNOT wait to hear the reaction for Kurt tho.

01-12-2006, 09:56 AM	#28
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	Good to hear Kurt is the new champ, but what the fuck, 2 matches?That's just lazy booking.There's no excuse for that.