2021-01-15 Smackdown

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today, 2021-01-16, I am checking out yesterdays Smackdown.  We are building towards the Royal Rumble.  Will Adam Pearce sign the contract to wrestler Reigns?  What will happen with Shinsuke?  I do not know so I think we should go find out!

• How great has Reigns become?  He should have been a heel years ago
• Uggg, Jey is going to talk.  He has go away heat with me and always has
•  Good grief turn down the fake noise!
• Good grief does Jey have fake gold teeth?
• Seriously can someone just knock this guy out!
• His bottom lip sticks out now because of those stupid fake teeth
• Are they called a grill?
• Oh my god I do not know if I can do this show with that take noise
• I might be because it is Uso but I am digging Nakamura tonight
• CESARO IS HERE!!
• Cole with a legit question but asked like an ass
• Did they ever explain what the King of Strong Style means?
• Of course Uso sat right back up, no one sells anything!
• I think Uso has been doing a little too much eating while not at the head of the table.  A bit of a gut
• Good night Uso!
• Heyman mentioning Scrap Daddy, interesting only 10% or so of the audience gets that reference
• Wait, Crews is going to join the Table but would not join the Hurt Business?
• The doorbell for the new Bayley's new talk show is annoying as hell
• Billie with the Riot Squad...I like it!
• I do not like that spot while in the lock-up but that wheelbarrow into a hotshot is awesome!
• Liv has come along so much over the last few years
• Stomps while on the first rope I like it!
• That was a three count with that small package!!
• That was not Billies fault, she was being chased by a monster!
• Corbin has come a long way from his days with that stringy gross hair
• Hell one of the most improved each year I think
• I love Corey trying to get Dominic to get involved!
• Was that a DEEP SIX one nine?  Get it?  
• Enough with the damn fake crowd noise
• Who is better than Heyman?  Spoiler, the answer is NO ONE!
• Corbin has done almost everything that is why he is the KING!
• This is going to be awful
• Yes, trainwreck
• An obstacle course?  Really?  This has Brother Brucies hands all over it
• I love Otis and D-Bry's new haircut!
• This match should be amazing!
• Well you do not have to eliminate all 29 Corey
• Both of these guys are amazing
• uggg, I hate that run into the opposite corner to run at the guy.  If you are running into it and it does not hurt why would it when you are thrown into it?
• That was a horrible bump by Cesaro!  I do not know what happened there
• A punt to the arm, that is unique
• Is one of the guys bleeding?
• Love that series of moves stopping the rope break into the Yes Lock
• Spinning Superplex!
• God, I hate Sasha!
• Damn I love Paul Heyman!
• I love both Big E and Sami!
• FOOL I DIDN'T MAKE THE MATCH!  -Big E
• CREWS CHEATED!!!!
• I love Heyman "You're not making for good television"!
• Roman Reigns makes such an unlikable heel it is perfect
• Wow...a bad mic on a WWE show, that is unique
• Uggg, Kevin Owns again?  Really?

I really liked this show!  It moved fast, storylines were well done and nothing really stupid....well besides Ding Dong Hello.  However, there is one thing that I do not get.  If it is a last man standing match for the title why would Pearce not keep the match and have Owens with him and PEARCE win the title!  That is what I would do especially if I was Pearce and waiting a lifetime for that chance!

RESULTS

• Segment:  Paul Heyman & Roman Reigns (Universal Champion)
• Segment:  Jey Uso/Shinsuke Nakamura
• Shinsuke Nakamura def. Jey Uso
• Segment:  Adam Pearce/Sonya Deville & Paul Heyman
• Segment:  Jey Uso/Charles Robinson
• Match Flo
• Interview:  Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford
• Segment:  Roman Reigns (Univeral Champion) & Apollo Crews
• Natalya def. Liv Morgan 
• King Corbin def. Rey Mysterio
• Segment:  Paul Heyman/Adam Pearce
• Segment:  Rey Mysterio & Dominic Mysterio
• Ding Dong Hello:  Bianca Belair
• Interview:  Daniel Bryan & Otis & Chad Gable
• Cesaro def. Daniel Bryan
• Interview:  Carmella/Sasha Banks (Smackdown Women's Champion)
• Apollo Crews def. Sami Zayn
• Segment:  Adam Pearce/Jey Uso & Paul Heyman & Roman Reigns (Universal Champion)/Kevin Owens

2020-07-31 Smackdown

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you found todays entry.  Today, 2020-08-05, I am checking out the latest, to date, Smackdown.  I know we have an appearance from The Fiend, an IC title match and more so enough typing, I think it is time for fighting!

• I LOVE BRAY WYATT!
• I miss good ring announcers
• Does anyone think that AJ is going to lose here?
• I am not sure I like the piped-in crowd noise
• Have we seen a ref bump with a female ref?
• If not do we need one occasionally just to give the illusion it could happen
• Seriously this crowd noise does not make sense
• Nice move by Gran with the sweep of the legs
• Is it odd that Styles is a flat earther?  I find it weird
• I like that Styles has a few finishers
• A really good match; so good I forgot to write comments!
• I really hate that belt!
• Corbin has really improved over the years, especially after he cut his hair
• This barroom brawl should be at Tim Whites bar!
• Celebrating in his own personal way?  Is that with a drink or three Cole?
• Seriously Corbin is great on the mic!
• I love me some Gulak!
• Cole, you mean when Gulak Pearl Harbored the King!
• Is that the Lebell Lock?
• What is this guy doing here?  Riddle has not reason to be out there!
• What is with everyone attacking the King from behind?  HE IS THE KING!
• Wait?  Chad Gable?  There could be a knighthood in this for him!
• His name is Chad Cole!
• I cannot wait for Big E's single run.  I think he should be fighting for the title at Mania next year
• Wait....Miz has only held 19 titles?  I honestly thought it would be higher
• I kind of hope that they leave the plex up if they ever have fans in the area again
• Is there a worse look then a man bun?  Not that I know of
• As much as I hate the moves on the apron the splash by Big E is great
• I hate it when guys run to the corner and hit it before running and hitting their opponent in the opposite corner.  Why does it hurt if your opponent does it but not when you do it yourself.  It is the little things guys
• When was the last time someone submitted to the Figure Four?  
• How strong do you have to be to do that?  Big E for Champion!
• So Lacey is back to being a heel?  She is going to end up with as many turns as Big Show
• Feel the Glow feels like an STD you can get
• Uggg, what was that?  Something she should NOT be doing for sure.  Sorry, Naomi, I don't think either you or Lacey are experienced enough for that
• Did Mandy Rose have some work done?
• I cannot wait till Sonya moves on to another feud.  She has MONEY written on her I think
• I love heel Bayley...and hate anything Sasha
• If I see Sasha tweet to Mr. McMahon one more time I might vomit.  
• Nikki is so different than anyone else in WWE
• Sasha has X-Pac heat with me, just go away!
• Really liked that closing sequence!
• Another person just turned on Alexa!  It is just sad the way people turn on the Goddess
• OH DEAR GOD NO!  THIS IS YOUR FAULT BRAUN!
• WHERE ARE YOU STROWMAN!

I do not know how this was received but I really loved this show almost top to bottom!  AJ is great!  Corbin is Great!  The Fiend segment with Bliss has SO many ways it could go.  Hardy looks better than he has in a long time.  Big E is going to be a breakout star I think.  I know people are down on WWE right now but man that was a good show and did not feel like 90 mintues!

Results

• Segment:  Bailey (Smackdown Womens Champion)/Sasha Banks (Raw Womens Champion)(Womens Tag Team Champions)
• Segment:  Nikki Cross
• Segment:  Big E
• Segment:  Miz/John Morrison
• Segment:  Lacey Evans
• Segment. Naomi
• Segment:  Gran Metalik
• Segment:  AJ Styles (Intercontinental Champion)
• Firefly Funhouse
• AJ Styles (Intercontinental Champion) def. Gran Metalik via Submission for the Titles
• Segment:  Shorty G/King Corbin
• Recap:  Bar Fight
• Segment:  Jeff Hardy/King Corbin
• King Corbin def. Drew Gulak
• Big E def. Miz via Submission
• Segment:  Gran Metalik/Lince Dorado & Cesaro/Shinsake Nakamura (Smackdown Tag Team Champions)
• Segment:  Sheamus
• Segment: Lacey Evans
• Naomi def. Lacey Evans
• Segment. Otis/Mandy Rose
• Segment:  Mandy Rose/Sonya Deville
• Interview:  Miz/John Morrison
• Match Flo
• Bayley (Smackdown Womens Champion) def. Nikki Cross for the Title
• Segment:  Alexa Bliss/The Fiend

2020-02-07 Smackdown Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry!  Today, 2020/02/08, I am checking out last nights Smackdown!  I know there is a fatal four way to find out who is challenging Bayley next and we see Goldberg, the man, the myth, return to find out what is next for Billy Boy.  So lets get to it!

• SLOW-MO!  Gotta love Morrison and the slow-mo
• That is THE FINK!
• Once Upon a Time on the Dirt Sheet?
• I love that this is suppose to be hokey...but I feel like AEW would be serious about this like that weird Darby Allin segment or the Wardlow promos
• Really?  Lance Storm AND Johnny L?
• I mock the New Day but I still LOVE them
• Did that fan just steal popcorn from Big E?
• Really?  The Usos are getting involved?  WHY?
• I like that they thought the fans were going to chant with them but nope
• What is Ziggler wearing?  Did he raid Michael Hayes closet?
• Why do I hate the Usos so much?
• Still calling that the Fameasser huh?  
• Zig-Zag Spinebuster combo nice
• I think it is that the Usos are kind of sloppy in the ring
• 57 days away from Mania, that seems really quick
• ITS THE GODDESS!!
• What was Alexa looking at?
• Is that Daivari or Sonjay Dutt?
• I really hate good guy Elias
• First, the truck shows that Corbin video now they shut off Cory's mic.  It is a damn conspiracy against the King and his court!
• How great it Sami?
• A female ref should never bully/touch a male competitor like that
• Good grief that is strength and a hernia waiting to happen!
• Reign looks like he lost weight but added bulk. he is looking really good tonight physically
• Wait, Goldberg is not there?
• I hope he says Cole is next!
• The Fiend?  Really?  Goldberg against the Fiend?  
• Bray Wyatt is not the champion, the Fiend is.  Why is everyone so confused by this?
• Who in the blue hell is that?  Heath Slater on TV?  Since when?
• Heath is going to get to wrestle tonight too?  
• Two weeks for D-Bry and what two years for Slater?
• This is brutal, those stomps while holding the arms
• That IC title is UGLY
• IT IS MY BOYS THE REVIVAL!
• Run Sami!!
• How great is Otis.  Best character on WWE TV
• Crews does not get an introduction?  BOO!
• Shorty G is a horrible name and I love that Sheamus kicks his head off each week
• WTF is Naomi wearing on her head?  Seriously that is just damn stupid!
• Who is going to win this match?  Probably the star who got the entrance
• Unlike the recent AEW show I watched I like that Cole reminded us that this is no DQ so what happened to Naomi is legal
• Kind of lost in this match but it has been sloppy a lot of the time
• Why did Alexa take her gloves off?
• YES!  CARMELLA WINS!

Lets start with the surprise win in the main event.  I am shocked...but that probably means Naomi will get the shot at Mania.  I did not like the opening segment.  Miz has good timing and Morrison does in the ring but on the mic with the other three, he seemed lost.  Then out comes the Usos.  Overall a fine show but this seemed to drag at times.  The Corbin/Reigns segment was bad and should have been cut as well.  I cannot say to watch this show.  It was there but nothing great.

RESULTS

• Dirt Sheet:  Big E & Kofi Kingston (Smackdown Tag Team Champions)/ Jimmy Uso & Jey Uso
• Jimmy Uso/Jey Uso def. Robert Roode/Dolph Ziggler 
• Segment:  Alexa & Nikki Cross
• Recap:  King Corbin eats Dog Food
• Segment:  King Corbin
• Segment:  Elias/Sami Zayn
• Elias def. Cesaro
• Segment:  King Corbin/Roman Reigns
• Interview:  Goldberg/Bray Wyatt (Universal Champion)
• Segment:  Daniel Bryan & Heath Slater
• Daniel Bryan def. Heath Slater via Submission
• Interview:  Braun Storman/Shinsuke Nakamura & Sami Zayn & Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson
• Segment:  Otis & Tucker
• Sheamus def. Apollo Crews
• Carmella def. Alexa Bliss & Dana Brooke & Naomi

Wrestling Review: 2020-01-24 Smackdown

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  We are just two days away from the Royal Rumble and it is time for the go-home show from the Blue Brand.  I know the main event is Kofi Kingston against John Morrison and we get to see a contract signing between The Planets Champion and Bray Wyatt!  Let us get to the ring....and it is the Usos....boo

• Ugg, I hate the Usos!  Seriously how long before one of them gets another DUI and they go away yet again
• Was that too soon?
• I wonder what Bobby Roode failed the wellness test for, they never did announce what
• The Usos do not look healthy, they look like guys who worked out but then stopped
• Fans are all over Roode, weird
• Wow, that was rough looking on one of the Usos...I guess Jimmy per Cole
• Also, the Usos need to change those chia pet hair cuts
• Yes I will just rip on the Usos till they are off my TV
• I like everyone but the Usos in this match.  They have X-Pac heat with me, they need to just go away
• Remember when Corbin had that horrible stringy hair
• That was not a good head to the steps spot guys, you two are better!
• I do not like Reigns but he is good in the ring and since he returned the fans are into him
• Reigns hair is starting to recede a bit it looked like
• This match is way too long for a handicap match
• If these three cannot defeat Reigns how can the King on his own?
• Wait Jimmy can come back out?  SHOCKED!
• The Bloodline....that is a pretty cool name actually
• Good grief Lacey Evans is a goddess
• Why is Cole doing the interview and not Charley or one of the other interviewers?
• Those stupid dots on her vail make it look like Lacey has stuff on her teeth
• I do like the story that Lacey has, and I do not think her voice cracking is acting.  I just wish they would change her "sassy Southern Belle" gimmick
• Who did not see Bayley doing something?  Stand on your head
• I love Dana but she is looking a little too thin or got some work done which I hope is not true
• Did Lacey have pants on earlier?  I went back and she di
• I do not like Good guy Alexa
• I LOVE OTIS!
• Uggg, why is Braun not a monster?  He is doing comedy bits with Elias for the love of god!
• It is weird that they put Cesaro into another team instead of reuniting the Bar
• Strangely I do not care about this match which is sad but there was no chance Sami and his team was winning
• Uggg, I hate the "shocked" face that the female announcers get.  It is so fake
• WTF is Big E doing?
• Oh yeah if he is greasy he cannot be thrown over the top rope!
• This show seems to be going on FOREVER!  I think I had a birthday already
• I love this segment every year when they throw these numbers around
• I love that the slow-mo shot is back!
• Wow that face plant out of the monkey flip looks brutal.  
• I am so happy to see Morrison back on the main stage
• Starship Pain looks amazing, if I was 1/100th that athletic!
• Seriously was this show 3 hours tonight?
• Kofi should not have kicked out of that kick, that should have been the end!
• I hate the Usos hair cut and Kofi's is right there as well
• I hate the Spanish Fly, it is so fake looking
• Kofi was champion for six months?  Really?  Did not seem that long
• Oh Miz, that is just silly!
• Wait....is that a fax machine?
• A sick man?  Bray is not a sick man!
• I hated the new Bray Wyatt at first but I love it now
• WORD OF THE DAY!
• Run Michael Cole, run!
• I cannot imagine the pain of the strap match, it is insane
• I wonder how much the mask messes with Bray
• Did he just stab his own hand to get the "blood"?  WOWEY ZOWEY

The second half of the show was good.  Morrison vs. Kofi and The Fiend was fantastic.  I LOVED the Lacey Evans segment because it felt real and not scripted (even if it was).  The six-man was good but way WAY too long, need to be cut by probably a third and allow Bliss and company to wrestle for a few minutes before the brawl.  As much as I like most of the guys in the tag match the outcome was never in questions and I was bored, bored I tell you.  I hate the babyface Elias more than babyface Alexa.  However, the best part of the night was the by the numbers segment, got me pumped for the Rumble in a few days.  I hope to be "live" blogging it, updating after each match.  Until next time...from the Fat Man himself....Abyssinia!

Results

• Roman Reigns/Jimmy Uso/Jey Uso def. Robert Roode/King Corbin/Dolph Ziggler
• Smackdown Recap
• Match Flo Recap
• Interview:  Lacey Evans
• Segment:  Lacey Evans/Bayley (Smackdown Womens Champion)
• Interview:  Carmella & Dana Brooke
• Segment:  Mandy Rose/Sonya Deville 
• Mandy Rose/Sonya Deville & Alexa Bliss/Nikki Cross went to a No Contest
• Segment:  Elias & Braun Strowman
• Segment:  Elias & Braun Strowman
• Elias/Braun Strowman def. Cesaro/Shinsuke Nakamura (Intercontinental Champion)
• Segment:  Big E & Kofi Kingston (Smackdow Tag Team Champions)
• Interview:  King Corbin
• Segment:  Royal Rumble Numbers
• Segment:  Sheamus
• Segment:  John Morrison & Miz
• John Morrison def. Kofi Kingston (Tag Team Champion)
• Contract Signing:  Daniel Bryan & Bray Wyatt (Universal Champion)

2019-10-04 Smackdown Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whenever it is you have found this review.  Today I am looking at the debut edition for Smackdown on Fox!  I am not going to bore you with a huge intro lets get to it!

• Interesting set, not sure I like or hate it, it will take a few weeks
• Of course, the McMahons open the show
• I love that Vince always sounds like he has been gargling razor blades anymore
• Why Michael Cole?  I feel bad for Tom Phillips 
• Now the Raw Women's champion....on the debut of Smackdown....yeah that makes sense
• KING CORBIN....also not on the blue brand
• HE IS HERE!  ITS HIM!  THE GREAT ONE!  ROCKY!!!!
• I hated him for some long and now I miss him so much.  Sometimes you do not know what you have till you no longer have it
• I love King Corbins look, my first time seeing it
• The dumb fans cannot chant together
• I love this!  
• Four Horsewomen in action next, a good way to start the night
• Every time I see Sasha I feel like I need a penicillin shot
• I feel like we have seen these ladies too much together
• Just nothing special about this sadly because we have seen it
• Erin Andrews has no clue who these guys are
• I started off hating the Firefly Funhouse but now I love it!
• There was a time people cared about Shinsuke right?  
• I love the Fiend and Wyatt both!
• They are throwing everything at the wall here for the first Smackdown on Fox 
• For no real training, Shane has always been good
• I hope Owens loses and comes back as Mr. Canada or the Midnight Rider
• AS GOD IS MY WITNESS SHANE IS BROKEN IN HALF!
• Seriously why would he do that!
• Seriously why is Shane on his feet after that?  That should have been the end of Shane on WWE TV for months
• Paul Heyman is the Hitchcock of WWE directing horror movies that is star Brock Lesnar!
• Why should I care about Braun Strowman?  
• And what is Braun wearing?
• How great is Otis?  So entertaining
• Who is Tyson Fury?  Should I care?
• I like Rowen and it is nice to see him finally get a chance
• I love the chaos of lumberjack matches!
• Needed a bigger brawl for me
• Well I guess that ends the Kofi experiment
• What the hell?  Rey Mysterio really?
• I guess I do not know my MMA well enough to know who Cain Velasquez is

That was a very good show.  I am not sure I like Kofi losing in 10 or so seconds but lets see where it goes before I hate on it.  This was, hopefully, chapter one, of this story.  Also interesting to see Cain Velasquez enter the fray as it were.  Where this goes will be interesting.

I hated to see Randy Orton, Miz and AJ Styles put into a pointless 8 man tag.  Should have been Strowman vs. Cesaro or someone to get to the Fury and Strowman staredown.

Overall nothing horrible but there was the bad 8 man, not because of the people, but because of the use of those people.  Also seeing people like the Viking Experience no-sold during the Lumberjack Match sucked.  Little things that WWE will say no one noticed does get noticed.  

Very good first show on Fox but like I said about AEW it is not about one show but 10 and 20 and 50 to keep me, and the fans, happy.