ChesterCopperpot Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 JBL is introduced to a mild pop followed by Lilian Garcia. She welcomed Philly to Smackdown 15 and pumped the crowd up for the opening. The signature aired followed by classic clips of Smackdown through the years. Notable was the focus on Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy throughout the highlights. Smackdown has a new opening theme which will take some getting used to. Lilian introduced Smackdown's first GM Stephanie McMahon. Stephanie plugged WWE Network by pointing out that The Rock coined the phrase Smackdown and noted that her husband Triple H had beaten Rock. She led the crowd in a brief $9.99 chant. Stephanie was interrupted by John Laurinaitis, who got a People Power chant. He also pimped the Network. Out next was Teddy Long, who got a pretty big pop. Teddy and Johnny get into a back and forth over their storyline heat from back in the day. They actually got into an argument over the booking of Teddy's favorite match - the tag match. The result was Teddy actually trying to book a 15-man tag match which was pretty damn funny. Stephanie suggested that Teddy and Johnny each pick a team and that whoever's team won would result in that man being declared the greatest GM of all time. Stephanie said that Miz will host a face to face between John Cena and Dean Ambrose. Adam Rose and his crew, including the Bunny, interrupted and actually got a pretty loud pop. Rose told Steph not to be a lemon and she promptly booked him against Kane as punishment... During the commercial break, we get a clip from the first Smackdown featuring The Rock vs. Triple H with HBK as the special referee. We also got a Network plug... Back from break, Rose did the trust fall. Kane headed to the ring cutting a promo saying he is not a cheeseburger, lemon, or a Rosebud. He is, however, a party pooper... 1. Kane defeated Adam Rose. Kane squashed Rose in under a minute with a chokeslam. The Rosebuds tended to Rose. Kane destroyed all of the Rosebuds with the exception of The Bunny, which would have popped the hell out of me... The next Smackdown clip was Cena's debut against Kurt Angle... 2. A.J. Lee defeated Alicia Fox (w/Paige). There were brief CM Punk chants that died quickly. Fox was in control and once again the Punk chants picked up with an AJ chant mixed in for good measure. AJ went over with Black Widow, but before Lilian could finish her announcement, Paige attacked Lee. AJ fought off Paige and Fox to end the segment... 3. Seth Rollins (w/Joey Mercury, Jamie Noble) beat Kofi Kingston. Rollins got a mild "You Sold Out" chant before the match started. Rollins started the match off very aggressively and was beating the hell out of Kofi, who made a brief comeback but was cutoff with a neckbreaker. Rollins played to the crowd and drew some damn good heat. Kofi came backs and went on a nice run before getting shut down with a buckle bomb followed by The Curb Stomp... A Bray Wyatt/Luke Harper promo aired. The visual of a darkened arena that is lit by only cellphones is one of the coolest visuals in pro wrestling history... Out next were Dolph Ziggler followed by Rusev and Lana... The next Smackdown moment was a collection of MITB cash-ins over the years. Footage of The Rock/Rusev confrontation from Raw aired... 4. Rusev (w/Lana) defeated Dolph Ziggler in a non-title match. The match started with Ziggler dodging Rusev until he got caught. There was a brief USA chant. Rusev controlled much of the match with Ziggler bumping his ass off as usual to make Rusev look like a beast. The crowd fired up the USA chant again but they once again don't pick up steam. A small "Let's Go Ziggler" chant got going but was drowned out by USA chants. After several minutes of Rusev offense, Ziggler woke up the crowd with some flashy offense but it was not enough, as he was crushed and forced to submit to The Accolade... Afterward, Lana cut a promo trashing Philly and The Rock. Rusev said Rock will pay as well as Big Show. He challenged Show to a match on Raw. The Russian flag dropped and that ended the segment. This promo drew amazing heat live... The next Smackdown moment was one of my favorites of all time with Steve Austin beating the hell out of Booker T in a supermarket... Lilian put over the Philly chapter of Susan G. Komen and a brief video airsed... The Philadelphia Eagles players got some camera love to a nice pop... A backstage segment aired with Rock, Triple H, and Stephanie reminiscing about their Smackdown history through the years. Rock teased him and Triple H going at it one more time and the crowd popped huge. Things started to get a little tense between the two as they teased a future WrestleMania match. Steph stepped in and called both guys winners and suggests they go get something to eat. This segment is funny as hell and is a must watch on Friday Night... Lillian introduced another former Smackdown GM in Booker T, who got an initial loud pop that died quickly. Booker was on commentary for the next match... 5. Team Teddy (Sheamus, Mark Henry, The Usos, Los Matadores, El Torito, and Jack Swagger) beat Team Johnny (Goldust, Stardust, Heath Slater, Titus O' Neil, Damien Mizdow, Bo Dallas, Cesaro, and Hornswoggle in the silly ass Gator outfit). It didn't take long for things to break down as the heels regrouped on the outside. A small but pretty vocal "Sexual Chocolate" chant was heard throughout the match. Everybody got a chance to shine, but the most notable thing about this match was how over Mizdow was, which I hope WWE takes notice of because the guy is being criminally wasted. After several minutes of pretty forgettable action Sheamus was tagged in to a huge pop and went on a tear that included hitting his trademark ten clubs on Ceasro, Stardust, and Heath Slater at the same time. The Usos hit dives on the heels which popped the crowd. Ceasro, after months of non-use, broke out the Ceaaro Swing, which the crowd ate up. In the end the Usos took out Mizdow with a superkick/splash combo giving Team Teddy the win... A Bray Wyatt and Erick Rowan promo aired... The next Smackdown moment was Stone Cold destroying the DX Express... In what was most likely a dark segment, Team Teddy was still in the ring. Teddy's theme played as he did his trademark dance. Booker T entered the ring and pumped the crowd by asking if they want to see a 15th anniversary spinnaronni from each member of Team Teddy. First up was Mark Henry followed by the Usos. Next was Los Matadores and Torito, Sheamus, and Swagger. Teddy even did one, which was pretty bad. Sheamus pointed out that the announce team should also do spinnaroonies. So we got one from JBL, and Booker finished us off. This was entertaining but a bit long... The Royal Rumble is confirmed for Philly on January 25... Kofi Kingston came out and demanded another match with Seth Rollins. Rollins came out with Mercury and Noble for the match... 6. Seth Rollins (w/Joey Mercury, Jamie Noble) defeated Kofi Kingston. Rollins dominated the match for the most part. Kofi made a comeback but not enough as the match ended the same way as their previous one. My guess is that this was a re-take as there was a slight botch with the finish of the original match. Miz TV with John Cena and Dean Ambrose was up next. Miz is introduced to little reaction... The next Smackdown moment was the 9/11 tribute show.. The Miz started off the segment putting himself over followed by covering what happened between Cena and Ambrose on Raw. Miz said the match between Ambrose and Cena at HIAC will now be a No Holds Barred Contract on a Pole match. Whoever gets the contract gets Rollins in HIAC. When the hell did WWE put Vince Russo back on payroll?!?! Miz introduced Ambrose and Cena. Ambrose got a nice pop and Cena got the usual mixed reaction. Miz pointed out that Ambrose embarrassed Cena on Monday. Ambrose said that he wanted to show Cena that he takes crap from no one and that at HIAC Rollins belongs to him. Miz gave Cena the chance for a rebuttal. Cena went into hyper mode and actually got a damn loud pop from the crowd after a little sucking up, of course. He put over Ambrose as a guy who speaks his mind. Cena pulled out two baseballs and said those are what it takes to make it in WWE. He than proceeded to bury Miz for having no balls. Cena went into preacher mode putting over Ambrose and their match at HIAC. Miz stirred the pot by pointing out all of Cena's accolades to Ambrose asking him if he thinks he can beat him. Ambrose responds "Yup." Funny. Miz attempted to do the same deal to Cena, but Cena cut him off and basically told Miz that Mizdow is better than him, which led to Sandow getting another big pop. The segment ended with Cena and Ambrose beating the hell out of Miz. Cena gave Ambrose his receipt from Monday by hitting him with the Attitude Adjustment to conclude the Smackdown taping. TEDDY LONG!!! PEOPLE POWER!!! CONTRACT ON A POLE MATCH!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Just got back from this show. 15-man tag was pretty enjoyable. The Rock/Triple H segment was very awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 A. Isn't a 16-man tag? B. Could adding the pole stipulation be a way for Ambrose to go over without having Cena get pinned?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Torito + Hornswoggle = one man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Ohhhhh fuck THAT. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 A. Isn't a 16-man tag? B. Could adding the pole stipulation be a way for Ambrose to go over without having Cena get pinned?? Why not put Cena through a table, the usual way to protect Cena? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Mizdow was playing to the crowd the whole time during his chants. I hope they don't decide to break him off yet, his act is very enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Mizdow was playing to the crowd the whole time during his chants. I hope they don't decide to break him off yet, his act is very enjoyable. Has it been acknowledged yet that his character over the last eight months has basically been a man having a massive psychotic break manifesting as a series of dissociative identity fugue states in response to career and personal failures? 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I just remembered that at some point in the show, Tom Philips had a cake thrown in his face. It would be hilarious if it happened after Kofi/Seth I. So that if they spliced together both matches, Philips is clean in some shots, and covered in frosting in the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I am so excited for Rusev/Ziggler. I'm not a Ziggler fan at all but it's going to be great watching him die a thousand deaths and pinball around. Even though it's likely a one-off I'm also psyched for the return of BIG JOHNNY~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 so Russo is back on the booking team huh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 so Russo is back on the booking team huh "Bro, let me tell you something, bro - and here it where people don't understand - I pitched Cena vs. Ambrose in a 'Take your dick out and slap the other guy with it' match. And Vince McMahon shot it down. Now, how am I supposed to get ratings without that, huh? You tell me." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Hattrick Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 What they failed to mention was that attached to the contract was a coupon for a free Baconator. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 The return of Johnny Ace! That'll put meat in the seats! BF: I think you're on to something, the more complexities added to the match, the more likely it is that Ambrose gets the win and Cena is still (of course) protected. Be interesting to see if they plug in another Roman Reigns update. The fact that he gave no timetable for his return leads me to think that there is no way that he'll be back in time for WrestleMania. At this point, I'm guessing that we're in for Rock/Brock at WM. Though how we get from Rock mocking Rusev to Rock facing off with Lesnar is a puzzle at present. At least that's a far more attractive scenario than Cena/Brock. And what will be the role of Mr. Borden? Face/face matchup with Cena? The ways to use the Stinger are really pretty limited, there's no way that he'll go out as a heel, and a match against anyone lesser in stature than Cena or 'Taker would just come off as a waste. I've heard some fanboy nonsense about Sting/Austin (which actually would have been very cool fifteen years ago), and there's simply no way that Borden's last match is a vehicle to put over a completely broken-down Steve Austin. Sting probably can get it together for one or two epic matches if he's in with the right guy. Steve Austin, in his condition is simply not the right guy. If 'Taker can patch himself together for one last match, that could work, sort of, but I really don't see Sting looking at the lights in his last match and there's no way in hell that 'Taker will drop two in a row. Now perhaps Sting and 'Taker as a team... And what will be done with Dean Ambrose? Greggulator nailed it with the comparison to Piper. Had Piper come along ten years later, he'd have gotten a huge push as an anti-establishment face. Like Piper, Ambrose doesn't need a title to be over. What he does need is a perceived slight to set him off against either a heel or face. It's a little too subtle for a catchphrase, but I can see him getting some traction out of "Don't give me a reason to not like you." The character he portrays is flat out nuts, so just about anything could be construed as sufficient of an insult to set him off. Creative will have to walk a fine line between "hair-trigger" and "petulant". The former will be glorious, the latter would kill the character dead, dead, dead. I usually agree with Piranesi's assessments, but this time I'm afraid that rather than portraying a figure of high tragedy, Mizdow is simply being pushed as a guy that likes cosplay. What with gators, bulls, and bunnies I worry that WWE is drifting dangerously close to furry territory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Close? They're already there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Sting/Taker/Cena/HHH (Manager: Hogan) vs. Jericho/Brock/Austin/Punk (Manager: Flair) in a battle of part-timers vs. company men! Austin and Taker do a double turn and switch teams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Alternatively, everyone turns on Sting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRV Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 "Rollins got a mild "You Sold Out" chant before the match started." Yeah.. Black, Mox, Dragon, Punk, Claudio.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Ohhhhh fuck THAT. Smackdown 15, 15-man tag. You're not usually one to get needlessly offended, c'mon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 "Rollins got a mild "You Sold Out" chant before the match started." Yeah.. Black, Mox, Dragon, Punk, Claudio.. That chant has nothing to do with Seth's indy background. It's a reference to turning on the Shield to join the Authority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 In the latest FSM, they're interviewing a bunch of guys about the video game. Cesaro mentions that it was new to him to go and do mo-cap for his own moves, because every time he'd done motion capture for WWE games before (he signed for the company), he'd been copying actual then-current WWE Wrestlers. Which makes you want to go and play old WWE games and see which computer versions of Wrestlers do their moves better than the real wrestler did. Wouldn't surprise me at all to discover Cesaro is better at being Miz than Miz is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Colt Cabana has also admitted to doing that job. I also think Samoa Joe, Low-Ki, and Amazing Red have too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Ohhhhh fuck THAT. Smackdown 15, 15-man tag. You're not usually one to get needlessly offended, c'mon. I'm always offended by bad comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Whatever. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I usually agree with Piranesi's assessments, but this time I'm afraid that rather than portraying a figure of high tragedy, Mizdow is simply being pushed as a guy that likes cosplay. What with gators, bulls, and bunnies I worry that WWE is drifting dangerously close to furry territory... It's there...in moments of candor: He's lost, man. Inside that head he's like: coming apart at the seams. He's drowning in a sea of Freudian symbolism: He's practically a Frou Frou lyric. And let's not mention: Believing you are a famous fictional or historical character is a pretty big symptom. Note: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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