The Official Smackdown Spoilers Thread

[ISportsFan 0]

It shouldn't be a big deal since it's a spoilers thread, but I did it just in case people were looking when they shouldn't have been.

 

I think this should be the official Smackdown spoiler thread, so from now on don't look if you don't want to be spoiled (in case you were looking at whatever happened before the show started).

 

Plus, we already have a discrepency between whoever's calling Meltzer and Mike Johnson from PWInsider.com, which is going to be after the ellipses.

 

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From PWInsider.com (updated throughout the night):

 

Dark match: Paul London & Nunzio defeated Billy Kidman & Spike Dudley when London gave Kidman a top rope DDT (note whoever's calling Meltzer said Chavo and didn't indicate this as a dark match).

 

The Big Show vs. Booker T. JBL and Kurt Angle were at ringside for commentary, since the winner of this match would move on to the three way with them next week to determine the number one contender to John Cena's WWE Title. Booker's wife, Sharmell, was at ringside for the match. Show and Booker battled to the floor, and Angle & JBL attacked them, ending the match in a double DQ. Angle & JBL believed they had eliminated both men from the match next week. General Manager Theodore R. Long came out and announced that next week would now be a Fatal Four Way with JBL vs. Kurt Angle vs. Booker T vs. Big Show to determine the number one contender. He also announced a tag team match with JBL & Angle vs. Booker & Show for later tonight.

 

Carlito's Cabana, with Eddie Guerrero as guest. Eddie called out Rey Mysterio, who comes to the ring. Eddie explains that a year ago he was WWE Champion, and he has become obsessed with the belt and trying to get it back. Eddie asked Rey to forgive him for that, and said that he was going to stop thinking about what he doesn't have, and instead focus on what he does have, the WWE Tag Team Title and his family. Eddie said he considered Rey part of his family. Eddie and Rey made up, when MNM appeared on the screen. MNM demanded a WWE Tag Team Title match. Eddie told them if they wanted a title match, they needed to come out to the ring and challenge them like men. Melina said they were more comfortable backstage, and the camera pulled back to reveal that MNM were on Eddie's Lowrider. They left their "calling card" for the tag champs by spraypainting "MNM" on the side of the car.

 

Eddie and Rey go back to the Lowrider, but MNM are gone. Eddie says there will be a tag title match tonight.

 

Matt Morgan was interviewed backstage, and talked about debuting tonight on Smackdown. Morgan is doing a stuttering gimmick, like the old Buh Buh Ray Dudley gimmick in ECW.

 

A backstage vignette was done for the Orlando Jordan vs. John Cena match later tonight, with Doug & Danny Basham being told they needed to make sure Cena was softened up for when JBL gets his eventual title match with Cena.

 

Matt Morgan defeated an unannounced opponent in a squash with a suplex into a DDT. Morgan's theme music is the same as the music on the "Rise & Fall Of ECW" DVD.

 

The Big Show & Booker T defeated JBL & Kurt Angle in a tag team match when Big Show chokeslammed JBL for the pin. Angle could have made the save, but instead just walked away and abandoned JBL.

 

Heidenreich came out to the ring and said he had spent the last several days in New York looking for a friend. He said he found that friend, and wanted to bring him out to the ring. Out came his "new friend", the Brooklyn Brawler. Heidenreich read the Brawler a poem about being his friend, then asked him what he thought of it. Brawler said that the poem "sucked", he was embarrassed, and he wasn't Heidenreich's friend. Brawler said the only thing worse than his poem was when the New York Yankees choked against the Boston Red Sox. Brawler then took off his Yankees shirt, put on a Boston shirt, and claimed he is now "The Boston Brawler". Heidenreich, upset of Brawler not being his friend, laid him out with a side slam and walked off.

 

MNM defeated Eddie Guerrero & Rey Mysterio to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. Towards the end of the match, Rey Mysterio set up Joey Mercury for a 619, but Melina stopped it. Eddie Guerrero chased Melina up the aisle, allowing Johnny Nitro to hit Rey from behind and set up the elevated DDT by MNM for the pin on Rey. Following the match, Guerrero and Mysterio argued, and Guerrero shoved Mysterio. Mysterio the shoved Eddie down, and walked away.

 

MNM were shown getting into a limousine with the WWE Tag Team Title belts as paparazzi took their pictures.

 

In the main event of Smackdown, WWE Champion John Cena defeated Orlando Jordan with the FU.

 

 

 

 

Jason

[ISportsFan 0]

Just added the tag match between JBL/Angle and Booker/Big Show.

 

Jason

[JoeDirt 0]

The best they could do with Morgan is a stuttering gimmick?

[Taker666 0]

The MNM/Carltio's Cabana segment should be alot of fun to see. looking forward to that.

 

and Matt Morgan back on SD!? well, we'll see how that goes.

[Guest Shadow]

Great work WWE. Kill Cornette's work into making Morgan worth a shit and give him the stuttering gimmick..

[ISportsFan 0]

Updated with a Heidenreich segment featuring an old-time hero of days gone by.

 

Jason

[JoeDirt 0]

Heidenreich did his face turn. Maybe they can re-do that classic Matt Morgan vs. Big Bad John feud from last summer that Cornette was frightened to death to put on television. He was reading a poem when Steve Lombardi came out as the Brooklyn Brawler. However, the Brawler took off his Yankee wear and underneath it had a Red Sox uniform. Heidenreich apparently does not like the Red Sox, and beat him up.

 

--Meltzer.

 

Also they apparently claimed that Morgan was making his WWE debut...

[Guest LooneyTune]

Instead of using Morgan as an ass-kicking monster, he's forced to do a suttering gimmick? God damn, someomes I wonder if the writing team does this shit for laughs instead of making fans care.

[ISportsFan 0]

Updated at the top too, but here's the latest from pwinsider.

 

MNM defeated Eddie Guerrero & Rey Mysterio to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. Towards the end of the match, Rey Mysterio set up Joey Mercury for a 619, but Melina stopped it. Eddie Guerrero chased Melina up the aisle, allowing Johnny Nitro to hit Rey from behind and set up the elevated DDT by MNM for the pin on Rey. Following the match, Guerrero and Mysterio argued, and Guerrero shoved Mysterio. Mysterio the shoved Eddie down, and walked away.

 

Jason

[Taker666 0]

Instead of using Morgan as an ass-kicking monster, he's forced to do a suttering gimmick? God damn, someomes I wonder if the writing team does this shit for laughs instead of making fans care.

The fans didn't care when they tried the "ass-kicking monster" gimick for Morgan back in 2003. why should they care now.

 

while stupid, this "studdering" gimick could probably make Morgan A BIT more entertaining.

[Fro 0]

Seriously, how stupid is WWE? Morgan with a stuttering gimmick? The guy is money in the bank if you give him a big push and he can cut good enough promos to get people interested without some shit gimmick. The guy is bigger than anyone on either roster besides Big Show (and he's certainly more cut and muscular than Big Show) and that's the best you can do with him? I imagine they'll get it right after making a joke out of Morgan for a few months like they did with Batista.

 

BTW, I like Melina, but Joey Matthews is a lot better promo than she is and it'll be a real shame if he and Nitro are mutes. Props to WWE as they haven't screwed a great thing up yet with them.

[Fro 0]

Instead of using Morgan as an ass-kicking monster, he's forced to do a suttering gimmick? God damn, someomes I wonder if the writing team does this shit for laughs instead of making fans care.

The fans didn't care when they tried the "ass-kicking monster" gimick for Morgan back in 2003. why should they care now.

 

while stupid, this "studdering" gimick could probably make Morgan A BIT more entertaining.

They didn't care because Morgan was part of "Team Lesnar" which was full of 6-foot-10 guys. Not to mention Morgan was the designated job guy for the team. Not to mention he didn't get to say a damn word. Not to mention he was too green at the time to be called up.

 

The guy looks much scarier and is a much better power wrestler now with some interesting moves.

[Guest LooneyTune]

Maybe because he was still green, and WWE cut the legs from under Morgan before he even had a chance to get over...

 

and the fact Hardcore Holly injured him for no reason the night after the 2004 Royal Rumble PPV.

[ISportsFan 0]

Final Smackdown report (also added to the first post on the page) from pwinsider.

 

MNM were shown getting into a limousine with the WWE Tag Team Title belts as paparazzi took their pictures.

 

In the main event of Smackdown, WWE Champion John Cena defeated Orlando Jordan with the FU.

 

Jason

[Celtic Guardian 0]

Heidenreich did his face turn. Maybe they can re-do that classic Matt Morgan vs. Big Bad John feud from last summer that Cornette was frightened to death to put on television. He was reading a poem when Steve Lombardi came out as the Brooklyn Brawler. However, the Brawler took off his Yankee wear and underneath it had a Red Sox uniform. Heidenreich apparently does not like the Red Sox, and beat him up.

 

--Meltzer.

Unless they just did that segment for the arena audience, it makes no sense. How would this make Heidenreich more popular anywhere other than greater New York?

[ISportsFan 0]

For the other perspective (the guy who was calling Meltzer):

 

Paul London & Nunzio b Billy Kidman & Chavo guerrero when London pinned Kidman after a DDT off the ropes

 

Booker T DDQ Big Show when Kurt Angle and JBL interfered. This leads to a main event tonight of Booker & Show vs. Angle & JBL, plus in Birmingham, England next week, the title shot will be up in a four-way, involving the same four.

 

They've shot the angle leading to tonight's tag title match/change for Guerrero & Mysterio vs. MNM on the Cabana show. Good Times. Great Memories. They spray painted Eddie's car.

 

Matt Morgan debuted. This was a back to the 80s moment. They claimed he was making his WWE debut even though he spent several months on the main roster, including nearly dying in a plane crash over Russia. He talks like Nick Bockwinkel, so they give him a stuttering gimmick. Verne really missed the boat all those years when Nick was doing those promos.

 

They did a deal where the Bashams argued with Orlando Jordan. Bashams seemed to be starting a face turn.

 

Morgan is facing an extra next. He beat the man.

 

Booker T & Big Show b Angle & JBL when Angle walked out on JBL, leaving him alone against both guys. Booker pinned JBL after a side kick.

 

Heidenreich did his face turn. Maybe they can re-do that classic Matt Morgan vs. Big Bad John feud from last summer that Cornette was frightened to death to put on television. He was reading a poem when Steve Lombardi came out as the Brooklyn Brawler. However, the Brawler took off his Yankee wear and underneath it had a Red Sox uniform. He claimed the Yankees suck as bad as Heidenreich's poetry, and he wants to be known as the Boston Brawler. Heidenreich apparently does not like the Red Sox, and beat him up. Fans ate this up.

 

We even have John Cena vs. Orlando Jordan coming up.

 

MNM won the tag titles from Guerrero & Mysterio. Melina was kissing Eddie, so Rey was double-teamed with the snapshot and pinned. Eddie shoved Rey and spit on him and left. Rey caught up to him in the aisle and shoved him to the ground.

 

Cena b Jordan. Cena got a huge reaction tonight, far bigger than anyone else.

 

Jason

[JoeDirt 0]

Bashams turning face to feud with MNM I guess.

 

Can't see them really getting over without some SERIOUS effort, though.

[Taker666 0]

MNM were shown getting into a limousine with the WWE Tag Team Title belts as paparazzi took their pictures.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'am really loving this gimick alot!.

 

as for Morgan, who knows. maybe he'll be talented enough to pull this gimick off?

[reign 0]

I thought just a couple of weeks ago he(Matt Morgan) was doing the Blueprint thing and was a top guy in OVW? Did he stutter there too or did WWE just think it was too far fetched to have a giant just be a badass? And as usual we are expected to forget that this was the guy Paul Heyman brought as a badass and was in the back taking non-stuttering bets on who would win matches...I hate this bullshit sometimes but as least they're doing some different things...MNM are cool as hell and who else thinks Heidenreich will get over as a face?

[ISportsFan 0]

My thoughts are:

 

That cruiserweight match better show up on TV somewhere. Plus, how on earth can they gain any momentum if their angle from last week is not played up on Smackdown?

 

Who is booking Smackdown these days, and why does he seem to have a penchet for making impromptu tag matches stemming from singles matches?

 

I don't know how it'll play out, but MNM will either get made tonight or they'll end up like almost every other team/guy from OVW that got a huge push to start--on Velocity.

 

Cena and Jordan seem like they've wrestled 200 times recently.

 

Jason

[Some Guy 0]

Heidenreich came out to the ring and said he had spent the last several days in New York looking for a friend. He said he found that friend, and wanted to bring him out to the ring. Out came his "new friend", the Brooklyn Brawler. Heidenreich read the Brawler a poem about being his friend, then asked him what he thought of it. Brawler said that the poem "sucked", he was embarrassed, and he wasn't Heidenreich's friend. Brawler said the only thing worse than his poem was when the New York Yankees choked against the Boston Red Sox. Brawler then took off his Yankees shirt, put on a Boston shirt, and claimed he is now "The Boston Brawler". Heidenreich, upset of Brawler not being his friend, laid him out with a side slam and walked off.

 

As a life long Red Sox fan who had to put up with all the NY cheap shots for so many years. It's nice to see the Sox used for cheap heat in NY and it actually meaning something because the Sox finally beat them.

 

That said, why the fuck did it have to be Steve Lomabrdi, I think we Bostonians deserve better than an old jobber represneting himself.

 

::Waits for the Boston/jobber joke::

[Vyce 0]

It's amazing that this company still finds ways to astound me with their general ineptness.

 

I mean.......I've been hearing NOTHING but good things about Matt Morgan in OVW. How he's improved dramatically in the ring, how he has the look, is better off than Batista was when Batista was called up. How he's the next big thing, and how he can cut an AWESOME promo.

 

And what do they give him?

 

A stuttering gimmick.

 

My god, they've even managed to fuck THIS up.

 

This company drives me towards MMA more and more every day. And shit, I don't really even LIKE MMA that much.

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

and who else thinks Heidenreich will get over as a face?

I do. He's crazy enough to get over with some of the fans. Keep doing bizarre promos and actions and he can get over no matter how crappy he is inside of that ring.

[Guest krazykat72]

That cruiserweight match better show up on TV somewhere. Plus, how on earth can they gain any momentum if their angle from last week is not played up on Smackdown?

 

Who is booking Smackdown these days, and why does he seem to have a penchet for making impromptu tag matches stemming from singles matches?

 

I don't know how it'll play out, but MNM will either get made tonight or they'll end up like almost every other team/guy from OVW that got a huge push to start--on Velocity.

 

Cena and Jordan seem like they've wrestled 200 times recently.

London got a nice reaction, but the match wasn't anything special. It was decent, but not really worth going out of your way to see.

 

Cena got an incredible reaction. By far the biggest on Smackdown.

 

 

 

-Paul Jacobi-

[Guest krazykat72]

I mean.......I've been hearing NOTHING but good things about Matt Morgan in OVW. How he's improved dramatically in the ring, how he has the look, is better off than Batista was when Batista was called up. How he's the next big thing, and how he can cut an AWESOME promo.

Y'know, you can like both Wrestling and MMA.

I don't know where you've been hearing Morgan's getting a lot better.

Take it from someone who watches OVW, he isn't. He's made *slight* improvements, but he's still got a long way to go.

He *is* an awesome promo though.

 

 

-Paul Jacobi-

[Guest M. Harry Smilac]

They'll slap the titles on them next week before they even have time to build any heat and when they do the crowd will resent them for it and not even bother to boo them.

 

Well, i'm half right so far...

[Vyce 0]

 

I mean.......I've been hearing NOTHING but good things about Matt Morgan in OVW.  How he's improved dramatically in the ring, how he has the look, is better off than Batista was when Batista was called up.  How he's the next big thing, and how he can cut an AWESOME promo.

Y'know, you can like both Wrestling and MMA.

I don't know where you've been hearing Morgan's getting a lot better.

Take it from someone who watches OVW, he isn't. He's made *slight* improvements, but he's still got a long way to go.

He *is* an awesome promo though.

 

 

-Paul Jacobi-

Which they've now fucked up by giving him a stuttering gimmick.

 

Congrats, WWE, way to play to the guy's strengths.

[Guest Coffey]

I just went to WWE.com to check out MNM. Melina is hot.

 

I don't really mind Mercury and Nitro using the Problem Solver. It's not like anyone is going to see Swinger and Diamond do it anymore.