Smackdown Spoilers for 10/27

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Credit: John Stein and PWInsider.com

 

I just got home from the Smackdown/ECW Show from the Scott Trade Center in St. Louis, MO. Here are the results

 

Dark Match:

 

Brian Kendrick/Paul London def. KC James/Idol Stevens after London pinned James with a Dropsault

 

 

Smackdown Spoilers:

 

-Batista enters and calls out Finlay. Paul Heyman comes out with his security guards and tries to convince him to jump to ECW. Batista thinks about joining ECW and shakes Heyman's hand and then gives him a thumbs down and beats up Heyman's security guards. The Big Show and King Booker both attack. John Cena makes the save and him and Batista clear the ring.

 

-William Regal/Dave Taylor def. Bobby Lashley/Tatanka. Regal pinned Tatanka with his feet on the ropes. After the match, Tatanka decks the referee and attacks Lashley and lays him out on the floor.

 

-Kristal tries to interview Chris Benoit. Benoit spots Vickie Guerrero and talks to Vickie about how good of friends that Benoit and Eddie Guerrero were. Vickie says that Benoit wasn't as close to Eddie as he thought he was.

 

-MVP tells Theodore R. Long that he's sick with a intestinal virus and says that due to a clause in his contract he can take a sick day and opts out of his No-DQ match with Kane that was scheduled for later in the night. Mr. Kennedy comes in wanting a match with the Undertaker. Long says that the Undertaker isn't here and puts Mr. Kennedy in the no-DQ match against Kane.

 

-Vickie Guerrero warns Chavo Guerrero to stay away from Chris Benoit. Chavo says that he prefers to keep his friends close and his enemies closer.

 

-Gregory Helms beat Matt Hardy after reversing a pin attempt into a crucifix and grabbing the ropes for leverage.

 

-Backstage, Ashley Missaro shows Paul London and Brian Kendrick her costume for the Trick Or Treat Divas Battle Royal for later in the evening. She is dressed in some costume with wings.

 

-Mr. Kennedy def. Kane in a No DQ match after MVP interfered and hit Kane with a chair.

 

-Backstage, John Cena gives Batista a pep talk.

 

-Chavo Guerrero and Vickie come out. Chavo talks about how they've been able to move on with their lives after Chavo made Rey Mysterio say "I Quit" last week. Chavo shows the clip of Mysterio saying "I Quit" several times. Chris Benoit comes out and Chavo and Vickie leave and walk to the back, leaving Benoit standing in the ring.

 

-Theodore R. Long comes out and makes Mr. Kennedy/MVP vs. Kane/The Undertaker for next week.

 

-The Trick or Treat Diva's Battle Royal is up:

Jillian Hall comes out dressed as Elvis

Michelle McCool comes out dressed as a nurse

Kristal comes out dressed as a gold miner

Ashley comes out in her winged costume

Layla comes out dressed as a bunny

The Miz introduces himself as the special guest referee. He helps Kristal win by pulling Layla off the apron.

 

-After the break Miz says he helped Kristal win because of what Layla did to him when he set him up with the fat stripper on his birthday. The Boogeyman comes out and The Miz pushes Kristal into the Boogeyman and runs away. The Boogeyman scares Kristal into laying on her back and The Boogeyman then uses his mouth to put worms into Kristal's mouth.

 

-Backstage, King Booker and The Big Show talk about the main event.

 

-John Cena/Batista def. King Booker/The Big Show after Batista pinned Booker with a Batista Bomb after the Big Show walked out on Booker.

 

The entire upper deck and the upper part of the camera side were all tarped off. The Cardinals being in the World Series seemed to really hurt ticket sales. The crowd that was there was hot all night.

 

During the William Regal/Dave Taylor vs. Tatanka/Bobby Lashley match, Taylor appeared to suffer some sort of right leg injury. It appeared to happen late in the match when Lashley threw Taylor into the corner. Lashley missed a charge and hit the post. Taylor limped back to his and Regal's corner. He hobbled to the back after the match, not able to put weight on it.

 

The crowd got pretty bored during the Hardcore Holly/Test match on ECW on Sci Fi. There were some "Boring," "TNA" and "Lets Go Cardinals" chants during that match.

 

Sounds like an okay show, but more Eddie Guerrero? Just dig up the corpse already for storyline purposes... It's what Eddie would've wanted.

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

It would be better than putting his wife out there, FWIW.

[Black Lushus 0]

have they given up on Lashley already? I mean, come on...TATANKA???

 

more Guerrero stuff *sigh* whatever...

 

but HEY! Boogeyman is back!

[luke-o 0]

Oh great, the boogeyman is back. yaaaaaay.

 

And no Jimmy, booooooooo!

[Black Lushus 0]

as long as Boogeyman is busy being weird, doing 1 minute squashes and not being put in any matches lasting longer than 5 minutes, I think he's great!

[cd213 0]

as long as Boogeyman is busy being weird, doing 1 minute squashes and not being put in any matches lasting longer than 5 minutes, I think he's great!

 

Plus in the fantasy game, he's easy points since he'll be on tv almost every week now.

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Undertaker and Kane teaming next week.

 

I'AM FUCKING THERE!!

[Atticus Chaos 0]

Kristal tries to interview Chris Benoit. Benoit spots Vickie Guerrero and talks to Vickie about how good of friends that Benoit and Eddie Guerrero were. Vickie says that Benoit wasn't as close to Eddie as he thought he was.

 

 

So, Eddie's a heel now?

[haVoc 0]

They should feud Chavo with Taker so they can use one of those waxed statues of Eddie in a coffin.

[Si82 0]

Huzzah! They're finally pulling the trigger on the long awaited Lashley/Tatanka feud.

[luke-o 0]

Yeah ive been waiting for that one for months now. And theres me thinking they were wasting Tatanka by fueding with usless people like Sylvan.

 

Could they be down playing Lashley so that he can be replaced with Monty Brown?...

[randomguy 0]

Sounds like Batista is getting buried.

 

Something WWE has forgotten - when you mix the shows too much instead of having a couple major faces and heels per show you end up with a couple total.

 

It's like in the old days before a lot of travel, one guy might be the best boxer in the eastern US, one guy in the western US, one guy in Russia, etc. Now with travel so easy there is just one top guy.

 

By having Cena make a save for Batista and having them team up they are basically globalizing, in a bad way. When you put two top dogs together one is going to be higher than the other. It is hard for Smackdown fans to be excited about Batista when he is clearly second fiddle to Cena.

 

If they want to build Batista back up they need him to get over on his own. Mixing the shows so much only hurts everyone because instead of a top-tier per show you have a single top-tier total.

[Toxxic 0]

...which is exactly what the roster plit was meant to avoid, right? So that we essentially had twice the 'room' for people to break out and become stars. Looks like they've figured that they'll never get enough new stars (can't imagine why, with people like Taker and DX hanging around for years and taking up the main event) and are starting to drift back towards one big roster?

 

I thought they fired Boogeyman. Guess that lasted a long time.

[Black Lushus 0]

yeah but the brand split is also good for having "Interpromotional Dream Matches", which is what they're doing now...yeah it could be done a lot better, I'm not going to get into a long drawn out post about it, but that's another use of the individual brands.

[Hawk 34 0]

In theory, the idea of using all three brands together right now for the fall season isn't bad, if the idea was to save hot and fresh programs for the "Road To WM" but that's not the case. This is merely WWE feeling that cross-promotional stuff is easier to push and they believe the fans care more. At first, when the split started, they made an effort to make each show appear to be different in structure and apart from each and now they have no problems shattering the illusion of seperated promotions.

 

Essentially, RAW/ECW/SD are stables for the WWE product, with revolving members moving in and out.