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| I just came back from the Casino from what was a pretty good Smackdown taping tonight. Unfortunatly I missed the opening Lonely Road of Fate video due to rediculously long lines at the souveneir stands due to incompetant employees. Opening match had Paul London wrestling a pretty bland match against Chris Cage. Lots of rest holds, and a few long headlocks left the crowd bored by the end. Velocity taping begin with Hardcore Holly beating jobber John Walters in what was pretty much a squash. Renee Dupree came out with his poodle to a pretty decent amount of heat. He wrestled a decent match against Nunzio, eventually pinning him after a slam. Bizarre moment during this match came when the crowd started a USA chant. Booker T defeated Spike Dudley in what was again pretty much a squash. Booker hit his usual spots including the Spinaroonie and finished Spike off with a Scissors kick. Final Match had Orlando Jordan defeating Chavo Guerrero in a good back anbd forth match. Smackdown began with Eddie Guerrero driving the Lowrider out onto the set, and doing his usual stuff with the car. Rey made his entrance by launching up through a ramp off to the side of the entrance ramp. Great high flying match that had a number of great spots and reversals. Finish came with Eddie accidently knocked out the ref, and grabbed the belt to fool the ref into thinking Rey knocked him out. Before the ref sees this, Rey grabs the belt and puts it on Eddie making it looks like Eddie hit him. After a brief comedy spot which saw Eddie trying to hide the belt, both guys started arguing which led to Rey reversing a rollup for the pin. No pop at all for Paul Heymans return in a viginette where Heidenreich talks about being afraid of Caskets, and Heyman promising to have the match changed. Carlito Carriben Cool makes his entrance right before Funaki vs Akio come out for their match. The Cruiserweight match goes on without enaything of note, and served mainly as a distraction for Carlitos antics with some petition he was having people sign. Funaki eventually won the match, and after it was over Carlito spit apple at some Diva who was doing time keeping or something at ringside Heyman and Heidenreich confront Teddy Long and request that the stipulation be changed. Long tels the two of them that if they can defeat Undertaker is a handicap match tonight, they can change the stipulation of the match Angle is seen backstage taling to Jindrak and Reigns when Amy Webber comes into the locker rom and asks to meet with Angle later in private. Angle comes out for his matgch and gets on the mic. He says that tonight he's having a special Kurt Angle Invitational where if he can't beat his opponent in less then 3 minutes, he'll hand his gold medal over to his opponent. His opponent is some local indy guy whose name I forget, but Angle destroys him in about 25 seconds. Another pointless backstage segment sees Daniel Puder get all rude with Miss Jackie and some other diva backstage Battlerap Segment with John Cena and Kenzo Suzuki comes next. Kenzo comes out dressed as Uncle Sam. Kenzo begins on the mic, and it was really difficult to comprehend what he was saying, but most of it was talking about how he likes America. Cenas turn is next and he goes on about Kenzo being gay and stuff. Then for reasons I do not understand he brings out three MORE women, who Kenzo begins hitting on. Segmetn ends with Hiroko getting mad at one of the women Kenzo is hitting on and attacking her. Cena puls her off and fights with Kenzo. This segment was really long and dragged quite a bit. The crowd was really into Cena though. Next match has RVD fighting Doug Basham. Doug Basham came out with Danny and Orlando Jordan. RVD comes out with Rey. Rey gets ejected to the back towards the beginning of the match for interfering. Match ends with the Bashams doing the old Demolition Switcheroo gimmick and Doug hitting a DDT on RVD to win. Angle shows up in Amys dressing room and walks up to the shower, which has someone in it. He strips down to his underwear, and it turns out it's not the right woman in the shower, it's some other faceless bimbo. The woman screams and runs and goes to Big Show for protection. Big Show and Angle brawl to the ring, where Jidrak and Reigns come out to help out. Big Show ends up beating up all 3 guys. Backstage segment shows JBL praising Amy for setting up Kurt, this is the only time JBL is seen on the TV portion of the show. One last segment is shown with Heidenreich getting ready to fight Undertaker. Heidenreich makes his entrance with Paul Heyman. Undertaker coems out. Match goes on with the usual Undertaker crap, and after about 4 minutes, music starts playing, and the druids wheel out a couple of caskets. Heidenreich goes apeshit, tags in Heyman, and runs to the back. Heyman gets the tombstone, and shoved into the casket. End of show. After the cameras rolled, JBL and Orlando come out and challange Undertaker to a two on one No DQ Casket match. This end up being a back and forth, not-bad, match which ends with Undertaker tombstoning JBL and shoving both guys into the second casket. Overall it really wasn't a bad show. I had great seats for only 20 bucks, and could see everything that was going on. One thing though that WWE needs to put a stop to is all these nameless, faceless women that have been appearing on TV lately. They server no purpose at all, no one cares about them, and they are a waste. I must have seen at least 8 different women on the show tonight, and recognized about 3 of them. |
| QUOTE (Mad Dog @ Jan 5 2005, 05:32 PM) |
| Man, why did RVD resign with them if he hates it there so much. Why not leave and work the indies and Japan? |
| QUOTE (BigSwiggy @ Jan 6 2005, 12:11 AM) |
| Maybe WWE is getting pissed that so many smarks consider Velocity the best show WWE puts out every week. |