by Xavier Hernandez

Smackdown opens up with edge coming and talking about mitb. He is supposed
to face matt hardy, who comes and interupts him, but edge says he has a
replacement, and Great Khali comes to face matt. He hits the two-hand
chokeslam, and fire comes out of the posts. Kane a ppears in the titatrons,
saying that the time is near, as khali leaves the ring.

Teddy L. is showing talking in is office with kristal. They talk about some
celebration with champagne and some stuff like that. I really didn't get
the segment well.

Finlay def. Mr. Kennedy
Back and forth action from both man. Not much crowd reaction until finlay
distracted the ref. Hornswoggle, came witha small ladder, and did his
version of the kenton bomb on ken, and then finlay hits the celtic cross.
Crowd reacted well to the bastard.

MVP def. Unknown
MVp referred to this guy as the champion of eutopia or something like that.
He looked kinda cannival. and skinny. MVP hits the Playmaker for the win,
and starts saying he will be the next us champion.

Jeff Hardy def. Randy Orton
Orton controlled most of the match, and jeff pulled up his signature moves
too. Better than their singles match from raw last week. Edge comes again to
distract orton and jeff pins him with a roll up. Crowd was really into this
match, specially cheering jeff

10-diva tag team match
Ashley,Maria,Candice,Torrie,Mickie def. Melina,Victoria,Jillian, Kristal,
Michelle Mccool.
Typical divas match. The heels worked a lot on mickie, until all the hot
tags for candice, torrie and maria who performed their signature moves.
Aslhley got the final tag and won with a rollup.

Cm Punk def. King BOOker.
Crowd was behind booker. I think it was a very good main event. Booker goes
for the scissors kick, but punk moves and wins with a rollup (lost of rollup
victories on this show)

JBL came to the ring to do the interview of batista/undertaker. Out of
nowhere STONE COLD's musci hits, and the people go nuts, (including me). He
comes, and gives JBL a stunner, then drinks two beers per corner and gives
jbl another stunner. Awesome segment.

Teddy long comes with many security guards to do the interview himself. He
brings both batista and taker, and both got huge pops. Batista says he
already lost respect to taker, and taker remains silent. they they start
brawling, with the security, and batista gives taker a huge spinebuster, he
leaves, but taker sits up! Very good segment to warm the match for WM23.

Same shit we saw all week... and no Kane pisses me off.

At least Batista doesn't respect Undertaker anymore. Sheesh.

Good. I hate the respect crap when it's done every fucking time.

Batista respects Triple H. He respects Undertaker. He respects Jim Ross. Stop fucking respecting people, Batista, and just be a cold blooded killer.

Yeah, you fucking pussy. Even when Ric Flair said he respects people, he beat the piss out of them and tried to cripple them.

The worst instance of respect on any wrestling show recently was when Samoa Joe said he had mutual respect for Kurt Angle. This was AFTER Angle had taken Joe's girlfriend hostage. Presumably to have that "beastiality sex" that he was denied from Booker T's wife.

... LAME!

Gotta love the lack of Benoit trying to kill MVP also.

... GAY!

Having said my complaints, I look forward to seeing Punk/Booker. Seeing CM Punk getting a win over a recent World Champion should kill any speculation that he's being buried.

Add tot hat a high profile win on RAW, and looks like he's getting set for a push. That's a good thing.

Yeah, I was thinking Punker is on his way up now too.

As if it wasn't obvious enough, Batista beating on Taker makes it that much more obvious that Taker is going over at Wrestlemania. Which is yaaaayyyyyy for me, seeing as how I'm a huge Taker mark and I'm going to 'Mania:). *packs vaseline for the Taker match*... Better play it safe *bags 2 bottles of vaseline*

Whoa, hope you have a good time at the show.

Undertaker really should go over. I'd rather see him retire with his streak in tact rather than blow it on Batista.

Xavier Hernandez and his 3.90 career ERA are now recapping Smackdown! Yay!

:lol:

That's almost as good as a Rickey Henderson reference... speaking of Rickey Henderson, did you know he's a pimp?

Hurray, baseball jokes that I won't understand!


::Runs off to try and find references that no one else here will get::

Rickey Henderson's so fast, he ran around the world and patted himself on the back

Kennedy had better win MitB or I'm going to be fucking pissed. He's been jobbed three straight weeks going into Mania.

I'm telling you, Edge needs to win. Streak vs. Streak next year against 'Taker is the perfect scenario.

Edge can lose the MitB and still be undefeated at Wrestlemania.

Wha? How is that?

And did you all know that Rickey Henderson was the 5000th strikeout victim of Nolan Ryan?

Yup, and he broke the single season steals record on the day I was born

Awesome! We got Geist in on it, too!

Edge won't pin or submit, so technically it won't count as a loss for him.

Well in that line of thinking he didn't "win" all those ladder matches either.

Only WM X-7 he didn't actually get the belt in a ladder match, so he's still 4-0 going into this one. :P

All of his matches were tag matches, so if his partner got the titles, then they won.

If he's in the money in the bank and gets the case, he wins.

But if he's one of the 5 (or in this case 7) that doesn't get the case, he doesn't really lose.

I thought it was pretty simple actually.

That's the logic I used, but some marks might argue against it since he also didn't win the match.

Scrooge McSuck is correct. Also, this isn't the last stop before Wrestlemania, the hall of fame ceremony is. Just splitting hairs, of course, lol. I can't believe the ceremony is going to air at midnight either, and we all think TNA had a shit timeslot for a while at 11.

Perhaps I'm an idiot, and I should really stop arguing this, but I still say that if he doesn't win the match, than he's the loser.