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[misac]

Just finished watching Smackdown. Thought it was a really solid episode for the most part. Really like that Clay is getting ready to have a real feud, even if he might have to deal with Otunga for a bit before moving on to Show. The Del Rio vs Christian match was good stuff. Kane and Bryan had a good match. Ziggler and Shamus were great in the main event.

Overall just a fun show, even if there were a few dumb bits.

Yeah, Brodus got his ass kicked but it's making me really want to see him get his revenge.

[misac]

The fact they have JR and Regal calling NXT, while I have to listen to Cole two times a week and the over the hill King, just makes me sad. JR and Regal should be the RAW team, IMO.

It's crazy!!

[misac]

I really didn't think I could love AJ more, but the skipping is just so fantastic the last couple of weeks, in addition to her great promos and amazing facial expressions and whatnot.

Anyways, I really enjoyed that match.

I don't know that anyone is doing a better job in their role like AJ right now. I look forward to seeing her every week.

I really liked the match too and it did a good job of continuing the story.

[misac]

With Clay fighting Big Show, it would have been nice if he didn't spend 5 minutes dancing and instead came out all business like he did on Friday. Especially after the way Friday played out.

Hopefully this is just a preview and they get a rematch at SummerSlam or something, as I think this could be a great thing for Clay, and the way they played up the injury certainly makes it feel like this isn't ending here. I certainly wasn't expecting these two to fight tonight after watching Smackdown, but the way this played out Show can claim victory and Clay can say the attack last week caused this and want a shot at him when he's healthy.

For what it was, I thought it was a decent match. I think Clay looked huge and athletic here in a way that's much better than seeing him squash jobbers.

Yeah, since his hurt leg came into play for the finish it was kind of dumb for him to come out dancing. I did like the match though and it was cool seeing Brodus hold his own for a bit.

[misac]

Swagger and Santino, a match featuring two wasted talents.

That said, it was a pretty decent match because these guys are both really talented and made teh silliness of it work for the most part. As long as I don't focus on the fact that WWE seems to have no idea how to use Swagger, despite him being a perfect heel that can work with guys of any size and Santino is a guy that can wrestle and is insanely popular with the crowd despie never being allowed to show his actual in ring ability, that is.

The fact the announcers are talking about how losing to Santino is terrible for Swagger because Santino is a joke, despite the fact he's a fucking champion right now, just shows how poorly they are using these guys.

But, if you ignore all fo that, it was a pretty fun silly little match.

I thought it would have been funny if Swagger won, didn't he lose the title to Santino?

[misac]

Is it just me, or does having a Del Rio themed MITB commercial talking about how he needs to win the MITB match show that he has no hope of winning on Friday?

Seems kind of dumb to give him a #1 contender match when he has no hope of winning the title.

It's dumb, that said, I like the commercial.

[misac]

This Star Wars promo is just ridiculous, and not in a good way.

The Yoda voice almost made up for it. That was pretty great.

No, it was all terrible!

[misac]

The first ever no contest in a pole match. Never thought I'd see the day. That is a typical Russo logic result.

It was silly but those guys did a good job.

[misac]

Wait, so Jericho is a face again (I can't tell), Cena can put himself in the MITB match however he wants (not that I think that's a bad idea, as I think he'd be a great guy to win it and then lose his cashing in attempt), I think a Jericho vs Cena feud would be fun if they wanted to go that route for the next few months since the Orton thing clearly isn't happening.

I always forget how old the MITB match is.

Oh, so now Jericho can put himself in the match as well? What the fuck?

Oh, look, here's Vickie, hopefully to tell these guys to shut up about putting themselves in the match. Glad they are doing two matches, one for each show. And I like that she said they can't put themselves in the matches. Good stuff. I don't know how I feel about having the RAW one including only former champs, since it can be a nice way to elevate a guy like Bryan a few months ago or Punk or Edge or whomever, but on the other hand a former champ winning like this could be a great set up for the first MITB loser without killing a young guy's momentum. I don't get why Vickie started so confrontational and then put both guys in the match, but whatever. I look forward to these two fighting each other.

It was absurd those guys putting themselves in the match. Then Vickie comes out to tell them to STFU and just tells them they are in the match.

[misac]

The Diva stuff was awful.

Re-purposing the Great American Bash name for a special live Smackdown on July 3rd is brilliant.

I've been saying they should drop a couple of PPVs and do them as tv specials.

[rdrsfn82]

I've been saying they should drop a couple of PPVs and do them as tv specials.

I think stuff like that could get more people excited about the shows and if there were fewer PPVs more people could afford to get all of them and would be willing to buy more.

[rdrsfn82]

It was absurd those guys putting themselves in the match. Then Vickie comes out to tell them to STFU and just tells them they are in the match.

Yeah, I went from really liking that segment to thinking it was totally pointless and stupid sounding. Definitely should have just had someone say that was the match, then let the two of them chat in the ring about it and set up the match.

[Bianco]

did she mess up the dialog i just deleted my dvr...she said for the first time in two years then said for the first time ever Cena vs Jericho

[Jubilee]

Kane v Big Show v Cena v Jericho

I couldn't think of a worse ladder match really.

You've got to think a returning Rey and a returning Miz added to that match.

[rdrsfn82]

I think you could do a fun ladder match with those guys, but they probably need another athletic guy or two if they want to be on par with what these matches are mostly known for. Without adding anything, I think it would just be a really different kind of ladder match and could still maybe be fun.