WWE 2009 - SmackDown: 9/04/09. Cleveland, OH.

Friday Night SmackDown; I'm one of the biggest Jeff Hardy haters going, but I'm pleased to see you changed up the results of SummerSlam. A good opening segment, and I would possibly like to see this be the time that CM Punk gets the World Heavyweight Championship, if he qualifies for the Championship Scramble Match. A good win for John Morrison, and probably for the best since Morrison is far better than R-Truth as a face. I hope to see CM Punk defeat Rey Mysterio later, and I expect him to lose again next week against Dolph Ziggler. An obvious victory for The Hart Dynasty over a clearly smashed together team, haha. Interesting to see Matt Hardy get involed in the Championship Scramble via disqualification. I wonder what interactions will take place between the Hardy brothers? Never a good match between Kane and The Great Khali, but it was necessary and Kane winning was definitely the right choice. Chris Jericho not in a Championship Scramble Qualifier is upsetting, and then being forced to face The Great Khali next week? I hope you have plans for him. Meh, divas. Very happy to see CM Punk defeat Rey Mysterio, and like I said, I'd like to see him take the World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven, but I have a feeling that Jeff Hardy will retain. Interesting to see Ziggler costing Mysterio, and I think as well as their Intercontinental Championship Match next week, we could see another rematch at Unforgiven. Overall, a pretty good show.

Nice opening segment with dusty and Cody, I wonder if it will lead to anything. Cody Rhodes defeating ted DiBiase was the best way to go because he is clearly better and will make the scramble more entertaining. The backstage part with the miz was good, nice build up to the main event. Aww Carlito lost but MVP had to win really because he has the momentum so yeah that was the best thing. The backstage segment with legacy was good adding some tension into the group Ted face turn? The part with JeriShow was good and DX winning was obviously gonna happen cause of the rivalry and then the segment after that just added to the rivalry. Jack Swagger was the only way that could of gone Nuff said. Mickie James winning was awesome cause she is awesome. The main event was good and the attack after it was good, nice teamwork from the two.

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In all honesty, both Scrambles have guys I wouldn't have expected, but I guess that is what it is all about. The opening segment on Raw with father and son Rhodes was written very well and enjoyable with Rhodes mimicking his son. Glad Cody won though, even if it was by cheating. The Unified Tag Match should be awesome with all that star power. You've done pretty well for yourself so far with this one, keep it up.

Tuesday Night ECW; I was a HUGE Regal mark around this point, and I really hope you give him the ECW Championship. I know it's far from a World Title, but Regal deserves a major title reign at this point in his career. Pleased to see William Regal go over Tommy Dreamer as he is the #1 Contender. I'm intrigued as to where you will take Ezekiel Jackson, I'm personally hoping for a face turn and a possible feud with Regal over the ECW Championship. Maintaining the Paul Burchill/Hurricane feud was the right move, and a good victory for Burchill and Ryder here. However, please don't job out Yoshi Tatsu, he has potential and the WWE ruined him. A good Abraham Washington Show with The Dudebusters. I hope you do make them credible. Definitely the right way to go with Sheamus going over, as he is a definite future World Champion (as proven in the real WWE), so I'm glad to see you giving him the wins he deserves. Overall, a good ECW episode.

Rey Mysterio def. Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler via DQ; Ziggler retains his Championship.A great match with an cheap ending to open up this weeks edition of SmackDown. Mysterio was looking for revenge on Ziggler after Dolph screwed Mysterio out of a World Heavyweight Championship opportunity last week. Ontop of that Rey was looking to regain his Intercontinental Championship, which he’d lost at SummerSlam to Ziggler. The match was aggressive with a mix of high risk, high flying moves from Mysterio too but in the end Ziggler slid out of the ring after Rey got on a roll and as Mysterio slid too the outside Dolph turned around to nail Mysterio with the Intercontinental Championship and get himself disqualified.

Ziggler hoisted Mysterio up and rammed him into the ringpost on the outside before dropping him with a ZigZag on the floor. Dolph tried to walk off with the title but Teddy Long’s music hit and the General Manager of SmackDown wandered out to the stage. Long says that since Ziggler failed to defeat Mysterio and retain his title fairly tonight he will be putting them in a rematch and to insure that there will be no cheating he’s announcing that it will be a No Holds Barred match, for the Intercontinental Championship in 9 Days at Unforgiven! The crowd roar as Dolph looks pissed and referees help Rey to the back.

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The Hart Dynasty makes their way down to the ring ready for their next match. Shelton Benjamin’s music hits and he makes his way to the top of the entrance ramp. Shelton says that The Hart Dynasty think they are the best just because they are related to Bret Hart and the rest of the legendary Hart family but he’s going to prove tonight that they are really just mediocre when him and his tag team partner whip their butts.

Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas def. Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith
The Hart Dynasty seemed a little too cocky here against the returning ‘Worlds Greatest Tag Team’. Kidd and Smith did have the upper hand midway through the match as they worked over Charlie Haas, Benjamin dying to get in the ring. The finish saw cockiness get the best of the Hart descendants as a taunt from Kidd allowed Haas to regroup and duck a dropkick as he snuck around and tagged in Benjamin who dropped Tyson with the Paydirt for the three.

The Worlds Greatest Tag Team celebrated their victory as The Hart Dynasty were left stunned at their loss, Hart-Smith yelling we’ll get you next time at the re-united friends.

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World Heavyweight Champion, Jeff Hardy is shown backstage with Todd Grisham who asked him on his opponents for Unforgiven. Hardy says there are upsides and downsides to facing all of them. Kane, for starters, is a big man and won’t go down with a simple dropkick, it’ll take a lot to take and keep him down, however he’s not as quick as the other competitors. Hardy says that Morrison is the most agile guy in the match and his offense can be so quick you’ll miss it, but Jeff knows from experience that high-risk sometimes doesn’t pay off and that’ll hurt Morrison. Hardy says that he’s dealt with CM Punk over the past couple of months, things are still personal, Punk will be aggressive but Jeff knows how to manipulate that. Jeff says that lastly, Matt is the guy he’s worried most about, for the starter’s he’s the only guy in there that’s won a scramble match before and secondly they both know eachothers inside out, they’re brothers. Jeff says that Matt is his biggest threat to take the title but nevertheless he will still be watching closely when he takes a ringside seat for tonight’s tag team main event.

Dolph Ziggler is shown walking backstage with his Intercontinental Championship when he’s assaulted from behind by Rey Mysterio. Mysterio dropkicks Ziggler straight into a production truck before nailing him with a few punches and swinging round a nearby pole to deliver a 619. Rey continues to beat on the champion but nearby WWE personnel split the two apart.

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David Hart Smith is backstage with Tyson Kidd, who’s still selling his Paydirt from earlier. Smith says that tonight, Benjamin and Haas got lucky; it was your typical, class A fluke. David says that next week he wants Shelton one on one in the ring so they can show him that he’s nothing on his own.

Unified Tag Team Champion Chris Jericho w/Unified Tag Team Champion The Big Show def. The Great Khali
This match was made last week when Jericho complained about not being in a match on his own brand. Long granted Jericho his wish against The Great Khali. Jericho struggled to get Khali off his feet in the early going but in the end Big Show provided the distraction allowing Jericho to roll up the Punjabi Playboy for the three count.

Khali got up from the pin furious, and grabbed Jericho by the throat but Big Show made sure no harm was done as he levelled Khali with a knockout blow. Jericho proceeded to lock in thee Walls of Jericho on Khali. Khali yelped in pain and help fortunately did arrive as ‘Are you Ready’ hit and the number one contenders to the Unified Tag Team Champions, Triple H and Shawn Michaels made their way down to the ring. Big Show clambered out of the ring but Triple H took out Jericho with a knee to the skull. Shawn Michaels began tuning up the band for Sweet Chin Music but Show pulled Jericho from the ring. D-Generation-X cut their typical promo for the live crowd, hyping their match Unforgiven and guaren-damn-teeing that they will become Unified Tag Team Champions.

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Teddy Long is backstage when Michelle McCool approaches him, asking why she is not in a match tonight as the Womens Champion. Long says that it’s because he decided to give her a rest tonight and watch her potential Championship contender face Layla tonight. Long says that if Eve beats Layla tonight then he is giving Eve a Women’s Title shot for Unforgiven! Layla laughs and says that Michelle doesn’t need to worry about defending her title at Unforgiven because she’s going to beat Eve tonight.

R-Truth def. Mike Knox
This was part of Mike Knox’s open challenge he set last week. Knox started out confident and strong but after Truth countered out of the Knox Out it wasn’t long before Truth took advantage with the Axe Kick for the victory.

Truth began to celebrate but Knox took him out with a huge clothesline followed by a Knox Out. Knox tugged his hair in anger before leaving.

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Matt Hardy is shown backstage in his locker-room when John Morrison walks in. Hardy asks John what’s up and Morrison was wondering if he wanted to go over a few things for their match tonight. Matt says sure and the two begin to talk as we head to the ring.

Eve def. Layla w/ Womens Champion Michelle McCool
After pinning Layla in tag action last week, Eve took her on in singles action. Layla was looking for some revenge and a victory to boost her up a few notches towards her partner and friend, Michelle McCool, in the Divas Division. However, in the end, Layla fell short and Eve picked up another victory with her impressive Moonsault.

In a sort of parody of the segment before the previous match, CM Punk walks up to Kane and asks if he wants to go over a few things before their match tonight. Kane tells Punk to just stay out of his way and walks away leaving Punk alone.

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Kane and CM Punk def. John Morrison and Matt Hardy
A great main event to close out the evening featuring the four challengers for the World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven. Jeff Hardy, the World Heavyweight Champion, was ringside for this match. CM Punk was in the ring most out of all the competitors fighting equally against Morrison and Hardy, though, as soon as Kane got in he demolished his opposition. The finish saw CM Punk and Morrison going at it as the two hit each other with a superkick to the face each, sending them both to the mat. The two scrambled to their corners and tagged in their partners and before too long Kane sent Hardy down to the canvas with a Chokeslam for the three count.

John Morrison climbed back into the ring to check on Matt but Kane caught John by the throat and dumped him with a Chokeslam too. Kane and Punk’s arm’s were raised high in the air. Then, suddenly, Kane pushed the referee to the side and grasped Punk by the throat! Planting Punk down with a third Chokeslam. Kane stared into the eyes of the World Heavyweight Champion, Jeff Hardy, signalling that he was coming for the World Championship. SmackDown then went off the air.
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