After last nights terrible night of wrestling, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot out of this one, but alas, things could’ve been better, right?
Edge defeated Kofi Kingston
Finally, Kofi gets his revenge, kind of. He wrestled Edge and for those of you just tuning in, you might remember that Kofi got knocked out cold at No Way Out 2009. Kofi had a lot of good offense in this match up, it seemed that he was on his best night, with great moments throughout. However, Edge is the champion and the champion doesn’t lose with some random mid carder. Kingston did try to pull a rabbit out of the hat many times, but when Edge blocked the spinning kick, Kingston got trapped into The Sharpshooter! Edge made Kofi tap out, in what has to be the first time we’ve seen someone win with the Sharpshooter in a long time. At least a Canadian did it, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been as sweet. Edge wins again.
John Morrison & The Miz defeated The Colon’s
I was hoping for the ultimate unification of the tag team titles, because I’m tired of having two different sets of championship belts. I have to admit, Primo is the fastest pure athlete I’ve seen in a long time. He has the timing of a great Intercontinental Champion, and I was very impressed how he handled this match up when he was in the ring. The Miz and Morrison put up a good fight, but the Smackdown champs were just poetry in motion compared to the ecw guys. Morrison hit the Moonlight Drive and pinned Carlito for the win!
Chavo Guerrero & Shelton Benjamin defeated Mvp & R Truth
Benjamin refused to tag in his rival Chavo Guerrero in this match. Chavo forced his way in by tagging the back of Chavo, and he still has it. He’s fast and he can go, even if he’s not exactly the best champion in the world. MVP got hit with Pay Dirt and it was over! The match was ok at best, nothing too really write about, the guys put on a standard tag match, being careful not to really hurt one another since they have to make it to Wrestlemania.
Matt Hardy did his best Raven impression by going on and on saying something like “What about me, what about Raven…I mean Matt Hardy”. Jeff Hardy came out and confronted his brother Matt. Jeff finally got mad and started to fight off Matt, only to have Matt crawl away crying and saying sorry. Jeff looked weird, and this feud just started to get interesting.
Maria & Melina defeated Maryse & Michelle McCool
This match was starting to get better but as the match really started to develop there was a roll up and it was over. I hate the women’s division in wwe just like I hate a lot of the TNA programming for this reason alone. It’s a matter of having these short matches that don’t really develop into anything more than quick matches with random pins off of roll ups! This match sucked, the wwe divas suck, and I’m tired of watching them.
Finlay defeated The Brian Kendrick in a money in the bank qualifying match
The Brian Kendrick got buried here. I guess he’s just not a viable wrestler for Wrestlemania huh? Remember all those weeks of having The Brian Kendrick show up and win so many different times reintroducing him to the wwe universe, and now where is he? Jobbing out to Finlay? Man this is such a stupid idea. The match was ok at best, it didn’t really set up very well, it was boring to me. Kendrick maybe on the road to be future endeavored!
The Undertaker defeated Kozlov
The Undertaker started this match fast and with a lot of fury. He was obviously trying to get some retribution for the loss he had two weeks ago. The match easily broke out of the ring and spilled onto the floor, creating an instant classic, right? Nope. The WWE had to cut to commercial, and I don’t know, I lost interest in the match. I’m not sure why this match is happening, but I guess it needs to be done since Kozlov isn’t fighting Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Also, Kozlov isn’t undefeated anymore so I guess if he loses matches it’s all good. Undertaker was in full control after the commercial break and things were moving forward nicely. Kozlov started to turn things around by cinching in a headlock and twisting it tightly, but Undertaker pushed away with side throw suplex, getting back into a standing street fight with Kozlov. After all was said and done The Undertaker did what he does best, he dropped Kozlov on his head with a massive Tombstone piledriver, winning clean.
This edition of smackdown had some rough spots, but overall this was a good night of wrestling from the WWE. They sure know how to put on a good show, but it wasn’t complete, that’s for sure.
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 3/13/09 Results
Edge defeated Kofi Kingston
John Morrison & The Miz defeated The Colon’s
Chavo Guerrero & Shelton Benjamin defeated Mvp & R Truth
Finlay defeated The Brian Kendrick in a money in the bank qualifying match
The Undertaker defeated Kozlov
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I was bothered that the two men's tag team matches ended almost the same way... and given the fact that they were side by side, it made the whole thing a little weak for me.
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