WWE Friday Night Smackdown 5/29/09 Results
Khali and R Truth defeated Dolph Ziggler and Mike Knox
Melina defeated Alicia Fox
John Morrison defeated Umaga via disqualification
Edge & Chris Jericho defeated Jeff hardy
Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas defeated Cryme Tyme
Eve defeated Layla
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 5/29/09 Review
The show starts right away with Rey Mysterio coming down, so this was interesting. Especially when Chris Jericho came out to the ring, and then there was Mickey Rourke at ring side! Jericho is amazing on the mic, hands down the best mic work in WWE right now. No one can even come close, too bad he doesn’t win matches. The segment turned into a small brawl with Jericho running away like a true coward, and Mysterio looking strong heading into Extreme rules. Not bad, but not necessarily the best either. I like how they are pushing it, but something tells me that Mysterio’s mask is going to be on the line down the road and he’s going to lose it.
Khali and R Truth defeated Dolph Ziggler and Mike Knox
This match was ok at best. It just seemed like a throwaway match to get some Khali love from the fans. Ziggler was basically a coward and ran off, leaving Khali to dismantle the “monster” Mike Knox. Knox doesn’t look that good when he’s getting trampled by Khali, who also gets the win for his team.
Melina defeated Alicia Fox
This match was lame. It had a few ok moves at best, but Fox just looked green and Melina was just going through the motions. This match was terrible, and I guess it was for the title? I don’t know, it was stupid; if you liked it, you’re dumb.
Jeff Hardy cut one of the worst promos in WWE history. This was terrible, and well…made me want to go to sleep.
John Morrison defeated Umaga via disqualification
I wasn’t sure how far the WWE would go with this match up. John Morrison seemed to be in full control of this match, but if he defeated Umaga, how would it look as he goes into fight CM Punk? So I wasn’t sure if Morrison had what it took to put away Umaga. He was pleading a good case, putting all he had into Umaga’s face…until the fade away Samoan Drop turned things around. This match did have a good back and forth motion and for once we got treated to a good match on free television. Then Umaga loses cause he uses he leather strap…what a load of crap. I guess Umaga isn’t as big of a monster as before cause now he’s resorting to cowardly DQ methods out of frustration. He couldn’t put away Morrison, so great…Morrison remains face and Umaga doesn’t get pinned. Whatever…wasting my time never looked so good, I must admit that.
Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas defeated Cryme Tyme
Way to go wwe! Let’s trash the legit tag teams! Haas and Benjamin, arguably two of the latest string of jobbers in the wwe got a win over Cryme Tyme. I read online that Cryme Tyme isn’t going to last much longer since one of them isn’t improving very well. Good riddance if you ask me. The match was ok at best, but this was just a throwaway match with no major implications other than to ruin Cryme Tyme’s rep.
Eve defeated Layla
A second divas match? At this point I was so fed up that I didn’t even care any longer. This match was terrible, these two can’t wrestle, they don’t have any charisma, and it made me wish for Victoria to come back, but she has joined the dark side!
Edge & Chris Jericho defeated Jeff hardy
Mysterio got gut checked by Jericho prior to the match, therefore this was a handicap match. This once again fuels the rumors that Mysterio is not at 100% right now and he is injured. This makes a lot of sense, since word on the street is that he’s dropping the belt and maybe the mask to Jericho in the near future. Remember when Jericho forced Juventud to lose his mask? That 1998 Cruiserweight title run was stellar, and back then Jericho defeated Mysterio yet again, I’ll see if I can get the video…anyways this match had a lot of high spots. Hardy was letting it all hang out for free, he was jumping and flying but it wasn’t enough to defeat the two heels in this match up and was eventually a victim of the numbers game. I liked how this ended, however, I just felt that the show wasn’t all that good.
Smackdown used to be a spot where you could watch a ton of wrestling, but really, you’re not getting a whole lot of quality in this show. It used to be more so, now I don’t know what they are doing, trying to make it Raw lite?
I would have much rather seen more continuation of stories, with pure wrestling and respect. I guess Smackdown is trying to play it safe since Extreme Rules needs their wrestlers to be somewhat in good condition.
So here is the second part of a WCW Souled Out 98 match between Rey Mysterio Jr and Chris Jericho for the Cruiserweight Title:
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