WWE Friday Night Smackdown 6/26/09 Results
R Truth defeated Shelton Benjamin
Alicia Fox and Michelle McCool defeated Melina and Gail Kim
John Morrison defeated CM Punk
Edge and Chris Jericho defeated Rey Mysterio and Jeff Hardy in a steel cage match with CM Punk as the special guest referee
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 6/26/09 Review
The show opened up with Vince McMahon going down to ringside! McMahon called out Theodore Long and the two talked about the show. They are going to have a cage match and the special guest referee is going to be CM PUNK! Vinnie Mac then put Long on probation!
R Truth defeated Shelton Benjamin
The first match of the night was essentially a glorified jobbers match. These two have not been in the top spotlight for some time, and it was interesting to me that they were in there doing this match. I figured a tag match would be in order, but ot so here. R Truth had things close within his reach, hitting all of his best spots, until Benjamin hit a sweet Samoan Drop and Belly to Belly overhead throw, which was picture perfect. Benjamin had this thing going his way, and he looked like the champion that was labeled The Gold standard a short while back in the WWE. Truth had to fight back, and he seemed to reach the equalizer with a nice jaw breaker, but it was short lived. Truth came back out of nowhere to hit The Lie Detector and take the win over Benjamin who is now the job standard…as he jobs to Truth.
Alicia Fox and Michelle McCool defeated Melina and Gail Kim
Remember when Gail Kim joined WWE again? Well, she was touted as a serious title contender and is now a shade of her Knockout self. I’d prefer her back in TNA where they at least let the women wrestler, I mean seriously wrestle every now and again. The match was ok at best, the girls gave it their best shot to make it entertaining, and it was obvious who out of the four could actually wrestle. Michele McCool was timing this one nicely, and when she hit Gail Kim with her finisher, I was impressed for the first time in a long time. Gail Kim and Michelle McCool might be a good feud, if wrestling is the #1 goal of WWE’s women division…not just divas.
John Morrison defeated CM Punk
What in the world? John Morrison wrestled CM Punk in a non title match, and this wasn’t even the main event. It bugs me greatly that when TRIPLE H is champ or EDGE is champ they don’t wrestle in the midcard and sometimes don’t wrestle at all on a show. This is completely dumb to me, and furthermore, why would they risk the champ getting hurt before the ppv? It’s true, the face champions have to wrestle a lot more, when they are younger, and it seems that veterans and heel champions just don’t wrestle as much. That’s lame.
Punk had early control in this match, as he should have, and Morrison put up a good amount of offense in return. That bridge suplex was impressive, wow, the match was actually getting good and then we went to commercial break. Punk put on the breaks to John Morrison’s comeback with some serious rest holds, but the action spilled to the outside with Punk trying a sunset flip, and the action spilling right into the outside. Punk catching Morrison on his shoulders was amazing, the second rope reverse superplex was impressive too, this match had some serious moments. Morrison and Punk could rope me into a ppv again…if I could afford it. Punk was going for the GTS, but Morrison got a near fall, and then rolled into a reversal with bridge pinfall for the three! I kid you not, holy crap, this reversal set was impressive and only these two were flexible enough to get it done, wow, a pretty good match. Morrison has pinned the champion clean!
Punk ended up losing his temper and hit Morrison with the GTS and the announce team kept pushing this “Punk is turning evil on us” and I think they are trying to either telegraph the heel turn or they are trying to swerve us.
Edge and Chris Jericho defeated Rey Mysterio and Jeff Hardy in a steel cage match with CM Punk as the special guest referee
This match was given a little more time than usual, and it was not half bad. Punk was trying not to get too involved, and the heels were working over Hardy and Mysterio with no mercy. Mysterio and Jericho were fighting each other, meanwhile near falls abounded, and Jericho came out on top with every counter, every motion, proving that Jericho is the best wrestler right now. The closing of this match had Hardy, Edge and Mysterio nearly knocked out, Punk got speared inadvertently and was unable to get the fast count after The Whisper in the Wind hit Edge. It looked like Hardy was going to attack Punk, but managed to get back into the match with a little help from Rey Mysterio Jr. A twist of fate tackled Jericho, but after Hardy was ready to strike Punk a spear floored Hardy and this thing was done. The tension was high, but the heels managed to capitalize on an obviously distracted Hardy. Punk looked bad, Edge looked good, Jericho looked amazing and Hardy wasn’t feeling so hot at the end.
I’m not sure what they are going to do with punk, this thing is weird, I wish I could get the ppv, but I can’t afford it. I’ll try to catch the results and hustle some money for Summerslam.
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