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411’s WWE Smackdown Report 9.20.13
Michael Benjamin here with another Smackdown Report. I’ve heard people say this looked good on paper. I like to avoid spoilers to keep my interest piqued for the reports so I’m excited. Let’s see what goes down.
Championship Roll Call:
WWE Champion: Randy Orton
World Champion: Alberto Del Rio
US Champion: Dean Ambrose
IC Champion: Curtis Axel
Diva’s Champion: AJ Lee
WWE World Tag Team Champions: Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns
– Vickie Guerrero joins us in the ring to start off the show. I get that she’s a heat machine, but I don’t get all of the love for her around here. Her voice is grating and she always seems to struggle with the script written for her. She rips apart Daniel Bryan’s two short title reigns before introducing him. He hits the ring and says he’d rather be champ for a day than a corporate sell out. Vickie gives him one more opportunity to come clean about him and Scott Armstrong’s plan to cheat Orton out of his title at Night of Champions. D-Bry says that the ref could have counted to 20 and Orton wouldn’t have kicked out because he was knocked out. Crowd is digging this. Vickie would have fired Daniel Bryan if she was in Triple H’s shoes. Bryan makes fun of her lack of power. This leads to Vickie using the power she does have to book a 11v3 (or 3 v 1 x11?) gauntlet match. It’s all of the wrestlers who helped Daniel Bryan out at the end of Raw. RVD gets the biggest pop as she goes through the names. She gives an evil laugh as she says that she’s saving Daniel Bryan for last. What a bitch! She’s going to make him wrestle The Shield after they’ve gone through ten other matches?
OFFICIAL RESULT: AJ Lee @ 3:20 via submission
RATING: *
– It’s Colter time. He’s not down with that immigrant Santino Marella. Colter is wondering how he made it into the country. Did he sneak or swim across? Are his papers legit? The Real Americans are the only ones with the guts to ask these types of questions. Rise to your feet, bitches. WE. THE. PEOPLE.
OFFICIAL RESULT: Santino Marella @ 2:27 via pinfall
RATING: N/A
– Heyman. Ryback, and Curtis Axel are on their way to the ring.
– Heyman proclaims himself the best in the world before the match. Heyman does want to give credit to Punk. He gave Heyman all that he could handle. When two men engage in combat, only one man can emerge victorious. On Sunday that man was Paul Heyman. He couldn’t have done it without his hero, Ryback, however. Ryback grabs the mic. If there’s one thing he can’t stand, it’s a bully. Paul told Ryback earlier in the day that Nick Nardone refused to sign a kids autograph and intimidated him in the parking lot. What he does to Nardone is what he’s going to do to Punk next time he sees him.
OFFICIAL RESULT: Ryback @ 0.51 via pinfall
RATING: SQUASH
– Randy Orton is headed towards the ring.
– Orton has a mic in hand and doesn’t look very happy. He’s mad at Bryan and Armstrong’s plot to screw him out of the title. It was Randy’s fault though. 100% his fault. He never should have been in that position. He locked away the sadistic side of the viper because he thought that’s what everybody wanted. On Monday, Triple H and Stephanie allowed him to see who he really is though. He opened the door he closed two years ago and made an example out
of Miz in front of his family and friends.
– They replay the beat down and Pilmanization of Miz.
– Orton says that the footage aired should stand as a warning to anybody who thinks they’ll get in his past. At Battleground, he’s looking to annihilate. He wants to end the war with Bryan, not just win. He swears that he’ll be HIS WWE Champion. The Shield theme hits and here they come through the crowd.
OFFICIAL RESULT The Shield @ 0:44 via pinfall
RATING: SQUASH
OFFICIAL RESULT The Shield @ 1:08 via pinfall
RATING: SQUASH
OFFICIAL RESULT The Shield @ 3:32 via count out
RATING: *1/4
OFFICIAL RESULT The Shield @ 1:32 via pinfall
RATING: N/R
OFFICIAL RESULT No Contest @ 1:32
RATING: N/A
– We’re back. Triple H is berating Vickie backstage. He says that right now it’s only ten guys. Next thing you know, it’ll be ten more. Then ten more. It’ll be a full scale revolt. The wrestlers need to feel safe. They need real competition. He tells Vickie to go book The Shield vs. The Usos and Daniel Bryan.
– We get a Raw Rebound covering the Dusty/Stephanie segment.
– Triple H is still steamed in his office. Ryder and Gabriel walk in as invited by Triple H. He apologizes for Vickie. He says that two talented men like them don’t deserve that match with The Shield. Ryder said that they still wanted competition though, bro. Triple H throws a bro right back at him and tells them to head to the ring to get what they want.
OFFICIAL RESULT The Wyatt Family @ 1:06 via pinfall
RATING: SQUASH
– Bray grabs a mic after the match and says that if they keep lining them up, they’ll keep knocking them down. All for Abigail.
– Triple H checks in on RVD in the trainers room. He apologizes on Vickie’s behalf. He gives him a rematch against ADR at Battleground. He doesn’t want anymore enemies. I like that he has to book non-traditional heel authority figure matches due to his situation. ADR hits the scene and ambushes RVD. He’s gonna need more than an ambush here and there to get some heat on him.
OFFICIAL RESULT Alberto Del Rio @ 3:36 via pinfall
RATING: *1/2
Rollins has a headlock applied to Jey. Jey fights out and hits a spinning heel kick. In comes Jey. Clotheslines to Rollins. Samoan Drop! UUUUUU. SOOOOOOOO. UUUUUU. SOOOOOO. He knocks Ambrose off the apron and finds himself on the receiving end of an enziguri from Rollins. In comes Reigns. One sided brawling from Reigns for about 15 seconds. In comes Ambrose. He continues to the assault. They’ve found their face in peril. Ambrose locks in a headlock. The Shield proceed to pick apart Jey for awhile. Rollins comes in with a swanton from the apron for two. Reigns wants his turn and tears him apart. He delivers a huge clothesline that gets him a two count. The crowd is chanting for the Usos. Reigns has a headlock applied. He punches Jey in the head and lets go. Jey floats out of a back suplex. he knocks The Shield off the apron and punches Reigns down. He crawls to make the tag and Rollins intervenes. Rollins gets hit with an atomic drop though. He continues the crawl and in comes D-Bry. Damn D-Bry is the best hot tag in the fucking business. He mauls everybody. You know how it goes. He’s in there with Ambrose after cleaning house. He delivers a top rope rana that nets him two. Jimmy flies over the top onto Reigns! Rollins swantons Jey and a little bit of Reigns too! Jimmy hits a split legged moonsault to the outside on all of that. D-Bry hits the running knee on Ambrose for the victory.
OFFICIAL RESULT The Usos and Daniel Bryan @ 14:07 aired via pinfall
RATING: ***1/2
OVERALL: This was quite the story driven episode of Smackdown. Triple H trying to keep the faces of the roster at bay by giving them what they want is a nice bit of business. He now has, from a booking perspective, the ability to book matches on either side of the disposition spectrum effectively. The main story has been evolving every week, and while I can’t speak for anybody but myself, it has been making every show seem more important and newsworthy. Storylines should progress on every show and it’s something they didn’t bother doing for a long time. Triple H could keep things moving with nothing but the midcard for a show and it would still seem important due to the nature of the angle. The midcard matches were short but solid. Nothing offensive to be found about them and they all served their purpose. The divas match was better than usual in my opinion as well. That brings us to the main event that was well worked and given enough time to culminate naturally. Thumbs up for a highly entertaining episode of Smackdown.
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