This episode of Smackdown, from Houston, started off with Smackdown GM Booker T coming out, to a huge pop in his hometown.
Booker was in the ring and demanded that Sheamus come down to the ring and apologize to Alberto Del Rio for stealing his car on Raw. Sheamus comes down and talks about how much fun he had with Del Rio's Ferrari but does apologize. Del Rio interrupted them and demanded action be taken. Sheamus wanted a to defend his title tonight against Del Rio. Both Booker T and Del Rio agreed and we have our main event for the show.
The first match was Sin Cara vs Cody Rhodes. This was an ok match. There were some near falls, but the match ended when Rhodes wanted to unmask Sin Cara and got rolled up for the 1-2-3. Sin Cara with the victory to start off the show.
We then had a SummerSlam promo.
Daniel Bryan made his way down to the ring yelling "NO!" He gets on the mic and demands everyone stop chanting "YES!" Bryan continues to be pretty funny with this gimmick. He is definitely over the top. Bryan continues to rip on AJ and how she ruined his reputation then Kane interrupted him. AJ, once again looking fricken phenomenal, came down to the ring. She comes down as a guest of Booker T and demands that Bryan show that he is sane and wants Bryan to shake Kane's hand. Bryan extends his hand and AJ leaves the ring, only to have Kane and Bryan battle in the ring. AJ laughs demonically at the top of the ramp. All I have to say is there is something going on between AJ and Kane.
We then see Teddy Long and Booker T. Hawkins and Reks come in only to have Booker tell them that only A+ talent is allowed on Smackdown.
We then see Jinder Mahal destroy two unknown jobbers in like 30 seconds. Ryback then comes out. Mahal leaves the ring when Ryback enters. Ryback then proceeds to murder the two jobbers as well. He then leads a "Feed Me More" chant and the crowd seems to really be getting into Ryback.
Up next was the Highlight Reel segment with Chris Jericho. Dolph Ziggler is the guest on the Highlight Reel. Vickie interrupts Jericho as he introduces the segment. Vickie says that she will be speaking on Dolph Zigglers behalf. Jericho insults her and Vickie says she will leave. He then responds and tells her to "get the hell out of here." He did bring her back and then rolled footage of Ziggler losing to Alex Riley on Raw. Vickie suggests that Ziggler and Jericho face off in a match at SummerSlam. Jericho said that Ziggler said something that got him thinking and that he will be bringing back Y2J and then accepts the match. Ziggler runs in from the crowd only to have Jericho lay him out. He turns to Vickie who slaps him and Ziggler lands the Zig Zag. Jericho slowly gets up and gets blasted by the MITB briefcase by Ziggler.
We get a recap of the opening segment with Del Rio and Sheamus.
Kofi and R-Truth come down to the ring for commentary. A.W. comes out to introduce the Prime Time Players. We get treated to a #1 contenders match with the Prime Time Players and Primo and Epico. Nothing special with this match. The Prime Time Players get the win after a DQ. Once again the Prime Time Players are the #1 contenders.
Antonio Cesaro comes down to the ring for his match. He does this stupid ass gimmick on how he speak five different languages. Who gives a crap. Thank the good lord that Christian came down to stop this crap. This really wasn't that solid of a match. Christian wins with the spear. After the match Cesaro beats the hell out of Christian.
Raw rebound is up recapping the main event from Raw.
Eve is shown backstage and she asks Booker for a job. He once again, turns her down. Kaitlyn comes in with Teddy and asks Booker for a job and he accepts. Eve threatens legal action for discrimination. Booker then makes a match between Kaitlyn and Eve for next weeks Smackdown with the winner becoming Booker's assistant.
Rey Mysterio comes out, to a huge pop. Mysterio is set to face the Intercontinental Champion, The Miz. This was a non-title match. This was a solid match with both guys getting great offense in. Once again, The Miz loses a non-title match. Mysterio gets the win when he gets the surprised roll-up victory. Crazy how the lower level champions keep losing.
Another SummerSlam vignette.
We then had the main event with Sheamus going up against Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship. Before the match started, five cops came down to the ring. Del Rio told them to stop but then told them to attack Sheamus. Obviously, these guys were hired by Del Rio to dress up as cops and beat the hell out of Sheamus. Del Rio beat down Sheamus with no match. The show then ended with Del Rio getting booed like crazy. Not sure what to think of this.
Overall, this was an ok episode of Smackdown. Definitely not their best but not even close to their worst.
Stay tuned tomorrow as we will be posting the WWE power rankings.
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