7-15-11 Smackdown results and thoughts

Coverage and thoughts on the July 15, 2011 episode of Smackdown

The show starts with Josh interviewing Randy Orton in the ring. Orton talks about his World Title match with Christian at MITB. Christian then shows up on the Tron and says that he will regain the World Title. Christian has a picture of when he stood over Orton with the World Title a few weeks ago and Orton said that doing that to try to get Orton’s goat was pathetic. Christian then mentions that Orton’s dad, Cowboy Bob was pathetic and a joke and that Randy is just as pathetic as his dad is. Orton tells what’s pathetic is being World Champion for 5 days (actually 2 days since the show is taped). How about the way Randy Orton was booked when he first won the World Title 7 years ago. That was real pathetic booking! This was good segment. I thought it they did a good job continuing the build for the PPV match.

Intercontinental Champion Ezekiel Jackson vs. Ted DiBiase, Jr. Jackson gets the win by submission. This was a decent match.

Backstage Cody Rhodes tells Ted that if he loses one more match Cody will personally put a bag over his head. Some guy then walks by and Cody puts the bag on his head.

Daniel Bryan vs. Cody Rhodes. Cody gets the pin. This was a real good back and forth match. These guys have great chemistry together.

Teddy Long tells a referee to let Mark Henry and Big Show know that if the touch each other before during their face to face later the PPV match will not take place. Kane then comes into Long’s office and thanks for giving him the match with Randy Orton later. Kane says that he hasn’t been feeling like a monster lately and Long tells Kane that he is scaring him. Kane said that if Long really was frightened, he wouldn’t have the guts to tell him.

Jinder Mahal and Khali are having a photo shoot done. They then chew out the cameraman and Mahal tells him that he is the star. Whatever.

Backstage they show that Randy Orton’s tour bus has been spray painted saying, “ORTON SUX. TEDDY LONG = MORON. CHRISTIAN = UNCROWNED WORLD CHAMPION.” Christian comes and acts all shocked and says he can’t imagine who would do this and that he wouldn’t stand for it. Christian can really cut some funny promos. Why does Orton have the tour bus again is what I wanna know.

Sin Cara vs. Sheamus. Sin Cara gets the pin. This was a good back and forth match too. They need to ditch the gold and blue lights during Cara’s matches though. After the match Wade Barrett, who was on commentary attacked Sheamus.

Christian is in the casino with Randy Orton’s wallet that he found backstage. He takes out $1,000 and says that he will play for Randy’s daughter’s college fund. He bets the $1,000 on number 1 and it lands on number 20. Christian then says that Orton’s luck has just run out. This was another great promo from Christian.

Teddy Long is in the ring for the Big Show-Mark Henry face and has both guys come out. Henry stands on the stage. Mark Henry says that Show started everything and they show the clip from last month when Big Show attacked Mark Henry. They argue back and forth for a bit, then Show says they don’t have to wait till Sunday and calls Henry out. Henry is about to go to the ring but Long stops him and says that on Sunday they will let God sort it out. Show and Henry then glare at each other. This was a good segment and I thought it gave their match for this Sunday a good final hype.

Divas Champion Kelly Kelly vs. Rosa Mendes. Kelly gets the win.

Time for another corny Johnny Curtis promo. This time he says that soon the cat will be out of the bag. He goes to pull a stuffed cat out, but when he does it turns out to be a stuffed elephant. He flips out on an assistant and tells him that “elephant in the room” was for next week and he tore up the stuffed elephant. Can they please drop these idiotic segments and let the guy have a match on the show already?

Justin Gabriel vs. Heath Slater. Slater has a mic and says that he and Gabriel were on top of the world in the tag team division, that they were 3 time tag team champions. Slater then says that lately Gabriel has been dropping the ball and that he is tired of sharing the spot light with him and that at MITB it will be Slater’s time to shine because he is “the one man rock band.” Gabriel gets the win. This was a good but short match. Too bad they broke up Gabriel and Slater because they were good as a tag team. I know the tag division has no meaning in WWE, but I thought they were good together. They had good matches with the Usos.

Kane vs. World Champion Randy Orton. Kane wins by count out when Orton saw Christian coming out. Christian went over the guard rail and Orton followed, then went back over the barrier and he then Christian snuck up behind him and they brawled into the where Kane throat chopped Orton. Kane and Christian double stomp Orton in the corner for a bit then Kane turns to Christian. Christian slides out of the ring and then Kane turns around and Orton gives him an RKO. Christian then comes back in and spears Orton and punches him. Christian then gets a steel chair and the World Title. He goes to hit Orton with the chair but Orton kicks him in the gut, then picks up the chair and Christian escapes. Orton then repeatedly hits Kane in the back with the chair. He then glares at Christian from the ring while Christian is backing up to the stage. This was more of an angle then a match and they did a good job hyping up the World Title match for Sunday.

I thought this was a good show with some good matches and segments on it. The highlights were the Christian promos and Daniel Bryan vs. Cody Rhodes. They did a good job in giving the Money In The Bank Pay Per View the final hype before this Sunday night.