10-28-11 Smackdown results and thoughts

Coverage and thoughts on the October 28, 2011 episode of Smackdown

The show starts with Teddy Long coming out to talk about the World Title situation due to Big Show’s and Mark Henry’s injuries from Vengeance. He says that they’re both in the building tonight. Christian then comes out and says that deserves to be World Champion. CM Punk then comes out and he and Christian go back and forth on the mic for a bit and then Punk tells him to quit his complaining. Christian then asks why Punk is there and Long says that he invited some of the Raw talent to be on Smackdown to make it a “super show”. Punk then offers to face Christian and Long made the match. This was a good opening segment. Punk cut his usual great promo and Christian’s was really good too.

WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston & Evan Bourne vs. R-Truth & The Miz. Truth & Miz win when Truth pins Kofi. This was really good back and forth match. After the match Miz & Truth get mics and Truth mentions how the just beat the Tag Champs and that they beat HHH & CM Punk at the PPV. He also mentions how they destroyed Zack Ryder and “beat the wheels off of John Cena.” Miz then says that they beat Cena so that he to get The Rock to with him to face them at Survivor Series. Truth says that Cena picked someone who dislikes him more than they do and Miz says that if Rock accepts Cena’s offer and they don’t destroy each other before Survivor Series then they will. Both guys cut good promos.

They show Daniel Bryan, Justin Gabriel, Santino Marella and a few other guys in the back watching the Bret-Michaels DVD. Daniel talks about how Shawn trained him and then Tyson Kidd comes in and they argue over who was better Bret or Shawn. Santino then says that they should have a match and Kidd says he will see Daniel out there. This was a decent to plug the DVD.

Teddy Long is backstage with Hornswoggle and he has on Zack Ryder gear. Vickie, Swagger & Dolph show up and Vickie says that what happened to Ryder is because Ziggler had 2 matches at Vengeance. Ziggler says that he stole the show and that Teddy will have to step up his game the next he tries to mess with him. Teddy says that he wasn’t messing with him and he’s not messing with him now about tonight’s match as Ziggler face Randy Orton and Jack Swagger is banned from ringside. They heals walk off and then Aksana returns and hits on Teddy Long again.

They show a Wade Barrett promo saying that his uprising will continue tonight.

Trent Baretta vs. Wade Barrett. Barrett gets the pin. This was pretty much a squash.

Randy Orton vs. U.S. Champion Dolph Ziggler. Orton gets the pin. So Orton has now beaten BOTH the Intercontinental & U.S Champions in Non Title Matches. That shows how much meaning those titles have. Practically zero! This was a tremendous match however! Cody Rhodes was also on commentary.

Matt Striker interviews Hunico backstage and he talks about how Sin Cara took his mask and that it is payback time. I thought this was a decent Hunico promo.

They show another Brodus Clay video package with him saying that he is the beginning and the end. This was out together really well.

Daniel Bryan vs. Tyson Kidd. Bryan wins by submission. This was a really good back and forth but too short. They should really let these guys go for 10 or 15 minutes and show the fans how great they are.

Michael Cole cuts a promo saying that Jim Ross has accepted his challenge for Raw and he shows the same pics that were shown Monday. (Can’t wait to see that, not). Why do they do this to JR?

Big Show then comes out and talks about how the ring imploded at Vengeance and he put over Henry as being a monster. He then says that Teddy Long has guaranteed Show that will get a rematch against Mark Henry For the World Title. Mark then comes out and says he doesn’t care who Big Show talks to. He is not getting a rematch and is done with him. Henry then he will put his foot in Big Show’s mouth to shut him up. Show takes his jacket and Henry hints at getting in the ring but then he walks to the ramp and holds up the World Title. This was a good segment too. I thought both guys cut good promos.

CM Punk vs. Christian. Punk gets the pin. This was a really good back and forth match too. Del Rio interfered and Sheamus came out at the end and that distracted Christian. I don’t get why they have the guy’s music hit before they come and then have one of the guys in the match get distracted by it before whoever it is comes out. Other than that I thought this was a fun match.

I liked the show on the whole. There were some good matches on here. The opening segment was entertaining, Orton and Ziggler had a great match and so did Punk and Christian. The Big Show-Mark Henry segment was good too and the Daniel Bryan-Tyson Kidd match was also despite the short amount of time they had. I thought overall this was a good show.