Coverage and thoughts on the December 18, 2012 Live commercial free episode of Smackdown
The show starts with Miz TV. Miz welcomes everyone. Tonight will be a special episode. His guest shocked the world at TLC. The question on everyones mind is why. They will get to explain why now. His guests of course are Dolph & AJ. They come out with Big E. Langston. Miz asks why. AJ says really. SHe says Miz should ask Cena why he toyed with her heart. She lost her job as Raw GM because she wanted to keep Cena's name clean. And then this happened. They reshow Cena kissing AJ from last month. AJ says she thought that brought them closer together, but Cena was playing with her heart and emotions. She wanted to shout their love from the roof tops. She even gave him gifts. They show Vickie giving Cena the bow ties from 3 weeks ago. AJ says Cena didn't appreciate how long it took her to make those because Cena doesn't care about anyone but himself. She cared for him and supported him and this is what he had to say. They show 2 weeks ago when Cena told AJ not to come to ringside for his match. SUpposedly Cena was concerned about her saftey but she says he really wanted to keep her hidden. Cena was supposed to be different than Daniel & Punk. They both used her and Cena was supposed to be better than that. Cena broke AJ's heart, so she helped Dolph break Cena. Miz mentions Dolph called AJ trash a couple weeks ago. Then Big E Langston gets in Miz's face. He says he should change his question from what to who. She says he is Big E Langston. He is a friend of hers and doesn't like when people say "that word" around her. Dolph says AJ isn't crazy. She's passonate. Dolph learned that last night when Big E got in the ring and crushed Cena. He also learned it earlier in the night when she gave him the hottest kiss in the near 20 year history of Raw. Dolph says Cena can keep his slammy. Dolph then says at TLC not only did he retain his MITB but just like his shirt says, he stole the show and Cena's girlfriend. Miz hopes Dolph can satisfy her multiple personalities. She mentions everyone that AJ's been with and now she's settled for Dolph. Then Langston punches Miz and then he takes him out with his finisher. AJ then says show off and skips around. This was terrible! None of this crap makes any sense. This storyline is getting more and more idiotic!
Booker T is backstage and Teddy Long comes by. Long says there's someone he wants Booker to take a look at. In comes Brad Maddox. Booker says that's the guy who screwed Ryback. He tells Long that Maddox is creepy. Long says he has a great social media personality. Booker doesn't trust Brad. Long thinks he has talent. He says Booker knows that he deserves a second chance. Booker says he will have a match tonight and he will find out who he is facing later. This was stupid too. If they're making Teddy Long a heel, that makes no sense. I also hate that they have Maddox being filmed all the time when a camera man is filming the whole segment.
Sin Cara vs. Damien Sandow (With Cody Rhodes). Sandow gets the pin. Mysterio was supposed to get his own entrance. His music played but he didn't come out. The Shield came out through the crowd and came to the ring. They had Mysterio's mask. That distracted Sin Cara and then Sandow got the pin. Afterwards The Shield attack Sin Cara. Rollins comes off the top rope and lands on Cara's knee. The match was solid and I liked The Shield coming out with Rey's mask. The Shiled is really over.
Santino Marella vs. Tensai. Santino gets the pin. This was a comedy match and it wasn't funny. WWE comedy never is.
They reshow the Flair-Punk-Kane-Daniel Bryan-Shield-Ryback segment/brawl.
Kane Daniel & Kofi are backstage. Kofi says it's about time someone took care of The Shield. Kane says Kofi needs to have eyes in the back of his head. The Shield took out Rey & Cara & they may never be the same again. Kofi says that they have to let him get his hands on Wade Barrett. Daniel gets pissed at Kofi because he thinks Kofi found it funnier when Kane & Daniel were in anger managment than Rock's Boston promo. Kane says that Daniel is upset that he didn't win a slammy. Daniel gets steamed. Kofi says if there was an award for best catchprase it would be whoo. Daniel flips and screams at Kofi asking him if he thinks Flair's catchphrase is better than his. Then he screams no. This was ok. I am getting kind of tired of the whole yes/no chant though. Daniel is a babyface now. How come they still have him chant no all the time?
Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston and WWE Tag Team Champions Kane & Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett & The Primetime Players. Kane, Daniel & Kofi win when Kane pins Darren Young. This was a good match.
Cena & Sheamus are backstage. Sheamus is flipping out over something idiotic. Cena says they need to be focused. He says that he's been in the ring with Big Show & Mark Henry but Big E Langston could be the strongest guy in WWE. Sheamus says that he is looking foward to this fight with WWE's biggest guys. Then Sheamus asks Cena about AJ. He says there's no one watching them (EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A CAMERA RIGHT THERE)! Then Cena says something in Sheamus' ear about what what happened with AJ. Then he says he was joking. This was really idiotic! I don't know why they have both Cena & Sheamus being these joke machine babyfaces.
CM Punk & Paul Heyman come to the ring. Punk says that he has the longest WWE Title reign in the modern era. 394 days. In 20 years everyone will recognize Punk as the greatest champion of all time, but the fans now wouldn't vote for him in the slammies. They made it a popularity contest and voted for Cena. Winning and losing doesn't mean anything to the fans. Punk rags on the fans and says the only thing the fans did last night was show that men and women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Then he rags on a fan. He expected this from losers. In the world there are winners like Heyman and himself and there are losers like the fans. He expected more from Cena but Cena knows he isn't the super star of the year and that Punk is better than him by leaps and bounds. Punk says Cena's a hypocryte. He sucked up to a legand and gave Punk's slammy to Ric Flair. The fans whoo and Punk says he wants them to support the relics from the past. What's more impressive then winning 16 world titles in a 95 year career is being 1 time champion for almost 400 days. Flair has lost alot of title matches. When it comes to title matches Punk doesn't lose. He is a real man. He is the gold standard. He set the bar so high no one can reach it. He mentions Ryback injuring him, but rather than healing up at home he came to the crappy town of Pittsburgh to entertain the fans. He mentions that Penguins are on strike. Punk never goes on strike and never has an off season. He is the reason the fans are there tonight. He will be back next year as WWE Champion because no one will beat him for the title. Not Cena, Rock, Flair or Austin. Then Ryback comes out. Heyman says that Punk is medically cleared to compete and Ryback knows that. Ryback then says that according to doctors he will be. Ryback has his eyes set on the first Raw of 2013 when he becomes WWE Champion. Feed him more. Punk & Heyman exit the ring. This was really good. Punk was great on the mic as usual.
Then Antonio Cesaro comes out to face Ryback in a rematch from last night.
Ryback vs. U.S. Champion Antonio Cesaro. Ryback gets the pin. This was a solid match but I'm not sure why they had Ryback face Cesaro 2 nights in a row.
They show a video of The Miz learning how to fly an F 18. Good video.
Kaitlyn is backstage and AJ comes by. Kaitlyn says that AJ does this over and over and it makes it hard to be her friend. Then AJ cries. Kaitln says she has a titele match and AJ needs help. AJ asks if she is choosing a title match over her friend. Kaitlyn says that she is choosing a title match over the lunatic standing there. Then AJ flips and attacks Kaitlyn. Referees come in to pull AJ off Kaitlyn.
Kaitlyn vs. Divas Champion Eve Torres for the Title. Kaitlyn wins by DQ when Eve knocks over the referee. The match was ok but the finishe was lame.
Backstage AJ is complaining to Dolph about AJ attacking her. She calls Kaitlyn unstable. Dolph says Kaitlyn's jealous because AJ is with a future World Champion. Big Show comes in and tells Dolph that his future will entail being in a body cast for Christmas if he pulls what he did last night. Big E. Langston comes in. Show says he knows Dolph doesn't trust him. He tells Dolph that tries to set him up to cash in MITB he will knock out Dolph so hard that when Dolph wakes up the MITB contract will have expired. I wasn't really into this.
Brad Maddox comes out. He says his name a few times. He says no one in the arena, at home or around the world will ever forget the name Brad Maddox. Tonight he will win his match, get his contract and become a WWE super star. He will be facing Brodus Clay.
Brodus Clay vs. Brad Maddox. Brodus gets the pin. This was meaningless. Afterwards The Shield comes out and they attack Brodus. Then they give him the triple power bomb. That was impressive.
John Cena & Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler & World Champion Big Show. Cena & Sheamus win by DQ when Langston comes in and clotheslines Cena. Then AJ comes and skips around again. Then she & Dolph make out again. AJ has this big smile on her face. Then she skips around again as Langston stands over Cena. Sheamus & Big Show brawled to the back before the finish. Dolph poses on the turnbuckle as AJ looks at Cena to end the show. The match was solid but they've had this match before.
I thought this week's show was just there. Like most live Smackdowns this didn't have a lot. I don't know why they have the live Smackdowns if they're not going to give them any special meaning. The Miz TV segment that started the show was terrible. The main event tag match was solid but we've seen it before. It looks Cena will be feuding with Langston and the Sheamus-Big Show feud will continue. I don't know why since Sheamus lost at TLC. Brodus-Maddox was meaningless. I don't know why they keep having Maddox lose. I did like The Shield attacking Brodus though. AJ attacking Kaitlyn backstage was weak. The Kaityln-Eve match was ok but the DQ finish they did was lame. Punk's promo was great. He always cuts great promos. Ryback-Cesaro was solid but I'm not sure why they had this match again, and this time Cesaro did the clean job, which I wasn't into. The Cena-Sheamus backstage segment was idiotic! I'm not sure why Teddy Long reccomended Brad Maddox to Booker T. If they're turning Long heel that makes no sense. Santino-Tensai was typical not funny WWE comedy. The backstage bit with Kane, Daniel & Kofi was ok but I wish they'd have Daniel stop saying no all the time no that he is babyface. The Kane-Daniel-Kofi vs. Barrett & Primetime Players match was good. Sin Cara-Cody Rhodes was solid and I liked that The Shield came out with Mysterio's mask when they attacked Cara. Overall I though this week's show was just there. It wasn't great but it also didn't drag either.
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