8-16-13 Smackdown results and thoughts

Coverage and thoughts on the August 16, 2013 episode of Smackdown The show starts with the Wyatt family coming to the ring. Then the show a video package recapping the Kane-Bray Wyatt story. The Wyatt family is in the ring & Bray says who they are. They’ve come to the conclusion recently that their actions have been misinterpreted. Bray wants to clarify a few things. He’s got a special story to tell. Once there was a special little boy. This little boy went to school like all the rest of the children, but kids can be so cruel. Even though this boy was bigger than the other ones he would cower to their harsh words. They’d call him a freak, they’d beat on him & they would send him running home everyday with tears down his face all for just being himself. But 1 day the boy decided that he was going to change the world. He was gonna go to school & everything would be different, but instead of him changing everything he ran away & found another little crutch to hide behind. This crutch gave him a new sense of power & allowed him to be whatever he wanted to be. This crutch was a mask. Behind this mask he gave himself a new name, Kane. Behind this mask Kane allowed himself to live his life& the fans eat it all up everyday for no reason. Bray says no more lies. Bray knows who & what he himself is. He walks on water just to prove that he can. He bites the head off of a snake just to taste its poison & he promises the monster that this Sunday in the city of Angels, Bray will prove that 1 man’s hell is another man’s Paradise. Follow the buzzards. Then Kane’s pyro goes & Bray waits eagerly for him. Kane comes out from the crowed, yanks Rowan out of the ring & throws him into the post. Then Harper goes outside the ring but Kane lets him have it too, throwing him into the steel steps. Bray invites Kane into the ring & Kane comes in. After a bit Bray charges Kane but Kane sends him into the turnbuckle & pounds away on him. Then Rowan & Harper come back in but Kane fights them off. Then Kane sets up Bray for the choke slam but rowan tries to break it up, but Kane lets him have it. Then Kane throws Harper over the top to the floor. Then Bray gives Kane a running elbow. Then Rowan & Harper come back in & pound on Kane. Then Bray gives Kane Sister Abigail. This was a good opening promo. Bray Wyatt’s character is awesome & they’ve been doing a great job building up to his SummerSlam match with Kane. That should be good. Christian vs. Damien Sandow. Christian gets the pin. This was a solid back & forth match. Then Sandow goes to clothesline Christian but Christian ducks & spears Sandow. Then out come Del Rio & he hits Christian from behind. He kicks on Christian for a bit. Then he gets the mic & tells Christian that he will never get the gold. Is Christian going loco? This is the end of the road for Christian. He will never be World Champion again. Then he his Christian in the head with the mic. Then Del Rio sets him up for the cross arm breaker but Christian escapes & gives Del Rio the kill switch. This was good too. They’ve done a good job building to this match also. Backstage Renee Young interviews RVD. Renee congratulates RVD on winning the battle royal Monday. RVD thanks her. Then Renee asks for his thoughts going into his U.S. Title match at the SummerSlam kickoff against Dean Ambrose. RVD says it’s been a little while since we’ve seen some gold around his waist. That’s what his focus is. He is gonna win the U.S. Title. Then Renee asks him if there’s any level of concern for the other Shield guys getting involved in his match. Then Mark Henry & Big Show come in & RVD says he’s not worried. Then Renee says that Big Show had a very dramatic return Monday. She asks what brought him back. He realized that he was sitting at home & had some unfinished business with The Shield. The Shield is running around the place like they can do whatever they want. The Shield calls themselves the hounds of justice. A hound is a hunter. Rollins & Reigns are the tag champions & are about to be the hunted. Mark Henry then says that they call themselves The Shield & a shield is what they will need because they got a giant & at SummerSlam RVD has nothing to worry about. RVD then says that The Shield, especially Dean Ambrose will need to be worried because The Shield will get a taste of justice courtesy of Big Show, Mark Henry & RVD. This was a good backstage interview. Kaitlyn & Natalya vs. Layla & Divas Champion AJ Lee. Layla & AJ win when AJ pins Kaitlyn. This was a decent match. Backstage Renee Young interviews Ryback. She asks Ryback if he’s not on the SummerSlam PPV because of the brutality he’s shown against his opponents. Ryback mimics Renee & then says that he lives for brutality. Everyday he wakes up he lives for brutality. Of course he’s not on SummerSlam because people are scared of him (Says the guy who had his own match stopped & then walked out on another 1 of his matches). You have no idea. Then he sees somebody & asks what they’re looking at. Then he walks over to some production guy & asks him if there’s something funny. The guy looks down & Ryback asks him again what he is looking at. He tells the guy to look at him when he is talking to him. He says the guy looks scared & asks him again what he is looking at. The guy doesn’t say anything & that’s good enough for Ryback. Then Ryback punches the guy in the mid section. Then he sarcastically asks the guy if he’s ok & then he slaps him. Then he shoves him over a table. Then Ryback goes back to Renee. He says that people are scared of him. This was pointless. Having Ryback being this bully guy who walks out on his matches is idiotic. They show a CM Punk video package. There’re comments from both Punk & Heyman. Punk says that Heyman saw something in him. Heyman says Punk was willing to fight & that’s what it takes to be a WWE Champion. They show clips of Punk’s long title reign. Heyman says that respected Punk. Punk says that he owes his career to Heyman. Heyman views himself as a better person because of Punk’s acceptance. Then they show Heyman double crossing Punk at MITB. Then they show Brock throwing Punk around & Heyman telling Punk that he can’t beat Brock. Then they reshow Punk issuing “the best vs. the beast” challenge. Then they show the past 2 weeks of Brock & Punk laying each other out. This was a really well done video package. This should be a great match. I’m really looking forward to this! Big Show, Mark Henry & RVD vs. The Shield. Show, Henry & RVD win when RVD pins Ambrose. This was a good match. The Miz is in the ring & set for his match with Jack Swagger. Then out come Zeb Coulter, Jack Swagger & Antonio Cesaro. Zeb says that he spent a few hours in San Jose today & asks if the people know the way out. Then he tells Miz that no one likes him because just like Miz’s adopted town of Hollywood, Miz himself is a phony. He walks around with his Hollywood friends, both of them with his head in the clouds & not realizing anything that is going on with Real Americans. Miz is oblivious to the fact of what is going on in this country. Miz ought to be ashamed & so should all the fans in the building that they’ve allowed this state to be overrun by illegal immigrants, criminals, freaks & bad actors. If Hollywood had any sense the names they would put in lights would be Jack Swagger & Antonio Cesaro. Zeb can see it now, “The Real American Story.” That would do some good because it is real. Then he does the “Everyone stand up & say we the People” bit. I’m way beyond tired of this character! The Miz vs. Jack Swagger. Miz gets the pin. This was short & ok. Zack Ryder vs. Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel. Axel gets the pin. This match was all Axel. Not much to it. Then Paul Heyman gets in the ring & asks for a mic. Break time. Back from break & Heyman says that on Monday he got outsmarted by Punk. Punk pulled off the impossible. Brock & Heyman conspired against the fans’ hero & what did Punk do? He picked up a camera & he smashed Brock right in the face with it. Heyman says that all Punk proved was how right Heyman’s been all along all these years when he hyped punk as the best. SummerSlam has a very successful marketing plan this year. This is Punk’s thirst for revenge on Heyman & more importantly Brock. Now that dynamic has shifted because this Sunday Punk is now the target of revenge & that vengeance will come in the form of Heyman’s beast Brock Lesnar. This was a great Heyman promo. This match should be good. Time for a video package recapping the Cena-Bryan storyline. Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett in a No DQ match. Daniel gets the pin. During this Vince’s music played & he came out mocking Daniel’s beard & height (That was idiotic). Break time. Back from break & the match continues. Daniel gets Barrett in the yes lock but Vince yanks the referee out of the ring. Daniel yells at Vince & then Barrett gives Daniel the bull hammer. Then Vince brings out Brad Maddox to make the count but Daniel kicks out. Then Daniel escapes Barrett’s waste land by kicking him in the head. Daniel goes for the cover but Brad doesn’t make the count. Then as Daniel is chewing out Brad Vince hands Barrett a Singapore Cane. Barrett winds up hitting Brad by mistake & then he drop kicks Barrett into Brad. Then Barrett was gonna running power slam Daniel through a table that was set up in the corner but Daniel escapes that too & sends Barrett through it. Then Vince pulls 1 of the referee’s shirts off & says that he is the referee. Then Triple H’s music hits & he comes out in a referee shirt. Daniel gives Barrett a flying head butt & HHH counts to 3. Then HHH & Daniel do the yes chant as Vince walks up the ramp all disgusted. In the ring HHH raises Daniel’s hand & then Orton’s music hits & he comes out. He stands on the stage & holds up his Money in the bank case. This ends the show. WINNER – DANIEL BRYAN. The match started out good but then went into overbooked mode when Vince, Brad & HHH came out. I’m really hoping that they let Cena & Daniel have a good match Sunday, with VERY minimal interference from Vince but I have this bad feeling that HHH will get knocked out, Vince will have Brad come out & then Stephanie will come out too & try to be the peacemaker. I’m also hoping that this whole McMahon family saga doesn’t turn out to be all a set up & that HHH & Stephanie don’t turn heel too. That would really be dropping the ball on a really entertaining story. I thought this was a good show for the most part. Bray Wyatt’s promo at the start was really well done. He does a great job at playing this creepy character. They’ve done a good job building to the Kane-Bray match for SummerSlam. The Punk-Brock-Heyman video package was really well done too. I’m really looking forward to that match. Christian-Sandow was solid too & I liked Del Rio coming out afterwards. Del Rio saying that Christian will never be World Champion again & then setting him up for the cross breaker only to have Christian counter it into the kill switch was good. They’ve done a good job building to this match too. The Divas tag match was decent. I wasn’t into the backstage bit with Ryback. Talk about a guy who’s really been deemphasized. Miz vs. Swagger was ok & short. I am way beyond tired of the Zeb Coulter character! Time to get rid of that gimmick! Ryder-Axel was all Axel the whole time. The RVD-Mark Henry-Big Show interview segment backstage was also good. Paul Heyman’s in ring promo was great too as he continues to hype the Punk-Brock match. This has the potential to be the best match at the PPV. The 6 man tag was also a very good match. I think they should give RVD the U.S. Title since he said it’s been awhile since he’s had gold around his waist (Not counting the TNA World Title naturally). The Daniel Bryan-Wade Barrett match started out good but then went into overbooking mode once Vince, Brad & HHH got involved. This whole thing with Vince mocking Daniel for being short & having a scraggly beard is typical Vince stupidity. I guess we’re also supposed to forget that Vince was leery of Brad almost a year ago because he thought that he was working with Heyman. I’m really hoping that the Cena-Daniel match Sunday will be a good 1 & that they don’t over due the McMahon stuff. I also hope to God that they don’t have HHH turn on Bryan or have Bryan win the title & then have Orton cash in & beat him for it. So overall I thought this was a solid show but the end was overbooked & has got me worried about what they’ll do with the WWE Title match.