Coverage
and thoughts on the October 25, 2013 episode of Smackdown
The show starts with Michael Cole in the ring. He’s
going to interview HHH. Cole mentions that the cell PPV is 2 days away. Then he
mentions the Big Show stuff from Raw & wants HHH’s thoughts on that. HHH
hopes Big Show is proud of himself. Big Show’s reactions resulted in 6 people
being canned. They were canned because Big Show wanted to make himself a hero.
Speaking of heroes Big Show has done what all heroes do their backs are up
against the wall. He has filed a lawsuit. HHH says that means that he &
Stephanie have been advised by their lawyers to give no further comment on Big
Show. He can only say that Show has been fired & will remain fired &
since Big Show’s no longer part of the WWE “Universe” (Man I hate that word)
that means Show’s been was he’s always been & that’s irrelevant. Hunter is
focused on hell in a cell right now & he says Cole can ask his questions. Cole
asks if HHH is worried that Big Show will show up & throw everything into disarray
(Pretty much asking if we’re gonna get the same non-finish we got at Battleground)
& what about Big Show showing up tonight? HHH asks what part of he can’t
comment on Big Show did Michael not get. He says Cole wants to play Barbra
Walters & asks the hard hitting questions for the fans. That’s ok but he
tells Michael not ask him about things that he isn’t at liberty to talk about.
Michael asks if HHH is at liberty to discuss the Cena-Del Rio World Title
match. HHH says absolutely. Just like the fans, he can’t wait to see Cena
return. HHH knows what it’s like to come back from that devastating kind of
injury. He knows what Cena’s gone through to return early & it’s Amazing.
HHH can’t wait to see the World Title match because it will be epic (We all
know Cena’s winning the title). Then Michael mentions that the WWE Title has
been vacant for 6 weeks & on Sunday inside the cell Daniel Bryan will face
Randy Orton for that vacated title. The fans have votes for Shawn Michaels to
be the referee. Shawn has guaranteed that there will be a new WWE Champion
crowned on Sunday. HHH is thrilled with that guarantee & he’s thrilled that
the fans picked Michaels to be the guest referee. HHH wants nothing more than
to have a definitive WWE Champion. Michaels guaranteed that & he is the
right guy for the job. Michaels knows better than anybody what through your
mind when the cell starts to lower. It’s 5000 pounds of steel that can destroy a
guys & his confidence or something like that. Cole then mentions that there
have been some disagreements between Hunter & Shawn in recent weeks. The
biggest being Daniel Bryan. HHH & Shawn have been friends for 20 years. In
those 20 years they’ve been best of friends but they’ve also been very fierce
competitors against each other. What they have always come back to though is a
common ground. They share similar beliefs in a lot of things. One of those
similar beliefs is how WWE should operate & “What’s best for business.” (I’ve
had enough of that saying too). HHH knows that when it is all said & done
Shawn Michaels will do “the right thing.” Then Cole asks HHH what the “right
thing” is. (The right thing would be to end this crappy storyline)! Then out
comes Daniel Bryan. Cole leaves the ring. Then Daniel says the right thing is
to let him & Orton settle this once & for all. Regardless of what
anyone does, that includes HHH, Big Show, The Shield, HHH’s house keeper, gardener
& whoever HHH wants to throw out there, inside the cell no one gets in &
no one gets out till there is a definitive winner. Daniel knows that Michaels
is HHH’s best friend. We’ve heard a million times (It feels like WAY more than
that) but Shawn is also his own man. Shawn won’t favor either Daniel or Orton.
Michaels will do what it “best for business” & Daniel will prove HHH wrong
after everything that HHH has said to him. When Daniel does that, he will
become WWE Champion & as much as HHH might hate it he will also be the new
face of WWE. YES! YES! This was the usual way that Smackdown starts. This promo
was far too long & I’m tired of HHH. I’m really hoping they have Daniel win
the title Sunday. I’m also hoping that they don’t have Michaels turn heel on
Daniel & cause him to lose. Stacking the deck against Daniel anymore than they’ve
already done would make this even worse!
The Miz is on commentary.
The Usos vs. Luke Harper & Erik Rowan. The Usos
win when Harper gets pinned. This wasn’t really much of a match. Bray gets out
of the rocking chair. Then Miz goes after Bray & than Rowan chases Miz up
the ramp to the back. Then The Usos double super kick Harper for the win.
WINNERS – THE USOS.
I really wish they’d give us a match with no shenanigans.
The matches have clearly become background to the storytelling & I’m not
into that. Have a match with a clean finish for once. And I mean a match that
isn’t a squash.
Nikki Bella vs. Divas Champion AJ Lee. AJ wins by
submission. This was a decent but short match. Tamina also threw Brie into the
steel steps.
They reshow the John Cena video package highlighting
his career that they showed on Monday.
Backstage Bray Wyatt shows us that he & the
others got The Miz. Rowan’s sheep mask in on Miz’s head, they have his hands
tied to a fence, his shirt’s ripped open & he has liar spray painted on his
mid-section. Harper & Rowan take mask off Miz & we see that Miz is unconscious.
Bray tried to warn Miz but now Bray fears that Miz will truly understand what
it means to follow the buzzards. This was a decent & creepy Wyatt segment.
3MB are in the ring. Then out come Los Matadores.
How often can they have Los Matadores squash 3MB!? Then out come The Real
Americans. Thankfully there’s no Zeb promo yet. They just watch the match on
the stage.
Los Matadores vs. 3MB (Heath Slater & Drew McIntyre)
AGAIN! Los Matadores win when McIntyre gets pinned. This was mostly a squash.
Then Jinder Mahal gets in the ring. Torito mocks
him, Jinder charges, Los Matadores pick up Torito & Jinder slides out of
the ring. Then he gets back in & Los Matadores ram Torito into Jinder. Then
Torito gives Jinder a spring board Asai moon sault. This gimmick is idiotic but
the guy in the Torito costume can go (And I mean he’s a good worker. But the
gimmick can go away).
Then Zeb gets the mic. He wants to tell the 3
boarder hopping banditos something. Zeb didn’t risk his life so that some
illegal immigrant could attack him. What type man kidnaps another man &
puts him in a bull outfit? Men that partake in deviant behavior. But at hell in
a cell America will take a step in the right direction when The Real Americans
prevail & that’s no bull. We the people. So now we got Los Matadores vs.
The Real Americans set for Sunday.
Ryback & Paul Heyman come to the ring for a no
DQ handicap match. But Heyman has something to say. He says that what we are
about to bear witness to is a demonstration of the team work that will happen
this Sunday in the first ever 2 on 1 handicap match inside the cell. Heyman
introduces the guy they’ll be facing tonight CM Skunk. Punk’s music plays &
out comes a guy in a CM Punk hoodie. The guy also has on a Punk t-shirt &
has some of his hair sprayed white. This is lame.
CM Skunk vs. Ryback & Paul Heyman. Ryback &
Heyman win when Heyman gets the pin. During the match Heyman gets a Singapore cane
from under the ring & clobbers CM Skunk. Then Ryback gives the guy the
marching muscle buster. Then Heyman puts his foot on the guy’s face for the 3.
This was a “comedy” squash.
Then Heyman says that for those who wanna boo &
say this was a parody of Punk Heyman wants to assure everybody of how deadly
serious he & Ryback are about this Sunday. This Sunday Heyman’s monster
Ryback will take every inch of that cell & use it to his advantage when he
grabs Punk by the back of the head & scrapes Punk’s face over every inch of
that cell. Then Heyman will get in the ring & thanks to his monster Ryback
he will once again pin Punk & prove to everybody especially Punk that his
name is Paul Heyman & that he is the BEST in the world. This was the usual
good promo we get from Heyman.
Backstage we see Vickie Guerrero in the GM office
having a laugh over the CM Skunk name. Then in comes Big Langston. He says we
all saw The Miz go down. That means there’s an open slot in the main event for
tonight. Big E wants in. Vickie asks Big E what makes him think he belongs in
her main event. Big E says that a lot of people have talked about him being a young,
inexperienced rookie. He is young but he is hungry & wants a shot. Vickie
will run it by HHH & get back to him. Then Big says that Vickie is the GM
& shouldn’t she be making the decisions. Or did he walk into Brad Maddox’s
office? Vickie will let Big E be in the main event but tells him not to compare
her to Brad. This was a decent & short backstage segment. I didn’t like
Vickie having a laugh about Punk rhyming with skunk. I know Vince thinks the
fans are idiots but he doesn’t need to have a character on his show tell us “this
is funny because it rhymes.” I found that really insulting!
Alberto Del Rio comes out on the stage. He says that
this Sunday he will prove to everybody that Cena is fooling himself. Cena isn’t
ready to face the World Champion. Del Rio knows that Cena thinks he’s like
Superman. Is Cena losing his mind? Del Rio is a real life Mexican super hero.
He stands for loyalty, justice & he stands for the Mexican way (That was
funny). Right now in Mexico they’re throwing parades for Del Rio & building
monuments in his honor. They’re naming their kids after him because let’s face
it Latin people just love Alberto Del Rio. Then Del Rio says he will be honest
with us. He doesn’t speak for all Latinos. He only speaks for those who share
his class & sophistication & that is the reason why he doesn’t speak for
any of the fans in the building. Plus they have their own hero. They have Cena.
Cena with his pale skin & blue eyes is the perfect representation of a
gringo. That is why this Sunday Del Rio will lock Cena in the arm breaker &
never let go. Then he says that the “gringos” in the building & the peasants
from his country have 1 thing in common. They can kiss his…Then he winks &
show what they can kiss (as if no one could figure that out). This was a decent
promo.
R-Truth is about to do his WWE shop ad. Then Santino
comes in with his “cobra.” Santino wants Truth to give him a chance to be the
best salesman in WWE (This is gonna be stupid). Truth lets him have the floor.
Santino plugs WWE merchandise & that’s pretty much it. This was pointless.
Great Khali (with Hornswoggle & Natalya) vs.
Fandango (with Summer Rae). The match goes to a no finish when Natalya &
Summer Rae go at it. Fandango pulls Summer Rae off of Natalya & then Khali
head chops him./ This was pointless. Why is Natalya back with Khali & not
challenging AJ for the Divas Title?
Daniel Bryan, Big E Langston & WWE Tag Team
Champions Goldust & Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton & The Shield. Daniel,
Big E, Goldust & Cody win when Daniel pins Orton. This was a good match
& easily the best part of this show. Daniel & the fans do the yes chant
& that ends Smackdown.
I thought this was a filler episode overall &
for the go home edition before a PPV that isn’t good. The Michael Cole-HHH in
ring interview segment was long & painful. The HHH character is really
tiresome. I’m really hoping they don’t have Shawn Michaels turn heel o Daniel
Sunday. They might have Kane return & choke slam Daniel; since the Kane
character debuted at the first cell match 16 years ago (I can’t believe it’s
been that long). The 8 man was a good match & easily the highlight of the
show for me. Khali-Fandango was
pointless & I’m not sure why Natalya’s back with Khali. She deserves better
than to be in a feud with Khali against Fandango & Summer Rae. Del Rio’s
promo was decent & I though his line about fighting for the Mexican way was
kinda funny. The CM Skunk vs. Ryback & Heyman was a “comedy” squash &
Heyman cut his usual good promo afterwards. The Big E-Vickie bit was a mixed
bag. Langston’s promo was good here but I HATED that they had Vickie laughing
because Punk rhymes with Skunk. Vince, the fans aren’t that stupid! Los Matadores
vs. Heath & Drew was a pointless squash & so was Zeb’s promo. No one’s
gonna get the PPV to see Los Matadores vs. The Real Americans. The Usos vs.
Harper & Rowan was short & not much of a match. I did like the
backstage bit with the Wyatt family. Having Miz be unconscious was good &
Bray cut his usual creepy promo. Overall though for the final episode before a
PPV they didn’t really do anything to make me or anybody wanna see this PPV.
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