Smackdown 8/25
Well, the latest edition of SmackDown wasn't the worst effort the WWE B crew has put forth as of late, and actually there was a couple of decent highlights. As stated here earlier, the whole Mysterio-Guerrero thing has to last till the No Mercy PPV on October 8th, so they had to throw in the twist of Vicki turning on Mysterio. I have decided that while I totally hate this feud, I will put up with it for another month and two weeks, and hopefully once its done - its done. And with it will go the using of the Eddie Guerrero name every week on just about every show.
The one thing that I liked about the show was the fact they seeemed to be putting forth the effort to try and establish some much needed heels. One is the Miz, who I personally think is going to flop, but you have to say already that you like to hate him, and that it exactly what a heel should make you do - hate him. Also it looks as if Tatanka is going to go the way of bad. His turning on the refs each week is eventually going to mean him taking one out, and thus he will go heel. Another two heels coming in are MVP - Montel Vontavious Porter, and Jimmy “Wayne” Yang. While neither are going to have a huge impact, at least they are not coming in all warm and fuzzy as faces.
I also like the Kennedy-Matt Hardy, as well as the interaction with JBL that Gregory Helms had. I like Helms, and think they should do more with him. He and Hardy had a good match, albeit one with no build up, at the Great American Bash, so maybe this time the two will actually have something to fight about, now that they are getting into it with each other.
The tag fiasco sets up a three-way at NM, and the main event of Batista-Lashely vs Booker and his boys was okay, and Batista got his revenge with getting the pin. Long term, I wouldn't mind seeing Lashley and Batista go at it once Batista gets the title back. Lashely would make a pretty good monster heel if he could get some interview skills.
With No Mercy coming up in seven weeks, the show did what it had to do. On paper right now you have the Batista-Booker rematch, along with the Guerrero-Mysterio blow off as the two main events. Lashley and Finley should be another match, and the three-way tag will be on the card as well. Vito and MVP would make five matches, and the sixth will be Helms and Hardy. They may use Miz and Yang in two more matches with faces to complete the card. Not that good on paper, we'll see what they do to spice it up.
