Vickie's Judgement Day
Tonight Vickie Guerrero had to face the music fro her various transgressions as GM of Smack Down. The original announcement made by Teddy Long was for her to face the Undertaker tonight, but using her cleverness and GM abilities this match was changed to a handicap match with Ryder, Hawkins, Bam Neely, Chavo and Edge on her side. But before we get to that let's first do a quick run down of the filler matches tonight. Kozlov remains undefeated after destroying Funaki. Michell McCool beat Layla. Cherry still gets a major push by pinning Maryse. CM Punk now gets the albatross know as Chuck Plaumbo and beats him. And in a match featuring upset members of the Championship Challenge from last week, we saw Finaly and Big Show team up to defeat MVP with Mark Henry. Now we are done with that business we can move on to the meat and potatoes of the show.
First it looks like Batista and HBK are not done yet. Tonight saw the Animal bless us with some of his great mic work and say he is going after Michaels for faking the injury in their match last month. Batista even eluded to showing up at Judgement Day to take care of this unfinished business. I though this was over. Isn't that why they put Jericho into the mix so we don't have to have two major faces pairing of with each other? I know Batista currently doesn't have a program, but would one with HBK really be that good? If they do anything at Judgement Day with Batista it would just be a cheap way to get him involved in the pay per view. Plus the Michaels turning heel due to unscrupulous actions in the ring has already been done and I don't think it will have legs this time around.
Matt Hardy and Shelton Benjamin was a decent match tonight and I would like to see Benjamin get involved for the US title. They are building him up with Kofi Kingston now, but I feel if they really want o give him a push again it would be better with Hardy. Just like Hardy is using his title reign to climb the rungs in the WWE, Benjamin could use these matches to show he can become a big time star. They looked good tonight and it would be a refreshing alternative to the MVP and Hardy angle that is getting stale.
Finally in the main event we saw the handicap match take place, but minus Chavo and Neeley. Due to the web of decent woven by Vickie and Edge for the Championship Challenge, Chavo decided to opt out of helping them tonight as he is growing tired of being their lackey. This did not effect the outcome to much as Vickie was able to escape a choke slam courtesy of Edge giving the spear to the Undertaker. Edge and his boys did a fairly decent job of keeping Taker away from Vickie but eventually he was able to clear the ring. His plans were thwarted by Edge's last second heroics before he was able to whisk Vickie to safety out of the ring. Since this match did not end in a pin fall I wonder if this will create some type of revision to the match at Judgement Day. Perhaps as punishment the Undertaker will be allowed to use his choke hold again. They need to due something to spice up this old rivalry as it seems it will be a straight rematch for the title.
First it looks like Batista and HBK are not done yet. Tonight saw the Animal bless us with some of his great mic work and say he is going after Michaels for faking the injury in their match last month. Batista even eluded to showing up at Judgement Day to take care of this unfinished business. I though this was over. Isn't that why they put Jericho into the mix so we don't have to have two major faces pairing of with each other? I know Batista currently doesn't have a program, but would one with HBK really be that good? If they do anything at Judgement Day with Batista it would just be a cheap way to get him involved in the pay per view. Plus the Michaels turning heel due to unscrupulous actions in the ring has already been done and I don't think it will have legs this time around.
Matt Hardy and Shelton Benjamin was a decent match tonight and I would like to see Benjamin get involved for the US title. They are building him up with Kofi Kingston now, but I feel if they really want o give him a push again it would be better with Hardy. Just like Hardy is using his title reign to climb the rungs in the WWE, Benjamin could use these matches to show he can become a big time star. They looked good tonight and it would be a refreshing alternative to the MVP and Hardy angle that is getting stale.
Finally in the main event we saw the handicap match take place, but minus Chavo and Neeley. Due to the web of decent woven by Vickie and Edge for the Championship Challenge, Chavo decided to opt out of helping them tonight as he is growing tired of being their lackey. This did not effect the outcome to much as Vickie was able to escape a choke slam courtesy of Edge giving the spear to the Undertaker. Edge and his boys did a fairly decent job of keeping Taker away from Vickie but eventually he was able to clear the ring. His plans were thwarted by Edge's last second heroics before he was able to whisk Vickie to safety out of the ring. Since this match did not end in a pin fall I wonder if this will create some type of revision to the match at Judgement Day. Perhaps as punishment the Undertaker will be allowed to use his choke hold again. They need to due something to spice up this old rivalry as it seems it will be a straight rematch for the title.
