WWE Smackdown 20th Mar 09 (500th Episode) reviewed

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Show opens with an overly long vid catching us up on events between HHH & Randy Orton.

HHH vs Vladimir Kozlov. Before Kozlov was even introduced Trips spent over 6 minutes yacking on the mic building up more storyline c**p. The match itself was barely 4 minutes old when WWE took their 1st commercial break, very bad if they couldn't time that to avoid either Trips' rant or Kozlovs intro. VERY dull match, Kozlov countered the Pedigree but HHH took the eventual win off The Pedigree showing how much of a 1 trick pony he truly is doing the same moves and still has the same intro he did from 10 yrs ago when Smackdown started. Shows how stale he is, only over by f**king the bosses daughter.

Video Recap of events on RAW. This is Smackdown. WTF do we want a recap of RAW for?
Excessively long Wrestlemania Vid, stinks of "we have f**k all talent to fill tonights show" to me.

US Championship Match, MVP vs Shelton Benjamin. Ah, a belt that means absolutely f**k all, the old WCW US Television title long since rebranded but it still looks the same. Not a bad match to be honest, these guys are both very talented but its just a shame they are competing for a belt that has zero prestige. MVP took the eventual win for the belt.

Backstage c**p between Vickie & Edge, has she gotten fatter during the month I haven't been watching for?

Shawn Michaels vs Kane - Its really funny that after more than 10 yrs WWE is STILL persisting in calling Michaels the "Heart Break Kid" when at his age he's far more likely to be a "Hip Broke Krip", this match actually had 2 commercial breaks during it (one before Kane came down and 1 during the match itself so I wondered if the network was trying to tell them they were bored), Michaels took the eventual win off Sweet Chin Music so he's still running the same gimmick and moves he was ten yrs ago too. After having seen Jerry Lynn who is 2 yrs older than Shawn have a really good match on ROH this week I think Shawn is WAY overdue hanging up his boots for good.

Extreme Rules Match - Jeff Hardy vs Brian Kendrick. Hardy looked more like a member of ICP or was he going for the Heath Ledger Joker look and Kendrick looked like he'd been in the WWE dressing up box and had found Steve Austins old "Ring Master" costume as well as bringing Ezekiel Jackson to the ring who still looks like Bad News Brown. Hardy owned the match from the bell & the colour desk explained that "Extreme Rules" meant no count-out or DQ, in my day we called that a "Hardcore Match" but thats a term WWE aren't comfortable with now they are an "Entertainment" company. Jackson was removed from the equation after numerous chairshots from Hardy who appeared to be channeling Sabu in sections of this match and WWE fans need to know over at TNA he was like this in EVERY match and Hardy took the win after a Twist Of Fate into a chair followed by the Swanton Bomb. Quite a decent match, at least Jeff Hardy didn't look like WWE are holding him down creatively.

The Undertaker vs JBL - Taker may still be running the same gimmick he used 10 yrs ago but boy can he work it the right way. This match started quick but soon got slow and yes they took another commercial break during an active match (could they not have done it during Takers rant on the mic or JBL's intro?), I'm not exactly sure who thought putting these 2 guys together was going to be an interesting match but it was fairly dull most of the time with The Undertaker getting the win off his submission move which is a very boring finish indeed.

The Big Show calls out Edge. Fat Vickie butts in, no-one cares about this c***py storyline but I guess they had to kill the last 8 minutes of airtime somehow, sending out John Cena to waffle and kill the last 4 minutes of tv time by stirring up an already c**p storyline. Eddie must be turning in his f**king grave. ROH's 51 minuted made this look very bad indeed. Time to set the wrestlers free WWE, let them work and not be bound by storyline c**p that fills airtime where they really should be in the ring wrestling.