Jeff Hardy vs The Big Show. Kind of a pointless match on the face of it and proof that WWE's brands don't have enough talent for all 4 shows (yes, you now have to get used to saying WWE has 4 shows a week now) if he's working here on Smackdown as a RAW wrestler. Unsurprisingly this match was all Jeff and went on for too long (proved by the fact they had to send out Fat Matt to do a run-in) with The Big Show taking an exceptionally WEAK win off a right hand. The match would have better at half as long with a clean finish (no run-in, that heat is s**t, cheap and already old after Wrestlemania) but it appears that WWE are determined to kick the arse out of the Hardy Brothers feud regardless of whether its entertaining or not. Fat Matt's post match bulls**t was precisely that.
WWE persist in the "Santina" gimmick even though it got a lot of bad heat at Wrestlemania from the fans? I assume everyone could hear the spinning as Rick Rude turned in his grave with The Great Khali stealing his "kiss a female fan" gimmick.
Maryse vs Gail Kim. I thought WWE didn't copy TNA but here we have Maryse who couldn't look more like Angelina Love if she tried. Kim did all the work and took all the bumps in this one having to sell and put the champion over, Kim did get a decent comeback with a good neckbreaker but Maryse either wasn't ready or wasn't willing to selling the flying cross bodyblock from Kim who landed badly due to the flub by Maryse. Kim took the win off some kind of jawbreaker using the foot and she certainly did the most work in this match.
R-Truth vs John Morrison. R-Truth is of course Ron Killings who has always been a jobber in WWE right back to his days as K-Kwik after the WCW buyout so I don't expect to see him winning here against Morrison who has just gone solo after the Draft. Truth still has all the ability and agility but sure enough he was on the wrong end of a job to Morrison so he'd clearly been told to put the new guy over and sell for all he was worth which is pretty sad as Truth on his worst day is a better wrestler than Morrison will ever be. Truth did get a brief comeback to be on top but as predicted Morrison took the win off The Moonlight Drive. Truth was the much better worker here and it goes to show WWE just do NOT recognise talent when they have it.
Was Triple H vs Randy Orton supposed to be an actual match (guessing at no by the 2 stools that were in the ring)?
Shelton Benjamin vs The Undertaker. Taker hadn't gotten much in the way of an actual match against Fat Matt Hardy yesterday on Superstars so he wasn't really going to be very tired here. This was a fairly even match with Shelton & Taker both getting time on top and Shelton made a great belly to back suplex on Taker who made the best sell of it he could, Undertaker took the eventual and pretty quick win off the Tombstone but was holding the back of his head. Is he still suffering the effects of that fall in Wrestlemania but STILL working matches?
MVP vs Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler looks like he fell into the WWE dressing up box and found Jeff Jarretts shorts and Sid Vicious's Jacket. A fairly humdrum match that was at least 3 minutes too long, Ziggler took the win with the help of a handfull of trunks.
Batista vs Ted DiBiase Junior who they are STILL refusing to bill by his correct name? Get over the whole junior/senior thing WWE and let the guy out of his fathers shadow for f**ks sake. This match started out pretty boring and stayed that way, WWE took a commercial break during the match that I really couldn't see any point in as the show only had 9 minutes left on air anyway. It was hard to believe this could get any duller but these 2 elected to run mat work with only 3 minutes of airtime left, good old reliable Dave took matters into his own hands and hit a powerbomb to get the win and end the boredom. I guess its the 1st and only time I've ever been grateful to Batista for anything, thanks for ending a very boring match.
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