Considering this was a celebration of a decade of WWE Smackdown we had current TNA star Kurt Angle appear (at 1:05 & 1:47).
Batista vs Kane - Very dull match, Batista won off the Batista Bomb (did he hurt his leg doing it as he looked in agony).
Eddie Guerrero remembered on video, we see how thin Vicky used to be and I barely recognised Dean Malenko. The 10 bell salute got me going though, some of those clips were old WCW & ECW clips too!
Tag Match, John Morrison & Kofi Kingston vs Dolph Ziggler & The Miz - I thought Morrison went solo to get AWAY from tag matches yet here he is back in the s**t again, I see Ziggler still hasn't got his own image yet & is still a Psycho Sid rip-off. With Jack Swagger at the colour desk did anyone ever believe this would have a clean finish? A pretty crummy match where Kingston showed no ill effects after his beatdown on Superstars, Ziggler took the win off the Zigzag. If this was supposed to create heat for 2 of the PPV matches it was a huge failure.
WWE Womens Championship Lumberjack Match, Melina vs Michelle McCool - I guess WWE have 2 belts for the ladies then? One for RAW & one for Smackdown? It was only a matter of time before someone from the outside interfered & it all broke down, McCool hit the Faith Breaker (that'd be TNA Star AJ Styles' Styles Clash then) to take the win & retain her title.
The Scottish guy claiming to be "The newest member of Smackdown" clearly wasn't in the room when Vicky said her boyfriend had JUST been signed by Vince about 30 minutes before he made that stupid statement.
8 Man Tag Match, DX, John Cena & The Undertaker vs Randy Orton, Legacy & CM Punk - I guess this was another attempt to create heat for 3 more of the upcoming PPV matches then? Considering they billed this as "The biggest 8 Man Tag Match of the decade" it was too long, had no spots to speak of and really wasn't worth watching. The Undertaker took the win off a Tombstone Piledriver on Randy Orton.
If we look at everyone who worked tonights show it indicates exactly how stale WWE have become.
Batista - still running the same gimmick since day 1 in the WWE 7 years ago
Kane - pretty much still the same gimmick since 1997, well over a decade now
John Morrison, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, Melina, Michelle McCool - All fairly new talent
DX - doing exactly what they were a decade ago, being DX
John Cena - still running the same shitty gimmick he started with 7 years ago
The Undertaker - still in the same gimmick he started with
Randy Orton - ditto
Legacy - have only been with the company a short while, getting a monster push on name value only
CM Punk - Has been face & heel some many times it's pointless keeping up any more.
Kane - pretty much still the same gimmick since 1997, well over a decade now
John Morrison, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, Melina, Michelle McCool - All fairly new talent
DX - doing exactly what they were a decade ago, being DX
John Cena - still running the same shitty gimmick he started with 7 years ago
The Undertaker - still in the same gimmick he started with
Randy Orton - ditto
Legacy - have only been with the company a short while, getting a monster push on name value only
CM Punk - Has been face & heel some many times it's pointless keeping up any more.
You think they would have made an iota of progress in 10 years? Not a f**king chance.
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