John Morrison & "Mr. Money In The Bank" CM Punk v. The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas)
-It amazes me how quick John Morrison has turned into a face. But he need not to take full credit for the quickness in his turn; rather, we must thank Chris Jericho. After all, it was he that shoved Morrison during his fulmination of Smackdown. So we can say that because of Jericho's awesomeness, it is axiomatic that Jericho's heel heat turned Morrison's heel "heat" into cheers. Thus, putting him over as a face. Now, I put heat in quotes for Morrison because I think that the "heat" Morrison received was more belonging to Mizzorrison. Anyway, so Morrison picks up the victory pinning Haas after the Star Champagne (if I heard correctly). The the WWE has been doing a stellar job with the build up of Morrison/Benjamin. Now, we get them one-on-one at the Pay Per View. The only way to do this right is if Benjamin wins. Morrison won the first encounter and has been getting the upper hand as of late (4-1 count in favor of Morrison). This will get people more interested because Benjamin might win by a handful of tights or with his feet on the ropes, causing the fans to want Morrison to get revenge. Winners: John Morrison & CM Punk after Morrison's Star Champagne.
Chris Jericho comes down the ramp and rants about not being appreciated. How he is the number one man on Smackdown and should be treated as such. He says he will go after the one thing Rey Mysterio holds dear, the Intercontinental Championship, and become the unprecedented 9-time Intercontinental Champions. He says that sunday there will be no 619 and that he doesn't want to wait that long and proceeds to call out Mysterio. This brings out Edge; and, I have to add that if there's anyone on the Smackdown brand that can turn Edge face, it's Chris Jericho (Insert Jericho). Edge talks about being a 9-time champion already and that while Jericho was jobbing to Cena he was dominating Smackdown for the last year. Edge explains how since he's the #1 man on Smackdown he has officially ended Jericho's segment and has started his. They bicker back and forth about who will be the one calling out their Judgment Day opponent until Teddy "The Mack" Long comes out and announces an awesome main event before sunday. Chris Jericho v. Edge in a non-title match.
[We get a recap of Jeff Hardy beating Jericho with Mysterio's help]
Jeff Hardy v. Ricky Ortiz
-Okay, first thought. Why the fuck are they feeding Ortiz to Hardy? How is this supposed to get Hardy "prepared" for Edge and the championship this sunday? This reminds me of when I grew up in the early '90s, wrestlers would have their bigger feud take center stage on the mic of the announcers and recap videos, but they would still book the wrestlers in squashes. Now another part to the earlier question regarding Ortiz. They show a video promo of Ortiz talking about how it's 50% this and 50% that. I can tell you right now, it's 50% charisma and 50% skills kid and you have neither. And this whole "rally up" deal, come on! As if it wasn't enough to have been shut up by the World Champion last week, he's jobbing to the #1 Contender now? But this just came to mind, he's been interacting with the top two stars on the brand right now (and I say this because they're both fighting for the title). It's some good exposure, but really? Ricky Ortiz needs to join me in filing for unemployment. Winner: Jeff Hardy via Swanton Bomb.
We return from commercials to a Jeff Hardy promo. He lets it known to the world that Edge has a pattern when it comes to the World/WWE Championship. He looses it almost a month later every time. This instantly makes me think that Edge will retain the world championship. Hardy said that Edge will loose the title to him because he has the support of the fans for just being himself. Decent promo that hit the points. He pointed out the weakness of his opponent and is gearing himself up for a championship run; though, that isn't happening anytime soon. Hardy will take the title sometime between The Great American Bash and Summer Slam.
Up next Alicia Fox and Michelle McCool. I think it's funny that Alicia Fox is all of a sudden a heel when on ECW the was a face. Oh WWE, how I love thee.
Michelle McCool & Alicia Fox v. Gail Kim & WWE Women's Champion Melina
-McCool and Kim have a 1-1 record with each other stemming back from about a month ago. McCool has the charisma that not a lot of Divas have (Fox being one of them), so it's a good pairing to associate the two women for the time being. This, I believe, is their second tag match and J.R. confirmed it for me. Melina has come out very aggressive during her debut tag bout. It's been a very fast paced back and forth tag team match. The story during this match is to prove you can go toe-to-toe with the Women's champion. Though, the champion dominates McCool and ends up with the victory. I can see they want a McCool-Melina match in the future but you cannot ignore Gail Kim. She's been a fierce competitor since her return, even coming close to becoming the first women to win both the Women's title and the Divas title when she fought and lost to Divas Champion Maryse. A three-way match would be outstanding by these three skilled women. Winners: Melina & Gail Kim after Melina hit her finisher.
[Recap of Dolph Ziggler calling out anyone and then destroying The Great Khali with a steel chair.]
Jimmy Wayne Yang v. Dolph Ziggler
-Dolph Ziggler is an amazing talent. He's oozing some charisma and has the wrestling skills to back it up. He's getting great time on the mic to put himself over and his short program with MVP a while back was handled perfectly. Though he lost, he pulled out a great match and has already beaten MVP once anyway. Nicely decent match there by both these stars. Great offense by JWY near the end but he did get too cocky and paid for it with Ziggler's new move, what looks like a jumping backwards snapmare takedown. Winner Dolph Zigler with a new finisher.
Backstage Segment: Cryme Tyme & Eve Torres
-Cryme Tyme just hyping up Eve and wants to start a chick fight. They proceed in doing so and Eve attacks Layla from behind and a chick fight starts. After a while Cryme Tyme separates them. They needed something to continue this feud and glad they didn't spend 10 minutes in the ring.
R "What's up?" Truth v. Mike Knox
-This is a rematch from last week where Mike Knox picked up the victory. R Truth picks up the win. Didn't really pay attention to this match as I don't really care for Mike Knox. He's this generations version of The Berzerker. Nuff said. R Truth needs to come out on top at the end of this program.
WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio Interview
-He says that he will show why he isn't an overnight champion and that Jericho will not have to worry about making a statement because he will shut Jericho up once and for all. Good plug to get him over, seeing as how he almost injured his knee on Superstars this past Thursday.
World Heavyweight Champions Edge v. Chris Jericho
-"Jericho is studiously sadistic" - J.R. A great match ends with a disqualification because Jericho brought in a steel chair. This is the second time that Jericho has brought in the steel chair and was DQd for it. Interesting storyline idea that keeps popping up. This leads to a big boot by Edge to Jericho. Edge has the chair but then Jeff hardy comes down, ducks a swinging chairshot, and hits the Twist of Fate on Edge onto the Chair. Hardy goes to the top but Jericho tries to knock him down. Hardy kicks him away and dives after Jericho on the outside. Then, CM Punk comes out with a ref and he's thinking about cashing in the Money In The Bank. He's in the ring and hands the briefcase to the ref. Then again, Umaga runs down and attacks Punk. Punk ducks him and knocks him in the head with the briefcase, after he takes it back from the ref (important note, he rescinds his cashing in the briefcase when he takes it away from the Ref's hand). Punk and Umaga battle back and forth on the outside (good, that Umaga finally came out because he was going into a PPV match with no build up so far), and Edge and Hardy do the same all four men ending up in the audience. Jericho backs up the ramp only to be attacked by Rey Mysterio. A great way to end Smackdown and lead into Judgment Day by having your three top babyfaces act as heels and sneak attack on 3 of the top heels (well 2 and a monster in Umaga). Winner: Edge via DQ.
Overall Show: B
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