Missed Smackdown this week? We got the whole gosh darn thing right here, plus my take on what you definitely need to check out. After all, what better time to make sure you’re fully ready for tonight’s Monday Night RAW than with a little Monday morning action?
In addition to pointing to the bouts that should be required viewing I’ll also give you a little background on each as well as some thoughts on the finished product.
DON’T MISS: Chris Jericho‘s Highlight Reel segment featuring Vickie Guerrero and–briefly–Dolph Ziggler. The likely show-stealer between Ziggler and Jericho was officially confirmed for Summerslam, right before Ziggler took Y2J out with a Vickie-assisted Zig-Zag.
Daniel Bryan and Kane continued their build to a Summerslam match, with some help from AJ, doing double duty last week after a busy night Generally Managing RAW. AJ showed a little more of the manic kookiness that captured our hearts than she has over the last few weeks, and Bryan shouting at the crowd and descending into madness is as fun as always.
If you’re interested in revisiting a slightly significant and soon to be wiped away moment of WWE history, you can check out AW‘s very last session of shilling for the Primetime Players, filmed before AW was let go on Friday. The Players again became top contenders to the tag team championship by winning their match via DQ, when AW goaded the easily excitable champs Kofi Kingston and R-Truth into interfering in their match against Primo and Epico. Primo and Epico are currently without Rosa Mendes as she deals with awful-seeming personal circumstances. Hope we get to see Rosa back shimmying suggestively soon.
A match between Cody Rhodes and Sin Cara should have a lot more fireworks to it than they did on Friday, but it’s worth a look. The roll-up for Sin Cara after three minutes could set something up between them, though, which is good for two guys who have been floating around a bit aimlessly lately like two very athletic jellyfish. Rey Mysterio and Intercontinental Champion The Miz had an aggressive, brief match of their own, but let’s take it easy on the rollup finishes for a while, okay?
And speaking of short but sweet, the brief, quick-paced Christian vs. Antonio Caesaro match, accompanied as usual by Aksana. Caesaro, whose European uppercut is a top reason to watch Smackdown these days, is pretty excellent at this whole wrestling thing and Christian is of course basically incapable of having bad matches.
MISS THIS: I am not into this Alberto Del Rio-Sheamus feud, and (spoiler alert, I guess) going on with that storyline about ADR’s stolen burrito poop car was bad enough. But it was worse pretending to care a non-match between them that it eventually became pretty clear wasn’t going to happen because it was starting at 9:57. I have enjoyed many Sheamus matches, but his character these days is such a smug, bullying bastard in the same awful Triple H babyface mold that I have trouble caring about stuff he does. Next to Sheamus, Del Rio doesn’t seem all that arrogant or entitled, which is a problem when he’s supposed to be the bad guy.
Ryback super-ultra beat up two guys who had just gotten beat up by Jinder Mahal. Come on, Ryback, beat on your own jobbers.
Catch the show below:
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