Smackdown Review 2/6/09

Hello everyone and welcome to my Smackdown review column. Once again i would like to encourage everyone to leave a comment on my review and/or your thoughts on the show and feel free to discuss other peoples comments with them also. Id like to have a nice little wrestling forum here for intelligent fans to discuss with each other this art of entertainment that we all love.

Tonight is the second night of the back to back smackdown tapings which will probably mean more edited in crowd noise then usual. It is this reason alone that i will always like Raw a little better then smackdown, u just get the real emotion. I wish WWE would just go with the crowd reactions on Smackdown the way they are but they feel the need to pipe some in every week and its always so obvious when they do it. So lets see what this friday night brings us shall we.

Qualifying Battle Royal For Elimination Chamber Spot:

Multiple Superstars in the ring already as Kozlov and Khali make there way to the ring, which makes it pretty obvious that one of them are going to win the spot. Vickie comes out and announces that Jeff Hardy will get a spot if he makes it back in time so this match is for the last spot. Oh man Scotty Goldman is out, and i thought he might win, haha. Wow a Kizarny spotting, not sure how good he is in the ring yet but he has something that alot of superstars dont have and thats the ability to stand out, thats usually a plus. MVP eliminates Shelton then is eliminated by Chavo. Shelton then nails MVP before commercial. Wouldnt a U.S. title match between MVP and Shelton at Wrestlemania be sweet. They'll probably both end up in money in the bank though so hopefully they'll give them a match at No Way Out, but i'm probably wrong and they'll probably just end up fueding on Smackdown for the belt. Back from break and Khali is throwing guys out with ease as he should be doin in this type of match. But after eliminating Hawkins and Ryder Kozlov dumps him from behind pretty much locking him up as the winner. Hes left with R-Truth and the Colons. Nice spot with the triple dropkick. He then backdrops both the tag champs at the same time leaving him and R-Truth, who i'm not a real big fan of. Kozlov then dumps him over the top for the win. Thats really the only thing that made sense considering his involvement in the main event picture lately. I actually like Kozlov. He has a long way to go but does bring a sense of "old school bad ass heel" to the table.

Interview with Hurricane Helms next. Boy has his return fell flat. I think he was in line for a push until the crowd reactions he was supposed to get was pretty much non existant. Too bad cause i like hurricane but if you read my column on what makes a good worker then you probably can understand why his push ended fast. He didnt even get a spot in the rumble match. He cuts a promo that Matt has always been a jerk and is just letting that out now. He tells Matt hes going to find him later.

Edge and Vickie in the back talking about the elimination chamber. Big Show comes in and taunts Edge a little with a smile on his face. Edge tells him not to try anything cute or Vickie will take him out of the chamber. Big Show tells him sarcastically that he believes in him. So is Big Show turning face or whats going on. I dont know, dont really care because Big Show can play a Tweener just fine.

Matt Hardy is in the ring and calls Hurricane out. Hurricane makes his way to the ring and we have a fight going on. Hurricane gets the upper hand before Matt tries to escape but gets stopped. Hurricane should of let em go because Matt ends up beating him down pretty bad. Good segment to show the vicious side of Matt Hardy. I would just like to say i knew the attacker on Jeff was Matt all along. I know alot of fans thought or hoped it would be Christian but if you've watched wrestling as long as i have it was obvious that all the subtle hints pointed to Matt. I predicted it right after the first attack and man i love being right lol. This angle i believe is much better build for the emotions of Wrestlemania then if it was Christian.

Shelton Benjamin vs MVP(non-title)

Shelton cuts a decent promo before the match. Hes really come into his own the last few months. Hey hey leave Peyton Manning alone though (i'm a colts fan lol). MVP makes his way to the ring. I believe the face turn for MVP will be very succesfull. He has all the tools to be a main event player and these two could both be favorites to end up winning money in the bank. Good MVP chant at one point, all reports is that hes very over as a face at house shows. Very nice match showing just a sampling of what these two can do together. MVP gets the win with the Drive By boot. Cant wait till the title match.

Colons and R-Truth are in the back heading out for 6 man action. As i said earlier i'm not a big fan of R-Truth. I just dont think hes all that good. He has a couple of decent moves but outside of that his ringwork is lackluster at best and his entrance is borderline annoying to me and i just dont see him moving very far up the card anytime soon.

Colons & R-Truth vs Miz and Morrison & Brian Kendrick:

First of all it makes no sense to not have the raw tag champs appear on raw but yet they wrestle on Smackdown this week. Hopefully they unify the tag belts soon as they're is really no need to have two with the limited amount of tag teams there is. Colons and R-Truth come out to some piped in crowd noise. The crowd was saying the "wassups" but the whole shtick is running its course fast and thats not a good thing for R-Truth. That being said this should be a very good 6 man. R-Truth gets beatdown before giving Carlito the hot tag. The Colons are the best babyface tag team in quite some time. Kendrick hits "the kendrick" on Carlito for the win. Decent but short 6 man tag match.

Jeff will return next week, should be interesting to say the least.

Michelle McCool vs Eve:

As i have stated before i'm not a fan of the divas outside of Beth and Mickie. So this match interests me very little. If they can wrestle decent i dont mind but most of them just suck. There is plenty of Tits and ass on tv and the internet i dont prefer to see it on my wrestling show, but maybe thats just me. Michelle is on the rise though and seems to be improving in the ring quite a bit. This heel role seems to fit her nicely. She eventually gets Eve to tap out holding on to the hold until Maria comes out. Maria is a real big waste of space if u ask me and should never be in a ring actually wrestling. But lets move on shall we.

Interview with Matt who really seems to be embracing his new heel role. He threatens another "accident" on Jeff before next week. Sais he'll be waiting and ready to welcome back Jeff next week. Should be good stuff next friday.

Umaga vs Kung Fu Naki:

Oh boy Funaki should of stayed in the back lol. Great to see Umaga back kicking ass again. I'm a huge fan and in my opinion Umaga could make a great heel champion sometime. Not sure if he will ever get the belt though. Umaga actually plays to the crowd a little bit in this match. That is very interesting. Might not mean anything but its definitely worth noting. Typical Umaga beat down but just nice to see the big man back.

Edge & Big Show vs Triple H & Undertaker:

Its main event time folks. All 4 men of course are in the chamber match at No Way Out so a nice idea for a tag main event. The Smackdown chamber match should be more interesting then the Raw match, and even though u would think one of the belts will change hands i just dont think it would make sense to do so. I see both champions retaining at the PPV. I'd just like to point out that even after all these years the Undertakers entrance never gets old. Very nice spot with Edge going for the spear and Triple H hopping up and almost catching him in the pedigree. Triple H and Edge show in this match what could possibly be an excellent WrestleMania title match if thats the direction WWE goes. Thats the only direction i can see them going and i believe they will have a stellar match for the belt. So far this is an excellent tag match. Taker gets the hot tag to a huge pop and clears house before Big Show hits him with a legdrop while he had Edge ready to tap out. Triple H's turn for the hot tag but he gets caught with a chokeslam. Edge pushes Show who knocks him out with a big right hook. Taker then gets tagged in and tombstones Edge for the victory while Show just stands on the apron watching. Solid Tag Team main event to end what was a pretty decent smackdown.

Solid show. Good job of furthering Matt hardy as a heel, great match with Shelton vs MVP, and a very solid main event to end the show. Next week should be very good with Jeff returning.