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Smackdown: Building up for the Bash
By
DALE PLUMMER -- SLAM! Wrestling
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After a near death experience on Monday night from
RAW, the question on my mind is not only will
Smackdown! keep me trying to smother myself, but will
it build enough interest in the Great American Bash
for people to drop even more money on another WWE
Pay-Per-View.
Tonight's show from Orlando, Florida kicks off
with a recap of the Undertaker's actions last week. We
then cut to the back where John Cena is telling
Charlie Haas and Miss Jackie that he has everything
under control. Haas tells him what he is about to do
is suicide. Cena walks to ring, and grabs a mike. He
tells everyone that he respects the Undertaker legacy,
but he won't back down from anyone. Cena wants an
explanation for last week, but instead he gets Kurt
Angle and Luther Raines. Angle says he has something
to be happy about this week. Angle came up with a rap
just for Cena. Angle spells out that Cena will face
the Undertaker one on one, tonight.
JBL visits Kurt Angle in his office to
congratulate Angle on how he is running the show. JBL
also tells Angle that making Eddie Guerrero wrestle
tonight would be a great idea. JBL gets the bright
idea to have Luther wrestle Guerrero. Raines likes the
idea, so Angle makes it official.
Match #1 - 10 Man Over the Top cruiserweight
Battle Royal - Number One contenders match
Cruiserweight Champion Rey Mysterio joins the boys
at the announce table. Spike Dudley is the first
tossed by Nunzio, but Paul London tosses Nunzio out
right after Spike. Nunzio jumps back in and goes after
London. Nunzio is eventually tossed. Paul London tries
to skin the cat, but Nunzio grabs him and pulls him
off the apron. Funaki successfully skins the cat to
stay alive. Shannon Moore and Akio are eliminated when
Moore tosses Akio with a head scissors off the apron.
Billy Kidman dropkicks Scotty II Hotty out of the
ring. Funaki tossed over the top. Chavo Junior and
Jamie Noble team up Kidman. Kidman fights off both men
at the ropes. Kidman is tossed onto the apron, and
grabs the rope to stay alive and roll back into the
ring. Kidman is hung in the tree of woe, as Noble
works him over. Noble almost tosses Chavo. Chavo
eliminates Noble, after being knocked of the second
rope in the corner. Your winner Chavo Junior then
tosses Kidman.
Winner: Chavo Guerrero Junior
Paul Heyman is on the phone with a contractor for his
glass crypt for Paul Bearer. The Dudleys want to talk
to him, and look impatient. D-von want to know what
Heyman has planned for Sunday. He tells them to trust
him. Their discussion in interrupted as Mordecai beats
Hardcore Holly into the hallway. The fight spills into
the arena, before security can separate the two. It
finally takes Luther Raines and Kurt Angle to stop the
madness. Angle then stops Heyman and asks him if they
are clear on tonight. Heyman tells him Undertaker will
take out John Cena.
Match #2 - Kenzo Suzuki vs. Billy Gunn
Billy Gunn, wrestling in his hometown, can't lose,
can he? Suzuki's geisha girl, Hiroko, disrobes Kenzo
before the match starts. A couple of serious chops
slow down Gunn, but he fights back with forearms in
the corner. Suzuki then drives his knee into Gunn's
throat. Gunn is able to power out of a modified
headlock. Both men collide in the middle of the ring
and go down. Gunn hits the famouser on Kenzo. Hiroko
saves her man by tossing salt into Gunn's eyes. Suzuki
is DQ'ed, but Kenzo still hits his leg sweep finisher
on Gunn.
Winner via DQ : Billy Gunn
Sable struts through the backstage, and meets up
with Torrie. Sable asks why Torrie was the only one
promoting the G-A-B. Sable then threatens her, and
then tells her that outfit makes her look fat. Torrie
tells Sable she looks easy, and then Sable goes after
Torrie. The girls are separate before any clothes can
come off. Booooooo!
The Guerrero-Bradshaw feud is re-capped. I'm going
to get a drink.
Match #3 - Eddie Guerrero vs. Luther Raines
Guerrero arrives in style, again, for his match.
Raines wheels Angle down to ringside for the match.
Guerrero backs Raines into the corner; Raines fights
out and picks Eddie up over his head, and drops him.
Guerrero knocks over Raines with a shoulder block.
Angle grabs Guerrero leg to pull him down. Raines
nails a butterfly suplex, and follows it up with a
bear hug. Guerrero breaks to hold and hits two of the
Three Amigos. Guerrero then goes up and over on
Raines, and pushes him into the ref. Raines lays out
Guerrero. Angle rolls into the ring and tries to make
a quick count. Eddie kicks out. Raines grabs the title
belt, but is met with a low blow from the champ. Eddie
lines up Angle, but turns and lays out Raines. Eddie,
sensing the ref is coming to, tosses the belt to
Angle, who is tossed from the ring. Eddie climbs the
top rope and nails the frogsplash. JBL breaks the pin,
and attacks Eddie with the bullrope. Eddie is hung up
by the neck over the ropes, but is able to fight out.
He proceeds to take out JBL with the cowbell, before
the challenger can flee the ring.
Winner via DQ: Eddie Guerrero
John Bradshaw Layfield heads to the ring. JBL says CNBC
fired him because they found out he was a wrestler.
Um, no, you got fired because you did something
illegal and insensitive in Germany. JBL also says that
the media is what is wrong with America, that
Americans are what's wrong with America. Apparently,
we are all jealous of him. JBL says despite what we do
to him, he will be successful. Bradshaw's heel promo
is pretty confusing, and not getting much heat. Will
someone cue the house orchestra and play this guy off
the stage. Eddie Guerrero has heard enough and hits
the ring. JBL hightails out of the ring.
Match #4 - RVD vs. Renee Dupree
Booker T joins Michael Cole and Tazz at ringside. Dupree
is laid out with a kick from RVD. Dupree is then
tossed from the ring, and then knock off the apron
with a baseball slide from RVD. Dupree kicks out of a
roll-up attempt. A spin kick knocks down Dupree,
again, and RVD follows with Rolling Thunder. A chop
block takes down RVD. Dupree uses the time to expose
the corner turnbuckle. RVD misses out on a pinfall as
the ref tries to repair the turnbuckle. Dupree hits
snakeyes on RVD, and Dupree covers him for the pin.
Winner via pin fall: Renee Dupree
After the match, Dupree taunts Booker T at the
announce table.
The Undertaker is walking silently backstage,
alone.
Match #5 - John Cena vs. The Undertaker
Undertaker takes to Cena with a series of
knees and the a right hand to the face. Cena is
whipped into the corner, but gets an elbow up to stop
the Undertaker in his tracks. Cena yells at Taker that
he isn't scared. Cena's haymakers are stopped with a
thrust to the throat. Cena rolls away from an elbow
drop, but is then tossed to the mat outside the ring.
A vertical suplex brings Cena back into the ring.
Undertaker goes old school, but can only get a two
count. Undertaker palms Cena's face, but Cena fights
back with punches. Undertaker hits a flying elbow, and
signals the end with a throat slash. Cena fights out
of tombstone attempt. He then low bridges Taker, and
then knocks him off the apron into the security
barrier. After the break, Cena is tossed to the
outside, again, and Undertaker goes out to retrieve
him. Undertaker slaps on a submission. Undertaker
punches Cena in the back of the neck to break the
hold. Cena fights back with right hands, but is taken
out with an elbow coming off the ropes. After two
count, Taker rubs his forearm in Cena's face. Cena
goes down, again, after a right left combo. Cena is
set up on the top rope, and is nailed with a superplex
off the top rope. Cena some how kicks out. Taker slaps
on a rear choke. Cena gets back to his feet, and
fights out with fists to the ribs, but Taker takes him
down with a clubbing blow. Cena then hits a
spinebuster out of desperation. Both men get up on an
eight count. Cena hits a clothesline from the top rope, and
then follows up with the throwback. Cena hits the five
knuckle shuffle, but Taker gets the shoulder up.
Undertaker counters the F-U, and then hits a big boot
as Cena bounces off the rope. Cena kicks out after
two. Undertaker sets Cena up for the Last Ride. Cena
counters, and ducks a clothesline that takes out the
ref. Cena walks into chokeslam, but counters it into
an F-U. The ref is still out, and Cena can't get a
count. Undertaker gets up, and Cena walks into a
chokeslam. Taker covers, but the ref is still out.
Undertaker grabs Cena's chain, and nails Cena in the
head with it. As the ref comes to, Undertaker picks up
Cena and hits the tombstone. Taker covers for the
win.
Winner via pin fall: The Undertaker
After the match, Paul Heyman walks down to ring
with the urn. The Undertaker drops to one knee as the
show goes off the air.
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Dale Plummer has been writing for SLAM!
Wrestling since 2003. Dale will be celebrating his
26th birthday in Atlantic City on Sunday, instead of
watching the Great American Bash. You can e-mail Dale
at Dplummer627@yahoo.com to send him birthday wishes.
