SmackDown spoilers from tonight's tapings in Memphis, Tennessee:
Dark Match:
* Johnny Curtis defeated indy wrestler Drew Haskins.
SmackDown, Airing Friday:
* The Miz kicks off SmackDown with another MizTV segment. He's upset about losing the Intercontinental Title to Kofi Kingston on Main Event. Miz demands a rematch at the Hell In a Cell pay-per-view. Miz is joined by Kane and Daniel Bryan as his guests. Miz predicts the champs will lose their belts at Hell In a Cell and rips into Bryan. Big Show comes out as does Dolph Ziggler. They all argue and out comes Booker T. Booker books Team Hell No vs. Ziggler and Show for later tonight. Miz will go up against Randy Orton.
* Randy Orton defeated The Miz with a RKO. Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez were seen watching the match from one of the arena luxury boxes.
* Sheamus is backstage wanting a rematch against Wade Barrett. Teddy Long makes Sheamus vs. Barrett in a Lumberjack Match for later.
* Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow defeated Justin Gabriel and Tyson Kidd in a quick match.
* Backstage segment with Eve Torres, Booker and Teddy. Eve puts Teddy down in front of Booker again.
* Daniel Bryan and Kane defeated Big Show and Dolph Ziggler in a non-title match. Ziggler and Show worked over Bryan for about ten minutes until he made the hot tag to Kane. Bryan tagged back in and locked Ziggler in the No! Lock for the submission victory. Rhodes Scholars came out and attacked Team Hell No as they were celebrating/arguing on the stage.
* Antonio Cesaro defeated Ted DiBiase in a non-title match. Ted DiBiase entered his same old music. A video aired of Cesaro in front of Sun Studio. He ran down Memphis and Elvis for cheap heat. Cesaro won in three minutes with the Neutralizer.
* 3 Man Band made their way to the ring. They called themselves the greatest group in WWE. Drew McIntyre popped a few eardrums with his Axl Rose impression. Out came Brodus Clay for a match against Slater.
Heath Slater beat Brodus Clay. Slater won in three minutes after distractions from Mahal and McIntyre.
* Layla defeated Natalya.
*World Hvt. Champion Sheamus defeated Wade Barrett in a lumberjack match. The lumberjacks started brawling per usual, then Team Hell No showed up to brawl. Amidst the confusion, Sheamus hit the brogue kick on Barrett for the win.
I don't care who wins or who loses, I just want to be entertained. I enjoyed the heck out of the Randy Orton/Christian fued last year, and Christian lost nearly every match in the feud. Too many people focus on wins and loses in a scripted sport.
Chavo jobbed repeatedly to a fucking leprachaun who at the time had no concept of the english language. Ok I concede that I too am pissed at sheamus beating him cleanly and he is worse then Cena but for fuck sake losing to a top face isnt being burried! Edge took pinfalls from main eventers, Randy did coming up, hell even Cena did. They all became stars.
Re: SPOILERS* Barrett losing is not him being burried!
Until he's world champion (never), he's being buried. End of discussion. There's the top (people who've held the world title), and there's the bottom (people who haven't). He's on the bottom like EVERYONE else, right now he's no better off than Primo and Epico.
Even saying that, they could've fed him any number of people, there was no reason to have Sheamus beat him. None at all.
I'm convinced Barrett will get a few reigns with the World Title, he's too good not to, and WWE don't seem to care much for it anyway, they gave CHRISTIAN the belt after all.
As for the WWE Title? I've given up at this point, which is sad, he's already proven he can be top heel in the company comfortably.
Too good not to has no bearing on anything, William Regal couldn't even get it, if that doesn't tell you something, I don't know what will. Vince is outright biased against English talent. Giving Christian the belt was only because they were absolutely FORCED, they had no alternative to give him the belt and look at the kind of reign he got.
WWE can say on commentary that he's a future world champion, but those are lies, something the WWE is VERY good at telling. They've said that about plenty of people and it never happened.
The WWE Championship is an absolute no, either way, he'll never touch that, which is a shame because the world title barely even counts anymore.
Re: SPOILERS* Barrett losing is not him being burried!
Yes. Not Steamboat though, he did win it.
Besides, it's a completely different era. In that era, if you're not a world champion, you still failed but people at least took you seriously. Now everybody gets a reign, anybody who doesn't looks EXTREMELY bad.
For an entire career? Yes. For a rookie? No, because everybody HAS to start somewhere, there's no choice in the matter. Cesaro is going to move up the roster to world title status, most likely. Barrett never will. But until Cesaro wins the world title, he doesn't matter, just like Barrett, just like Trent Barretta, just like Titus O'Neil, just like Epico, etc.
How are you going to have a SPOILER thread title that has the spoiler in it? :shaq
Anyway, I agree a loss to the World Heavyweight Champion won't bury you after having a competitive series of matches in the last couple of weeks. However, WWE not give Barrett any storylines, a real feud to get the viewers invested in his character and what he is doing is kind of burying him imo. He's just floating on the roster, appearing on shows with virtually no direction.
They didn't HAVE to have Christian win the belt. They could have easily had Del Rio win the ladder match, and then show up on Smackdown for a "Farewell Address" and then have Teddy book him vs. Orton and have him drop the belt there.
They gave the belt to Christian as a thank you for 10+ years of service, here's 2 nothing Title reigns kinda thing. It may well have even been a favor to Edge, but bottom line is, he got it.
It was a favor to Edge. They weren't just gonna fuck Edge in the ass and have Del Rio win. No, they didn't "HAVE" to I guess but Vince at least respects Edge, so he gave him a gift.
Who the fuck does Barrett have to do that for him? Last I checked, he wasn't best friends with Cena or Punk or Orton or anybody else who's a major main eventer and is going to have a career ending injury. He's fucked, and the fact that you're still holding out hope for something that's never going to happen is beyond me. WWE books Barrett no different than they ever did Morrison, he gets pushed for a couple months, then buried for a couple months, then pushed for a couple months, then buried for a couple months, and every time his fans think "THIS IS IT! FINALLY!", WWE knows they have the fans by the balls and they fuck with them again.
No. I've had people join TNA who I was higher on than Barrett, like Kennedy, Christian and Angle and I still never watched it. I will never watch a non WWE wrestling product because it does not matter. If TNA wants my business, start beating WWE in the ratings and the PPV buyrates, until then, never.
My guess is They gave up on him cause the crowd barely gives a reaction him; sad thing cause its WWE's fault they gave Barrett the most stupid and meaningless promos when he came back.
And his return was against a jobber? You gotta be kidding me, he should of interfered at a PPV and cost sheamus the title. Doesn't take a genius to write this. The Creative Team is just so much fail bundled together.
In his first promo he said he isn't going to face the obvious jobbers and then WWE just gives him matches against jobbers. fpalm
WWE has no fucking direction with him and the sad thing is he has the look, ability to do good promos, and is a good wrestler to a degree. Being good on the mic gets you over and is more important than matches.
So, your gripe isnt that his jobbing to everyone and their grandma its the fact that WWE/Vince arnt treating him like main event talent like you and I can agree he is?
So, your gripe isnt that his jobbing to everyone and their grandma its the fact that WWE/Vince arnt treating him like main event talent like you and I can agree he is?
I have no problem with Barrett losing to Sheamus, he is the world champion after all. Just wish they give him a proper feud. I still believe he will be World Champion one day.
I just find it sad that Ryback (even though I like him) and Bryan gets pushed more, who were lackeys in Nexus, than Barrett who was the freaking leader of Nexus.
I dont see it that way, from a kayfabe perspective Wade is on the champs radar, I wouldnt be surprised if Wade plays a part in the WHC match at Hell in a Cell.
I dont see it that way, from a kayfabe perspective Wade is on the champs radar, I wouldnt be surprised if Wade plays a part in the WHC match at Hell in a Cell.
He is versing the WHC, thats not being buried and two weeks in a row on raw interference's the guy will get his opportunity, how can you make a guy who was injured half the year come back and immediately put the belt on him? He is being built back up and by versing sheamus and being thrown into the mix with the WHC he is gaining back his credibility. He will be champ next year.
He is versing the WHC, thats not being buried and two weeks in a row on raw interference's the guy will get his opportunity, how can you make a guy who was injured half the year come back and immediately put the belt on him? He is being built back up and by versing sheamus and being thrown into the mix with the WHC he is gaining back his credibility. He will be champ next year.
There's another reason he'll never amount to anything, WWE's stupid adherence to making sure contest winners always become failures. I don't know why they insist on doing this but it's their thing.
Yeah, it's a weird pattern, I think the only successful contest winners were Layla and Eve, but they are divas so it's not that important. But even then I think Maryse won a title before Layla or Eve.
Didnt you come up with the idea of Big show winning and then Ziggler cashing in on him? That scenario works out for everyone does it not? Sheamus gets pinned in a gimmick match with interferance so it protects him to an extent, big show has way to much credibility so it wont hurt him cause lets face it Big show as champ is a ratings killer, Ziggler becomes a main event star (not happy bout that) Barrett gets a main event rub. With survivor series coming up it could easily be a fatal four way.
No, I'm pretty sure I didn't, because I would never want another undeserved Big Show reign, however short.
Even in a fatal four way, he's still going to lose, so what the fuck does it matter?
At the end of the day, I can't stop you from thinking whatever you're going to think. If you want to live in this fantasy land where he's going to main event and win world titles, then fine, but come WrestleMania time, when Sheamus, Ryback and Ziggler are in main event programs and Barrett is jobbing to Brodus Clay, I'll say I told you so.
To be fair, this USA guy thing may get him a decent spot on the main roster, something he otherwise would not have gotten.
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