Home ▸ SmackDown ▸ Smackdown 11/05/10: Sans Pants.

Friday Night Suffering Time! Yay! Well, all I can say is that Nexus invades (again) tonight. Not sure why, I missed something, but they do. Let’s find out if they explain this thing…

Oh, and I finally got Gif Soup to work for me, so I made my first ever animated gif:

Who needs pants anyways….

– * Edge vs. Alberto Del Rio. We jump right into the action… as Alberto’s personal ring announcer goes to introduce his guy, Edge stares him down and right out of the ring. The crowd puts Edge over, as his ongoing tweener status continues. They pace the match nicely to start us off, and as we hit the commercial break for segment 1, this is an enjoyable contest. This is a pretty fun match! These two both demonstrate a diverse array of technical prowess and mix up the action amidst sans garbage wrestling.

– Even though Pee Wee was on RAW, I think the word of the day seems to be “sans.”

– Just before Edge can land a spear, the Nexus runs in and interferes… overwhelming all two of them. Otunga cuts a quick promo since the group is sans Wade Barrett, telling us they’re taking over. Big Show brings out Kane and Rey Mysterio, regrouping with Edge and Del Rio. Take a wild guess what our main event (or a match later) will be? Great match, shitty ending? Nope…. I dig this.

I also loved how enthusiastic Heath Slater was running in, vaulting off the ring steps and sticking his arms out like a plane. Brilliant! Second animated gif…

– Teddy Long comes out and makes the match official. Commentary on where Wade Barrett is, and then Dolph Ziggler comes out. * Non-Title Match: Dolph Ziggler {C} vs. JTG. Hey JTG still has a job? I wonder if this is his swan song match like many future endeavored wrestlers get before… well… you know. I like JTG, racist stereotype or not, he can go. The two waste no time and it seems to be a Dolph squash match… yep, Dolph locks in a sleeper hold and ends it a couple minutes in. Kaitlyn comes out, as does Vickie continuing this soap opera. More meh. Sans interest.

What started off looking good, became a wash out here.

– Vickie shrieks and whatnot to Teddy Long wanting justice with Kaitlyn, so he books a match. Meanwhile, backstage Nexus is swarming Rey Mysterio.

– Josh Matthews asks Nexus backstage why they attacked Rey Mysterio. Their answer? “Because we can.” Awesome.

– * #1 Contender IC Title Match: Cody Rhodes vs. MVP vs. Drew McIntyre. It’s confusing to start, as it usually is with triple threats. You’d think there would be more to the story here with Rhodes and McIntyre being recent tag champs, but since they threw these guys together as “filler” for a month or so, it doesn’t seem very dramatic. These are the moments I appreciate TNA for actually HAVING a tag team division with actual tag teams. But it seems all of us smarks rant about this everywhere and every week. McIntyre is the first to turn on his former partner. The match picks up a little steam in our second segment as Rhodes becomes the epitome heel, controlling the flow and placing McIntyre into an anti-hero of sorts. Allowing fatigue to set in usually cleans up triple threats (sans complaining about the third man out having a nap at ring side while the other two grapple for a couple minutes, then switch). We hit our climax with all men having brief moments of dominance and trading finishing moves… you know the usual format. MVP hits killed by a clothesline that looked like AWESOME, but after some more reversals MVP kicks McIntyre’s head off his shoulders while he lay prone, as if to take a 619 from Rey Mysterio. “A kick right to THE DOME of Drew McIntyre!” bellows Matt Striker. That was sick.

G: “Hey Spanky, the Christmas Dog! What did you think of that last triple threat match?”

Aroo?

Spanky (the Brian Kendrick the Christmas Dog): “I thought it fucking sucked! Wrestling is for wankers!”

G: “Wow. For a dog embodying the holidays, you’re one angry bastard. It wasn’t that bad… just awkward at moments.”

– Speaking of Rey, Kofi will replace Rey in the five man tag match thingy with Nexus.

– Speaking of matches that “fucking suck,” next is * Vickie Guerrero vs. Kaitlyn. FFW like no tomorrow.

– Speaking of FFW, here’s a high speed rendition of the Simpsons Tree House of Horror XIV, with Homer as the Grim Reaper:

Speaking of Tree House of Horrors, the new Simpsons Halloween episode airs this Sunday. I made this one too.

– What was I doing again? Ha ha… man, making ani-gif’s is fun now that it almost always works. Backstage Kaval is chatting with MVP, and then Nexus attacks! SWARM! BEATDOWN LIKE TOUGH GUYS! NUMBERS GAME! Both Kaval and MVP are left lying as we get to the matchup everybody is waiting to see!!! YES, it’s a juice pig versus a smoked-out stoner nobody! YEAH!! Oh my bad, it’s actually:

* Tyler Reks vs. Chris Masters. Do I have to watch this garbage? Where’s my paycheck?

– No wait… not my bad. Same thing, right? It’s a match, you could call it that, and it surprised me a little in that it didn’t suck that hard. It’s probably not worth your time to watch. Reks wins with a finisher that resembles a lazy looking FU/F5/Attitude Adjustment. More or less, he sets the Masters up on his shoulders and kind of flips him and lets gravity do the work. Put some slam power into it, and it might work better. Otherwise Rek your momentum.

– This the best finisher though… well… for the other guy:

Oww!

– * Nexus (Otunga, Slater, Gabriel, Harris & McGillicutty) vs. Edge, Alberto Del Rio, Big Show, Kofi Kingston and Kane. Looks like they are giving this main event a half an hour sans entrances and advertising time? Nice. This is key since we lose 12 minutes to the latter mentioned. Kofi and Mr. Perfect Jr. start things off. Many tags follow… and we get some Mike Rotunda Jr. Nepotism? Maybe, but I have enjoyed watching both of these two over the last half a year. Nexus looks pretty good as a whole, but I thought I would point towards the efforts of our latest inductees into the rookie Nexus gang.

– I realize the misuse of the title, “Junior.”

– As we enter our final segment of the show, Kofi Kingston hits an incredibly high vertical jump, and lands a cross body splash on Heath Slater. Wow! That was an incredible jump! A bunch of highspots ensue shortly after, but none as impressive. Athleticism. Nexus plays the isolate one face wrestler stategy with Kofi for minutes after. And, being the fine grappler he is, Kingston sells excellently and makes the faction look powerful. Eventually, Kofi gets his boys back in the game, and we see the typical face power boost attack… clusterfuckage and Kane implodes attacking fellow teammate the Big Show with a chokeslam. Edge fights everybody, including Kane, but also grabs a pin on Otunga to pick up the win for the Smackdown misfit team.

– I had fun making animated gifs tonight, even though much of the show was pretty “turrible” from Vickie until the final twenty minutes of the show. I want to be able to do these stunts just as good as I saw them tonight, I’m looking all over the place for a vert shock program discount, I really want to learn to jump way higher than people expect is possible! Maybe, one day.

– The WWE logo comes up, this review is sans G.

Also…

Micheal Cole is still on Smackdown… Grisham is still in McMahon’s doghouse, I guess.

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