1) Vickie Guererro’s “Excuse Me” has to be the best catch phrase currently in the WWE. It makes my skin crawl and makes me want to boo her. I love it.
2) I occasionally wonder why, in a federation where they are desperate to get some babyfaces over why they refuse to move John Morrison above the mid-card. It seems like he has a good look and he’s a full-on WWE property. It seems like everything they would love in a top level face.
3) I hate watching Tommy be a jobber. I die a little inside each time it happens.
4) I really hope they continue this angle where CM Punk threatens to cash in Money in the Bank at Edge and Vickie’s wedding in a few weeks. Although, I feel like Punk won’t be cashing anything in until after the talent draft. Although, if I have my math right, the talent draft will be happening the Monday before the wedding so the timing all works out.
5) HA! Agents in wrestling. Come on now. It’s holdout season in the NFL, maybe they could have MVP hold-out for awhile?
6) As I’ve mentioned, I went a long time without watching Smackdown. In that time Michael Cole didn’t miss many meals. For the record, I assume this is what happens when you constantly eat road food and don’t have to work out to keep your job.
7) MVP was very contemplative last week… as though Rodan’s The Thinker had put on bling and a do-rag. Goddam I heart Mick.
8) And Good Match #1 for the week turns out to be Punk/MVP as they apparently have decided to start re-building Punk
9) Deuce and Domino’s turn on each other could be the most worthless turn I’ve seen in ages. Not only does anyone care about either of them, turning two heels on each other is completely worthless when the crowd doesn’t kinda/sorta like either of them. You know what I would root for if I saw two guidos? A magic bullet.
10) You know, one thing I’ve never understood about the WWE since The Big Show came over from WCW: What’s the point of bringing in these gigantic human beings if you’re just going to job them out to everyone on the roster? The Big Show’s record should currently be like 572-4.
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There’s still that nagging rumor about the 2nd generation stable. Maybe they’re splitting Deuce and Domino for that reason. Hopefully the draft will prevent us from seeing them wrestle each other.
10 Thoughts on TNA
Sorry, Daniels, I don’t have my other password at work, where I am so totally not writing about wrestling. At all.
Sorry about the two-week absence; between a brief hospital stay and my brand-new job, I’ve been distracted. All is right in the world now, so what better way to celebrate than by watching wrestling?
1- Isn’t that the best way to use BG James? A recognizable name and face, reasonably over if stale, who can be used to put over the headliner du jour? I think as TNA runs more and more shows outside of Orlando, guys like James will suddenly seem more useful, even if the uber-smart marks are sick to death of him.
2- My wife was surprised to see Daivari in a TNA ring, and I explained that he was actually a pretty decent wrestler. Her comment: “so they (WWE) brought in a wrestler to manage an actor (Hassan)? That’s Vince McMahon in a nutshell, isn’t it?” Hard to argue. By the way, this was a really fun match. More, please.
3- As a Western Canadian, it’s hard to get behind “Team International” in the X Cup. Daivari is American, and Tyson Dux is Ontarian, which is even worse. Damn you and your raging insanity, Teddy Hart, this was supposed to be your station in life.
4- It’s been said here before, but I love that TNA acknowledged Gail Kim winning the WWE Women’s Title in her first night. It *enhances* both TNA and Kim’s credibility, not vice versa. This was a really good video package on Gail, and it was nice to see Scott D’Amore and Pat “Simon Diamond” Kenney acting like normal guys for it.
5- Salinas is one of those women who on a given day either looks really good or really bad; there’s no in between with her. Tonight, she looked like a 40-year old drag queen. Just way, way, way, way, WAY too much makeup caked on there. She didn’t acquit herself too badly in the ring against Jackie, but she’s nowhere near the level of the top three faces; Gail, ODB and Tracy Brooks, and it shows.
6- Alex Kozlov’s dance and subsequent kick to Kaz’s head was, simply, brilliant. I’ll be damned if that wasn’t a fun little match. It takes a truly creative company to screw something like the X Cup up; you take 16 of the world’s best cruiserweights and tell them to go have good matches. How hard is that? Why can’t WWE, which could at the VERY least match the talent, pull something off like this every once in a while?
7- Damn, Frank Trigg really *does* look like Kurt Angle. Even more so than did/does Eric Angle. If Angle ever gets healthy again, and if Trigg is interested and takes to it (some mighty big ifs there, granted) that could be a fun tag team. Whether it’s with Trigg, or Tomko, or Tom Daniels, TNA should take a serious look; tag team wrestling could extend Angle’s career by a year or so, and his life by much longer.
8- I know we’re supposed to be sick of Team 3D, but I still dig their act. An *awesome* promo and a really good TV match. Brother Ray is the true heir to Mick Foley’s title as the hybrid hardcore/comedy performer who manages to maintain credibility in both…when he caught AJ’s boot and screamed “what are you gonna do NOW?” and then got CREAMED by the ensuing enziguiri, I laughed out loud. 3D may have been stale, but they’re by no means washed up.
9- Please tell me the Lethal/Dutt/Val saga doesn’t end with Val turning on Jay. No because I desperately want to see them together (although she would only get him more over), but because the swerve is both unnecessary and screamingly obvious. Bind and gag Russo if need be, but please don’t go there, TNA…it’s been done.
10- I wondered aloud a few weeks ago how I felt about Awesome Kong’s fan challenge, and I have decided: I don’t like it. When “fans” give Kong as much of a fight as did Gail and ODB, it just makes the “real” wrestlers look bad.
BONUS POINT: How much of a douchebag is Jesse Taylor? He must have done something truly bad to the “terrorized” women in that bar to get punted off the Ultimate Fighter finale, because the bar has been set fairly high on that show. As Forrest Griffin said, it’s hard to judge because worse things happen every day, but you get the sense Dana White was embarassed. You don’t piss Dana White off. It never goes well.