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Land of the Dead
April 4, 2008

When Undertaker defeated Edge at WrestleMania XXIV, he not only won the World Heavyweight Championship, he also lengthened his already-incredible WrestleMania winning streak to 16-0. But The Deadman won’t rest now that he has the Championship, because the man he won it from is none other than the Ultimate Opportunist, Edge, who gave Undertaker more than his fair share of trouble in their title bout. If The Phenom wants to keep the former champion at bay, he will have to keep close watch on the entire Rated-R entourage, including cohorts Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder, and fiancée, SmackDown General Manger Vickie Guerrero. Will the Rated-R Superstar have anything to say about his downfall this week on SmackDown?

After losing a Career Threatening Match to Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV, 2008 Hall of Famer Ric Flair made an appearance on Raw for a Farewell Address, where family and Superstars of past and present paid tribute to the “Nature Boy.” WWE.com has learned that HBK will visit Friday Night SmackDown to offer his thoughts on what went down in Orlando, Fla. What kind of reaction will the man who ended Flair's career get from our fans and his fellow Superstars?

At WrestleMania XXIV, our fans witnessed a surprise return from Matt Hardy, who ruined United States Champion Montel Vontavious Porter’s hopes in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match. Matt Hardy hasn’t seen ring time for months after undergoing an emergency appendectomy, but had no problem taking out his rival with a Twist of Fate. With Hardy back, he’s already been slated for action against MVP in a non-title bout this Friday on SmackDown. Will Hardy dish out more of the same punishment? Or will the angry champion make Hardy pay the price for spoiling his chance for victory and the coveted championship contract?

It was The Largest Athlete in the World vs. The Greatest Fighter in the World at WrestleMania XXIV, and Floyd “Money” Mayweather proved size isn’t everything as he knocked Big Show out for the count with a set of brass knuckles. Now that he’s been felled in this David and Goliath tale, what’s next for the 7-footer?

The winner of the SmackDown Diva Contest will also be decided this Friday. Cherry or Michelle McCool will walk away with bragging rights and a new Beverly Hills Chopper. Which lovely Diva will ride away a winner, the sweet ‘n shy Cherry or All-American Girl McCool?

Pulling out a big win for SmackDown at WrestleMania XXIV, Batista defeated Raw’s Umaga in the Battle for Brand Supremacy. SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero initiated this challenge with Raw General Manager William Regal, and it panned out for her and Batista. But will it be long before Regal comes knocking with an even more devastating opponent?

To see all the fallout of WrestleMania XXIV, tune in to Friday Night SmackDown at 8/7 CT on The CW Network.

[jetskid48]

Smackdown Recap 4/4 - By JetsKid48

Today is important because its the Friday Night debut of Kennedy.....Ian Kennedy! So again, because I'll be running out immediately after this and because I'm watching 80 things at once, this recap is basically live - just how wrestling should be.


We're Live (on tape) from....um...Floridaish, oh, Miami....and Smackdown is starting cold...


1. Edge walks out to the ring with Vickie con wheelchair, Chavo beltless, Theodore Long, and two angry Edgeheads. Vickie can walk into the ring but still needs the chair...right...Edge on the mic:

He starts with telling us he feels naked without his belt and that he let himself down. He feels like he let everyone down as well. Most importantly, he let Vickie down. By the way, Edge is wearing the brand new Chavo t-shirt. Really pimping the family, huh?

Chavo gets on the mic and says Kane should have fought him face to face. He promises the whole Guerrero family that he will once again be ECW champion.

Vickie speaks, but it doesn't quite reach my ears. Something about her being GM and pleasure and two men and title shots. These will happen at Backlash. She also homehow has the power to make a match with an ECW wrestler, so Kane will fight the Undertaker...we have never seen that before, thank you Vickie.

Commercial.

WM recap, Matt Hardy returns!

2. Non-title - MVP v. Matt Hardy
MVP puts Hardy in the corner and starts pushes, followed up by a reverse and Matt throwing him from post to post. Neckbracker and some punches to the face. They start rolling around and fall to the floor. Hardy throws his face into the barrier as Cole recaps the feud. Hardy throws him into the ring and throws him to the ropes for an elbow. First cover for 1. Headbutts by Hardy, who continues to hammer away in teh corner. Throw to the ropes and a big clothesline by Hardy; MVP rolls to the outside with Matt following with a slap. Hardy throws him in and as Hardy follows, MVP catches him with a knee and slams him into the ring. Instead of a pin, he goes to punch Hardy in the face a few times and slam his head into the mat. He chokes him on the middle rope, then pulls his head back on the top rope. Hardy starts to punch back only to be taken down again by MVP. MVP then chucks him hard to the outside. More beatdown on the outside and MVP rolls him in to give him a bunch of elbow drops. Camel Clutch applied. MVP lets him up, but only to give him one of his high kicks. Follows up with some big punches on the ground. The anger is high during this match, with MVP still angry about being cost the MitB.

MVP goes to the middle rope and tries to stomp Hardy but misses and hurts his knee. Chomp block and come knee drops on MVP's leg. This is followed by leg-focused attacks. Hardy puts MVP's legs around the post and then slams his leg 2 times against it. Matt Hardy crushing MVP around the ring, using everything to continue hurting his leg. Finally, when Hardy goes to the outside, MVP kicks back and gets him in the face. MVP now limping and gets Hardy back in the ring for a count of 2. MVP goes for a move on Hardy but its reversed into a Side Effect. Hardy goes up to the middle rope, does the Hardy sign and gives him the big elbow. Then sets up for the finisher but MVP clotheslines him. MVP tries to run to the corner to kick Hardy in the face, but can't run because of his knee; Hardy does a low dropkcick to get him down. Quick Twist of Fate, and the duke.

Winner: Matt Hardy. - Very good match with great ring psycology. Good to have these two together again, figure we're getting another match at Backlash for the belt.

Commercial.

3. Festus v. An Edgehead.
Match starts off quick with it finally boiling down with Festus in his power offense. Lots of Festus offense to start with. Ryder starts to fight back surprisingly, but finally gets powered down by Festus, looking crazy. Ryder who faces much of the same offense. Gets crushed in the corner, then Festus kicks Hawkins down randomly. Puts Ryder on the top rope and puts him into his finisher. That's all. Very one sided.

Winner: Festus.

Commercial.

Breaking news as we come down, anyone who doesn't want to fight in the main event will be stripped of their titles. I have a feeling these two don't have many brotherly feelings anyway.

Come back to a recap of the Flair proceedings of the past week. WOOOOOOOOOO!

They show HBK coming down the back, getting ready to address the fans...and probably get his ass kicked by Batista...but for now...

Commercial.

Coach: HBK will no longer be known as the Heartbreak Kid, he'll be known as the man that retired Ric Flair. ....Moron.

HBK starts speaking, its the usual stuff, good enough, but I'm not really going to recap. Stuff about him looking up to Flair, getting a hug, getting closer, etc. Only waiting for...

Batista's music hits, tells HBK that WM was hard for him, not because of his match with Umaga, but because it would be the last time he ever saw his friend and mentor in the ring. He's taking it personally and its bothering him.

Shawn comes back and asks him if he thinks it was easy for him?

Batista says he knows why he has mixed feelings about it. That HBK knows he made the wrong decision.

HBK comes back and says he was right because its what Flair wanted. He cared enough to give him what he wanted. They're both competitors and he knows he would have done the same thing.

Batista says no, he wouldn't have let his ego get in the way of his friendship. Mr. Showstopper doesn't do jobs. All he had to do was lay down once and Flair would still be there. "You couldn't do it Shawn, could you?"

HBK says he's sorry he feels that way, but Batista says you can say sorry all you want, but it doesn't matter because he will never drive down that road with Flair again. What was that he called Ric? Old Yeller? Take him back and put him out of his misery? Is that how you see Ric Flair? He drops the mic and HBK looks like he's on the verge of tears. Batista stares back at him, btw, he's in the evil black leather...and leaves. HBK looks sad. Great promo.

Commercial.

4. Vladimir Koslov v. Matt Bentley.

Bentley's gonna die. Kozlov came out to a Russian flag on the screen and no music the lights out. Basically huge kciks to start off. Picks up Bentley and shoulder blocks him into the corner. More shoulders and a choke. Bentley gets a punch in and Kozlov gets angry. Picks him up and gives him some sort of Torture Rack into a drop to his knees. Move to be named later.

Winner: Kozlov.

Triple H DVD promo, then commercial.

5. Mizzorison v. Team Wang
Miz and Wang start off with a Wang headlock, fast off the ropes into a running hurricanrana. Tag to Moore, thrown to ropes and Moore dropkick. Kick out at 1. Miz takes advantage and tags in Morrison who counters a throw with a throwdown. He slaps Wang who then gets the refs attention. Morrison gets a swinging neckbreaker and its over? Weird.

Winner: Mizzorison.

Khali immediately comes down to the ring and the heels look at each other and...actually stay to get their asses kicked? Destroyed both of them. He palms Wang's head from the outside and then throws him to the floor from Gorilla press position. Moore gets picked up and double chokeslamed.

Khali grabs the mic and tells us how he is feeling pleasant today and took a nice walk on the Miami beach. He had a nice alcoholic drink and feels like he will return to his homeland, never to wrestle again. That, or he blabbered in his language no one understands.

As this is happening, Big Show comes out and says he's now in Khali's land, even though Show is actually in Smackdown. That is enough to prompt Khali to leave and growl at the top of the ramp.

WM XXV promo. Really late next year, April 5th.

Commercials.

Finlay and Hornswoggle return....NEXT WEEK!

6. Long in the ring with 3 old and fat men. This is ridiculous. Michelle wins the bike. Thank you, this is over.

Victoria comes out. Calls her McDrool. Nice. Attacks McDrool, but loses the upperhand. Suddenly a blonde woman comes out and attack McDrool. It's Nattie Neidhart, cool. She kicks her ass, then bitchslaps Cherry quite hard. Nice debut.

Commercial.

WM Recap Supreme. I liked this years recap, but never thought the RHCP song was good for any theme.

Kane comes out to the ring Cole references King Kong Bundy v. S.D. Jones.

Commercial.

We're back, and Undertaker is coming down the aisle. Will ECW go over Smackdown? I say...DQ.

7. Undertaker v. Kane (Non-title)

They dance around a bit before things start with a bit of pushoffs from lock ups. Headlock by the Taker, and a staredown. Kane comes back with his own headlock. Pushed against the ropes and knocks UT down. Slam by Kane and cover for 2. Choke by Kane, reversed into an armbar. More arm stuff and a takedown, Taker gets a two. Both up and not really affected. Chain wrestling going on and exactly what I thought would happen in a match between these two. Taker gets Kane down and starts twisting his leg. Kane pushes him off and theyre both up again.

Coach: I used to dominate my little brother!
Cole: You dominate no one.

More arm work by both. UT takes an advantage, but its a lot of "one-up-smanship". Not really fighting each other until Kane gets mad and wants to fight. Taker slaps him and Kane smiles and says tahnk you. He then slaps the Taker back. Punches back and forth for a good 30 seconds with the crowd starting to get into it. Kane sends Taker to the ropes and big boot. Taker fights back and sends Kane to the outside. Throws his head into the barrier...twice...three times. Kane with an elbow and throws UT back into the ring. Throws the the ropes, Kane misses a choke, UT gets it, then Kane also at the same time into a stalemate. Both go for a boot and its a double boot and both are down.

Both rise at the same time and La Familia is out to attack both. Ring bell is sounded.

Result: Double DQ.

After the match, tons of beatdown going on. They lay both out and sit back and stare at the damage.

All of a sudden, both rise again and beat everyone down. Edgeheads are thrown out of the ring and we get stereo Chokeslams for Edge and Chavo. This is followed by Double Tombstones. Cue the Song of the Undertaker. Fin.



Hardy/MVP had a very good match, a perfect match for a tv show and the best way to set up for another match. The Batista/HBK promo was great too. Batista really heading to the heel side, and gave us his first good promo in a while. I'm looking forward to this. Until next week.

[Fire-Babe]

Okay, I'm stealing the idea for recap slot post for next week's ECW.

[jetskid48]

Recap is up.

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Nattie Neidhart would be hot if she didn't look so much like her father in the face.

[jetskid48]

right down to the beard....................................




ok...maybe not.

[Batman]

I really enjoyed this show, in fact I think it was my favorite of the week.

Matt vs MVP was really good; great leg work and selling. The HBK/Batista promo was the best dueling promo since . . . the HBK/Flair dueling promo on last week's Raw. Still, very awesome.

HBK is on a fucking roll. This feud is going to rule.

I found the main event perversely entertaining and compelling. I particularly liked the chain wrestling at the beginning. Just fun.

[Lucky]

Yeah, I think it might have been my favorite show of the week too. The matches didn't move me or anything and I'm not sure I saw the match of the week on SD. But there's hasn't been a standout match on any show. SD had a bunch of good ones though.

As much as I haven't gotten into Edge's current run and the family stable for some reason it clicked with me this time. Something about them all slowly emerging from the smoke in Edge's entrance while Edge wore a Chavo shirt just looked cool. They looked like a cool stable. Which is weird because Chavo sucked as ECW champ and has more or less sucked for years, the Majors are boring as shit, and I continue to wait for teh day that Edge betrays Vickie for a younger chick so that she can stop cutting bad promos and I can stop feeling icky over her interaction with Edge. And I have NO desire to see either of those title rematches. But something clicked this once.

As much as Batista has bored the shit out of me for a long time I thought he was on in that promo and nailed a number of good lines. "I had a job to do and I did it." "No, you had a job to do and you didn't do it." And calling up the Old Yellar comment that HBK made and pointing out how offensive it sounds was perfect. And HBK nailed his role perfectly as well. He ain't gonna lose but maybe he should have, and he can't get it right in his own head. I care about this and I haven't cared about something Batista has done in a long time. And good for WWE for find a naturally and unoffensive way to use Flair's retirement. Its only a week in but it really is perfect.

Show did drag for me a lot in the middle with Divas, Khali, and Vladimir Kozlov (who sucks nuts). But I watched to see Nattie and if the tag teams could do anything fun before they got sacrificed to the bigger wrestlers again. And hey, Michael Shane got squashed! If Mark Henry squashes Sonny Siaki next week I'm gonna call it a really weird potshot.

The main event was different but I'm not sure I liked it. Pretty bland. By design, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.

You know what I might care about with the Title matches? Edge and Chavo take the tag titles, you do one of those "All Titles on the Line" tag matches. Then again I'm a TNA fan. But for some reason Kane/Taker vs Edge/Chavo seems more compelling to me than Kane vs Chavo and Edge vs Taker.

And I love wrestling and WWE. 4 men in the ring, referees, camera men, announcers... noone even thinks about stopping that stranger from kicking Michelle McCool's ass and slamming her head into a steel post. Nope. Why would you step in? No reason.

[Fire-Babe]

I actually kind of liked the end of the ME, and I'm not a huge fan of either Undertaker or Kane. I guess the logic of giving Kane the ECW belt included the closing camera shot at the end of the two brothers, two belts.... Still not happy about it, but not really sure why I liked it, either

MTA

Nattie Neidhart would be hot if she didn't look so much like her father in the face.

From the little I saw, I thought she looked pretty hot, but then I kinda dig muscular women. In a totally non-sexual non-HLA way, of course.

[Lucky]

Nattie's hot. If I could get over it with Vince's kid I can get over it with Anvil's. If Hogan's was more than a generic blonde I might get over that too.

[punk/core]

When those Beverly Hills Choppers were in the ring, I thought the WWE was going to do a really, really shitty Sopranos parody.

I will echo the sentiment that Vladimir Koslov blows. And his plain white trunks made it look like he was wrestling in a fucking diaper.

I thought Nattie looked hot.

Batista vs. Michaels has be very intrigued as well, I love the way they're doing this. I even care about the ECW title right now. Way to go, Smackdown.

Speaking of the ECW Championship, here's a great gem taken from JR's latest blog:

"The ECW Title is most likely on a par with the IC Title and the United States Title these days, which means it could be meant to mean more."