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From PWInsider.com

SD results from August 9th in Columbus Ohio. Some stuff might be out of order but the match info is all correct -

Velocity:

Kazarian defeated London by using the ropes, London grabs mic and cuts a 30 second whiny promo that didn't make sense about him always getting screwed.

WWE Cruiserweight champ Nunzio defeats ?

Ken "Mr." Anderson defeats Funaki

Hardcore Holly defeats Steven Richards with an Alabama Slam. No Blue Meanie. No Nova.

Smackdown!:

Booker T vs. Joey Mercury. Melina, Jillian and Nitro accompany Mercury to the ring, Sharmel accompanies Booker. Jillian distracts the ref while Nitro beats on Booker T, ref sees and throws out Jillian and Nitro. Booker T wins with a really bad scissors kick.

Peep Show with Guest WWE champion Batista - Christian complains about not having a match at Summer Slam, challenges Batista for later. Batista accepts.

Animal and Heidenreich are shown walking to the ring backstage

WWE World Tag Team champions Animal and Heidenreich defeat two jobbers with a Doomsday Device. No shoulder pads for Heidenreich yet.

Randy Orton and Teddy Long argue backstage, Teddy says Orton has a match against a Legend who had a legendary feud with the Undertaker

Orton comes out to the ring and his opponent is Kamala. Orton hits RKO, poses, Taker's music hits and a RIP Randy video is shown. Match ends in no contest I think.

John Cena's new music video plays.

The Mexicools come out on their Juan Deeres. Match is Super Crazy and Psicosis vs. Scotty Too Hotty and William Regal Partway through the match Regal decides to leave, and Psicosis did his legdrop and pins Scotty. This was the same deal they taped last week in Bridgeport, CT but didn't air it.

Chris Benoit defeats Simon Dean with the Crossface. Crowd went nuts for Benoit.

WWE World champion Batista and Christian went for a little while, mainly Batista owning Christian, then Batista hits a spinebuster. He is going for the Batista Bomb when JBL comes out and interferes. Match is over, but it sets up the dark match main event which is a JBL vs. Batista Street fight, lasting about 5 minutes with Batista winning.

Somewhere in all the mess was a 20 minute Eddie/Rey segment where Eddie brought a child service worker out to take Dominic and give him to Eddie. After 20 minutes of nonsensical bantering between Eddie and Rey the children's service worker decides to put Dominic in a foster home. The Eddie vs. Rey custody match is set up for Summer Slam.

So Paul London's new gimmick is being a crybaby?

 

[GaimeGuy]

Somewhere in all the mess was a 20 minute Eddie/Rey segment where Eddie brought a child service worker out to take Dominic and give him to Eddie. After 20 minutes of nonsensical bantering between Eddie and Rey the children's service worker decides to put Dominic in a foster home. The Eddie vs. Rey custody match is set up for Summer Slam.

WTF?

 

[DCX]

WTF?

:lol :lol :lol Right out of the WWE gimmick playbook...gotta love it...

DCX

 

[Keyser Soze]

So Paul London's new gimmick is being a crybaby?

Seem so, he did the same think after loseing the title last saturday...

Hardcore Holly defeats Steven Richards with an Alabama Slam. No Blue Meanie. No Nova.

This on and off bWo stuff is stupid

Animal and Heidenreich are shown walking to the ring backstage

WWE World Tag Team champions Animal and Heidenreich defeat two jobbers with a Doomsday Device. No shoulder pads for Heidenreich yet.

The tag-titles will really mean something now.....

John Cena's new music video plays.

*Head Hurts*

JSomewhere in all the mess was a 20 minute Eddie/Rey segment where Eddie brought a child service worker out to take Dominic and give him to Eddie. After 20 minutes of nonsensical bantering between Eddie and Rey the children's service worker decides to put Dominic in a foster home. The Eddie vs. Rey custody match is set up for Summer Slam.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Brian Fellows]

I wouldnt watch this crap if you gave me 6 dollars to do so......Just FIRE LONDON ALREADY!!!!!!!!

 

[Triumph]

I wouldnt watch this crap if you gave me 6 dollars to do so......Just FIRE LONDON ALREADY!!!!!!!!

And Kazarian. And Christian. And Nunzio. And Spanky and Jamie Knoble, even though you just hired them back. Then Smackdown will be the suckiest suck that has ever fucking sucked, so bad that it sucks Rosie O'donnell's taint. And that is BAD.

 

[Outcast2004]

Is it just me or is the whole WWE product getting worse by the week?

And they seem to think bringing in dushty Rhodesaaa for "creative" is going to help?
You want help for creastive, stop hiring a bunch of kid writers that were sitcom writers and actualy get some wrestling minds in there.

When Heyman was writing Smackdown it was can't miss TV for a nice long period. Now? Now it's awful, they are doing just about everything wrong.

 

[MC Safety]

I think the best gimmick is that the woman has a crazy growth on her face! It's gross! Imagine the possibilities!

It's a lot better than having a wrestling retard. Or an extended storyline regarding the parentage of a small child, one that involves 30 minutes of jabbering each week, not to mention spousal abuse and an unceasing series of dull run-ins and such.

 

[Mr Gump]

Someone please explain to me the politics behind heyman getting replaced? If the shows were good why was he moved? Personality conflicts? different interests in the general direction of the show than vince? EXPLAIN.

 

[Outcast2004]

Someone please explain to me the politics behind heyman getting replaced? If the shows were good why was he moved? Personality conflicts? different interests in the general direction of the show than vince? EXPLAIN.

Quite simply? He wasn't a McYESman like he usually has around.

Paul is one to speak his mind and that doesn't fly with Vinny. He just wants people under him who worship the ground he walks on.

He's had heated verbal conflicts with Vince in the past over terrible storyline possibilities.... thus, he was shuffled off.

 

[Mr Gump]

Quite simply? He wasn't a McYESman like he usually has around.

Paul is one to speak his mind and that doesn't fly with Vinny. He just wants people under him who worship the ground he walks on.

He's had heated verbal conflicts with Vince in the past over terrible storyline possibilities.... thus, he was shuffled off.

If the shows were good, then the ratings, if good would of spoken louder than any argument id say.

Anyone know how the heyman era of smackdown performed rating wise. And to be clear, when was this period of time? What were the major storylines he created?

 

[Ghost]

:lol Custody Match :lol

 

[Prine]

:lol Custody Match :lol

:lol

I want the law to use this method of settling custody cases.

 

[dskillzhtown]

If the shows were good, then the ratings, if good would of spoken louder than any argument id say.

Anyone know how the heyman era of smackdown performed rating wise. And to be clear, when was this period of time? What were the major storylines he created?

Truthfully the ratings were not better than now with Heyman holding the book. I think last week Smackdown was #3, beating Fox and ABC, so someone is liking the shows. Heyman's problem is that he is hard to get along with. Bubba Ray said that after Heyman was removed. I am not referring to kissing ass, just getting along with Heyman is a hard thing to do, from many accounts. Paul has the ego that rivals the size of Vince's, so you know that isn't going to work. He is down in OVW now, booking there so now he has his own world to book with totaly control. I am sure he is happier there.

But I can't say...I haven't watched Smackdown in months, lol. It seems on Thursday something else is always going on. Smackdosn might suck, but I am happy they hired all these people they are wasting right now. Those people are getting a consistent paycheck, not praying to Andre the Giant that they get a booking.

 

[LakeEarth]

If the shows were good, then the ratings, if good would of spoken louder than any argument id say.

Anyone know how the heyman era of smackdown performed rating wise. And to be clear, when was this period of time? What were the major storylines he created?

Thing with wrestling is that ratings don't shoot up just from a few weeks of good shows. It has to be consistantly good for at least a few months so that the good booking increasing the overness of the midcard, making guys more popular which will in turn make the show overall better, and the word of mouth will bring back the wrestling fans. And that, my friends, is what I learned from that EWR 'owner and head booker' wrestling game :lol

 

[Outcast2004]

Truthfully the ratings were not better than now with Heyman holding the book. I think last week Smackdown was #3, beating Fox and ABC, so someone is liking the shows.

I think this has more to do with all the major TV shows being in reruns for the summer.

While the ratings may or may not have went up with Heyman's writing (i have no proof either way), it was a better show.

The matches made sense and the in-ring seemed to be better as Heyman knows how to disguise a person's weaknesses.

 

[Brian Fellows]

I wouldnt watch this crap if you gave me 6 dollars to do so......Just FIRE LONDON ALREADY!!!!!!!!

Wow I dont remember typing that at all last night.....I was a little drunk. But I totally agree with myself.