Original Airdate: Friday, August 4th, 2006
Izod Center
East Rutherford, New Jersey
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United States Championship Match
Finlay vs. William Regal
The two best friends beat each other up again for a little bit until Hornswoggle comes out and gets in a cheap shot behind the referee's back. Regal gets a chance to get some offense in and then goes and grabs the shillelagh. Finlay is able to take it away and hits him to cause the DQ. In runs Lashley and Finlay gets a shot in on him. He tells Regal to work together with him, but just screws him over and hits him before leaving him with Lashley. Finlay walks away to the back. This all just kind of feels like they are just wasting time until Lashley can compete again.
Match Rating: *
Sylvester Terkay Elijah Burke vs. Scott Wright
Elijah Burke introduces Terkay and he gets no reaction. Terkay looks at Wright and decides he's not going to fight him, so Burke does instead. Burke hits a nice clothesline while sweeping his leg behind Wright's leg to trip him. He slaps on a submission hold and that's all. Terkay comes in and beats up Wright before putting him in his submission hold. I kind of forgot how big of a guy Terkay was.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Jen cuts a 30 second promo until someone shoves a pie in her face.
Milena cuts a promo and again gets the pie treatment.
Ashley vs. Kristal
It's the feud that is keeping SmackDown going. Ashley's ring gear seems less than ideal. They brawl a little bit until Kristal rolls her up and pulls her tights to win. Why?
Match Rating: 1/4*
Layla gets her chance to get pie in the face.
Tatanka vs. Sylvan
For some reason they show Tatanka's background again. They are just firing on all cylinders tonight. I'm not really sure why they thought Tatanka would work after months of trying here. Tatanka hits a top rope chop, but Sylvan is able to kick out. Tatanka hits a spinning slam and wins? They gave up on Sylvan really quickly. The match was okay for what it was, but no one cared about either guy.
Match Rating: *
Mr. Kennedy vs. Batista
They end up going outside the ring and it ends with Batista pulling Kennedy's shoulder into the ring post. Kennedy is able to hit a dropkick to the knee of Batista and works on his knee. Kennedy counters a suplex attempt into a pin after Batista's knee buckles. Batista is able to hit a clothesline and a spinebuster. He goes for the Batista Bomb and nails it. to finally get a victory over Kennedy. This was probably the worst match between the two, as they just seemed to be off here. There just never really was a flow.
Match Rating: *1/4
Michael Cole interviews Batista and he says he won't take any congratulations until he wins back the World Heavyweight Championship.
Erica gets her chance to get pie in the face.
Vito vs. Brooklyn Brawler
Hey, look. It's Vito boxing in a dress. Brawler even gets an entrance here with some extremely generic music. If you like clotheslines, this one is a classic. Vito puts on his submission hold and that's it. This is the same match he has been having for weeks.
Match Rating: 1/4*
JT just stands there for some reason and then gets pie in the face. Miz says that anything can happen in the WWE.
MVP makes his television debut by trying to convince Teddy Long to sign him to SmackDown.
Scotty 2 Hotty & Funaki vs. KC James & Idol Stevens
Michelle McCool introduces them as two of her teacher's pets. It's always good to see Damien Sandow on my television screen. They show Paul London and Brian Kendrick watching on an angle in the locker room. Obviously this is the new flavor of the month in the heel tag team division. KC looks like someone who would have been in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Funaki finally gets tagged in and the new team hits a cool slingshot into a missile dropkick for the victory. I don't remember that finisher, but I like it.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Booker T and Sharmell are backstage and she hypes up Booker before his match with Undertaker tonight.
Chavo Guerrero is here to explain himself. He accuses Rey Mysterio of being a leach off of the Guerrero name, so of course Rey comes out and they start brawling. Vickie Guerrero comes out to intervene. We zoom out and that's it.
World Heavyweight Championship Match
King Booker vs. Undertaker
It's the battle of two of the longest entrances in pro wrestling history. Undertaker knocks Booker over the top rope with a right hand into the commercial break. With Undertaker wrestling tonight, it means we get to hear about how he's the best pure striker in history. I bet he isn't. Taker goes for Old School, but Booker is able to throw him off the top. Well with it being Taker, he goes for it again a few moments later and hits it. More typical Taker, as Booker gets hardly any offense before Taker makes his comeback. Taker hits a chokeslam and out comes Great Khali and he hits the chop on him for the DQ finish. Taker gets on the mic after he recovers and tells Khali it's going to be a Last Man Standing Match at SummerSlam. The match was mostly nothing.
Match Rating: *
This show continues the streak of meaningless episodes created by taping Raw and SmackDown on the same night. SmackDown has taken a little step down as of recently, which is a shame. The WWE had 3 shows at this time all running at a sub-par level heading into their second biggest show of the year. Hopefully they can flip that switch to make things more interesting soon.
Overall Rating: 48%
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