Shielddown Spoilers 25/4/14

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* SmackDown opens up with Vickie Guerrero, Cesaro, Jack Swagger, Paul Heyman and Zeb Colter in the ring. There are two podiums set up. Vickie announces the main event tonight will be The Shield vs. 11 other Superstars. She then announces The Great Debate between Heyman and Zeb. Zeb says he wants to debate with Cesaro on turning his back. Zeb asks Heyman why he stole Cesaro. Heyman says Brock Lesnar ended The Streak about 20 times. Zeb asks again why he stole Cesaro. Heyman asks when was the last time a Zeb Colter Guy won. He said by the time Cesaro won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, he was already a Heyman Guy. Zeb pushes over the podium and shoves Heyman. They start to get into it but are broken up.

* Cesaro defeated Jack Swagger with The Neutralizer. After the match, The Shield's music hits and they come out. Roman Reigns hits a Superman punch on Swagger and then they hit him with the triple powerbomb. Dean Ambrose said it looked like Swagger failed to adapt.

* Tamina Snuka defeated Natalya with a kick that was botched. This match was described as not smooth at all.

* Backstage segment with 3MB talking about how they are in tonight's main event. The Shield shows up and destroys them.

* Vickie Guerrero is backstage in her office on the phone with Triple H. He asks her about The Shield. She says she called them to her office but they didn't come. Triple H tells her to take the night off and in comes Brad Maddox.

* Curtis Axel defeated Jey Uso.

* The Wyatt Family comes out and cuts a promo inside a steel cage that's lowered. Bray Wyatt talks about John Cena and gets the crowd to sing "whole world in his hands" with him.

* Erick Rowan and Luke Harper defeated Cody Rhodes and Goldust. During the match, Bray taunted the crowd and asked them if they are unimpressed with what we see from the Rhodes brothers, saying they are not the future. Cody goes for a moonsault but Goldust runs into him. Goldust gets upset, leading to him getting pinned.

* Backstage segment with Brad Maddox on the phone. The Shield comes in and destroys him. Ambrose jumps on Maddox behind the couch and beats him some more.

* Emma and Santino Marella vs. Layla and Fandango is up next. The match never starts as while Fandango is dancing on the stage, The Shield attacks him. Fandango takes a triple powerbomb off the stage, through two tables. A "this is awesome" chant starts up.

* The Shield vs. Titus O'Neil, Ryback, Alberto Del Rio, Damien Sandow, Bad News Barrett and Curtis Axel is next. The Sheild ends up clearing the ring except for Barrett, who ran to the back Axel takes a Superman punch. Sandow takes a spear and The Shield wins the match. Ryback and Titus also get speared. Ryback takes the triple powerbomb. The Shield stand tall in the ring.

WWE seems to be spamming The Shield to increase their overness.

connemara man

So to make the Shield look like a genuine threat to evolution they bury what like 70% of the heel roster?

Hashtag_HEEL

connemara man wrote: »

So to make the Shield look like a genuine threat to evolution they bury what like 70% of the heel roster?

3MB look like a genuine threat to evolution! They haven't built them well since reforming. Let's face it, they all lost to Daniel Bryan on the one show and have squashed the Usos on Raw. They don't look formidable at the moment.

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connemara man wrote: »

So to make the Shield look like a genuine threat to evolution they bury what like 70% of the heel roster?

You can tell Triple H has his fingers on booking this fued.

A Rogue Hobo

connemara man wrote: »

So to make the Shield look like a genuine threat to evolution they bury what like 70% of the heel roster?

I wouldn't say 3 on 1 attacks using guerilla tactics is "burying" anyone. But each to their own. As far as the 6 on 3 match in the main event, Barrett leaves so it's then 5 on 3, and you could argue Shield have a history in multi-man tag matches as is pointed out by commentary whenever Shield have a 6-man tag. So not too out there.

xpletiv

Props to shielddown

Actually sounds like a good smackdown, sounds like good booking making good use of lots of wrestlers too. Not bad for a Tuesday night!

sophya

Well Triple H did say The Shield had to adapt or perish and seems they took his advice.

Mr.Nice Guy

No Sheamus? Was wondering if he'd have another loss.

connemara man

Bury is a tad strong sorry but to establish themselves last year after mania they took out taker

JP Liz V1

Is Barrett getting an actual push?

the groutch

near certainty to win the IC title off Big E

JP Liz V1

the groutch wrote: »

near certainty to win the IC title off Big E

Yes seems likely but would he be better off not having one of the mid card titles

CastorTroy

Anyone know who ended Taker's streak?

Good to see Barrett get away anyway.

Nice insults between Heyman and Zeb. "I would settle it man to man, but we're short one man"

riffmongous

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is Barrett getting an actual push?

They are probably just going to push him to the title so that he can spend the next months jobbing to Daniel Bryan

Ape Lincoln

It'd be cool if they lit the cage match at ER like they did for Bray's promo with a spotlight and blacked out audience.

Heyman seems to be getting himself over as a heel with the streak spiel maybe at the expense of Cesaro who the crowd treats as a babyface and he's wrestling as face.

CodyDust vs Wyatts was good. The former's breakup is going well.

The shield batin' the p!ss out of everyone was fun. Interesting that Barrett escaped anihilation.

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Moneymaker

First SD I watched in a while, enjoyable show. Made the Shield look like a big deal. Cesaro v Swagger was an excellent match. Thumbs up.

DM_7

Enjoyed the show. Shield taking so many people out suits the war theme of the evolution match. Even a small detail like Ambrose having stubble and Reigns not tidying up his goatee/stubble showed they meant business

Eire-Dearg

Those steal poles just there to make noise.

Lord TSC

I like that, for the most part, Face Shield are the same as Heel Shield except now they face other heels.

Too often, when heels turn, they lose what makes them badass and just become pandering idiots. The Shield managed to avoid that which is great.

Moneymaker

If anything they're more badass.

They fight their own battles now, they aren't just the Authorities goons anymore.

Rollins has gained the most out of it imo, he's been hugely impressive for months now.

Eire-Dearg

I hope they never break up.

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Teamshadowclan wrote: »

I like that, for the most part, Face Shield are the same as Heel Shield except now they face other heels.

Too often, when heels turn, they lose what makes them badass and just become pandering idiots. The Shield managed to avoid that which is great.

One of the funnier things this week was that apparently on the Raw taping was off camera The Shield slapping hands with all the fans ala John Cena. Ambrose went completely over the top doing it. If you ever seen him do media appearances or in real life he is like Tweek from South Park. He is a bit off and socially awkward.